Tuesday, 12 August 2014

Enviro Kids Week 4 Term 3 2014

Kia Ora Tatou!

What a great week for our Enviro Kids!

We made hummus with Joseph's recipe and got to eat it with potato wedges made from our very own potatoes!

Joseph and Mrs Hart and Mrs Hanline brought the ingredients and the equipment. We all helped to make the hummus, following the recipe carefully. Then we got to share it.

 
 
 
 
 
Bob had dug up the potatoes in the morning and Mrs Hart had peeled them and cut them and put them in the oven. Mrs Hanline got to bring them from the oven, they were hot!
 
 
 
 
 


Alexis and Abdul helped Mrs Hanline find out about growing chickpeas in New Zealand. They discovered that we can grow them here. They need to be planted in early Spring and they do not like growing with garlic. We are going to plant some in September.

We all got a share of the wedges, hummus and crackers.

 
Amazing! from Vin, Tastes like the best hummus there is! from Alexis, Fabulous! from Harmony
 
 
Spectacular! from Julius, Amazing! from Daina, Fantastic and Awesome! from Jayden, Fantastic! from Joseph.
 
 
 
Incredible! from Levi, Tasted delicious! from Abdul
 
We also learned about seed potatoes. Mrs Hart bought some and we have put them into a cardboard box to sprout. When they are sprouted we will plant them in our garden.
 
 
 
Happy Gardening Everybody!
 
 
 
 

Tuesday, 5 August 2014

Enviro Kids Week 3 Term 3 2014

Hello Everyone!

We have had a lot of fun harvesting this week.

We have taken good care of our silverbeet and spinach plants and now we are able to harvest them.

Then we shared them out equally and now we all have some to take home.

 
 
 
 
Happy gardening Everyone!
 
 

Tuesday, 29 July 2014

Enviro Kids Week 2 Term 3 2014

Kia Ora Whanau!

We were very busy this week picking parsley and spinach and making pesto and feeding our worms!

First we got the ingredients and the equipment.
 
 
 Abdul, Vin, Alexis and Imran picked some parsley. It was curly and flat leafed parsley. Then we washed it. We got out the earwigs and caterpillars.
 
 
Jayden picked some spinach.
 
We put all the ingredients in the blender and put the lid on. Then we mixed it all up till it was smooth.
Next Mrs Hart put some on a cracker for each of us.
"Nice," said Daina
"Magnifique!" said Jayden
"Delicious!" said Alexis
 
Here is the recipe:
Parsley Pesto
1 cup walnuts
2 cups parsley
half cup grated cheese
3 cloves garlic
half tsp salt
half cup olive oil
2 spinach leaves
juice of 1 orange
Place all ingredients in the blender and mix till smooth. Eat as desired.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Thursday, 24 July 2014

Enviro Kids Weeks 8&9 Term 2 2014

Kia ora whanau!
Well, you will have noticed that we have had no entries on our blog for the past few weeks. This is due to very bad weather conditions preventing us doing much in the gardens and also our winter season.

We will be doing some more planting next week and harvesting our fabulous crop of parsley.

Watch this space!

Monday, 23 June 2014

Enviro Kids Week 7 Term 2 2014

Kia Ora Everyone!

Maintaining our edible gardens takes a lot of work.

This week we used some of the worm tea we have collected to fertilize our gardens and help our plants to grow. We had to mix it with about three quarters water or it would be too strong for our plants.
 
 
 
 
We watered our strawberry plants too.
 
 
As good citizens, we also watered the flower gardens by the front entrance to our wonderful school.
 
 
Happy gardening everyone!
 
 

Tuesday, 10 June 2014

Enviro Kids week 6 Term 2 2014

Kia Ora Whanau!

This week we have picked the silverbeet and we are giving it to Room 12. We all voted for which class would get the silverbeet and Room 12 got the most votes.
Some people helped with the Blog. Thank you Haniel, Ryder, Ethar and me Alexis.

 
 
 
Happy gardening Everyone!

Enviro Kids Week 5 Term 2 2014

Welcome to week 5 Term 2 Enviro Kids!

This week we watered the gardens by the front of the office and we got the weeds out of the strawberry gardens. By Ethar

We pulled the weeds out to help the strawberries grow. By Ryder

I saw strawberries on some of the plants in the strawberry gardens. By Haniel

 
 
 
 

 
Happy gardening Everyone!