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Botanic Gardens

By Anonymous
In Week 5 Whanau Koru went on a trip to the Botanic Gardens. In the education room, we learned all about planting seeds and seedlings, how seeds grow, and we had a close up look at some worms! We even got to plant our own seeds to take back to school!

We also had some time to explore the gardens in our groups and saw all kinds of wonderful and interesting plants. We thought we would share these photos to show everyone the amazing things we saw and did during our trip:

We found out about the life cycle of a seed

We pretended to be seeds

Being seeds was fun!

Then we grew from our seeds into beautiful plants!

We found a strawberry plant in the education garden!
 We planted our own seeds:
The educator told us how to plant our own seeds

Filling up our little pots

We needed to poke a hole in the soil to plant our seeds
 We got to plant some seedlings in the educational garden:
Planting a seedling in the garden

Ready to plant!

We needed to be very gentle with the seedlings

Before the seedling went into the hole we needed to put in some sheep poo first!

Being very gentle with the seedling
 We also got to get up close and personal with some wiggly worms!
The educator told us all about the worms

We looked in the soil to find the worms

The wiggly wriggly worms!
 We also had a wander around the gardens:
We all wanted to look at the dragonflies flying above the water

There was a water wheel

And we spotted some frogs in the tadpole pond!

There was a house for weta on one of the trees

And we found some spikes that fell off a cactus

There were lots of ducks!

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