We love NZ

This week was Conservation Week in New Zealand. 

The theme was We Love New Zealand.

Today Room 14 hugged our Redwood tree. It is the tallest tree in our school and its trunk is massive. The Redwood tree provides shade and a home for birds.

Take a look at our vimeo of our Kidpix drawings of what we love about New Zealand.

Our school had an art competition to celebrate Conservation Week. The artwork had to show what we love about our school. Ryan and Tahniah's artwork were in the top 11. They won a marigold plant and Ryan also won a trowel to help him with his gardening.

 Artwork created by Ryan. 
This is our playground on Putikitiki.

Artwork created by Tahniah. 

This is the trees by the Kowhai sandpit.

Blog post by Room 14

We love New Zealand

This week is Conservation Week. 

Click on this link to the Conservation website and you can see what else is happening around New Zealand. There are also some great games in the kids section.

Makaela wore this great t.shirt today.

What do you love about New Zealand?

We Love You New Zealand

Paper 4 Trees

Our school is part of "Paper 4 Trees". 

This means for the paper and cardboard we recycle we earn trees which we can then plant at our school. This year we chose raspberry plants, flax and a rewarewa tree. We think that the raspberries will be great in our Kitchen Garden. We hope that the tui and rewarewa attract more tui to our school.

You can click on this link to find out more about Paper 4 Trees.

Here is a vimeo of the trees being planted.

Paper 4 Trees from Ham East on Vimeo.

You can also look at our photopeach to see the tree planting.

Paper 4 Trees on PhotoPeach

Plum Tree

Today Mrs Leeson gave Hamilton East School a plum tree to plant in the Kitchen Garden. 

We planted it behind the dental clinic because one day this could be a great orchard area.

 

Look at the roots of the plum tree.

 

Thankfully Dugan had dug a hole for us earlier. We put fertiliser in when we planted it. This will help it grow faster. Then we piled more soil in the hole.

Mrs Leeson had thought of everything, not only, did she have fertiliser she also had worm juice. We mixed this in with the water to help the plum tree grow stronger.

Look at gorgeous Room 14 with the new plum tree for our school.

Here is a vimeo of Room 14 helping to plant the tree.

Plum Tree from Ham East on Vimeo.

Treemendous School Makeover

Here is our "movie" for our Treemendous School Makeover application. 

We would love some help with making over our Nature Trail.

You can click on this link to have a look at the Treemendous website.

Our Nature Trail from Ham East on Vimeo.

Kowhai Tree

This is a blabberize of the spade Room 12 used to plant the kowhai tree.
Please help us look after our tree.