Who's been eating our peas?!

Yesterday we planted some peas in our outside area. Today, we went to see them and check if they needed water... and guess what had happened! There was soil all over the ground, some of our peas had been dug up and the signs we made about our peas had been pulled out!

Mylo saw some bird poo on the ground and decided that some birds must have come and dug up our seeds! We talked about what we could do to protect our seeds. Fallon suggested putting a cover over them, but when we talked about it we realised that would stop the sunlight getting onto our peas and they might not grow. Luke suggested we made some signs to tell the birds to leave our seeds alone. We talked about what the signs could say and what they could look like. If we just did a picture of a bird the birds might think we were inviting them to come and eat our seeds, but Luke said it should be in a red circle with a cross through it - great thinking Luke!

Inside, we made signs to tell the birds (or anyone else!) to leave our peas alone. We laminated them so they don't get damaged in the rain and hung them outside.

We also thought it might be a good idea to make a scarecrow, so this afternoon Reception were very busy with Mrs Waites making a scarecrow to scare the birds away. We read a story called The Scarecrow who didn't scare and thought about how we could make a scarecrow. We had to think of ideas, listen to other people's ideas and try and find ways to solve problems, like what to do if we didn't have something we needed. We also had to work together in a group. When we'd finished we put our scarecrow outside to protect our peas!