We are really enjoying our topic. Our bean plant is making excellent progress and we are recording this in our bean diaries – check out our photos below! We are also growing our own cress and investigated the best conditions for plants to grow in. Today we visited our new wildlife garden where we used garden equipment to make sure the soil had lots of air in it and was nice and fresh. Then we sowed our wild flower seeds. We are hoping our flowers will start to grow soon and encourage new wildlife including butterflies and honey bees.

This week we have been exploring what plants need to grow. We all agreed that, a bit like humans, plants need water to grow. They also need food (which they can get from the soil) and sunlight. We planted some ‘magic beans’ this week using all of the above, and will be keeping a diary to see how they are progressing over the next few weeks! We also sponge-painted some of our own leaves.

As part of our PLAY book tasks this week, we made some fantastic Spring creations now that the change of season is nearly upon us!  Miss Taylor was so impressed at the effort the boys and girls had put into their tasks; there were some fantastically creative ways of showing some of the changes that happen at Spring time.  Have a look at some of our work!