Bush Builder Action Day

Today Kim from the zoo came back to our school to help us.
Room 3, 4, and 5 got to plant some native plants that Kim brought for us. We are hoping to attract birds, butterflies and lizards with the plants we used.  We all got to help plant a tree.  When we had planted our trees, Tara went to our school worm farm and got some worm wee to water the plants with. We hope the plants liked this treat!!
A special BIG THANK YOU to Charles, Gary and Sam who came to help us and did the hole digging for us! We think you were great.
What a fun morning we had.

 

Bush Builders

We have been exploring our bush at school. We have been digging and trapping bugs to see what we could find.
Worms, millipedes, springtails, ants, spiders are just some of the bugs and creatures we found.
At assembly on Friday we shared a powerpoint to show what we have done so far...

Bush Builders at Normandale School

Today Kim, from Wellington Zoo came to our school. She spent time with all the classes.

When Kim was in Room 4, she talked to us about how we are connected to nature and how we are  lucky to be surrounded by natural native bush.

She told us about ecosystems and how all things in nature rely on each other to survive. If we took away . trees, everything else would die as trees give us oxygen to breathe. We can help this by planting trees to replace those that are cut down.

We went outside and looked under the bush to see if we could see any creatures. We used magnifying glasses, binoculars etc to look. Unfortunately, we did not find anything but we are carefully looking when we are outside during the day.

Bush Builders at the Zoo

At last the day dawned fine and our trip to the zoo was on!!
We spent the morning leaving our hand prints around the zoo.

First we planted a tree on the river trail. It was a prickly plant and it is meant to stop people walking through the garden. It was also a smelly plant to detract from the poo smells at the zoo!!
We also left muddy hand prints on a tree picture.

Next we went to see the penguins. Wow- we saw 2 little blue penguins. We learnt we should keep our cats inside at night to stop them attacking penguins, (we should be ok in Normandale as there are no penguins!!)
We also drew chalk pictures of penguins, and left gluey handprints on a picture of a penguin. After we made a handprint, we threw sand at it! Fun.

After that we went into the kiwi house where we got to touch a 5 year old tuatara. It was very soft. We also saw 3 kiwis running around. Tahi the kiwi only had 1 leg so he hopped.
Here, we left glow in the dark paint hand prints on a tuatara shape. When we had finished, the lights were turned off and we saw them glowing.

Our last activity in the morning was to go on a hunt and find conservation signs. We  found lots.

Thank you Kim for all the fun things you organised for us to do.

in the afternoon we were able to walk around the zoo and see all the animals. It was exciting walking through the Australian section where the animals ere wandering around us.

It was a really fun day.