To think this homework wasn't brilliant thought out?

[Moonfacesmother]

Ds is 4 and in reception.
Their new topic is growing and he came home the day they broke up with a bean to plant and a little pot and a letter asking us to keep a daily bean diary.

Well so far our diary has nothing in it! The beans take 7-10 days to do anything. Ours has started to sprout underneath the soil (prodded it to check) but nothing to see above ground yet.

Nice idea in theory but not great in practice.

Br

Brill

Argh! My iPhone wasn't brilliantly thought out either.

I agree - I've just planted Sunflowers with my four on Friday, and the endless 'Is it growing yet?' by my four year old is wearing a little thin just now!

Take some soil off the top?

Put the bean in one of those blue paper towels (used to get them in school toilets) and soak it. Then you can open it up and see what it's doing. It only needs water at this stage.

That's a shame. The best way to do this is in a jar. Put a damp paper towel/kitchen towel in to line the jar and slide the bean down the side between the glass and the towel. The damp towel provides the water to the bean (can top jar up with water if needed) and you get to see all the sprouting. Any chance you can do it this way yourself too?

Like this.