Tag: maara

We’ve been busy this week learning: NZSL (alphabet, days of the week, how to ask: what’s your name and the months of the year). Our class were also fortunate enough to have Whaea Deidre (our Environ kaiako/ teacher) take us for a whole day in the school garden (Maara – pronounced Mah-ah-rah). In the first session we learned about our new rubbish system. We have three bins: one for paper, plastic and landfill. Our goal is to try and decrease what we send to the landfill. Our class also spent a lot of time in the garden learning about the animals we have (pigs and chickens) and some of us fed them and collected eggs from the chickens, find plants using pictures and we also dug out soil in the box and turned it over using shovels. Some of us found some interesting objects in the soil like toy dinosaurs. In the afternoon, we harvested kale, chives and radish and all of us helped to make a frittata. Here’s our video of our day in the garden and we hope you enjoy!