In May the pupils in Senior Infants and 1st class sowed sunflower seeds. They planted out the sunflowers in the garden. The sunflowers grew very tall during the summer holidays.
When we came back to school we were a bit disappointed because the sunflowers weren’t in bloom. We think that the bad weather delayed the flowers.
This week we were very happy to see that the sunflowers had started to bloom. I measured the tallest plant and discovered that it had grown 2 metres 70 centimetres in 14 weeks. The stem of the sunflower is coarse and hairy. I used a piece of string to measure the circumference of the thickest stem. It was 12 centimetres. When the sunflowers finish blooming we will leave them there so that the birds can eat the seeds.
