I knew that Jo Padt (Connor's mum) is very knowledgeable in permiculture and has created a fantastic garden using this ideology. With this in mind I approached her to see if she would explain 'Biodiversity' to our grade 2's using frogs as a starting point. She kindly agreed and the children all arrived dressed in green ready for an adventure. They had no idea where we were going....
so when we arrived at the Padts Connor could hardly believe that we were going to his home ....
'I'm at home but at school......so cool!' he remarked!
Jo settled them all down and briefly explained BIODIVERSITY..... a very long word .....
And then they were off to look for tadpoles frogs or toads...
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| Cameron and Ziyaad were thrilled to catch a frog each |
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| Girls you can get some too! |
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| Eva ...the best girl frog catcher! |
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| Elijah ....king of the pond! |
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| Kuhle ...Look! Look Mrs Rayner I got a tadpole! |
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| Eva embracing the biodiversity in the garden |
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| Kyle's frog |
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| Such excitement |
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| Jo explaining how she is creating her fruit forest |
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| Question time ...Shaked |
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| Vongai smelling lavender |
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| Kuhle smelling plants that keep insects away |
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| Jamie listening carefully |
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| Pink Bananas .... never seen anything like it! |
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| Wonderful Jo |
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| Catching tadpoles to take back to watch grow |
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| Sahiesh trying his luck |
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| How much more Mrs Rayner? The children were so lucky to be able to have this experience. Thank you SO much Jo for your kindness, generosity of spirit and sharing your wealth of knowledge with our classes. |
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