In Term Wha Room Tekau ma Whitu had a busy time in The Green Room with Mrs Daniel We finished our 5+Aday Growing Kai unit by harvesting bok choi and Chinese Cabbage. We chopped them up to make delicious asian flavoured veggie pasta.
This week we worked hard moving soil into the new garden beds and planting kumara so we can harvest it next Matariki. Can you see the parts of the kumara plants in our diagrams?
K1 & K2 learnt why active travel is good for tinana (our bodies) and te taiao (the environment). We collaborated to create two giant jig saw puzzles. As we get older active travel skills will mean we can be more independent as we can walk, bike, scooter or catch the bus by ourselves or with our friends. Have you planned an active travel route to your intermediate yet?
Afterwards we worked hard to move soil into the new garden beds in the Edible Garden. Best wishes for continuing your environmental journey at your new school K1 & 2!
To finish off our big inquiry into growing kai, Room 19 investigated why plants have flowers. We discovered bees move pollen from flower when they drink nectar.
Afterwards we looked carefully at the flowers in the Edible Garden to see if we could see their pollen and and sticky stamens. We ate the sweet petals on the feijoa flowers. Yum!
We created our own paper flowers, with pollen dusters, petals and a sticky stamen. Next we made stripey pipe cleaner bees and moved pollen from flowe r to flower so they could turn into fruit. Well done Room 19!
Today Room 16 found out what makes an insect. Insects are our friends. They help grow food in our garden. After looking closely at Mrs Daniel's weta, wasp, Gisborne cockroach and photo cards, we went on a bug hunt.
We were looking for animals that had six legs, an exoskelaton, head, thorax and abdomen. The tamariki saw lots of honey bees, bumble bees, ants and a white butterfly. We stocked up the bed hotel with twigs so our insects have somewhere to live.
Lastly we created our own insects making sure to include all the body parts.
This week Sunnyhills were gifted a bucket of biochar at the Enviroschools Cluster Meeting. Room 2 started sprinkling the biochar into our hot compost. This will supercharge it with microorganisms so our compost will be even better for our mara kai.
After morning tea Room 2 worked hard filling the new garden beds with soil, We potted up the hue seeds we were given for hosting the Cluster Meeting as well as planting seed bombs and a mystery seedling. What a lovely day in the garden. Thank you for your hard mahi Room 2!
In our last Enviro lesson for 2023 Rooms 9 & 14 studied the work of Andy Goldsworthy. We then explored in nature to make a special collection of objects. We used our collections to make our very own nature sculpture inspired by Andy
Lastly we went on a sculpture walk to appreciate each other's creations.
