Pukeko Class 2015: 2011

Monday, December 12, 2011

Pukeko Class Caring for Gods World by Gardening

Pukeko Class Caring for God's World by Gardening!

Fun and Learning in Pukeko Class

Fun and Learning in Pukeko Class!

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Buddy reading with Kotuku class

This week kotuku class has been visiting to buddy read with us because it is book week.We really enjoyed them coming to read with us.

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

How to make a Bird Feeder

You need some bird seed, some bread crumbs, some dripping (which is fat) and a coconut!

Get an adult to carefully chop the coconut into two halves. Use a nail to punch through the "eyes" of the coconut. Push string through the holes so you can hang the feeder up.

Melt the dripping and then mix in some birdseed and bread crumbs.

Pile the mixture into the coconut shell. When it has set hard you can hang it up for the birds. They will eat the mixture and then the white coconut. It should last for a while.

The birds liked our first feeder so much, we had to make them 2 more!

Caring for God's Creatures - Making a Bird Feeder

We have been learning about caring for God's world and God's creatures. We know that birds have trouble finding enough food in the Winter time, so we made a bird feeder so the birds at Saint Paul's won't go hungry!

These photos show the finished bird feeder and if you look closely you can see a bird happily munching!

It was rather hard to get a photo of the birds, as they flew off every time we came near!

This was the first thing we had to do to make or bird feeder. Break up some bread into large bread crumbs.

Some of us had a wee munch of the bread ourselves, as we worked! One for ME.......one for the birds!

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Cleaning up the Waimea Estuary

This is Clean-up New Zealand Week.

Our school went for a big walk down to the Waimea Estuary.

Each class was given an area to clean up.

Pukeko Class had buddies from Kotuku Class.

We had one bag for rubbish and another bag for anything that we could recycle or reuse.

We had to wear gloves to protect our hands.

Isaac and Izzie found some wire.

Morgan found a big board and some plastic bottles.

Heidi picked up a McDonalds bag.

Jasmine found some blocks of polystyrene foam.

We were as busy as buzzy bees. It was almost like a treasure hunt!

We had lots of fresh air and exercise!

It was a long way to walk!

Ruby did so well on her very first day of school.

We felt disappointed about the people who spoil our precious world with litter.

But we feel happy and proud to have helped with a big clean-up, to keep our town and New Zealand beautiful.