JCB

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One day Mrs. Pickburn, our school principal, sent a letter to the junior school children. She asked us to enhance our school gardens.

Since then we have been exploring gardens.

We have…

• Explored our school gardens and taken photos of the areas we want to enhance.
• Been on an excursion to the Melbourne Botanic gardens where we found out that all plants are very different.
• We liked the herb garden on our excursion to the Botanic Gardens.
• We have been learning about seeds.
• We have been learning about plants.
• We did an experiment to find out if plants need sun and water.

Hello everyone!

Do you have any tips for looking after plants?

31/8/12

We have decided that we are going to plant flowers and herbs.

Miss Butler will buy our flowers and herbs.

What type of flowers should we buy?

Our herbs will be mint, parsley and basil.

JCB Has chosen to use some herbs and these are the ones we have chosen:

• Sweet basil
• Italian parsley
• Mint

We got the ideas from the Botanic Gardens where we got to feel and smell them in the herb garden.

We had a class vote and nearly everyone voted for sweet basil, Italian parsley and mint.

By Archer

How to grow a plant- By Olivia

1. It starts off as a seed.
2. Then is needs to be in a pot with soil.
3. Then it needs water.
4. Then every day give it a bit of water but not too much, otherwise it will drown.
5. If it goes brown it means it is dead.
6. Then every year it will grow a bit.

Our plan- by Lily

We are planting the plants in pots at the front of the school in the shade.

Diagram of a plant- by Ben

In science, we have been learning about all of the different parts of a plant. This diagram was drawn by Lucas.

This week Miss Butler gave us this white fluffy stuff that had dirt in it. We are trying to figure out what it is.

Do you know? We have made lots of predictions…

Giselle thinks it is the seed for a cloud.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10^th October 2012

Today JCB reflected on the work we completed last term enhancing our school gardens.

We looked at all of the ‘before’ photographs we had taken at the beginning of term 3 and discussed our observations.

After that we went for a wander around the school gardens to observe the changes that have been made by junior school children.

Miss Butler asked ‘Did we enhance our school gardens?’ and our thoughts are:

 

Jonah- Yes! I think we did heaps ‘cause it was so boring and now I know it is so good. I love the JCB flowers. They are so colourful.

At the grey tank I like the stepping stones and the grey stones. At the grey tank I like that it is not mulch.

Fraser- The flowers are beautiful their colours are bright. I love the flowers.

Archer- Yes! We did enhance our school garden. We planted herbs and flowers and I saw some of the other classes’ gardens and I took some notes.

Dylan- Yes! Because it looks good. The plants look good.

Brooke- Yes they are good.

Declan- The herbs are grown heaps.

Olivia- I said yes because JSB has grown pretty flowers in the gardens and grass has come. Things have grown.

Charlie- Yes because the herbs are growing really well and healthy.

Jack- The flowers look colourful. The herbs look good.

Giselle- Yes! Because it all looks wonderful. JCC did it around the water tank. It is beautiful but when it grows the people won’t be able to walk through.

 

Cate- I agree that we have enhanced our school gardens. They are really nice. The flowers are really colourful. I have planted herbs and flowers and watered them.

Oscar- Yes because it all looks neat and tidy. The plants are also looking healthy.

Barnaby- Yes I think we did enhance our school gardens because the flowers in JCB’s garden look really colourful. I think we should water our plants more often and keep them healthy.

Daniel- Miss B took us for a walk around the school to see how the plants are growing.

When we got to the vegetable garden we saw JCV’s plants, it was fantastic but there was one problem- the caterpillars were eating the vegetables.

We found some QR codes. Oscar was grabbing an iPad and scanned some QR codes, it was awesome. They came up with some information. The QR codes were awesome. They all had a picture on the iPad after Oscar scanned the QR code.

So parents, download a QR code reader so you can find information from the kids about what they discovered. Do you think we enhanced our school gardens? Do you think we did it right?

Kam- Yes it is good.

Rosie- Yes because we made it pretty.

Lorenzo- Yes because the herbs in the JCB garden have grown really well. Something is growing in every patch.

Lucas- I like the yellow flowers. I noticed that it got better. The herbs have grown they are straight.  At the veggie garden some of the plants have been bitten.

Chandani- We did enhance our school garden because we like to do that.

Ben- I like the herb garden because it is growing really good.

Lily- Yes because the flowers are pretty and they’re colourful.

Ciara- Yes because the flowers are beautiful.

Scarlett- Yes I think we did enhance our school garden because before it didn’t look good but now it is much more colourful. If you are looking at our school gardens watch out for QR codes. The herbs and flowers look good.