How Grass Grows

We did an experiment on how grass grows. For this experiment we had a big tray and put dirt and seeds into it and let it grow. We left it on the window sill in the sun, we also watered it everyday. after a few days we could see little spouts of grass growing. Our grass was between 12-15cm. The experiment was a great success and we really enjoyed it but that wasn`t all we did. We also planted potato heads where we got some old tights and cut them up at the foot we put soil and seeds into it and then we put the heads into a jar with water we did 6 different heads.

5th and 6th came third for our How Grass Grows video make sure to check it out. 

This is us planting our grass.

This is Oscar putting   

a bit of earth in. 

Its Eoins turn now to put some earth in.

Here we are planting our Grass Heads 

this the start of our grass 

This is the first time we saw grass on our heads 

This all of our grass heads at the end. The 1st grass heads got light, water and carbon dioxide it was a success. The 2nd one got light and carbon dioxide it only grew one strand. The 3rd one was under a box with a slit so it got some light , water and carbon dioxide. The 4th one got little light and carbon dioxide it grew on one side. The 5th one got no light but it got water, the grass was yellow and white. The final one got no light and no water, it felt very dry and it didn`t grow very tall. 

And this the grass and the grass heads at the end of everything. 

Digging Potatoes

We went to a local farmer who let us dig some potatoes. We were separated into pods of three two and four. We got a pike for every pod we filled about four fish boxes. At the end we went picking a couple of turnips each. The farmer then gave each of us a bag and we filled it up with potatoes. Then we got to take them home with us for dinner. They were delicious.

  We walked as a group to the potato drills. We had a shovel to dig the potatoes with and  buckets to put the potatoes into. There was a  lot of drills.   

  

 Anna, Robyn and Jacob found a massive  potato which was covered in                                                     earth.

                                 

  Owen and Harry are lifting a big box of potatoes.

There are many varieties, such as ,golden wonders, kerr pinks, British queens and roosters.

 

When we finished the digging we were allowed to  take the potatoes home for our dinner .They tasted lovely they were dry and floury.

 

  These potatoes were so heavy that i hurt my back lifting a bag of them.

 We loved The potato 🥔 digging it was very fun and we all got stuck in.

They were also very very tasty!

Digi Wiz Kits

 Here we were making cars and things with motors.This was a fairly hard activity.Inthis activity we had to put peices together to make a certain objects.This activity was hard but really fun.

 

Maths Week Maths Trail

3rd and 4th Class headed outside today for their maths trail. The sun was shining and it was a great day for some outside investigations. We split up into teams each starting on a different section of out maths trail booklet. We had a great time discovering maths all around our school yard. 

This is us on our maths trail we are measuring the width of the basketball court.

We are measuring it with the walking measurer.

This is us finding out how old the school is. We then went to count  the windows and doors.

We are now finding out how many cylinders there are on the playground.We are also doing how many holes are in the black mat.

This is us looking for three dimensional shapes in the middle yard.

This is us finding out how long  the windows are.

This is us estimating how long the doors of  the school are.

The maths tail took us all around the school and it was fun.

This is us writing down the answers to a maths problem about the school.

We are  now counting how many bars are on the big and small red gate outside our school and there are actually thirty eight.