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11 .03.2014

On the 11th of March we planted lettuce, cabbage, cauliflower and spinach our Whanau group in vegetable tyres 

Our goal for 2014

• Our goal would be to get a good system going with watering, planting and potting.

• Name plants with correct scientific names.

• Plant out plants on native farms along the riverside.

• Look after native area.

• More conservation days.

• Water plants.

• Take cuttings.

• Weed plants

• Clear tracks for the bush block.

• Ring the community and ask if they would like us to plant on their farms

• Get a good system going with the compost bins.

• Weed community members plants if they want it.

• Replant our vegetable gardens.

• On one day a week we can search the community for rubbish to keep the community clean.

• Set Possom and stoat traps

Green finger Zone plan.

On the Friday of the last week of term three, we had planned for a grand opening to celebrate our group's achievements.  With funding from Horizons regional council, we had the opportunity to revamp the growing unit and shade house with new sprinklers, timers, hoses and work benches. Huntah's granddad helped so much with this area. With Mitre Ten giving us big discounts it made it a lot easier. The whole group worked a lot with building the shade house and making the vege gardens look really good. We are really proud of how much the veges in the tractor tires have grown. Also how well the growing unit has been working.

Week 6 Update

We have made our compost for our science investigation. We have finished all of our testing. We learnt how to make good compost and what to put in it. We can use what we have learnt to make our compost at school. We also made our traffic lights. Thank you to Mrs and  Mr Carter for helping us to make and paint our traffic lights and make our signs for ur vege garden.
In our action learning area we have cleared most of the dirt off the trailer and started making the paths. We would like to thank Ben for helping us with this at the working bee. Thank you Mr Digby for bringing in the dirt for us to use.
Our next step is to finish the tyre fence and get the rest of the dirt off the trailer.

Our Pinata

Just recently, over the last few weeks, we have been constructing a pinata as a technology activity to solve problems. After Mrs Fielder got back from her sabbatical, she thought that it would be good for us to make one of our own.
The criteria was to make one that would stay together, had materials to suit, the shape was effective, the size was reasonable, it would hold treats, had an entry point for the treats to fit in, is able to break at the right time and will hang up.
We thought about making a round one with party hats on the side. But after scrolling through the images we decided to try an make an alligator. At the time we thought it was going to be to hard to make, but after looking at our materials we second guessed our selves and got stuck in to make it work.
We now have to stick the head, feet and jaw on and then get started on giving it more details such as painting it, putting party hats on the back for spikes and giving the feet spiky toes. Pixel said that the start of painting is looking really good and Dylan said the body is really starting to take shape.