We love nature

We love learning about nature in our class! We went to the woods and discovered lots of exciting things that happen in autumn. We even found a squirrel searching for food, preparing for hibernation! 

Growing plants!

We have been busy in our class planting some cress seeds and watching them grow! We added soil to our plant pots, before sprinkling seeds on top and lightly watering them! We are excited to see how they will grow over the next couple of weeks and we will enjoy eating the cress for our lunches!!

Green fingers!

We are so lucky in our class to have an expert gardener working with us everyday! Múinteoir Karmel is an amazing gardening and has been showing us her skills in gardening and passing on some of her fantastic skills to us! This week we planted some herbs and plants in our school garden. We sowed some pea plants in a deep semi-circle around a tree branch in one of our planting boxes. As the pea plants start to grow, we hope that they will wind their way upwards and around the branch, producing some delicious peas!

We also planted some herbs - parsley, chives, basil and coriander, in shallow ridges beside the peas. As they grow, we plan to thin out the plants and transport them to other areas in our garden. We placed some ribbon across the ridges in order to deter the birds from eating our seeds. 

We will post more pictures in the coming weeks as they grow! Watch this space!