The day has finally come to reveal the winners of our beans growing competition. At the beginning of the term, Mrs Rice visited our classrooms, read the story of Mrs Rice and the Beanstalk and then challenged us to plant and nurture a magic bean seed (it was actually a pea seed, but we won’t tell the secret). The children had their own plant and their own magic castle to reach for. The challenge was to water the plant, to talk or sing to it every morning until it reached the Giant’s castle. Saying hello and goodbye to their little pot became part of the daily routine for the children in the Junior School. And some of the magic seeds didn’t disappoint. They soaked up all the sun and they drank all the water, munched on all the nutrients in the soil and grew miraculously, shooting for the sky. As she promised, Mrs Rice came back to every classroom at the end of the term, and after measuring the tallest plants she rewarded the children that grew the tallest plant.
The children all felt like winners because they had all learned how to look after a plant, what a plant needs to grow and they had so much fun watching their beanstalk grow.
The plants have been taken home this week so the challenge is to transplant it into their own gardens and continue to nature the plant in the hopes it will grow some pea pods.
