Rocket rockets, 3rd week

Hello Everybody


What a lot of rain, mum says it is good for the garden, but it just means wet play times for us!


We thought we would let you know how our rocket rockets are getting on this week.  Did you make any?  If not, give it a try, you can look back a couple of posts to see how we made ours.  In a few days we are going to make something similar but with beans, jack and the beanstalks, if you want to have a race with us, or just join in, you will need to get some runner bean seeds, a small plastic pot or toilet roll inside and something to decorate it.


For now, back to the rocket rockets...

More like rocket snails, they have really slowed down!  Not looking much bigger really.

Here are the ones that tried to fly;

Here are they ones that landed safely;

At a glance they are not a lot different that's for sure, but if look really really closely, you can see that some of the stems have more than two leaves, there more coming, and these ones are more rocket leaf shaped too. 

When a seed sprouts and grows, it gets two leaves at first, which are called the seed leaves. These get the sunshine and convert it to plant food ( a great big, hard to spell, word called photosynthesis) and this plant food helps the plant to keep growing whilst the roots take up water.

Hopefully by next week there will be more to see.

Bye for now

Ethan, Reuben, Mattie, Jacob and Joel bean