An Amazing Time at Project Island Song

Kia ora bloggers this week on Tuesday the first of June the year 6’s, Whaea Becks, Gina and I went to a program that is called Project Island Song. We had to get to school at about 8:20 am and be down at the wharf by 8:30am. When we arrived at the wharf we met up with some of the members of Project Island Song. Some of the year 6’s had a job, there was about four jobs and they were called construction, health and safety, planting and biosecurity. Construction is were you carry the parts of the rat traps because we are going to build them so we will need it, health and safety is were you had to say everyone's name out loud to make sure that they are here, bring a first aid kit in case someone gets hurt and squeeze hand sanitizer on their hands before they get on and off the boat. The planting job means you have to carry the plants onto the boat and off and bring the spades and gloves. Last but not least biosecurity is when they hold down a shoe brush so you can brush your shoes a little bit and they tap your bag to make sure that you don’t have any pests or Weed seeds in your bag. We were learning how to protect our native wildlife and learning how to keep pests away, we were also learning the Maori and english name for the trees. We were learning this so we can learn and help our wildlife, learn about trees and the cycle of the their ecosystem. Another reason why we were learning this is because so we know how important our native animals are, how helpful and what the project Island song crew members do for us and the animals. In the future I will go and visit Project Island Song again to see how big the tree has grown that my group and I planted and see how the Project Island Song Program is going. I learnt a lot of new things but I will only tell you some. Pied Shag can dive up to 20m, the way to remember which is which between a Manuka and Kanuka is that Manuka trees are darker than a Kanuka , the bark is rough also the M in Manuka stands for mean and it has flowers on it Kanuka doesn’t. Kanuka trees have a lighter color than Manuka and the K in Kanuka stands for kind, also the Kanuka is taller than the Manuka and if you feel their branches you can tell which is which. On our way back to school we saw a common and bottlenose dolphin, it was so fun

Have you been to the Project Island Song before?