The whole school went to Skinflats Woods. We took the same route as the last time. We stopped at the horse chestnut tree and we still have no conkers!
All of us went behind the horse chestnut tree and sat underneath the sycamore tree.
We read “The Life Cycle of the Maple Tree”. We found samaras which are helicopter seeds. We learned that a maple tree has both male and female flowers.
We learned about different trees and plants. Plants have differently shaped seeds. The seeds can be spread by in different ways.
We found a maggot in two rosehips but we didn’t squish them. We put it back. The whole school went searching for different types of seeds. We found conkers from the horse chestnut tree. They drop.
Helicopters from the sycamore tree, drops by the wind they are seeds with parachute. They also drop by wind. Also we found that there are seeds in blackberries
The seeds get eating by birds. Rosehips also get eaten by birds. Seeds in blaeberries get eaten by birds too. Mrs Lennie didn’t have a clue about them until now. We found cones of the Scots pine. They drop by wind.
Finally we got to the woods. We used a tree ID guide to identify the Scots pine tree then we hunted for seeds that had fallen from a pine cone. (We found a leaf skeleton)
On the way back Mrs Granville took the wee ones so we could get up to speed. We ran for ten seconds five times but I only ran twice because I had a stitch.

By Callum Flynn