Rangikapiti Pa Tree planting

Rangikapiti Pa Tree planting

Our school is involved with looking after the Rangikapiti reserve. 

Some students help with the trapping of pests and planting trees.

Some senior students - Tyrell, Nico and Nikki-Boy learnt how to plant a tree properly then they made a video for us to watch so we could know too. 

We went to Rangikapiti and learnt about the importance of looking after our native bush and how we can help by planting trees.

The senior boys helped us with the planting.

It was really good to feel like we are helping!

When were finished we walked up to the top of Rangikapiti Pa and looked at our Moana ataahua (beautiful Moana).

The Mud Problem - Problem solving by Pukeko Class

We got a beautiful deck built on to our classroom. The builders put a concrete path in front of our deck. The ground was getting muddy and making our class dirty. We decided we needed to take action.

We all wrote a letter to Josh our care taker to see if he had any grass seed we could have.

First we had to rake the ground to get it ready. 

 

Then we planted our grass seeds. 

We had to water our grass. 

We noticed people walking on our grass seeds so we made some signs. These signs helped to keep kids off our new seeds.  We asked some big kids to help us attach our signs to our sticks. 

Thanks Nico and Niki boy. 

These signs worked well. Kids stopped standing on the dirt and our seeds and the grass grew and grew. Now we dont get mud in our class anymore.

Problem solved by Pukeko kids!!Wahoo!

Look at the grass growing now!

We had lots of fun watching our grass grow so we made some grass people. this is us making our grass people.

We love them!