We found that we eat flowers, stems, leaves and roots. We can eat most of some vegetables like broccoli, we can eat it's stem, leaves and flowers but other vegetables we only eat one part, like potatoes where we eat the root.
On Thursday Room 3 harvested half of our broad beans. This posed another challenge for us. Which part of the plant was this that we were eating? We decided that it wasn't the flower, stem, leaf or root so we talked about where the bean pods had come from. Lucas remembered that the bean plant had flowers before the pods. When we opened the pods we saw the beans, they looked just like the seeds that we had planted to begin with. We agreed that we were eating the seeds of the broad bean plant.
What is dip without bread? While one group made dip the other made flatbread with flour and water. It was quite hard to get the dough right and then knead it for long enough to make it smooth. They smelt delicious as they cooked.
We made some predictions about how the dip would taste as we added our ingredients. Most of us agreed it would be quite sour because of the lemon juice that had gone into it.
The blender did a good job with all of those beans and the dip was a lovely green colour. Ruby thought it looked like avocado and Dougie thought it looked like lime.
We re-read the book "Plants need Water" and made predictions about what would happen. The hard part was working out what time it would be in three hours. The book said we'd have to wait that long!
When we came back from lunch we noticed that some of our plants had changed. The celery had little coloured spots right up at the top. That meant that the water had travelled all the way up the stem and had also begun to go into the leaves.