Mushy Mucky Mud and the Planting People

What a huge day we had today!
Our whole school planted 600 plants along the Waiomou stream next to our school.
We lugged plants up and down the steep slippery hill. We dug holes in the mushy mucky sucky mud, even as it tried to suck our boots right off our feet. Next we tickled the roots of the plants loose and then packed them safely in to their new homes. Everyone worked hard and had lots of muddy fun all washed down with a hot sausage and bread off the BBQ.
Thank you to everyone who came and helped us!!!

A very special visitor

Room 8 at Bellevue school in Tauranga sent us a cool Flat Stanley that they had made. We laminated him so that he stays safe on his adventures with us.
Thank you Room 8 for taking one of our Flat Stanleys on adventures with you too :-)

How are seeds dispersed?

Diary of our Plants - Day Eleven "Spot the Difference"

Being observant is a great skill that helps us learn to read.
Being "observant" means we look very closely at something and think carefully about it using things we already know or understand.

How observant are you?

Diary of our Plants - Day Ten

Most of our plants have grown lots, even some of our spare ones.
On Friday they were still little, now they are longer than a pencil.
They are starting to grow leaves.
There are some that haven't come out of the ground yet. We wonder why?
Some of them have roots coming out of the bottom of their pots in to the water, but not all of them.

Diary of our Plants - Day Seven

Wow - when we got to school this morning there are now lots of little shoots popping out of the soil.
Only the snow peas are growing so far.

Diary of our Plants - Day Five

What can you see?

Diary of our Plants - Day One

Today we planted some seeds.
We worked out that to start with they needs:
Dirt (soil)
Water
Care
Sun and not too cold.

We planted Nasturtium flowers and Sugar Snap Peas.

The Water Cycle Song

This is a very catchy tune to help us remember how the water cycle works.