Plants

We have begun learning about plants this week! During Aistear, everyone got a chance to plant some lovely vegetables. We also have a Garden Centre in the role play area and the children all made some seed packets to sell with a list of what their seeds need to grow on the back! We're so excited to learn more about plants and other life cycles during the month!

We also had great fun during STEM Stations on Friday! We did some printing using different parts of flowers, playing engineering games online and set up shops in our pods to practice using money (our Maths topic at the moment): 

Finally, here are the children doing an AMAZING job during Gaeilge on Friday. They had to follow instructions as Gaeilge to draw and colour their teach, then they either labelled the parts of the house or wrote sentences about it. Dochreidte!! 🤩

 

The Innocent Big Grow

The children in Juniors and Seniors are taking part in The Innocent Big Grow ( see https://innocentbiggrow.com/ for information and resources!) This aims to encourage children to grow and eat vegetables. We had plant-themed stations this afternoon. 

Table 1: The children made posters showing the parts of a plant

Table 2: Planting seeds. Each child had two pots with compost disks and got to pick two plants to grow. There were tomato, cress and pea seeds!

Table 3: Plant life cycle cut and paste activity.

Table 4: Plants mindfulness colouring

Each week, two children will be our Veg Detectives. They will be in charge of watering the seeds and monitoring growth! 

Playtime

Playtime is very busy this week! In the build up to St. Patrick's Day we are celebrating the famous 40 shades of green in Ireland! The children are mixing paint to create their own shades of glas and painting some green hills...

There is a cut and paste activity where the children have to sort plant parts and needs...

There is a green scavenger hunt...

The florists is lots of fun, and very messy...what we like best!!!

Planting Seeds

We planted a variety of seeds today! Before we planted them we had to learn about what a plant needs to grow. We used this video to help us...

Then we learned about the parts of a plant too!

Finally, we got to plant the seeds!

This was great practice for working in the Florists next week for playtime!