Room 2 and Room 17 had a busy term in Garden to Table and the year 6 students were sad when their last session came.
Students enjoyed making flower posies for the dining tables |
Chinese dumplings! Yum! |
A record of our journey, challenges and successes as we try to educate and empower ourselves and others to care for and enjoy our natural environment.
Room 2 and Room 17 had a busy term in Garden to Table and the year 6 students were sad when their last session came.
Students enjoyed making flower posies for the dining tables |
Chinese dumplings! Yum! |
This week we had our third visit for the year to William Green Domain.
Collecting rubbish and helping to unblock the stream |
Quick play after lunch! |
Seeing how many native plants we can recognise |
Activities this session
1) We freed the natives we planted last term by pulling the weeds away from around the base.
2) We added our signs to show everyone we have 'adopted' the park.
3) We picked up rubbish. We filled 12 bread bags!
4) We recorded all the things we observed in the park. We'll keep a record and add to it each time.
We noticed the stream was not flowing and quite blocked up so the adults tried to clear it.
The bird life we saw today was...
* ducklings and the mummy duck
* swallows
* magpies
We thought about all the native trees we could name too; karamu, nikau palm, flax, puriri and those we planted last term - cutty grass and cabbage trees
Our favourite things were...
"Learning from a different person"
"Seeing the cute ducklings"
"Clearing the river so it flowed again"
" Being outside and helping nature"
" Checking in on the native trees we planted.
In term 4 we will...
>> work more on unblocking up the stream so it flows properly
>> Continue to record what wildlife we see around
>> Collect more rubbish in other areas of the park.
To further increase the scope of our Garden to Table programme, we have given ALL classes school wide two sessions.
This week it was the turn of Room 4 and 5!
We were very lucky to have lots of year 5/ 6 student 'experts' that were able to help out room 4.
As these students have been doing Garden to Table all year; and some last year they were very well versed on what they needed to do.
First we all went to the garden to harvest some food |
Two groups made pizza using herbs and fresh greens - silverbeet & spinach |
We also enjoyed some fresh orange from a locals garden |
Baking with an expert on hand! |
Making lemon muffins |
To further increase the scope of our Garden to Table programme, we have given ALL classes school wide two sessions.
After a successful garden session, the year 3/ 4 classes are now having a cooking session using our garden produce.
Room 6, 7 and 8 were all very excited to see what they would be making.
We discussed why it is good to grow your own vegetables and what skills we are learning by cooking.
"How to make healthy food"
"It is cheaper to cook then get takeaways"
"Food is fresher if you cook it yourself"
"We learnt skills like stirring and blending"
"It was fun as we got to eat what we made, I felt proud as I got to eat the food I made"
Harvesting our herbs and greens |
Making bliss balls got messy! |
lemon muffins |
Making pizza |
pizza ready for the oven! |
The finished serving! |
The food gets 10 / 10! |
Room 7 gives it a thumbs up! |
Room 8 al fresco eating |
Room 8 made herby yoghurt dip too |
Last week we planted 10 more trees in our native garden.
A huge THANK YOU to our sponsors for buying the trees: Te Whangau Trust (the nursery supplying the trees) 'Paper for Trees' and Howick Local Board
Despite the rain we had fun and managed to get them all planted.
* 6 x flax
* 2 x rewarewa
* 2 x fierce lancewood.
Sheltering from the rain! |
It was also great to see our plants from our previous planting session doing really well!
Our hebes doing really well |
Coprosma we previously planted doing well. |
Room 2 and Room 17 had a busy term in Garden to Table and the year 6 students were sad when their last session came. Over the term they...