Room 13's Learning Journey

We collect hand towels that have been used.
At our school we get the hand towels for our worm farm from the staffroom toilets and also from the childrens toilet area too.

We have to clean the buckets after the food scraps have gone into the worm farm because the buckets will get dirty. Using scraping brushes and a small bit of water helps.

Yay! we have another composting bottle in room 13. I made this composting bottle last Sunday. I feel very proud of my composting because I can watch everything break down each previous day. It encourages me to find out more about what happens when food is left to rot. This is good for my learning because I can learn lots. Please don't say "oho" or "that's disgusting!" because compost is very good for your garden. Worms are also good for your garden.

The cup shows the liquid that comes out when the organic material breaks down.

These are this weeks results.

For the plant that got worm tea we had: 7.5cm long leaves and 14 leaves. The results for the No Worm Tea plant was: 6cm long leaves and it had 14 leaves. For the worm tea plant, we are putting worm tea on it once a week. We have to put on one quarter of a cup of worm tea mixed with water. We can see a small difference already! Wait for next weeks results.....

Wow, Room 13... I have looking more closely at your planning for your speeches, and your opening introductions, and I am really impressed by the way you are: 

* thinking about your purpose and audience - to talk about an area   
   of sustainability that you care about deeply  

 * appealing to your audience's feelings through sharing your own  

 * researching in books, the Internet, and doing surveys around 
   school  to collect information, facts or examples to support what 
   you are saying. (I love the rubbish survey, and the Values survey 
   in a Junior room- this is excellent data to support your argument 
   and it is really connected to your audience)

20/ 08/ 10


This is a picture of Room 13's experiment. On the left you can see a pot with a bit of plastic sticking out which says ''Worm Tea'' and on the right you can see the words ''No Worm Tea.'' We are showing you how worm tea works. At our school we have our very own Worm Farm with hundreds and thousands of Tiger Worms.
This plant is called the Chinese Cabbage and we are going to use the worm tea on one of the plants to prove it really works. We predict that the plant that gets the worm tea will grow bigger and more quickly. We are going to measure and count the leaves each week. Watch this blog for next weeks results.

GA

Down at the stream that runs through Elm Park reserve, the year 6 enrichment from Elm park school and some Y4 students have been planting 260 trees on the side of the stream. One of the trees is called Kahikatea; it is one of the tallest native trees. We are planting native trees because at Elm park school we want more native birds, insects and trees. The Park and our EPS trees will merge together to make a great habitat for birds one day. I feel happy that we are helping the enviroment. HG