Hi
Cooper families and friends,
On
Tuesday we celebrated World Environment Day in the ELC. Each class had the
opportunity to share with their peers their Environment Themed investigations,
based around our Unit of Inquiry - Our Natural World. Through this we found
that the Angwin room have also been looking at the life cycle of a plant – just
like us!
Coinciding
with World Environment Day the Cooper class replanted their bean stalks into
the ELC garden. Before we replanted our beans the class spoke about what they
think may happen once the bean is replanted and what they have observed over
the past fortnight:
Sebastian A –
It’s grown up to here. Up to 17!
Xavier D –
It’s so big. It growed.
Sebastian A – Can we draw how big it went up to. It’s a 1 and a 7.
Sebastian B –
We will replant them so that they grow.
Xavier C –
My one is little.
Stirling –
Maybe it will grow to the clouds and there will be a giant like Jack and the
Beanstalk.
Mr Richards –
I wonder why some of them are standing up and some of the plants have fallen
down.
Sebastian B –
Maybe because we didn’t water them and they are dying.
Brian –
They have bends.
Xavier D –
some of them bend and that’s why they are dead.
Karl –
Maybe they will grow to the moon.
Ned – I just watered
them.
Stirling –
Maybe it will grow like this (moving his arms as high as he can above his
heads).
Alexander –
The plant is small.
Isaac S –
Maybe it will grow beans. If it was a tomato seed then it would grow tomatoes.
Sebastian A –
If they grow too fast they will bend.
We
will continue to observe and care for our bean stalks across the remainder of
the term. The children have been so engaged in the planting and gardening
experiences over the last 2 weeks, that we have decided to plant and care for
more plants in our very own Cooper room garden bed.
We
have finally finished measuring and documenting how tall each of the bean
stalks have grown over the past 2 weeks. Some of the children noticed that
their bean stalk had grown even taller than it was last week. Sparked by our
keen interest in measurement, we have set up a number table in the classroom in
which the children can continue to develop their emerging numeracy skills, in particular,
number recognition, sorting, measuring and counting.
We hope that you have a fun
and safe long weekend.
Love Miss Gilbert and Mr Richards
