Year 3 Gardeners!

Year 3 have been very bust since the beginning of term!

As part of our topic this half term, we have been learning about plants. We know what each different part of the plant does, and are beginning to understand what we need to do to keep plants growing healthily.

Mrs Larder helped us with this, because last week we walked to her allotment. She told us all about the different plants, vegetables and fruit that she grows there, and we were allowed to pick some raspberries, apples and runner beans. Then, we completed a quiz! Mrs Larder had labelled all of her plants with numbers, and we had to match them up with the plants on our sheet.



When we got back to school, we used what we learned about how to look after plants in order to grow our own seeds.

We have been growing runner bean seeds. We made sure we planted them well in soil and watered them regularly.



A week later, and haven't they grown! We have been keeping a diary of their progress and the last time we looked, some of our beans had grown more than 20cm! We are now keeping them close to the window, because we have learned that plants' leaves use sunglight to make food.