The Special Trees of MSS

Today the Enviro Kids were out and about looking for the 4 most special trees at MSS. These are of course: Puriri, Matai, Totara and Kowhai.
We went on a tree scavenger hunt and had to locate and sketch each of our house trees.
Below we have included photos of our beloved house trees with a couple of the Enviro Kids.
Our trees are all native. We have some great big, mighty specimens in our grounds. If you don't know where they are located you can ask an Enviro Kid and they will show you. Each of the house trees has a ribbon in the house colour tied around it. Check them out.

Cate and the Totara

Finn and the Matai

Hamish and the Kowhai

We've found the Puriri!

Summer's Message

Summer designed a poster to share her feelings about being a kaitiaki of the environment...

Why do we want school chickens?

Keep chickens for eggs

Keeping chooks provides your household with a daily supply of sensational tasting eggs from a sustainable pet that consumes your kitchen waste and weeds from your garden.

Keeping chickens is a great way to turn waste into food, entertain yourself (and your kids), and they increase the nutrients and health of your soil while eating bugs, insects and sometimes mice.

Environment

Raising and feeding chickens diverts (methane creating) organic waste from landfill, assisting us to slow climate change.

Sourcing your eggs from your backyard instead of the supermarket ensures the quality and freshness of the eggs and allows you to be sure the chickens have been treated well.

Wellbeing

Adding chickens to our backyards introduces the endless entertainment of their scratching, preening, socialising and pecking. Fresh food is always good for us, and knowing our eggs are coming from well loved birds in the backyard (rather than cages in a overcrowded commercial shed) allows us to sleep a little better at night.

Sustainable Living

A great web page about what sustainable living is and how we can live more sustainable lives.

http://www.sustainableliving.org.nz/

All the Amazing MSS Habbitats...

Thornton and Annika Rm M

Maia and Megan Rm L

Hamish, Ella and Cate Rm T

Maia and Bonnie Rm S

Sienna, Ryan and Zion Rm J

Simon and Matty Rm B

How one amazing Kiwi is making a difference!

Go to the link below to view the video from Seven Sharp. It ties in with our litterless lunches theme. One lady making a real difference, inspirational!

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/staggering-number-plastic-bags-dished-nz-supermarkets-revealed

Science Art

It was a cross curricular session in Rm I. Art and Science combined. We created leafless, stark winter trees with masking tape on a white background. Then we dyed the background over the tape and the science happened here! We salted the wet dye and it causes a chemical reaction that looks very effective. Then we peel the tape off the dry page and draw black pen decorations all over the trees.

So far so good Rm I, watch this space...