Pest Free 2050 - Cate & Ruairi Visit - Next Up Our Hosting The Pestival

 Today Cate & Ruairi visited Room 7 to talk about their work to rid NZ of  pest flora and fauna.

 Ruairi bought along traps, tracking cards, waxchews and even a possum, ferret, weasel and stoat to show us.

 Both Cate and Ruairi were blown away with Room 7's knowledge about pests and their impact on our environment. Mrs Daniel was super proud of how much we've all learnt through our inquiry topic this term.

We're keen to share what we've learnt with our families and other schools. Stay tuned for news of the Pestival we're planning!

Our Pet Pest

While we were conducting the Landcare bird survey today with Mrs Daniel, Room 7 saw Louie, the much loved school cat, catch a silver eye. Luckily the little native bird got away, but two others were not so lucky.

Louie has been waiting for silver eyes to go under the neighbour's fruit tree net then easily catching them. Clever hunting but not great for our native birds.

Killing natives?! Does this make Louie and other cats a pest? We will be investgate more about  what it means to be pests, native, endemic, or intoduced, next term.

What do you think? Is Louie a pest? Comment below.

Room Tahi, Rua, Rima & Whitu - Reflect & Zentangle to Share

Did you know the senior school classes have been investigating how we can encourage more manu (birds) into the Sunnyhills environment?

Today we concluded our iniquiry by reflecting and making zentangle birds. Look out for our birds and research findings on display in the hall.

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Room 7's Enviro Reflection for Term One

Room 7 Enviro Launch!

Today Room 7 had our first Enviro lesson with Mrs Daniel. We worked together to complete a scavenger hunt in the edible garden. We learnt fun facts and Te Reo Maori names for our fruit and veges. We saw first hand how Sunnyhills is being sustainable.

Next in Enviro we'd like to:

- create nature art
- plant veges
- pick up litter
- weed
- create presentations
- Breakout

Room Seven Enviro Stars

A big thank you to all the Sunnyhills whanau who watered our edible gardens over the holidays. The gardens are looking lush. Classes will soon be harvesting rock melons, tomatoes, silverbeet, lettuce, zucchini, egg plants, capsicum and water melon to eat, as part of our Enviro

lessons, with Mrs Daniel. Yum!

Room Seven are now taking on the important job of watering our vege patches. Thank you! Look at the giant marrow they harvested while visiting the garden. Mrs Fowler is going to make chips out of it using her dehydrater. What a great idea! Comment below to tell us how it tasted Room Seven.