Botanic Gardens Trip

Last Thursday Room 16 18 and 20 went to Botanical Gardens. We learned about nature and recycling.

We had to walk 5 minutes to a medium garden.We could hear cicadas and birds singing in the garden. Paul had something in his backpack. It was a mat with  lots of pictures of animals.The animals were a tui eating another bird. There also was a weta and a couple of worms to. He told us us about the F.B.I. The F.B.I stands for Fungus Bacteria and Invertebrates. The fungus and bacteria rots animals and brown leaves and the invertebrates chew chew chew and pooh pooh pooh.

After another 5 minute walk to the veggie garden we got to make a compost heap. We made it with coffee, brown leaves, green leaves and horse pooh.

Next we went with Caroline to make a worm farm. We had to get to a small recycling bin, then a large river stone to cover the hole or the tigers worms will fall out. We needed black mesh, small stones, green mesh, wet strips of newspaper. Then we needed to look at the worms with a magnifying glass then pour them in carefully. Then we needed to tear the veggies into small pieces and last of all put on the thick square of blue carpet. Then we had to put a thick square of wood on so the rain doesn't get in.

I felt quite good about my day because we got to learn about nature and recycling. My favourite part of the day was our group making a compost heap.