Author: Joseph

Hello everybody

Happy World Earth Day!

Today I have been doing Aboriginal style art at home school and it was really cool. I used some  special paint made of different types of earth from Australia! The Aboriginal people of Australia use painting to find there way across the huge distances in Australia and tell stories which document stories to explain the world and how to find things. there are lots of pictures of animals some of which no longer exist (they have become extinct since human arrived on the continent) . The aboriginal people thought it was important to protect the Earth and wildlife and to live in harmony with the natural world.

Today I also watched Steve Backshall’s live feed witch was based on fresh water animals today and I did a lego challenge. Later today I will be setting up the trail camera again and will be leaving it over night so I will tell you about that tomorrow.

Did anybody else celebrate World Earth Day?

see you soon!

Joe 🙂

Hi everyone

In my last post I talked about my trail camera and how I set it up near a Badger set well turns out it might be abandoned but we got a couple of videos  of a rare duck called a Shelduck. Shelducks lay their eggs in burrows in the ground. We got some footage of one just checking if the old badger set was safe to lay it’s eggs in! cool right.

here is the video IMAG0025

We checked on RSPB.ORG UK and Shelducks are on the amber conservation [list which means their numbers are in decline but they are not yet at the highest risk of extinction] so we’re lucky to see one! especially as they normally live on mudflats and estates and we were up a big hill in a wood near Terregeles!

Here is more information about Shelducks and they have a very funny call which you can hear on this link https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/shelduck/

We are now brainstorming ideas about where else we could place the camera…id like to find a badger, fox or deer. each time we have taken the camera up to this badger set we have seen some Roe dear near by.

See ya

Joe

 

Hi guys

I have not posted over the holidays so here is what I have been doing:

• I’ve been feeding the tadpoles every day and some of them have the startings of little legs but thats only a few out of about 200 or so! but they are really hard to count.
• I finished my first comic its about Star Wars and me and one of my best friends from another school are doing another comic via the post: He did the front cover I’ve done the next page and sent it back he’ll do the next page and send it and on and on.
• Yesterday I set up a tent in my garden and spent the entire afternoon in it with my dog.
• I set up a nature trail camera near a local Badger set no Badgers yet though we did get 700 photos of one blade of grass moving…we are going to try again tonight.
• A few days ago I made a cardboard house and spent most of the day there I even put some cardboard shelves in.
• Finally today I made a floating lego boat as a STEM challenge it was partially successful – it floats but my original design had a mast and that makes the boat capsize. We will try again tonight.

see ya

Joe

 

Today I have done a poster about sharks. Recently I have been watch shark documentaries so I thought I would do a poster about them and here’s the result. Hope you like it.

Shark Facts:

• There are over 500 species of shark.
• ¼ of these species of shark are endangered
• Sharks are apex predators.
• They have several rows of teeth which can be replaced thousands of times
• Sharks vary dramatically in size. The smallest shark is at the Dwarf Lantern shark reaching 20 cm. The biggest shark is the whale shark reaching 12 m.
• Sharks live in most ocean habitats.
• Most sharks are cold-blooded except the great white shark which is partially warm-blooded which helps it go faster while hunting.
• Sharks live in the UK as well basking sharks which reach 11 m in length, they are the second biggest fish in the world roughly the same size and weight as a double-decker bus.
• Sharks have 6th sense they can sense small electric fields from their prey this sense is located on their snouts.
• They have been around for 400 million years long before the dinosaurs.
• Their skeletons are made of cartilage the same substance our noses are made of not bone.

Are sharks Dangerous?

Although sharks have a bad reputation most sharks aren’t very dangerous. There is one in 3.7 million chances of you being attacked by a shark there is more chance of you getting killed doing a selfie than there is being killed by a shark.

65% of the people attacked by sharks as surfers because in the low visibility of the water the shape of the surfboards looks like their prey.

Out of 15 billion people in the water 50 to 100 people will be attacked every year. The more you go in the more likely you get attacked because shark thinks you are a threat.

Save our sharks!

Guess  what some of my tadpoles have hatched! About 5 of them they don’t  do much  and they move very slowly. Its happy and sad because the ones that have hatched are eating the eggs of the ones that haven’t hatched so we will have less tad poles than we did eggs but still cool that they have begun to hatch.

I have completed the sumdog challenge -Miss Stapleton set I quite liked it.

For exercise I did some yoga today I watched a video and copied the moves I really enjoyed it. Today I also did some art I drew a cute Mandaloian from Star Wars but it is not finished yet.

See ya Joe

Today I have cooked my lunch on my wood fired camping stove I made some roasted pumpkin and lentil soup and some toasted marshmellows. To start the fire I used a flint and steel. Today I also watered the plants and planted some peas so I got bit muddy.

Yesterday I watched a documentary on sharks in the Pacific Ocean near the Pitcairn Islands. I liked it and learnt some more about sharks from the show. After mummy and I researched the mutiny on the bounty after as Pitcairn island is where some of the mutineers set up home after they set the captain lose in a lifeboat. Today Mummy when to the supermarket to get some food and came home with a lego set for me, it os creator set I have made the shark  and crab so far.

Did you know that sharks have special sense? they have a ‘midline’ line that runs from there head to there trail along the line of dark skin and light skin it has lots of tiny hairs (called sila) that mean it can sense movements in the water. So I think the best thing to do when you are behind the shark is to stay really still….

Today I watched Steve Backshall on his live nature show its a bit pixelated but it was really good. One thing I leant was sperm wales sleep up right in the water!you should go and check it out on youtube.

Today I also walked my dog and did some SumDog. I haven’t had very eventful day yet see ya.

Joe

just something to cheer you up.

 

It is me, Joe! I have chest infection for the last week and so now I have to be in isolation until Saturday. I have been missing my friend’s lots and I even miss school and maybe some of the teachers.

Can’t believe school is going to be closed. I’m a bit worried about it actually as we will not see much of each other

Here are some of the things have been doing while I have been off sick.

• Raising frogspawn that I rescued from a flooded field near my house (see my picture)
• I have been doing some extra homework that Miss Dale set
• I have also been coughing a lot
• Walking my dog Beans
• Listening to audiobooks, like Harry Potter and a ‘Birthday boy’ by David Baddiel
• And playing my new computer game called ‘Goose game’ on my Switch
• and have been watching movies and my favourite Star Wars ones as you probably know
• Drawing (see my kingfisher picture below)

I’d love to hear what you’ve been up to in the last couple of weeks and what you get up to while schools closed.

 

Natural Disasters can destroy entire city’s such as earth quakes which sakes the ground so much that building come crashing down earthquakes are caused by the tectonic plates rub together. Earth quakes cause other Natural Disasters such as tsunamis which are caused by earth quakes under water which create huge tidal wave tsunamis are just as destructive. An other Natural Disaster is a sink hole a sink hole is a large depression in the ground caused by water, pressure and sinking sand.