Compost Monitor

Will O’Reilly is Kokatahi-Kowhitirangi School compost monitor. He takes the little compost bin out to the big compost bin to put the compost into there. Then he puts the water on over top of the little compost bin to rinse it out. Then he puts the little compost bin back in the staff room and then he sits on the deck with all the other students. He has been doing it for 1 ½ years. He started in December 2016 and is going to do it for as long as the previous compost monitor did it.

The Water Cycle

The Water Cycle

Have you ever heard of the water cycle? The water cycle is a cycle that never stops and it is just like a wheel. Water is precious and we need it! We cannot live without it! Water is used for drinking, washing, cleaning and growing plants in the garden or crops on the farm. The water cycle also needs evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection for the water cycle to work. 97% of all the water in the world is seawater, 2.4% of the water is locked up in glaciers and ice caps and 0.6% of the water is available for us. We can recycle water. When we wee out our water and it goes in the oxidation ponds all the nasties go out it gets let out in the ocean when the pond is full of water.

Evaporation

The water in the ocean gets evaporated because of the sun’s heat/temperature. Then it goes up as water vapor and it is in gas form. Water on plants can also get evaporated and that is called Transpiration. Water can also evaporate in a water bottle when it is hot and the lid is on it. Water can also evaporate inside too.

Condensation

Condensation is when that water vapor from evaporation and it turns into little tiny droplets of water. Then the water droplets form very fluffy clouds and the clouds grow a lot bigger.

Precipitation

Precipitation is when clouds are too heavy so the water droplets choose what they want to fall as rain, sleet hail or snow. Water can also seep into the ground and the water that done that is called groundwater. It can also sneak to the sea. It mostly flows down creeks or rivers or streams or both. It goes out to sea in them.

In summary that water has completed the whole water cycle and it will do it all over again. It needs evaporation, condensation and precipitation to work. The water cycle just goes round and round like a wheel.