Watching Our Corn Growing

Last week at Makerspace the children planted corn seeds.  They have been anxiously watching to see if the seeds have germinated and begun to grow.  On Thursday when they arrived at school and checked the containers they found three tiny shoots then on Friday there was one more shoot.  It is exciting watching the tiny plants getting bigger.

Alexandra has been keeping an eye on the corn seedlings

The seedlings are beginning to grow.

Visiting The Eels

Today Room 16 visited the Kuwharuwharu long finned eels during Makerspace.  The eels are in a special tank and the children watched them being fed.  The experience provided the children will lots of discussion and motivation for some interesting stories and pictures.

Gardening with Mr Vogt

At Makerspace we are learning about respect for our environment.  The garden in front of our class is looking very dry and sad so Mr Vogt suggested we dig the soil over, replenish it with some potting mix and add some "worm food" to see if we can grow some plants.  The children were very enthusiastic diggers and manage to make a good patch to plant some strawberry plants in and make it look more like a garden again.

Happy diggers

Chevelle and Logan

Maria hard at work

Watering the Plants

At Makerspace the children have been looking after plants as part of learning to respect our environment.  Because it has been so hot the plants have needed regular watering.  Pene was careful when watering the small plants to make sure all the water went around the small plants.

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Going To Makerspace

Room 16 went to Makerspace for the first time this year and made fans.  They were able to decorate them by writing and drawing on them with felt pens. They were both decorative as well as being very useful to try and keep cool in the warm, muggy weather Auckland is experiencing at the moment.

Joshua and Pene.

Tupou, Mariposa and Chevelle making designs on their fans.

Maria concentrating on her design.

Maggie and Nate trying to keep cool.