Adopt a Park Term 2 visit

 Last Thursday we braved the ever-changing weather to head back to WILLIAM GREEN DOMAIN - our adopted park. 

This term our focus was on tree planting.  After Anna, a park ranger, had shown us how to plant trees and talked about WHY it's good to plant them we got started! 

During the afternoon we planted ti kouka (cabbage trees), harakeke (flax) and a native grass. We had about 150 trees to plant! 

We worked in twos or threes to plant in a very muddy area by the stream edge. Unfortunately it started to pour with rain after about 20 minutes so we all had to run for cover!  After the rain had stopped Ranger Anna and her colleague quickly finished planting the rest of the trees. 

    

The best things about the trip were...

digging (Ayla) 

planting the trees (Blake, Mason, Lucas) 

when it started to rain! (Harper) 

being out in the environment (John) 

Playing in the rain and getting muddy feet seemed to be popular too! 

                                                 

We walked back to school taking another enviro action - picking up rubbish -  as we walked.  

We found a few interesting treasures! A brand new looking bouncy ball and a tasty looking grapefruit! When we got back to school we washing it, sliced it and tried it. It was pretty sour but still many were keen to try it.