Stage 1 Out and About

 

In week 8 students in Years 1 and 2 took part in their first excursion of the year.

In classes we had been looking at the food we eat, so we travelled to the Kooragang Rehabilitation Project on Ash Island to see the community vegetable garden there and take a look at the mangroves. It is amongst these mangroves that much of the seafood caught in Hunter waters gets its start in life. We saw tiny little fish and lots of crab holes in the muddy mangroves and we got to taste to salt on a mangrove leaf. Alison showed us through the garden and some of us got to try some watermelon grown there by the volunteers.

On the way home we visited the Maitland Regional Art Gallery to see the 2009 Archibald exhibition and the great colour exhibition and then looked at ourselves in the mirror mounted on the ceiling.

Can't wait until our next school trip!