Seeds and Soil

Next term, May Road School children will be planting seedlings in our shared, Rainbow Garden.  To get the students started, our caretaker Brian, who is very knowledgeable about plants, brought in 4 different kinds of seeds for the children in Room 2 to sow. Children sowed carrot, broccoli, silverbeet and leek seeds.  The seeds will be put in a hot water closet over the holidays to germinate and should be ready for planting next term. How exciting!

Science

We are learning about plants.  Today we sang a song about the different parts of a plant. We learnt about roots, stems, leaves, flowers and fruit.  Here we are cutting out our plants...