Our Visit to the Dunedin Botanic Gardens

Today we went to the Botanic Gardens. We left school at 10.30am and walked to the Gardens - it was a long walk for some of us. When we got there we had morning tea and a little play. Next, we got into groups and went with staff members from the Botanic Gardens to do some jobs. Kindle 2 went along a path and pulled out seedlings from Sycamore trees that shouldn't be growing in the Gardens. We got nearly a whole bucketful each. After that we went back to the information centre and bagged some food for the ducks. Mrs Dakers saw several children sampling the duck food for themselves, she suggested that it was probably more suitable for ducks than children! We went and fed the ducks with some of the food we had bagged. Some children got quite close to the edge of the pond. It wasn't deep, but we had no spare clothes with us - so children were asked to stay one large step back from the edge! The last thing we did was go back to the big tree near the band rotunda and have a picnic lunch and another play. Some children found the walk back to school absolutely exhausting. What a great day!