This semester our theme was Kaitiakitanga, caring for the environment and being guardians. Miss Rowland thought that it would be cool to go to our local park, Totara Park! At Totara park we explored the Puhinui stream track as our main focus is our waterways and how we care for them. We brought our iPads to use seek, an app that uses Al to look at the image your camera is pointing at and then comparing it to the images of plants/animals that it knows to tell you the species.

Our next trip was to the Botanic Loadina…

As soon as we arrived I immediately noticed that it was less muddy and had a lot more plants and flowers as Totara Park was mainly forest and little flowers. At the Botanical Gardens we had two fun activities planned for the day ahead! We split into smaller groups with about ten to each. Our group did the scavenger hunt first, we had to find a species for each letter e.g yellow flowers for y. We found one for each letter of the alphabet. Next we did the storm water track.

We walked around and looked for each water feature.

In conclusion I think that this was a very good and successful trip, we all had fun and a whole lot of new names for simple things like yellow flowers! Here are some of the pictures I took: