Weeding & Weird Worms

Today Room 14 had an Enviro Day with Mrs Daniel. We read about worms, dug up worms, watched worms and even found a new type of worm none of us had seen before.

Also, before morning tea we explored the native bush walk. We identified the native trees, but also discovered some pest plants too.

After our break it was time to analyse our lunchboxes; We asked ourselves, "After I've eaten everything what will be left for the worm bin, compost, recycling or landfill?" The Enviro Stars had nothing at all for the landfill. Well done them.

In the afternoon we listened to "Diary of a Worm" and weeded the edible gardens. We also fed the soil with worm tea from the worm farm.

Here's what we thought about our day:

"I learnt gardening is fun." Chanel

"Worms have an important job." Isabelle

"We're learning to take care of the environment." Vera

"We've been pulling out weeds, cause they're not supposed to be there; they'll take space and nutrients from our veges." Mia

"I liked weeding. I learnt white flatworms eat earthworms." Ben

"Touching things is fun no matter what it is ... not poo!" Tom

Isabelle's Teach the Teacher - Sweet Bugs

This is the bug Isabelle taught us how to make

Isabelle with her assistant Chanel demonstrating how to make wrap the lollies

Isabelle brought enough equipment for us all to have a go

Building a bug

Pavement Art

We had fun designing pavement art ideas.  A huge thanks to Leah and Tina for all their help and creativity.

Our Favourite Books

We shared our favourite books, why it is our favourite and our favourite parts.

Editing Glasses

We started using our editing glasses today.  These glasses help us see where we need capital letters and full stops.  They also help us find our words we are unsure of in the dictionary.

Family of Facts

This morning we had the Room 15 and 14 Year 3s, we made family of facts streets.  The houses represent 'the family'.

Loving Science

Making Slime!

Two of our graphing super stars

Creating our Class Treaty

We worked in groups to brainstorm our ideas 

Great ideas to help us all work together in a happy/safe class

We shared our ideas with the class

We made our Class Treaty and signed it like we saw them do on the Treaty of Waitangi