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Sustainable Skills
Learning about sustainability and the natural world is important for us at BestStart Kawaha Point. One of the things we've been exploring recently has been growing our own vegetables.
Yvette our Kaiako brought in some bean seeds and some potting mix to plant in the yoghurt containers we've been collecting from lunches. Yvette got a bowl and tipped some potting mix into it so the tamariki could scoop it into the pottles. First we tried with the slotted spoon but the potting mix went everywhere so we used another pottle to scoop it up and tip it into the containers.
As this is a skill to encourage tamariki to be sustainable by re-using the yoghurt pottles as well as learning to plant and grow their own vegetables we talked about the bean and how it would grow tall and produce beans like in the picture of the packet. We discussed that beans were a vegetable and vegetables helped us to grow big and strong as well as them being healthy.
We also discussed that vegetables were grown in gardens like our garden here and at our homes, the tamariki are very excited to watch their bean grow over the next few weeks. At BestStart Kawaha Point we believe this is an important skill of being sustainable through learning to grow your own vegetables.