Scarecrow Fredge and Friends

Our year 1's in Tui 4 have been making sure our beans are being looked after. Scarecrow Fredge and friends are on the job!

Autumn Fun

 What's your favourite way to enjoy autumn? Watch our Year Two's making the most of the season : https://youtu.be/Qgy20Cu5v0o

https://youtu.be/Qgy20Cu5v0o

Look our beans are sprouting!

 We came to have a look at the beans that we planted last week and some of them are just peeking through the soil!

The ones in the classroom that we put in plastic bags to observe also started to grow a root and a shoot! We took those out to the garden to plant

Small Changes Make A Big Difference - The Tread Lightly Caravan

 

The Tread Lightly Caravan Team have been helping our tamariki and community learn how to create a sustainable future. 

What can we do to help? Just one small change can make a big difference:

Packing litter free lunches would make a massive difference to our school's carbon footprint!

Parents please come to our recycling workshop!

Let's grow food!

Let's sort our rubbish and keep outside drains clean!

If we all work together we can create a sustainable future!

WAKA Waste Audit

Mrs Hanlon-Judd, Ms Von and Ms Everitt all helped Room 10 complete a waste audit of our schools waste from the lunchtime bins. There was some fabulous results with nearly all our food scraps in the right place. Well done Waka tamarki!

Action Stations - Honeybee Helpers

 How can Year Rua help the bees? We brainstormed:

Room Rima - don’t wreck where they live.  Plant more flowers. Make a bee bath. Plant more seeds to grow flowers. Take care of the hive.  Don’t cut trees. Don’t pick flowers - we could do a video on YouTube or a poster. Don’t do windmill arms.  Share the flowers. Get a native bee home.

Room Iwa - Don’t throw rubbish into the beehives.  Plant more flowers or make a bee bath.  Take care of nature because that’s where they live.  Make a bee house full of flowers.  Put rubbish in the bin.  Don’t attack bees.  Plant lots of flowers.  Make a beehive for them.  Take care of the hive.  Don’t splash water on bees.

We decided to make bee baths:

"We have rosemary at home and the bees love it. We should put our bee bath by the rosemary" - Rosie Room Tekau

Room Tekau made posters to promote bee care:

Growing Food with Year One

Our Year Tahi tamariki have been learning about what seeds need to grow - space, soil, nutrients, sun and water.

We can't wait for our beans & peas to pop up!!

We looked at mung beans to see the parts, then we ate them. YUM!

We started a pea experiment:

Room1 noticed their

vege bed had been dug about in. We were worried about the beans we planted last week, so we decided to make a sign. Maybe we need a scarecrow too ...

One week later ...they germinated!!

We can see the roots and shoots.

Planting Broad Beans with Our Year 1's

 

First we dug the soil to give it some air. Then we mixed in compost to give the soil more nutrients. Then we planted our broad beans. Lastly we watered them. So looking forward to watching them grow over the next couple of weeks.

Room Rua Kaitiaki Ngahiri & Mara

We weeded the ngahiri and put the weeds in the covered compost.

We planted broad beans in the mara kai.

Room Tahi Kaitiaki Moana