Gardening

 Our inquiry topic for term 4 is, 'From Garden to Table.'

During the last three weeks we have learned many new things about seeds and plants and have also extended our prior knowledge about plants and gardening. 

We have germinated bean and sunflower seeds without using soil and also with soil.

Without soil: Here is a written procedure that tells you how you can do this.

Here is what our seeds look like after two weeks. 

I look, I notice, I wonder

Many have sprouted and some of the seedlings were touching the top of the bag. We wondered what we could do to solve the problem so the plants could grow up straight. We opened the bags and after just one day the plants look straighter and they have grown even taller right out the top of the bags. We can also see the roots on each plant.

We also noticed that some seeds had not yet germinated. We think there was too much water in the cotton wool so we squeezed the balls and some are starting to germinate. 

Too wet!