Botanical Gardens

On Tuesday rm18,rm 20 and rm 16 went to the Botanical Gardens. We looked at natures recycling in the bush with Susie. When leaves drop to the ground, it's all like a leaf life cycle which keeps going and going. When a leaf dies it gets eaten by worms, then the worms drag it under the soil for bacteria to help break through the leaf and turn it into fresh soil. Then the soil makes more plants and trees, when more trees grow more leaves fall off, and worms and bacteria do the same thing again and again. When a leaf falls off the tree it's green, but when it's yellow it's kind of starting to die but when the leaf is brown it's dead then it will be turned into soil by what Susie calls them decomposers. We would need a microscope or a magnifying glass to see bacteria, but it does alot to help save our world from harmful pollution.

Next we went and made worm farms, first we talked about making compost heaps. We thought it was quite yuck to put horse poo in. Susie showed us how to make a worm farm, it went like this:
1. Get a container with a hole at the bottom so the worm wee can drain through.
2. Put pumice stones at the bottom so the worm wee can drain. Then put a layer of guave on top of the pumice stones, sothe worms can wriggle through and have a little swim.
3. Put a little bit of soil and tiger worms on top of the guave.
4. Put your left over food scraps on top of the tiger worms.
5. Put wet newspaper on top of the left over food scraps or you could put a old carpet on the container, because the tiger worms like the dark and so they don't get eaten by birds.
6. Feed your tiger worms often with left over food scraps, but don't feed them too much because they might be too full. Watch your worm farm grow!

We had a wonderful trip to the Botanical Gardens, but we did not like the cold weather but even though it was cold we learnt alot!

Term 2

This term there is an I.C.T group. A couple of people from each class from the middle school are learning how to make our own interesting blogs on the internet. We are learning how to also use the internet saftily and carefully but also making it a fun time. We will be editing them every week and keeping you all updated on what we are doing. Hope you like them!

We have been doing wonderful art on animals because we were looking at animals and their habitats. First we hade to draw the animals pattern in pencil then we coloured them in with pastel which was very hard because we were not allowed to smuge our drawing. The background was next we chose the colour of the habitat that the animal would mostly live in. Ms Turner went around them in black smelly PVA Glue. Our next picture was one of the animals features like a head. They look stunning!
Come and see our stunning animal arts in Room 18, I know you will love them so do I!!


This term we are looking at pollution and how we can stop it from harming our world. Pollution is sometimes made from smoke coming out of the factories. We are going on a wonderful trip to the Botanical Gardens to look at how they stop pollution and different ways they stop pollution. We are reading stories and thinking about how we can stop pollution. We are also so looking at recycling to help our world.

We found out some interesting facts. I didn't know that oil and water don't mix. We watched an experiment about how water and oil don't mix. A medium sized ship like the Proteuse carries 125,0000 litres of oil in each 12 cargos it holds. The oil is made of crude oil from the ground. This crude oil is made for petrol for cars, trucks,buses and aeroplanes, but first they need to do somethings to the crude oil because you can't put it straight into the cars because it needs to be turned into liquid before you put it into your car.