How the world works

By Miss Melinda Hamilton, Teacher

Last Wednesday Radford Kindergarten students went on an excursion to the Australian National Botanic Gardens. We are learning about ‘How the World Works’ with a focus on plants. We wanted to learn about how they grow, what their features are and how seeds travel to other places.

Students were involved in roleplays to learn about how bees pollinate plants, and they planted their own native seed to watch them grow. They also spend time in the Banksia Garden to find out how Australian plants spread their seeds. It was so interesting to learn about some of the native trees that our Radford College Houses are named after. We also got to go on a walk through the gardens, looking at different plants and enjoying the misty rainforest walk.

We really enjoyed our visit and will continue to be botanists during our science explorations in the coming weeks.

Here's what our Kindergarteners had to say about their visit to the Australian National Botanic Gardens:

My favourite part was going in the rainforest because it felt like there were zombies – Angela

My favourite part was my Mum got to come – Felix

My favourite part was taking the photo with the big pretend kangaroo – Harsheen

I liked when we planted seeds. The seeds were really small, but they will grow into a big flower – William

I liked when we saw the flowers and all the banksias. Did you know if you to set the banksias on fire to spread their seeds? Wow! – Maia

I liked when we went down the ramps into the forest because I really liked all the lovely green plants – Celina

My favourite part was going in the rainforest because it was fun and wet – Avery

My favourite part was all of the excursion! – Reuben