Thank you to Mrs Ryalls for making our bulbs and beans display look so amazing and also to Mrs Pickburn for starting us off on our bean diary journey.

We have been amazed by how much some of our beans have sprouted. Can you see our bean sprouts in the pictures above?

• What are the best conditions for growing beans in our classroom ?

With water, daylight and near to the sink where it is still warm at night. The beans growing beside the window have not grown as tall and we think this is because it will be cold near the window at night time. This was a big surprise to us as we had predicted that the beans growing beside the window would grow the quickest.

• How tall will our beansprouts grow?

For World Book Day we have been set  a challenge to decorate our classroom door like a book jacket.

At home look for your favourite books and if you are allowed you can bring them into class. We will share the books together and do some fun activities with them.

Then we will vote for the class favourite and we will design a book jacket for our classroom door when we have chosen the winning book.

Bring your books in on Monday 27th February for us to share.

• Who will bring in the winning book?

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Click on the link above to watch a P1 pupil drawing pictures for their bean book. This book is how they are recording the set up for their bean experiments and also the progress they see as their beans grow.

What does predict mean?

For our new topic about plants we decided how we would set up our classroom. We voted to turn it into a flower shop called Poppy’s Petals. It has taken us a long time to set the shop up but, we are very proud of the fact that we did most of the work ourselves. Here we are setting up the canopy for the shop front to make it appeal to customers.

We are learning to play well with others, show care for plants and flowers, learn what different coins look like and work out what change to give our customers.

To keep our customers coming back to buy more flowers and plants we have to be polite to them and say, “Thank you.”

While we are learning about how we can grow healthy plants we have been making our own miniature gardens. Our gardens all look very different and we are beginning to add materials to make our little gardens  3-Dimensional.

We are having fun playing with the gardens we have designed and joining them up with other gardens. This allows us to share our work with others and also to improve our social skills.

Well done to all of the very talented pupils at Kingsland ! Your Scottish afternoon was amazing. You kept everyone entertained and we all had fun.

Well done P2/1 your recitations of the poems and songs you have chosen just get better and better !

Remember on Thursday at our Scottish afternoon you can wear something tartan if you would like to. This will be a fun afternoon where we celebrate  the Scots’ language.

Keep learning your songs and poems at home and in class. We will be sharing them with other classes soon.

In class we have been learning how to set up an experiment, how to make it a  fair experiment and different ways we can record our findings.

First of all we decided 4 different areas in our classroom where we would grow cress then we decided what we would make different for each tub of cress. So, one tub of cress had no light and no water, one had no light and water, another had light and no water and another had light and water.

We nearly all predicted that the cress with water and sunlight would grow the best and the quickest. However, our prediction proved to be wrong very quickly because the cress in the darkness grew the quickest.

We discussed the fact that we are looking at how to keep plants healthy and although the cress in the darkness grew the quickest the plants were all brown – yet the cress in the sun light was growing at a much slower pace but it was green and healthy. So, we then discussed which cress we would prefer to eat ? 

Recording our experiment has been much more challenging than we thought but, we have learned how important it is to add detail to our drawings and to label our pictures accurately. We thought this would be very easy to do.

The next step in our journey as Scientists is to work in small groups and create our very own experiments by transferring our learning  from our cress experiments and using what we have learned to help us to set up our very own experiments.