Hi Cooper room
families,
Throughout the past
few weeks we have noticed that some of our seeds have grown and some of them
have not. This week we decided to record our observations and data into a table to
see what we had found out from this experiment. We drew up a table with 3
columns, one column was labelled grown, one was labelled with roots and the
other was labelled not grown. These labels came from the children’s
observations of the seeds and were agreed upon when we were drawing up our
table. Once the table was drawn up the
children each collected their plant/seed and placed it on our table where they
thought best described the current state of their seed.
Some of the
children’s responses were:
Lewis
– It’s grown.
Hamish
–
It’s grown.
Harry
– It’s grown.
Zali
–
It didn’t grow.
Struan
– No mine doesn’t have any roots.
William
L
– Not grown.
William
A – Mine didn’t grow either and it went a bit
funny.
Ryan
–
Mine started growing roots, maybe, yes.
Charlie
O
– Mine hasn’t grown, it goes in the not grown.
Nicholas
Y
– It has not grown anything.
Alexander
– The plants are big.
As a class we counted each column to see which one
had the most seeds. Seeds that had grown (5), seeds that had roots (2) and
seeds that had not grown (10).
Miss
Gilbert – Which column had the most seeds?
Sebastien
Ha. – That column there with 10!
Charlie
O
– That one. The not grow one.
Miss
Gilbert – Why do you think that not all of our seeds
grew?
Aston
– Because they didn’t have water.
Hamish
– No water.
Miss
Gilbert – What is another reason the seeds might not have
grown?
Sebastien
Ha. – Because they might not have had seeds.
Struan
– mmm water.
William
L
– Water
Ryan
– Because they didn’t have a little bit of water.
Miss
C
– Maybe they didn’t have enough sun.
Sebastien
Ha.– Oh yes, the sun. When I was little I planted
seeds in a cup and they didn’t grow. Mum and dad looked on the computer and
they said that it needed sun. The sun will help them grow.
We hope that you have
a lovely weekend.
Love Miss Gilbert and
Miss C
