Room 3 is caring for our environment !

 Part of belonging and learning at Elm Park School, is learning to care for our environment. We thought our planter box was looking a bit boring and not very colourful. We decided to plant some new flowers to make it more interesting for us to look at.

We then chose our 3 favourite colours and made a graph to show the results.

We discovered that our classes most favourite colours were purple and pink. Orange was our second most favourite colour. 

Have a look at all the colourful plants we bought...

Look at us working together to create our gorgeous rainbow coloured garden below.

Some of us dug holes for the plants with the trowels. Others people carefully put the plants in the holes. Then other people had the messy job of patting the soil.

IT WAS A TEAM EFFORT.

Ka pai mahi!

Now we just have to remember to water it.

Year 4 Clean Up after Cyclone Dovi

In the second week of term Auckland and other parts of New Zealand had destruction caused by cyclone Dovi. When we got back to school there was lots of debris that needed to be cleaned up. Here are some photo's of our amazing Year 4's having a big clean up of our area after the cyclone. 

Room 23 Reptile Group

 For this term the year 6 class room 23 reptile group has been studying about lizards and skinks. We have found out that the lizard population has been going down. So we have investigated how lizards adapt to their environment and observe their behaviour in order to increase their population. 

Our social action is to rebuild the lizard garden on the field. We have put some plans in place and are hoping to rebuild the lizard garden next term.

Year 4 Bin Sorting

 

Kaitiaki Kids Planting Day

On Friday the Kaitiaki Kids went to the Tūpuna Maunga Planting Day at Ōhuiarangi / Pigeon Mountain. We thoroughly enjoyed getting stuck in and planting some native plants in our wetlands with some other schools in our community. Thanks to Tina and Lisa for being our parent helpers!

There is a community planting day on the 26th of July from 10:00am till 1:00pm for all those who are interested.

Litter Free Lunch draw

Well done to Yi Lin and Theya on a brilliant presentation at whole school assembly. We have some very happy students who have got awesome prizes for bringing a litter free lunch.

Year 5 (Room 21) water the plants daily.

 William and Mason water the garden daily as they are Garden Monitors for this term.