Our Gifted Garden
Does your school have a garden? Our school does. In fact, our school entered a garden in the Ellerslie International Flower Show!
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Series: Junior Journal 49 Level 2 2014
Colour wheel level: Gold
Reading year level: 3
Category: Non-fiction
Topics: garden, competition, judging, cooperation
Our Gifted Garden
Words by Bernadette Wilson
As well as capturing the effort and excitement of the project, the article describes the planning process and how the students applied their developing knowledge about caring for the environment to the design of the garden.
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Junior Journal 49 Level 2 2014
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2 of 6No More Warts
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3 of 6Ring! Ring!
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4 of 6Kele's Car
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5 of 6Tūī
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