Earth Hour 2013

Earth Hour 

The Johnsonville School Enviro Group has been learning about Earth Hour. 

Earth Hour is about helping to save the world by turning off your lights for an hour. It really makes a difference!- Huda

It saves energy and power. - Zinnia   

Earth Hour is a global event on Saturday the 23rd of March at 8:30pm. 

Turn off your lights, computers, tvs, phone chargers, tablets, iPads and everything that uses power!

Check out   http://www.earthhour.org/   for more information and fun activities and learning!!!!

Worms!

WORMY WORMS! 

A quick end of year post on... Worm farming! We spent the last enviro session for 2012 working on our worm farms.

We have a hungry bin already set up, but wanted to get our second worm farm going. We've spent a couple of sessions learning about worms.

Here we are setting up our "can of worms" worm farm.

Soaking the coconut fibre material that comes with the kit.

Meagan Miller from the Wellington City Council came in to work with us. It was great having her expertise and guidance! Thank you Meagan.

Transferring the material.

Woohoo! The worms will have a great time living here.

Tune in next year for an update!!!

Harakeke post-planting shots!

Here we are the next day posing beside our harakeke!

The back four harakeke represent the whanau groups... Tui, Korimako, Pihipihi, Tieke! 

 Year 6 Enviro Leader Isaac

 The planters!

 Strike a pose!

 Whanau Group Leaders - Jody and Alex T (Tui)

 Enviro Group Y6 Leader - Lauren

   Whanau group leaders - Farin and William (Pihipihi)

 Y6 Enviro Group Leader - Emily

 Year 6 Alex J with Whanau Group Leader Mitchell (Tieke)

 Year 6 Enviro Group Leader - Ashleigh

   Whanau group leaders Victoria (Korimako) with Year 6 Lewis and Year 6 Enviro Leader Isaac

Whanau Group Leader (Korimako) - Victoria

We can't wait to come back next year and see how much they have grown!

 :)

 Woohoo! It will look fantastic.

Year 6 Harakeke Planting

Harakeke planting 

Last Wednesday the Year 6 Whanau Group Leaders and Year 6 Enviro Group leaders planted harakeke. The harakeke was donated by the WCC and the planting session was led by our enviro schools facilitator Amanda Dobson.

We started by listening to the creation story. Thanks for reading it to us Amanda.

We planned before where we thought the best place to plant the harakeke would be.

Thank you to our caretaker John for digging the holes into the hard clay! We put some clay breaker into the holes before we planted the harakeke.

Here we are with what it looked like before!

What a beautiful day for planting!

Watering the harakeke.

We finished with a mihi. 

We are looking forward to watching our harakeke grow. We'll miss Johnsonville School! But we've left a legacy!!!