Our scarecrow and friends

Check out our scary scarecrow...... He has been extremely busy watching over our garden. He doesn't seem to get lonely with so many friends around!

Our Communities Wall Display is growing....

This week we are very busy researching our key question, which is "How does our garden grow?"

We will be displaying our work on our wall display and sharing our work with the rest of the middle school next week! 

What is an Edible Garden?

 We have brainstormed what we think an Edible Garden is.....

Our Scarecrow

During our visits to the garden we had noticed that some of our plants have been eaten by birds. We realised that we would somehow have to protect our garden from them. The children suggested that we build a scarecrow to watch over our special garden.
Firstly we designed our scarecrow and brainstormed what materials we would need to build it. With the help of everyone it didn't take long to build our scarecrow. Isn't he handsome! Now all he needs is a name....

Alex and Harrisons photos of our garden

Alex Egan and Harrison have taken some photos of our garden to show you how much our vegetable plants have grown!

Observations

On Tuesday the rain finally stopped and we got a chance to visit our garden. Kip had brought 'Worm Wee' from home so while we looked at our garden, Mrs Ryder poured the fertiliser over our garden to help it grow.

Here are some of our observations-

Briana- "Room 12's lettuce has grown a lot".
Helena- "Our vegetables have got bigger".
Lav-"Room 10's scarecrow is wearing a cool hat".
Arabella- "Our plants are growing really well".
Craig- "Some of the potato seedlings have sprouts growing above the ground".
Kush- "Some of the plants have been squashed or eaten".
Eloise- "I think that the scare crows are doing a good job of protecting the gardens".
Nathania- "The scarecrows look great".

Room 9's Pretanimals

Last week we had a great time making play dough pretanimals. We had to use our imagination to create a made up animal. We then used moulding techniques to bring our pretanimals to life!


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Creative Story Writing

In writing we are learning how to write an imaginative story. We have used our imagination by pretending to be a scarecrow.
We have thought carefully about describing what we can see, feel, hear, taste and smell. We have also included adjectives (describing words) to make our stories interesting to read.


Here I am again. I can see water dripping off the roof and see the teachers cars. I can feel the mucky mud. The rain falls from the sky but goes in the yucky, muddy dirt and then I get cold feet because I don't have shoes on. I also feel a freezing breeze going past me. A freezing cold wind. Brrrr!
By Craig


Hi again! I can see a yellow tractor in the shed behind me. I can also see a car leaving. I can smell the mud. The rain is coming. I am very wet and cold. I can feel the strong wind and the cold air. I can hear the sea. There must be big waves today! The rain has stopped. I will get dry in the sun. Oh no... it is my lunch time and I am late.
Hey seagull, stop that noise. I'll get you for this! It is raining again and I am very wet. The clouds are grey.
By Helena

Our Edible Garden Trip

On Thursday we had a class trip to an Edible Garden. On the way to the garden we collected seaweed from the beach for the gardens compost. Once we were there we learnt how to make compost with seaweed. It was very smelly!

We recognised some vegetable plants from our edible garden at school, like carrots, broccoli, silver beet, and spinach. The garden was huge. We hope our garden grows this big!

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Today we visited our garden. We made some very interesting observations!

Arabella- "The plants are growing up, and not down."
Amy- "The bugs have eaten some of the leaves and left more holes".
Nathania- "The potatoes are growing well. I saw a stalk popping up from the ground".
Harlem- "There were green things spread over our garden to stop the snails and slugs from eating our garden".

Helena and Rebecca took some photos.

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