Our seeds begin to grow!

Learning about germination- noticing the seed still attached to the top of the plant just like in our book! 

"This one growed bigger ah, not that one though, that one is still small ah"

Checking out the roots coming out of our bean seeds

A closer look - what can we see.

Our scarecrows were erected in the garden yesterday, and we hung up a whole lot of donated old CD's - hopefully these will keep our birds away!

Learning about the use of worms for the garden!

Discovery and observation

The arrival of our worms for the worm farm!

Picking the worms up at Mitre 10!

 Investigating through the senses!

 Smell!

 Touch!

 Sight!

Thinking/reasoning - exploring new things to discover how they work and what they are for.

Learning to take responsibility, using initiative!

Reduce,reuse,recycle

Our rainwater collection system gets up and running!

Collecting water for the garden.

Collecting our goodies at Mitre 10

Children taking responsibility and making choices.

"These look good" - Tristan

"There's lot of gardening stuff here Anita" -Tegan

"How many beans should we get" - Aidan

"These smell nice" - Hayley

Scarecrow Stuffing

Using old clothes from the lost property we created some fantastically scary scarecrows!

Straw from the horse arena proved to be the perfect stuffing

We discovered it helped to work together to stuff

Taking pride in our achievements!

Our scarecrow whanāu!

Designing our scarecrows!

Using our imaginations and knowledge of the world.

Exploring with line and shape.

Concentration and exploration!