Vegie shop

What a great morning we had selling our vegies, plants, lemons and worm tea in our shop today outside Room 9.  We made some money to buy more plants for our garden.  Thanks so much everyone for supporting the year 2's gardening efforts!

Vegie shop

Room 9 is making a vegie shop on Friday at 8.30 outside our classroom.  Please come with a gold coin donation for some fresh vegies, plants and lemons!

Monday Week 1 Term 4

Today Room 9 visited our garden after the holidays and we noticed : 4 strawberries, purple broccoli flowers,  weeds, potatoes growing, broad beans taller than us, carrots and spinach growing tall, red cabbages.   We felt happy and excited because the vegetables are growing well.

Pumpkin soup Monday!

What a cool start to school - pumpkin soup! I said "Pumpkin soup is really delicious!" It is a healthy snack! It came from our garden. Some of us ate it for the first time.

Planting potatoes

Planting Potatoes In Our Year 2 Veggie Garden

How to make roast pumpkin

1. Scoop out the seeds out 2. Chop the pumpkin into small pieces 3. Put the pumpkin in a roasting dish and sprinkle with oil 4. Put the pumpkin in a hot oven for 20 - 30 minutes 5. Eat and enjoy a healthy vegetable snack!

Planting day!

Monday of Matariki was our planting day and we were lucky it was such a sunny day and also we had Cate and a parent helper to assist the children. We bought a variety of vegetable seedlings including kale, spinach, bok choi, purple and green broccoli, red cabbage and celery. The children really enjoyed digging in the soil, putting the plants in and then watering. It wasn't so lucky that there have been frosts since - we have hurriedly collected plastic bottles to put over the plants to protect them.

Visit to East Tamaki School

Last Friday the Year 2's visited East Tamaki School to learn about gardening. They showed us how to turn over the soil and add fertiliser to make healthy soil that makes healthy vegetables that makes healthy us! They have amazing gardens growing lots of different vegetables!

Garden Planting & Maintenance

Preparing the soil for planting

The year 2's dug the soil with trowels to get out the weeds and added sheep pellets for fertiliser. Everyone helped and it was great fun digging in the garden on a sunny day!

Our Food Pyramid

Room 9 cut out pictures of food and sorted the pictures into 3 groups.  We talked about eating lots of vegetables and fruit and grains.  Then we sorted eat some food like meat and dairy food.  Last we sorted eat little food like cakes, lollies and chips. Eating this way will make you smart and healthy.

Well-being popplet

Room 9 created a popplet with their ideas about well-being.