Today our children painted rocks to create garden markers. They look fabulous!
Some children designed their rocks to look like the vegetables and herbs we have planted. Others used their creative flair to make their own original rock designs. These labels will help our tamarki identify the various vegetables and herbs they have planted around our beautiful school. Ka rawe!
Today our gardening club were busy tending to our plants in our school shade house. There is much work to be done to keep the plants maintained, so that they are ready for sale when we fundraise for our school. Our focus today was on some of our grasses that needed to be pruned and re-potted. The tamarki especially loved getting their gloves deep into the soil and re-potting the root-bound plants into bigger pots. We had fun identifying different parts of the plants together and learning how to revitalise the plants so that they can continue to grow beautifully.
We also had some children harvest some more Autumn vegetables at gardening club. A wonderful and very enthusiastic group of boys from Tahi did a great job of selling these to families after school, fabulous work!
Today we focussed on harvesting our Autumn crops.
Rawhiti and Tahi children planted seeds in trays to grow and nurture in their classrooms last term. The seeds included carrots (kāreti), beans (pīni), and beetroot (potae). Some of our children delicately created their own seed tape out of toilet paper, which we embedded in our vegetable patch behind the shade house. We also planted seedlings including kohlrabi, radishes (rauropi), kale and lettuces (rētehi).
We were excited to discover that our seedlings had thrived over the school holidays. The tamariki had fun discovering how to identify which vegetables were ready to harvest and how to harvest them with care. Our harvest was so successful we decided to sell our vegetables and herbs to teachers and parents for a Koha so we can fund our next lot of seeds. Some of the Garden Club children enjoyed their vegetables for dinner!
