Worm Farming in Year 2

Year 2 are responsible for worm farming on the Junior campus.  As the children are new to Year 2 Mrs Elmore took the children on a tour of the worm farms and talked about how to care for the worms and what they do to help the environment.

The children then made a puppet pal movie detailing the steps they need to follow to complete their worm farming responsibility.

The oceans our beautiful treasure

During Sea Week Room 35 created some art work of the creatures that live in the ocean based on some of our research we had done during Reading and Writing. We wanted to celebrate the beauty of the sea. It also made us think about how we are responsible for looking after this treasure and what we could do to show that we value the oceans and its creatures.

Saving the Reefs - Sea Week

This week Room 33 read some books on coral reefs. They created these posters to highlight the effects we have on the coral reefs and what we can do to stop their destruction.

Thanks Room 33 for sharing this with us.

Enviro Project with Mike

In the past week we have been planning and designing a new plant stall to raise money for the school, The old one is falling apart,  So we decided to make a new one.   

 

Kiwi Release

Hi Meadowbank School

Today I went to the kiwi release on Mataia farm up at Kaukapakapa (1 hour drive north from school).  It started with a powhiri (welcome) to welcome us onto the whenua (land).  Then after we were officially welcomed we mingled with the hosts and had morning tea.  Thanks to Mrs Masters for your delicious cheese muffins and fruit loaf!  Then we joined the hosts and did another powhiri to welcome the kiwi onto the farm.  This experience was new to lots of Meadowbank children and families so it was fabulous to be able to be part of it all.

After the kiwi were formally welcomed they were taken out of their boxes and carried around to everyone so we could get the chance to stroke them.  I was imagining them to be really soft but I found out that their feathers are actually quite rough and prickly.  The DOC workers that were carrying them had been out all last night catching them on Moturoa Island.  They only managed to get 5 kiwi because the full moon made them hid away and hard to find.

Four lucky Meadowbank children (2 ex students) and Nicky Elmore were asked to go with the DOC workers in their 4x4 drive vehicles to release them out in the protected area of the farm.

What a day!  I wish you had been there to experience it too.

Mrs Cook

Oxfam Hot Chocolate Fundraiser

On Thursday 23rd May the School fundraised profits to go towards Oxfam who will support Fair-trade Farmers. We fundraised $614.60 by asking for a gold coin donation and in return you got a hot chocolate with homemade baking, it was so yummy.  We brought our own cups to save the environment.

Here's super girl

 

                                                           Matthew is giving out stamps
                                                             

                                                Here are the Enviro Ferns on the junior side  

                                                    Heres a hot chocolate and cupcake

Chickens

On Wednesday at lunch time we helped Mrs Masters to weed the garden and feed the hens.  Fiama was scared but Darlene wasn't.  She liked picking up the hen.  Bananas was jealous of the other hen.

By Darlene and Fiama