Everyday our Enviro Agents perform a range of tasks that help keep our school waste sustainable. One of these very important tasks is caring for our tiger worms that live in the 'Worm Warren'.
According to Wikipedia ~ About Our Tiger Worms~
Eisenia fetida, known under various common names such as redworm, brandling worm, panfish worm, trout worm, tiger worm, red wiggler worm, red californian earth worm, is a species of earthworm adapted to decaying organic material. These worms thrive in rotting vegetation, compost, and manure.
Eisenia fetida worms are used for vermicomposting. They are native to Europe, but have been introduced (both intentionally and unintentionally) to every other continent except Antarctica.
Every day our agents collect all the food scrapes that are suitable for worms. Our worms can not eat citrus, bread or meat. Once all of the worm buckets have been emptied they head down to the worm baths where the vermicomposting occurs.
Today in class we had a discussion about the current New Zealand Referendum. Some of us were excited that our flag could change while others wanted to keep the current flag.
We opened the letter with our teacher and looked at the different brochures. We then had the chance to place our votes and placed them in our post box.
Once all of the votes were posted we opened the box and counted them up
The results were very interesting and made for great discussion.
Jumping with excitement the children raised their voices yelling "yay".
The Duffy Theatre came all the way from busy Auckland with its 3 actors. It was a great experience.
They did a unique show about a young Duffy going back in time to save Ruby's dad who was fighting in World War 2. Duffy wanted to save her dad so she could read.
Yesterday we received a batch of plants from The Plant Place. Mr. Munroe popped down to collect them, at lunch time. We are so excited to be able to plant the vegetables into our gardens. We want to say thank you to Bruce at The Plant Place and well be planting the vegetables soon.
On Tuesday 2nd of February students from Melville Primary School will be back in their classrooms. This is our first year of blogging and we look forward to connecting and making new friends as we look forward to an amazing year. This year our class has a new teacher Mr Willis and 27 amazing Yr4 & Yr6 students from the Meriwera (Melville) community. As we are new to blogging we are excited about making connections with other classrooms. If you wish to do so please drop us a line.
If you want to contact Mr Willis directly you can do so at: lukew@melville.school.nz