So far in our new topic, Green Fingers, Year 1 have been getting their hands dirty. We’ve been following instructions for planting cress seeds and broad bean seeds and also planting a range of vegetables, herbs and flowers. It’s been great to hear that so many of the children are growing some of their own plants at home.
What do plants need to grow? This was a question we considered this week and we set up some experiments to test this.
As we continue to work on our writing targets in English, we’ve been writing descriptions of plants. This is also helping us to remember the names for the different parts of plants.
We’ve also been reading stories about plants – Jack and the Beanstalk, Jasper’s Beanstalk and Tiny Seed. Are there any other books about plants that you can think of?
Finally, here is our best crop so far!
