Tuesday, 3 May 2016

Totara School Garden Club



30th March 2016
Today, the weather was windy, a bit cold, and the sky was grey. First, we checked the worm farm and fed the worms grass and silverbeet. Second, we tidied the toolshed and took inventory of all the tools we have, and what we need. We made this list of tools we need: fork, broom, seeds, compost, garden gloves & small shovels. Miss Miriam and Sophia are going shopping for new tools later this week. This week, we also watered the garden and weeded the bark chip paths. To finish up the session, we talked about Garden Club Rules and working as a team. These are our 4 garden club rules we agreed on together:
1.       Have fun.
2.       Be quiet when someone else is talking.
3.       Do the task you are assigned in the garden.
4.       If you don’t do the task assigned, you will return to class.



6th April 2016
Today, the weather was sunny and bird song filled the air.  There is silverbeet and calendula flowers growing well in the garden. We saw birds, a hedgehog, a spider and beetles while we worked. Sophia arrived with a trailer full of compost for the new garden beds. We did lots of digging and scooping loads of compost from the trailer into the wheelbarrow. We even had time trials to see who was the fastest digger. Here’s the team at work: 


Action shot from the Digger Time Trials:

We got a lof of new tools for the school garden. Lilly did an excellent job labelling and organising the tools in the toolshed.

These were our favourite things about garden club this week:
·         “hanging out” –Lilly
·         “the trailer ride” –Josie & Abbey
·         “seeing a hedgehog” –Abbey
·         “digger time trials” –James

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