Harvesting the kumara

Today Mrs Tate took the kids from her class last year out to harvest the kumara and garlic.
First they listened carefully to Mrs Tate and Graeme. Then they started to harvest the garlic. The kids put all of the garlic in a bucket.
After that they started harvesting the kumara. The kumara were placed into piles. There were heaps of kumara - about 78 were counted!
Last of all the kumara were put into a box.
Natalie from the Franklin News came to see our harvest and she took photos of us too.

Here are some photos of our harvest, taken with the iPad:

The new concrete

Today I got to school really early because my mum helped with the concrete.  The new concrete is outside of Room 5.  The wheelbarrows were full of concrete.  My mum, Jacob, Graeme and another man was there to help with the concrete.  The big green concrete truck was on the field by the canopy and the truck had to drive all the way by the PE shed when it drove on the field.  Here are some photos and videos.

By Tara

Re-planting our Strawflowers

Our new pots for the strawflowers.

On Friday 16 November Room 8 repotted their strawflower plants into bigger pots.  We did this because the pots that the plants were growing in became too small.  Then we replanted the extra strawflower plants into the garden under the big Tōtara tree outside Room 3.

While we were doing the replanting, Tyler used the iPad to video what Room 8 was doing.  She also talked to some of Room 8 to see what they were doing.  Her video is below (Miss Bolton has edited it a little bit.)