Riparian Planting

Riparian Planting

Riparian planting is when you plant trees, plants, and fences to keep rivers and creeks healthy.  Fences keep cows, pigs, goats and sheep out of the creeks and rivers.

Plants soak up the nutrient run off (poos and wees). If we don’t put fences around the creeks and rivers all the poos and wees will go in the ocean.

Farmers have fences around their rivers and creek so cows don’t poop in it. Farmers put lots of plants, trees, fences and flax around rivers and creeks.

They put the fences around the creeks and rivers because they don’t want cows, sheep, goats or pigs pooping or peeing in the rivers or creeks.They also put fences around the creek and because the cow poop and wee will pollute the rivers and creek.

In summary, I think you should put riparian planting around your creeks and rivers. You need to put riparian planting around your creeks and rivers.

The water cycle

The water cycle

Have you ever heard about the water cycle? The water cycle something that keeps going and never stops. Evaporation or transpiration is when the sun turns water into a liquid what is cooled water vapour. Condensation in our windows, cloud, and droplet. Precipitation is when it ran back in the lake.

Evaporation is something is when the sun turns water into a liquid what is cooled water vapor and makes clouds. Evaporation: water, vapor, sun, lake, plant, and transportation.

Condensation is when droplets form in clouds what is called Condensation. In the air, the droplets cool down and turn into droplets.

Prespertoishn is when sleet, hail, rain, or snow falls from the sky. When there are a lot of droplets in clouds is when they get very heavy.

In summary, the water cycle will keep going and will never stop. We also never get less water or more water.

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When we planted a Banksia tree

When we planted a Banksia tree

On Tuesday morning the Kea class planted a banksia tree. The Kea class planted the banksia tree on the East side of Kokatahi Kowhitirangi school field. The Kea class planted the tree because we wanted to be more bird around and more oxygen.

First, we got a shovel, wheelbarrow, meter ruler and an iPad. Then we found a spot to plant the Banksia where there weren't many trees.

Next, Dom dug a hole that was shaped like a cube. Then Daniel put new soil in the hole and Billie mixed the new soil with the old soil.

Then, we planted the tall Banksia tree by putting. Rocco measured how tall the banksia was and it was 95 cm tall.

Last, we got a class of us with the banksia tree. At lunch time Morgon watered the banksia tree.

My favorite part was taking photos of the banksia tree. I liked it because I got to control the photos.