Saturday, September 8, 2007

Enviro Expo



The Enviro team were involved in an Enviro Expo this term. The focus was learning about Environmental Education through the School Curriculum. Emma, Dominique, Kate and Sharelle were involved in Visual Arts and created a block of art to make a mural of Native New Zealand creatures. It was a great day and you can see the finished mural at the Regional Botanical gardens in Manukau

Potato Planting



The Garden group are growing potato's. These photos show the group planting the potato's with Mr Barnes and Mrs Barlow. We are hoping for new potato's for Christmas dinner. Keep checking the blog and we will update you on our strike and how they taste.

Sunnybrae's Garden




Sunnybrae Normal has their own garden. We have a garden group that meets once a week and cares for the garden and worm bin. We are grateful for the support and knowledge of Mr Barnes and hope to sell our produce in November. These photos show our winter planting and watch the blog to see our harvest.

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

The Verran Junior's Sandpit



Hi Sunnybrae kids, here is a picture of our sandpit. As you can see it is a lot smaller than yours, we can only have 6 children in our sandpit at one time. It is made from an old spa pool. Because it has a wooden cover that is locked each night we are able to store our sandpit toys in the sandpit. At the end of lunchtime the children from Room 3 sweep up the sand around it and make sure all the sandpit toys are inside the sandpit.