The Juniors went to the Auckland Botanic Gardens on Friday, 15 February 2013. We enjoyed a full day of flowery fun.
First the bus picked us up from school. We felt happy and joyful about riding on the bus. We arrived at the Auckland Botanic Gardens, we went into the covered area to eat our morning tea. After morning tea we walked across the gardens to the kids garden, and into the classroom with our garden's teacher Susie.
Here we are riding on the bus
Here is Mr and Mrs Prout - Caleb's Mum and Dad. Mrs Prout is a teacher; Mr Prout came to help us for the day
Mrs O'Connor was an awesome parent helper too
Ngarangi and Hunter are being funny with their delicious oranges
Here are our new friends from Room 1
In the classroom we were learning about the life-cycle of a plant and how it grows from a seedling. Did you know plants have petals, roots, leaves and a stem? These are their parts.
The Life Cycle of a Seed
Susie teaching us about the life cycle of a seed.
Lauren is looking at the parts of the plant with her magnifying glass
Caleb is labelling the parts of a plant
Susie taught us about pollenation. This is where insects pick up pollen and mix it with other plant's pollen to make new plants. We had fun finding the pollen in the flowers.
Susie showing us how bees collect and redistribute pollen
Rehutai found pollen
Daniel and Tyrone found some pollen too
A highlight of our trip was when some students got to dress up in flower costumes. We acted out how the pollenation happens.
Here are our lovely 'flowers'! Daniel, Mose, Ngarangi and Verity
Ngarangi took his role very seriously, holding up his stamen proudly
Some bumble bees and butterflies taking the pollen from one plant to the next
The last part of our lesson was learning to plant a seed.
We each got a yoghurt pot with holes in the bottom. We filled it over half way with some soil. Then we put some Calendula seeds in the pot. We covered them with some more soil, patted them down then watered them lightly. We can't wait to watch our seeds grow as we give them plenty of sunlight, fresh air and water to grow.
Ready to plant our seeds.
We used our best listening skills
Te Whero, Trinity, Jode Reign and Kiri are busy planting
Caleb is adding his seeds to his pot
We would like to thank Susie for an amazing day - we enjoyed being in her class and all the exciting things she taught us.
After the class we had lunch under the trees, and spent the afternoon exploring the different gardens. We all think we would like to go back to the gardens, especially now that we know so much more about flowers and how they grow!
Having lunch in the shade of the tree
Mrs Nansen's group :)
Naomi found an interesting plant to sketch
Deciding where we will go next by reading the gardens map
Enjoying the rose garden's bridge. We think we saw some eels in the water!
Beautiful Trinity
We love science and learning about new things. We are excited for our next learning out of the classroom experience.
Recount and captions written collectively by Room 4
