Our Enormous Turnips

Year Zero & One have been growing turnips from seed. Today we got to harvest and eat them. Yum! And so easy to grow sustainably.  Even easier than radishes and  not so spicy. You might like to try at home.

CONTEXT - Edible Garden CONCEPT OF EFS -  Sustainability & Equity SUSTAINABILITY ISSUE -  Ensuring food is produced and sold in ways that the Earth can sustain ACTION -  Weed and feed soil with worm tea Harvest & eat CROSS CURRICULAR -  Science L1 Living World - Recognise that all living things have certain requirements so they can stay alive..

The Beeginning

Year Two have beegun learning about bees. Here's what we've discovered already:

Indy “They go from flower to flower” 

Milo “They dance to communicate” 

Alvin “They only sting one time and then they die” 

William “They bring nectar back to their hive” 

Brian “They have stingers at the back”

Dylan “Some bees don’t have stingers” 

Jayden “the bees always fly and get nectar” 

Connor “Some bees are big and some are small” 

Theo “When they’ve collected enough nectar they go back to the hive”  

Olive “The bees you see most are honey bees and bumble bees”  

Olivia “When the wings rub together it makes a buzzing noise” 

Ben “When bees drink nectar the pollen sticks to them”  

Indi “Bees have three body parts”.

What would you like to know about bees?

Think Kind - Taste Testing

Eating more vegetarian foods is kind to animals, great for the environment and DELICIOUS. Can Rajeev, Jerry & Regan convince the teachers?

More Fun With Fungus - Yeast!

Bread, marmite, beer and chocolate all use a simple fungus called YEAST. We investigated how yeast eats sugar and makes bubbles.

We placed yeast, warm water and sugar in a bottle and topped it with a balloon. Look at our photos to see the results ...

Mid Winter Composting with Room 9

Wheelathon

Wheelathon

A big thank-you to the PTA for a fun Wheelathon today. We rode bikes, scooters or a skateboard. 

For lunch there was pizza and ice blocks. At morning tea we watched the Skate School demonstration. It was amazing!! Here are some photos of the fabulous Room 24 and the skate School demonstration. 

 

Finding out about fungi with Team Wha

This term Team Wha are finding out all about fungi.  In our first lesson, we brainstormed our prior knowledge, researched and questioned. Lastly we went on a  hunt around the school to observe our local fungi.

Here's some we found:

Next week we'll idenyify our finds and learn out more about how to group the fungi kingdom.