This week our year 2 & 3 enviro students walked to William Green Domain to do some ACTION to help the environment.
First we picked up some rubbish in teams of 3 or 4.
We were shocked how much there was! We found over 25 plastic bottles in just 10 minutes.
To reduce this we thought visitors to the park could...
"make sure they don't leave rubbish behind"
"take it with them and put it in a recycle bin"
" use reusable bottles so they don't need to keep on buying more plastic bottles.
After that Ranger Abi came and showed us how to remove the weeds round the natives we planted last term. We learnt the name of some native trees and some interesting facts about them.
Fact 1: The karo tree was planted from bird poo!
Fact 2: Cabbage Trees (ti kouka) actually taste like cabbage in the middle!
Fact 3: Harakeke (flax) has a gel that can be used to sooth sunburn.
Our very favourite job was WEEDING! We pulled up LOTS of onion weed. All the weeds were stopping the young trees seeing the sunlight.
