Outdoor Classroom Day

#TeachOutsideNZ Sunnyhills tamariki learnt about pest plants and weeded our nature trail for Outdoor Classroom Day.

We're getting ready to plant over six hundred native trees on our western boundary to help create a bird corridor and fight climate change.

Hooray! It is Outdoor Classroom Day. Today teachers across Aotearoa are taking their teaching into nature.

Post your Outdoor Classroom Day photos with #TeachOutsideNZ and be into win some cool prizes for your class.

Research tells us learning in nature:

🍃 is good for our wellbeing and health

🍃 keeps tamariki active

🍃 increases attention and academic outcomes

🍃 improves social skills 

www.doc.govt.nz/teachoutside

Honeybee Helpers - Bee Baths

 

We made a safe place for our honeybees to drink.

Kawakawa Tea with Team Toru

Today Team Toru made kawakawa tea with our very own kawakawa leaves & Sunny Honey. Healthy and DELICIOUS 😋 

Learn more about kawakawa's health benefits:

 https://i.stuff.co.nz/life-style/well-good/70723243/kawakawa-tea-a-naturally-good-remedy

Growing Food with Year Tahi

Do you eat five+ servings of fruit and vegetables a day? Do you grow food at home?

We observed & ate mung beans

We set up a germination observation ....

one week later:

We can't wait to eat the beans and peas we're growing in the Senses Garden!

 

Sustainable Communities- Can you or your whanau help?

 

Action Stations - Moth Plant Attack

This week two neighbours notified us of a moth plant infestation on our Southern border. The Eco Leaders leapt into action today to deal with problem. 

We pulled the roots out and collected the pods we could reach safely. We've asked Mr Lesley to treat the remaining vines we couldn't reach with poison.

Thank you to our neighbours for being active members of our sustainable community.

Good luck to our Eco Leaders who've entered the Moth Plant Competition! They shared the pods out to add to their haul at home.

Have you checked for moth plant in your garden lately? It's super sneaky - appears back years after clearing  and grows very quickly.

Room 18 Reach Out to The Prime Minister on Environmental Concerns

 STOP PRESS: PM JACINDA ADERN SENDS LETTER!

Representatives from Room 18, Elliot, Claire and Cecilia proudly shared a letter received from our Prime Minister after their class wrote to her about their concerns for environmental🌏 issues and she wrote back! So cool! #SunnyhillsSHINE 🌟