Enviro Kids week 7 Term 2 2013

Kia ora everyone!

This week we have been watering our gardens and watching the new growth.

Can you see some new growth on our plants?

 

 

It was the turn of lucky Room 5 to take home the silverbeet harvest this week. Even though we have a small garden of silverbeet we continue to get plenty to share!

 

 

 

You may have noticed that our main edible gardens have not been fully planted out. This was due to the drought in term 1 and is now due to the gardens being moved to make way for our new Junior playground. As soon as they have been moved we will be doing a full plant!

 

 

New gardens, week 6 Term 2 2013

Hi everyone!

We are very excited to show you our new edible gardens!

We have taken over the gardens beside our school front door. What better place to be growing and nurturing edible plants for our whanau!

Here is what they looked like before we planted. We had put in some compost and dug it over, then watered it.

We dug the holes and put the plants in.

 

We planted silverbeet, parsley and thyme.

 

 

Then we watered them.

 

 

Great job Enviro Kids!

 

 

Week 5 Term 2 2013

Hi everyone, we hope you are enjoying the sunshine when it comes and taking the opportunity to get outdoors and enjoy your gardens!

This week it was the turn of the fabulous Room 4 to take home the silverbeet and share it.

We are very grateful for our continuing harvest!

 

 

And of course we like to keep our worms happy with fresh leafy vegetables!

 

Happy gardening everyone!

 

Week 4 Term 2 2013

Kia ora whanau! What an amazing week for contrasts in weather! From dark dark thunder storms with lightning and hail to bright blue skies and sunshine. What a week!

Our fabulous Enviro Kids have begun to create the bottle top garden art that will be used to decorate our gardens.

Here are some of our prototypes:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week 3 Term 2 2013

Hi Everyone, this week our Gardening Enviro Kids have harvested a fabulous amount of silverbeet!

Thank you rain! Thanks to all the extra water our plants have been flourishing!

It was the turn of the lucky Room 3 to take all that delicious, juicy, healthy silverbeet home to share with their whanau.

Happy healthy eating Room 3!

Week 2 Term 2 2013 - Sensational Silverbeet!

Hi everyone!

This week we harvested some of our sensational silverbeet and Room 2 was the lucky class to take it home to share with their whanau.

Here is the recipe of the week from Whaea Emma in Room 2. She says that Jaeda and Odette liked it too and even ate it all up!

Green Vege & Ricotta Fettucine

You will need:
1 tub ricotta cheese
2 cloves garlic, crushed
2 courgettes cut into strips
1 leek finely sliced
silverbeet
100gm frozen peas
wholegrain fettucine
200gm green beans or snowpeas
pinenuts and parmesan, (and/or chilli flakes), to taste

What you do:
Cook the pasta until aldente.
Cook the garlic and leeks until soft.
Add courgettes, peas, grean beans and silverbeet. Cook as desired.
Add 1/2 cup of pasta water and cooked pasta.
Stir through the ricotta.
Serve with pinenuts, parmesan and chilli flakes sprinkled over the top.
Enjoy!

Term 2 Week 1 2013

Welcome back to another fabulous term at Sylvia Park School!

Our Enviro Kids have been very restricted with the rain this week.

But we are  very grateful that it has started raining and the drought is over!

As a result of this fabulous rain, our silverbeet has really taken off. We were able to harvest some this week and the lucky children in Room 1 got to take it home to share with their whanau.

We are planning the next lot of planting for next week, so keep watching our gardens.