Growing our own beanstalks!
After reading ‘Jasper’s Beanstalk’ and viewing the story of ‘Jack and The Beanstalk’, Kindy worked in teams with our Stage 3 buddies to plant our own! Some of us had broad beans, and some had snow pea sprouts. We had to fill the bottom of our cup with damp paper towel and slide our bean down the inside, between the paper towel and the clear plastic cup – this way we would see it grow! We left them in a sunny spot and watered them regularly for about 3 weeks.
Some plants grew more than other ones. At first, some students thought that maybe the short plants didn’t get enough water, so we checked how wet they were. It turned out that the short plants were the wettest, and the tallest ones were the driest, so we decided that maybe some of the beans might have actually have drowned in too much water!
Finally we sorted our plants according to their height, using a ruler to measure and check. With the smallest plants, we measured their roots instead. The tallest plant was about 33cm tall!
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My bean plant is growing big now.
That’s wonderful! I wonder if it will start to grow beans for you to eat, or if it will just keep growing all the way to the clouds!