This week we went for our first visit of the year to our 'adopted park' William Green Domain.
After we had checked on the native trees we planted last year (and removed / flattened some weeds around them) we had lunch and a play on the playground.
Levi had brought along some special lunch snacks; some edible seeds from a kahikatea tree. Everyone was keen to try them. They tasted quite sweet, some said they were like apple.
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| trying some kahikatea seeds |
The next activity was a scavenger hunt going round trying to find different things in nature like our four whānau trees!
We also collected some harakeke seeds. Levi will look after these and we hope we can pot them up then eventually plant them at the park!
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| spotting koru and cabbage trees |
We also talked about different kinds of weeds; the ones round our native trees, others that the bees like, taro and the dreaded moth plant pod!
We managed to find a lot of tiny moth plant pod growing and removed about 200 seedlings growing. We removed many big pods last year and we were pleased to see there weren't too many more!
"I liked the scavenger hunt and looking for different birds and native trees" (Ruby)
" I liked learning about the new trees, like the tallest tree in New Zealand and how lots of different birds like eating it" (Mila)
" I learnt that harakeke has seeds; I thought Tui just sucked the nectar. We collected heaps of the seeds which I really liked doing. I also found looking at the wasp nest interesting because it looked like it wasn’t really attached to anything. (Aimee)
" I liked collected the seeds and playing on the playground" (Issac)
"I wondered why we saw a dead fish in the stream..." (Kane)
