Sunflowers October

The sunflowers are starting to grow now. Initially the slugs and snails ate some of the leggy plants but we replaced them and covered them with drink bottles to protect them.

This plant is the biggest and has another smaller one growing alongside it. I wonder what will happen to them being so close to each other?

Preparing our seeds

Today we soaked some jiffy pots and when they had expanded we put a sunflower seed in each pot and a numbered stick so we could identify whose seed it is. These are the names and their numbers.

1. Miss M
2. Bianca
3. Keira
4. Paris
5. Kabiro
6. Jacob
7. Bailey B
8. Melody
9. Jago
10. Baylee
11. Michaela
12. Tasha                                                                                                          
13. Angel
14. Blake
15. Samuel
16. Dylan O
17. Luke B
18. Luke S
19. Tyler 
20. Zedis
21. 21Shaela
22. Waimarie
23. Caleb
24. Liam
25. Timoti
26. Levi  C                                                                                               
27. Levi  L
28. Jake
29. Emma
30. Haani
31. Avin
32. Reef
33. Celeste
34. Natalie
35. Courtney
36. Hamish
37. Finnlay
38. Zac
39. Ella -Rose
40. Cayle
41. Ngakau
42. Lilly
43. Abby
44. Samara
45. Abraham
46. Kiana
47. Nathan
48. Anaru
49. spare
50.  spare

The jiffy pots we are using

Soaking our jiffy pots in water

Numbering our pots and planting the seeds in them.

The Sunflower seeds we have planted today.

Otaika Valley School Sunflower Forest

Room 4 decided they wanted to grow some giant sunflowers but we needed some help sorting out the maths problems associated with making the garden. Room 2 have been working with Room 4 to create giant wooden butterflies to go on our outside classroom wall so we asked them to help us create, make and look after our forest.
The teacher created a maths problem sheet and we gave it to the students to see if they could solve the problem/s.

These are the seeds that we got from Kings Seeds.


















Maths: Problem solving in real life

We want to plant a SUNFLOWER FOREST around our court on the inside   (so the plants will be protected).

How many plants can we plant along the edge of the court fence so the plants have enough room to grow.?

Can you draw a plan and show where the seeds need to go and distances apart.

We will grow the seeds in little jiffy pots then transfer them to the ground when they are big enough. We will keep a diary,  on our sunflower forest blog, and keep track of progress, problems, growth and measurements.