Thursday, August 26, 2010

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.



Friday, August 20, 2010

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.