30/11

Making popcorn

 Making soap 

 Using the bike pump to water our gardens

Wow Ruby is so strong!

 Archaeological digging

 We found a gannet skeleton!

23/11

Searching for bugs!

We found lots of slugs and spiders under logs

 This earthworm was longer than our feet!

 Puppet show

 There are lots of butterflies in our school garden

9/11

Using the bike pump to fill our watering cans

Harvesting fruit and vegetables

Broad beans!

Loquats! Yummy!

Mulching

Creating a kiwi den

 Keeping our taniwha's tongue clean

 Monarch caterpillars

 Carefully cuddling the chickens

26/10

Looking at taxidermy!

Loading up the wheelbarrows with mulch

Spreading the mulch around our gardens

Watching a kiwi documentary

Puppets!

2016 Enviro leaders and leaders to be

What is Wai Care all about?

• It’s about caring for our waterways and catchments.
• It’s about communities taking action.
• It’s about all of us learning together and caring for ‘our place’
• It’s about kaitiakitanga.

Wai Care is a water quality monitoring, education and action programme for community groups, individuals, businesses and schools across the Auckland region. The Wai Care programme is about all of us, young and old, doing our bit to learn about and take care of local waterways and catchments.

Every week we go down to the stream near our school and test the water. We do tests to check the water clarity, Ph levels, temp and the dissolved oxygen. We also check to see what Invertebrates are living in our community streams.

Working hard to fill our watering cans for the vegetable garden

Cleaning up and preparing our butterfly house

Our garden is growing great

Making fire bricks to keep our homes warm on a cold night

Yummy!! Bubble and Squeak!!

Bagging up the Mulch