Hungry Chickens

In Ruma Ruru we are talking about and investigating what we 'grow' or have in our backyard to provide kai for ourselves and others.

Our shared book this week is looking at honey making.

A reading group is learning about chickens. This group read an article on making a hungry chicken and of course, then they made it!

Junior Journal with article

Annelise cutting out the body of the chicken.

Melissa folding the body in half (1/2).

Max reading the next step...

Max cutting the top of the chicken.

Jess stapling on the beak.

Melissa preparing the finishing touches.

Hungry Chickens!

Congratulations to...

Below are the tamariki who have been awarded certificates at assembly so far this term. These students should be very proud of themselves (as should their 'owners/slaves').

Well done Jess, Saoirse, Annelise and Tyler.

Well done Luke and Lily!

Well done Lachlan!

A Science Experiment

Max is like lots of us in Ruma Ruru and he likes to read. He visits the library in Cambridge every week and shares with us lots of the interesting information he finds.

He brought in a book with a science experiment and we did it!

Instructions for the experiment...

Waiting...

Max cutting the silverbeet...

Ruma Ruru decided the dye/water moves around the plant like blood moves around our  body through veins...

Fluro Friend Day - Cambridge Life Skills

On Tuesday we held a Fluro Friend Day to raise money for Cambridge Life Skills. This organization helps kids and families in the Cambridge area.

Our school raised over $400 for them!

We dressed in Fluro and brought along 'friends' dressed in Fluro too!

Hannah is our student rep and she chose Lachlan as our most Fluro Friend - Lachlan was dressed in matching fluro outfits as his friend!

Thanks to everyone for their donations.

Growing our own Kai

Well! We arrived at school on Monday with several ideas that we discussed and modified.

Here we are cutting holes and planting our mesclun salad plants. We have also put holes in the bottom of the bag for drainage. We will water them a little bit every day.

Lucy showing us how to gently loosen roots.

Luke making sure the hole is deeper enough.

Lily and Saoirse - teamwork works!

Moving the bag to outside our room.

We also weeded the garden outside Ruma Tieke and planted some sunflower seeds...

Jess and Max preparing the soil for the sunflower seeds.

The seeds - lots of different varieties of sunflowers.

We will water them a little every day.

Lachlan's Backyard!

Lachlan and his Mum sent through this to share...

Interesting topic! We have been doing a lot of gardening lately!  Lachlan loves to help in the garden. He helped plant the veges! and helps with weeding the garden! This is our garden! Potatoes, cauli, broccoli, spinach, cabbage, tomatoes, herbs, courgettes, cucumber and rhubarb. We are enjoying watching it grow and can not wait till we can eat all this yummy food we are growing!  

In Our Backyard - Growing Kai

We are looking at In our Backyard and thinking about the science related to the soil, water, sky, moon, sun and beyond... BUT... what about the food we grow in our backyard?

In the picture below you will see two things I am bringing to school on Monday.

Using just the potting mix bag - can you bring an idea/design of how we could use it to grow the mesclun salad seedlings in it.

What do you grow in your backyard? Do you share the food you grow with others? What do you do with the food you grow in your backyard?

I look forward to reading all your ideas in our comments and I bet the Mums and Dads are looking forward to us posting our design on Monday!