Today Year Three learnt we don't just grow fruits, vegetables and flowers in our Mara Kai: we also grow lots of herbs and plants used for non edible reasons.
We got thinking about what we already knew about herbs in a group brainstorm, before we went on a senses explore around the garden. We smeilt and felt lemongrass, mint, sage, rosemary, oregano, gotu kola and kawakawa. We saw gourds and squash growing. There was a big fat cucumber, so we picked and ate it. Yum!
Afterwards we came up with wonderings about our new topic:
Camellia - What do we do with the gourds? Hazel - Can you eat the herbs? Tino - What herbs make tea in tea bags? Emily - What kind of herbs can smell good? Camellia - how many types of herbs are there in the world? Annabelle - how long does it take to grow? Coby - can we grow herbs with just sunshine? Awa - who invented tea? Hunter - what do we do with the gourds?
Room 18 collected compost and filled the empty garden beds. Room 8 potted up beetroot seeds and Room 7 watered the kumara patches.
Next time we're looking forward to finding out who invented tea. We might try some fruit tea and hopefully our beetroot seeds will have germinatedp
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