This week our lettuce is ready to harvest!

First we cut the leaves, enough for a whole class.

Then we washed the leaves in a big bowl of water.

Now the lettuce is clean we spun the leaves dry in a salad spinner. It’s great fun trying to make it go round and round very fast!

We put the dry lettuce leaves into bags ready to go into class for tasting

Now it’s time to taste the leaves, rocket, red salad bowl mixed, mustard and romaine ballon.

Any spare leaves were fed to the guinea pigs!

This week we observed legs on the tadpoles! Next week we will have to make sure there is a log in the water so the froglets can climb out.

We finished making Mr Greenheads this week. It was so sunny we decided to work in the orchard, so cool in the shade.

Kian was in charge of watering the lettuce. Next week we will make a salad and taste the different leaves we have grown.

This week we made “Mr Greenhead” We followed the instructions in this non-fiction book and created our own Mr Greenhead!

Thank you to Ceejay for bringing in vegetable seeds from home. We planted them with Haadiya, Jonathan and George.

This week Lucas and I upcycled a kitchen colander and used it to make a sedum planter!

Forest school moved to the art studio this week and I enjoyed working with the children creating a picture from the walk to Adel woods. We painted and printed using pastels and paints. Can you spot the aqueduct?

In forest school club we made nature clay pressings.

It was 1BN’s turn to plant out the sunflowers today. Look at the table, Adam’s is the tallest!

We’ve been busy planting and watering, especially in this hot weather

This week we measured our sunflowers using rulers. We recorded the results and collated the class measurements on our outdoor blackboard. We checked each others results and decided who’s had grown the most!

To try and stop the slugs eating the sunflowers we have planted the sunflowers within large tin cans. Fingers crossed it works!

Now it’s time to plant and water

This week was a beautiful sunny week so we had lots of watering to do! We finished sowing the lettuce with 1C and thank you to Jonathan for providing us with some radish seeds.

Next week we will plant out our sunflowers. They are growing well and we have been watering them of course in this very hot weather.

This week we were busy planting different types of lettuce into a vegetable grow bag. Each group selected a type of lettuce to plant. Rocket, red salad leaves, salad bowl mixed, romaine ballon ….. They all look tasty!

Hopefully in a few weeks we can use the leaves to make a tasty sandwich.

We had plenty to observe in our outdoor area with many changes occuring over Easter.

The tadpoles are growing! And our sunflowers!

This week we looked for textures and patterns in our outdoor area. Once we started to notice them, we found them everywhere! It was good to recap our learning about types of materials from earlier in the year eg metal, wood, natural and man made.

We made a record of the patterns and textures by taking rubbings.

First we needed to learn how to take a rubbing. Make sure the wax crayon is on its side and hold the paper steady!

Off we went around school with our buckets of paper and crayons.

We came back to our outdoor table and chose a rubbing to display on our board!

Over the last 2 weeks we have made newspaper pots and sown sunflower seeds. These will be planted in our year 1 flower bed. We hope the birds will enjoy the seeds in autumn and the pollinators will visit in summer.

Making the pot involved concentration, good rolling skills and some strength, , but the end result created lots of ‘Wows!”

Then we filled the pot with compost using our fingers to carefully push the compost in.

Now it’s time to close a variety of sunflower. Did you know that there are over 70 different types of sunflower?

The children needed to give the group a reason for choosing that variety. Olivia loved Sun King ” Because it’s scruffy!” Kai wanted Sunburst ” Because it’s got a variety of colours and it’s good for pollinators” Ayat wanted Claret ” Because it’s red and it’s like fire”

Let’s get planting!