What a fantastic day we all had on Monday for our very own Mucking in Day. We would like share some of our writing with you.
Our Working Day
On Monday 2nd
September Kotare and Korimako had our very own Mucking in Day in the school
garden. We were writing plant names on labels. The jobs we could do were
labelling, painting tyres, pulling weeds out of the garden, sweeping the floor
in the worm farm and tidying up and painting the inside of the garden shed. I
did my job with Summer, Anneliese, Brooke, Arianna and Alicia. When we had
finished decorating the back of the labels it was boring waiting but then I realised
that when we had finished painting or finished our jobs we could go and get
weeds out of the garden. But that was also boring because there were no weeds
so we just made the soil fluffy which was so much better. Finally the paint was
dry so then we wrote the names of the vegetables on the labels. Now the decorated
labels look AMAZING in our garden! I had a brilliant time. I hope we’ll have
another chance to do something as awesome as that!
Written by Paige Gascoigne
Our Mucking in Day
Yesterday
Kotare and Korimako had our Mucking in Day. It was on Monday 2nd
September. We all had jobs. There was painting labels, painting bean climbing
walls, painting tyres, weeding the garden and many more. My job was painting
labels. I did it with Paige, Arianna, Brooke, Anneliese and Alicia. We started
painting our labels and the paint was sloppy and very cold. I used blue, green
and red. Each of us got one, two or three different vegetables. I got peas,
chives and radish. When I said to Mr Callaghan, ‘My green is dry!’ He said to
put it on my cheek. I said, ‘NO WAY!’ When the paint had dried on both sides,
Paige and Anneliese disappeared to go get the markers. When they got back me,
Anneliese and Paige started to write down and draw our vegetables on the
labels. I felt great at the end looking at my three labels. Next after
everybody had finished we had to do weeding in the garden. I saw worms
everywhere. I also saw a few boys working in wet soil. The reason we had our
Mucking in Day was to tidy up our garden. Now it looks AMAZING! I can’t wait
for our seeds to grow. Best thing about gardening is just going out and doing it.
Now I feel really proud with myself!
Written by Summer Cameron
Our Mucking in Day
On Monday
our class and Korimako had our very own Mucking in Day. I got put in a group
with Emelia, Louis, Tom and Daniel. Our job was to tidy the worm farm but we
finished really quickly because all we really needed to do was sweep the floor
and move some things on the bench. So I went and helped Laura’s group because
they needed a lot of help. Laura’s group were doing the garden shed. First we
swept the dust off the floor. Then we stacked all the pots that were outside
and brought them inside. Some pots we threw in the skip because there were so
many. All the people that were in Laura’s group Tilly, Mitchell, Ollie, Baxter,
Ella, Rosie, Me, Emelia and Arianna were helping put the pots in the shed.
After that we named all the garden tools. Then we asked Mr Callaghan if we
could paint the shed. He said we could after morning tea. So after morning tea
we started painting. The colours we had were red, blue, yellow and green. We
painted flowers, butterflies and lots of other things. It took two blocks to
finish. It was such a really awesome day!!
Written by Amelia Glover
The Monday Mucking Out Day!
On Monday 2nd
September we had a Mucking in day because we needed to clean out our garden. Mr
Callaghan and Korimako were there too. My first job was to draw or paint
patterns and pictures with little paint brushes on the signs then I had to write
the vegetables names with vivid on the signs. While the paint was drying I had
to weed but that was finished so then I got a broom and swept the concrete
because there was heaps of grass and bark plus dust so that took 20 minutes.
‘Ring, Ring,’ went the bell so we skidded off and grabbed our lunch boxes then
ate! ‘Ring, Ring!’ We went back to work. Oh, it was tiring believe me, it was…
such a mess! Suddenly I had an idea, the idea was to ask the teachers if I
could go and help the people in the shed, and guess what they said, ‘YES!’ So….
who I worked with in the shed was Amelia, Laura, Mitchell, Ollie, Rosie,
Emelia, Mya and Ella! Also Baxter but he only helped one eighth, I felt like a
machine but a host, then at the same time a servant. Wow! It was a sight, cool
paintings everywhere then I started helping for the rest of the day. Bing,
bong, bang! We’ve finished! Now I feel proud, and oh it looks astonishing!
Before I saw tools, paintbrushes, gumboots, nails, paints, shelves and seed
trays everywhere but it’s all done now!!
Written by Arianna Mulligan
Mucking in Day
On Monday we
had our very own Mucking in Day!! I was on the job of cleaning the garden shed.
We did lots of things like painting tyres, weeding the garden, taking photo’s,
tidying the worm farm, painting signs, painting poles but I did the garden
shed. I did it with Amelia, Rosie, Arianna, Mya, Emelia, Ella, Ollie and
Mitchell. We had an awesome time as we did painting. Cleaning out the shed was
the worst as there was old rusty containers and dust on the shelves and it was
full of plastic pots. The plastic pots were on the shelves and there were
heaps, I could not even count!! Then we asked for a broom and swept everywhere.
By that time it was morning tea. At morning tea my friends and I were
discussing how awesome the day was so far. Then we got right back into it. In
the middle block we begged and begged to paint then finally the teachers said,
‘YES!’ So we got four colours, red, yellow, blue and green and we started to
paint stripes on some walls. Then it was lunch so we got our lunch boxes and
went to lunch and then we sat on the cobbles stones and we were so excited!
After that we went straight back to t he shed and we kept painting. We wrote
our names down on the wall and our handprints too. We painted lots of flowers
and hearts as well and we hammered lots of nails and took out lots of nails.
Then finally we were done. We were so proud of the results as it looked
magnificent!!! Now we have got a pretty and clean shed!
Written by Laura Kilbride
Our Mucking in Day
On the 2nd
September we had our own Mucking in Day with Ruma Korimako. I was cleaning out
the green house with Tom, Amelia, Emelia and Jayk. After a while Jayk, Emelia
and Amelia left so it was only Tom and I. It was a lot easier without the
others so we made faster progress. Within ten minutes it was looking pretty
clean. Tate came in for about 5 minutes or so then he left. When Miss Lehan
came in I think she was quite surprised about how clean it was. I feel pretty
proud to know that I’ve cleaned it out with Tom and can’t wait till we do it
again!
Written by Louis Gibbard
Our Mucking in Day
Yesterday
Ruma Kotare and Ruma Korimako had a Mucking in Day. We had to clean and paint
heaps of things. My job was to paint signs with Summer, Paige, Anneliese,
Alicia and Arianna but Mr Callaghan helped the most. He ripped the scarecrow
down so we could make a new one. It was so amazing but it was so enjoyable too
and I really wish that we could do it every day.
Written by Brooke Strachan
