Room+13+-+2010

Room Thirteen's Action Plan for 2010
We have just been given a small planter box from a friend. It is narrow and shallow. Since some of the children in my class have done planter box projects last year I am keen to see how much they can remember from the process of deciding what to plant.If the students can't remember then we will be able to access the project book from Room 6.



Ongoing projects
Our ongoing projects are caring for the citrus and daffodil garden and raising funds for Daffodil Day. Our temporary fence for the citrus and daffodil garden has been removed. The citrus trees have grown so much that we are observing the gardens to see if the area still needs to be fenced.

** Daffodil day ** is on the 27th of August 2010. We started celebrating Daffodil day in 2009 as a way of encouraging people to respect our daffodil and citrus garden. In 2009 we made $170 for the Cancer society. This year it is the 20th of Daffodil day. So far we have  · Compared the 2009 and 2010 daffodil day posters for similarities and differences  · Reviewed what makes a good poster  · Ordered some daffodil tattoos  · Made pastel, paint, ICT and mixed media posters to put around our school  · Weeded and placed bark around the garden. __ Newsflash! __  R13 raised $271.30 for the Cancer Society on Daffodil day. Thanks to all those who supported us. = Sustainability. =

== What is sustainability? It is a clean environment. If there is no clean environment there wouldn’t be any birds and no one will go there. It smells very bad and there are dead creatures. We have to keep it clean. The thing which pollutes our city is cars. They get smoke out. Don’t use too much water; if we use too much water then if there is no water we will die. We need water. ==

== Sustainability is about a clean future. Environment is part of sustainability because if you want a clean future you will have to have plants, trees and other things. If we mess up our environment all the creatures will die and it will be uninteresting. There will probably be no food or zoos. ==

(Rosa)
__ Citrus writing __ __ Lime __ by Ranae. A lime is sour. It has lots of seeds. It is a kind of fruit. It is very round. It smells different to a lemon. __ Lemon __ by Meriam. A lemon has seeds. The seeds are a little bit fat. A lemon is a fruit. A lemon is yellow and inside the lemon is yellow. A lemon is oval. __ Orange __ by Kyle. An orange is sweet and sometimes it is sour. Inside the orange it is coloured orange. It has segments. The seed is in the middle inside the orange. The orange is a fruit because the seed is in the middle and the orange is different to a lemon because the lemon is the colour yellow. __ Orange __ by Tevita. An orange is huge. An orange is sweet and sour. An orange is a fruit. An orange has seeds. An orange is hard to peel. It is orange inside and outside. An orange has got a little star at the top of the orange. An orange is yummy to eat. It is a different colour to a lemon. __ Mandarin __ by Zane. A mandarin is orange inside and outside. It is as sweet as sugar. A mandarin is different to a lemon because a lemon is sour.