Kia Ora from Mrs Daniel

Be kind & stay safe all my eco GEMS

I'm looking forward to sending out some fun enviro challenges after Easter.

Nature is an antidote

Could you start a nature journal?

Hosting and Presenting the Moth Plant Competition - HAVE YOU ENTERED YET?

Our Eco Leaders proudly hosted and presented at the moth plant competition.

Have you entered yet? There's AMAZING prizes for kids. Register at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BLD6DL3

Howick Primary Eco Group Visit

We love sharing and learning with other schools. Howick Primary visited last week. Here's their feedback:

Thank you to you and your eco leaders for showing us round last week. 

I was absolutely blown away by what you are doing at Sunnyhills - something for us to aspire to! 

It was a great visit allowing us to see all the wonderful things you've set up, ask questions, your students to showcase their learning and for us to revisit after.  We are keen to start some enviro art projects. 

Thank you also for the planning - I really like how you've organised it all, it's very much along my lines of thinking so perfect! 

Sunnyhills Sunflowers - seed collection

Our bees have done a great job of pollinating our Sunflowers. The petals have dropped off and the heads have been filling with heavy seeds.

Goldfinches and greenfinches  have been feasting on the seeds. We don't want them to eat them all! We're saving our seeds to sell in October. Sunhills will be the SUNFLOWER SUBURB!

We estimated how many seeds the heads held and grouped in tens to help us count. Enviro uses maths skills!

Collecting the seed heads

Can you see where the finches have eaten the seeds?

Estimating and counting. 

Each seed head can hold hundreds of seeds!

Where is moth plant & how does it spread?

We walked around the school to look for plants that didn't belong. We played with swan plant seed pods to investigate how moth plants spread.

Room 12  What did you see on our walk?

Olivia - we saw how the moth plant spreads by looking at the swan plant seed flying

Indigo - the seeds spread with the wind

Zoe - they have a little parachute things and they float

Nadiv - we saw naughty plants killing the trees.  They were climbing all over them.

Claire - the moth plant has long vines

Zoe - they have green pods

Alvin - The moth plants pods have lots of seeds

Claire - they have white flowers

Gyana - the white stuff is poisonous

Georgia - the white stuff is sap

What did you learn from our research?

Georgia - You can kill it by pulling it out or you can scrap and use some poisonous stuff

Indigo - if they vines are to long you have to dig them out and hang them up so they don’t go back in the ground

Nadiv - i’ve got a moth plant growing on my fence

Zoe - you can tell it’s a moth plant vine because the leaves are facing each other not up and down.

Introducing our 2020 Eco Leaders - First Task Moth Plant Attack!

Introducing our 2020 Eco Leaders - First Task Moth Plant Attack!

We're excited to represent our GreenGold Enviroschool & lead specialist projects to help create a sustainable world.

Today we met with Mrs Daniel for the first time. We learnt we'll be hosting a Howick Primary School enviro group in a fortnight and helping to launch THE MOTH PLANT COMPETITION on Wednesday 4th March.

We had time to start researching moth plant and go hunting in our edible garden for this invasive weed. Athena says it's already killed trees in her garden.

We can't wait to make teams and enter the Moth Plant Competition. Kids can win up to $1000 cash for killing weeds!