On the 20 August Room 4 drove up to the hills with some fantastic parents and a fantastic teacher to plant 500 plants. When we arrived Mr and Mrs Thoroughgood told us about the plants and told us not to touch the fences because they were a electric. We started to walk to where we were to plant the trees. We had to cross a plank of wood to cross the ditch. The farm was so muddy that when we walked to plant the trees Chris got his boot stuck in the mud so Mrs Thoroughgood helped him out. When we finaly got there Sue told us how to plant the trees. It was so muddy in the paddocks that everywhere you went your boot would get stuck in the mud. This is how Sue told us to plant the trees. First you dug your spade into the ground and wiggled it back and forth and did that four times left, right,up and down and dug it out of the ground. Then you would cut the lump of mud into little pieces, place the plant in the hole and pad the mud in. There was about 4 different plants (flax,kiquyou) and some other ones. It took about two hours to plant the trees. At one o'clock we had lunch. The chickens tried to grab the lunch off the plates. One of the chickens jumped onto Chris's lap and it wouldn't hop off. At about two o'clock we had to go back to school. We had a great time at the Thoroughgoods place planting the trees that we had been growing since they were babies.
By Caelan
Well done Caelan on a great piece of recount writing. Your writing really explained what you did during the planting day. It would have been fun in all that mud. Mr Lockie.
ReplyDeleteWow! what a great piece of writing, I am so pleased I now know where to find your class blog. I really hope you wernt trying to plant that kikyu! (its a weedy grass) Maybe we can all go back to their farm in a year or so and see how many trees have survived all that mud. Good work to everyone for planting so many beautiful healthy trees. Nikki Amiss
ReplyDeleteWhat a great story Caelan. We think it would have been fun to go up in the hills and plant trees. What a cheeky chook to stay on Chris's lap.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a whole lot of fun. We take so much out of the Earth daily and so it is always great to hear that the generation of tomorrow is willing to give back to it. However I don't think that I could have dealt with all that mud...LOL...or the chicken sitting on my lap...It seems like you all enjoyed yourselves.
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