This week year 2 have been learning about how to tell if a plant is healthy and what a plant needs to stay healthy. During our snack time, Mr Price very kindly showed us one of his plants a ‘Venus flytrap’. The children discussed how the plant receives its nutrients and how the plant only likes to drink rain water. The children were fascinated when Mr Price showed them how the plant eats a fly!
We then discussed how parts of the plant did not look as healthy and how we knew this. The children explained that the unhealthy parts of the plant are brown and crispy. The children then problem solved to decide what the plant needed and decided it needed more rainwater.