Enviro Kids Week 8 Term 3 2014

Kia Ora Everyone!

This week we have added silverbeet seedlings to our gardens and continued to water our strawberry patch.

 

 

If you look closely, you can see a tiny strawberry beginning to grow inside each flower.

Watch this space!

 

 

Enviro Kids Weeks 5, 6 and 7 Term 3 2014

Kia Ora Whanau!

Over the past few weeks we have been looking after our gardens by weeding and watering them.

We have given special attention to our strawberry patch. We are looking forward to ripe red strawberries when it gets warmer!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Great job everyone!

 

 

 

 

Enviro Kids Week 4 Term 3 Recipe

Here is Joseph's Hummus Recipe!

1 lemon squeezed
salt and pepper
extra virgin olive oil
1 can chickpeas
1 tbsp. tahini
1 tsp cumin
1 tsp coriander
1 crushed clove of garlic

1. Rinse the chickpeas, put in the blender
2. Squeeze the lemon, add the juice to the chickpeas
3. Add everything else
4. Blend for about a minute
5. Taste it, add something if you need to
6. blend until it is all ready
7. Eat it with crackers, wedges, carrot sticks or whatever you like!

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!

 

 

 

 

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!

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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!