Today we learnt about the Potato Famine in Ireland.
Mrs M. found a good site by googling "Irish Famine Tandy".
The children had lots of fun on this site.

Potatoes in Ireland

Athletic Sports

Potato Report

Room 3s potatoes are growing very fast. We can see the shoots in the potatoes.
We water them two to three days a week.
by News Reporters,
Dylan and Callum.

Planting Potatoes Again

We planted potatoes. Mrs M changed the worm farmers from the girls to the boys.The girls are now the gardeners.The girls dug and weeded in the garden.Mrs Wood helped the girls. Mrs M dug some holes in the garden. We put the potatoes in the holes. Jessica and Islay put tags in the places the potatoes were after they had covered them up.Then the girls watered the potatoes.I love planting potatoes.
By Islay.

Our Roots are in the Andes

We are learning about potatoes. We made potato people from the Andes. Some people brought potatoes. We drew a pattern on some material and cut a hole in the middle for the poncho.We put the potatoes through the poncho.Mrs M stuck ice-cream sticks into the potato for the legs. Mrs M made little hats for them. We made the Andes in the sandpit. The whole class played with their potato people in the sandpit.
By Stacy, Casey, Islay and Jelena.


After that we wrote about where potatoes came from.
This is called HISTORY......(a university word)
Here are two pieces of writing........

8000 years ago the potatoes got found. They were in the Andes in South America . The potatoes can be grown in all different places.The men were going to get gold and silver. But they found the potatoes. They had come from Europe to South America. That is how we have potatoes.
By Casey.

8,000 years ago two men sailed around the world from europe to south America. In south america they found gold, silver and potatoes. The potatoes grew in some mountains called the Andes. In the Andes there are lots of gaps for water and potatoes to grow in. So that's how potatoes got discovered. All around the world the countries found out about potatoes.
By Jelena

Bubble share Video.

Mrs m had a little bit of trouble with this video.
There seems to be lots of copies.
We all were having loads of fun though.
Enjoy everyone.

BubbleShare: Share photos - Find great Clip Art Images.
BubbleShare: Share photos - Find great Clip Art Images.
BubbleShare: Share photos - Find great Clip Art Images.
BubbleShare: Share photos - Find great Clip Art Images.
BubbleShare: Share photos - Find great Clip Art Images.
BubbleShare: Share photos - Find great Clip Art Images.
BubbleShare: Share photos - Find great Clip Art Images.

PLANTING POTATOES

• We drilled five drainage holes in our buckets and put a name tag on them.
  
• We filled the bucket half full of compost.
• We put a potato in the bucket.
• We filled the bucket up with compost and patted it down.
• We watered the potatoes.
  

by room 3.

Mr Potato Head

Blake , JJ, and Ethan found Mr Potato Head in the cupboard.
Then they put it in Blake's bag and brought it to school.
Some of the children put him together.
We watched a little movie about Mr Potato Head.
We have coloured a potato head on the computer.

PLANTS

Mrs M brought two pumpkin plants to School. At the moment they are yellow because they haven't had any sun..We are wating for the
leaves to go green.The one Stacy planted is green already. Stacy and Jessica planted them in
two blue pots.
byStacy and Jessica.

We are getting these potatoes ready to plant.
We have put them in a warm place in our room.
We are going to plant them on Friday.

When Mrs M got the plant out of the compost we saw it was growing from a potato.
Two little potatoes were growing off a potato root.
Then someone saw a very small potato as well. It was the size of a spider's egg.

Above the Ground/Below the Ground

We named all the vegetables we could think of.
Mrs M wrote these on a special piece of paper.
Then we sorted the vegetable pictures and decided if we ate the bit that grew under the ground or above the ground.

TERM 4

Hello. Room 3 is back again blogging.
This term our big integrated topic is POTATOES.
I wonder if anyone knows why ?