Enviro Day

Term Three

Today was a BERY busy, but fun day, to celebrate M.S.S’s Enviro day for Term Three. It was so much fun and filled with lots of interesting activities and tasks.

The theme and message behind the day was to celebrate ‘Conservation week’ within our schooling community and classrooms. The theme for Conservation week is ‘What’s your Whanau doing?’ To promote this message during the day Incredible Room I partook in a range of activities that involved/ promoted these messages.

In the morning Incredible Room I focused celebrating and recognising Conservation week by looking at a video on bugs and finding out information about what these tiny ‘yucky’ things do for the environment and why they are important. We discussed what would happen in the world without them and the importance of their role in waste management. In groups the children selected bugs and did sketches on them and wrote around their images information on what the bug does, why they selected it and also what they can do to care for this bug and to protect it for our future.

After morning tea it was time to get dirty! The entire class got in the garden and worked hard tidying up our beautiful garden in front of the dental clinic.

We created healthy sandwiches, were we all helped to chop, slice and dice the vegetables for our buns! The children really appreciate how long parents work to create meals and understand the hard work that goes into preparing a lunch or meal for others- as they had to work hard today. We also created fruit kebabs at the end with some fruit. Every child had a role and was able to help create our smorgasbord of fruit and veges!

In the afternoon we got to go and see the bird aviary in the Nursery. Room N did a FANTASTIC job at talking and sharing new information with us about the different birds that are found in our aviary!

Lastly for the day we got to plant two trees, one native and one non native, to go along the side of our field. All the children got to contribute in the planting of these trees. It was great to know this was another way we were giving back and contributing to conservation within our community. Mrs Cowan and Mr Barratt did a great job with this and we know the entire tree planting and even Enviro Day would not be managed or so successful without them!