Today Year Three investigated how we can be sustainable with our food waste. Making sure no nutrients are lost, so we can keep growing new food and trees that give us oxegen and so that no parts of the world become a toxic dump.
We watched this video describing how Sunnyhills is sustainable with our scraps and talked about how we can do this at home with our own compost or the green lid bin.
Next we ate tangelos from Mrs Daniel's tree. "They taste zingy" said Joshua. "That tasted juicy" added Bella.
We collected the scraps and put them in our hot composters so the FBI (fungus, bateria and invertebrates) can break them down into new soil.
Next we each collected some "cooked" compost and put it on the Mara Kai ready for our spring planting. The compost was full of life! So many invertebrates!
Room 18 found some pumpkin seeds in the compost that had germinated. We potted them up in some soil to see if we can grow some delicious pumpkins to eat. Free food!
Lastly, we recorded the carbon cycle in a diagram in our books: grow food - eat food - put scraps in compost - put compost on gardens and repeat.
Next time we're looking forward to investigating the invertebrates we saw,
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