Planting our potatoes! March 20, 2008

Last year we planted some potatoes and when we where planting the potatoes today for the superspud competition, Coiln found a potato from last year! It was rather weird.

It was wet and windy when we went to plant the superspud pototoes in the raised bed that we made out of a old bench. 

Sam and Colin took some photos of  us planting the potatoes.

We put some new  compost in the raised bed when we where planting the potatoes and we found a lot of worms.

By Colin and Caitlin.

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Chit report – 3 March 20, 2008

Myself kerry,colin and caitlin were measuring the potatoes’ roots  today and amazingly they are a massive 2.82 on averagewhich even amazed Mr. Gregg he was stunned.We were using a calculator to get the total average. 

Chit report 2 March 12, 2008

Myself and Matthew measured the sprouts on the potato again. The sprouts have got longer, a lot longer, Well not really. The sprouts average length is now 1.257cm. There are now 14 sprouts on the potatoes.

By Chris

Measuring straight lines… March 7, 2008

One of the activities in the Count and Grow pack is to measure straight lines.  We thought we could do the activity but in a more interesting way.

 As the Learning Outcome is simply to be able to measure accurately things which are straight, we found a more innovative way of doing this.  Taking only straight edges in the classroom, we’ve used a coloured, centimetre banded ruler to show their lengths.

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The chit report – day 1 March 6, 2008

Calum & Chris are measuring the growing roots of the 6 potatoes to find the average root length.

Number of roots: 12

Average root length: 1.058cm

Another chit report tomorrow!

Launching the competition March 5, 2008

Today we found out about a competition which might win us a prize!  We can win it by growing some potatoes.

We looked through worksheets to try to find a more interesting and innovatitve way of doing the project.

We have entered the competition and we have to grow potatoes and fill out some worksheets.  We thought the worksheets were a bit dull so we’ve come up with our own, more interesting versions with the same Learming Outcomes.

We have been talking about the competition which is called “Count and Grow.”  The RHET sent us six seed potatoes which Kerry, Emma and Rosie have just put on the windowsill to “chit.”