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Seed Dispersal, Trees, Woods

RECOUNT OF VISIT SKINFLATS WOOD DAY 4

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Last Friday the whole school went to Skinflats Woods. We were learning about the plants. We learned how plants reproduce. We stopped at the horse chestnut tree and still there were no conkers. We went to sit under the horse chestnut tree.
Mrs. Lennie sat down and read a book about sycamore trees and some other trees too. We learned different trees/plants have differently- shaped seeds. The seeds can be spread in different ways.
We went searching for different seeds. We found just one helicopter from the sycamore tree.
We got some conkers from the horse chestnut tree. At the weekend, Lauren found some parachutes from the park and yesterday I found a conker that hadn’t been opened.
The seeds from blackberries, rosehips and blaeberries can be pooed out by birds. When we were looking in a rose hip we saw two maggots inside it. The Scots pines will drop their pine cones on the ground. Their seeds are inside the cones. When I was in the woods we used a leaf I.D. guide to identity the pine tree –it was a Scots Pine. We hunted for seeds in fallen pine cones and we found a leaf skeleton but we left it to rot.

By Katie

Seed Dispersal, Trees, Woods

Recount of Visit to Skinflats Wood Day 4

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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

Seed Dispersal, Trees, Woods

RECOUNT OF VISIT SKINFLATS WOODS DAY 4

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Last Friday the whole school went to Skinflats Woods. We were learning about the plants. We learned how plants reproduce. We stopped at the horse chestnut tree and still there were no conkers. We went to sit under the horse chestnut tree.
Mrs. Lennie sat down and read a book about sycamore trees and some other trees too. We learned different trees/plants have differently- shaped seeds. The seeds can be spread in different ways.
We went searching for different seeds. We found just one helicopter from the sycamore tree.
We got some conkers from the horse chestnut tree. On the weekend, Lauren found some parachutes from the park and yesterday I found a conker that hadn’t been opened.
The seeds from blackberries, rosehips and blaeberries can be pooed out by birds. When we were looking in a rose hip we saw two maggots inside it. The Scots pines will drop their pine cones on the ground. Their seeds are inside the cones. When I was in the woods we used a leaf I.D. guide to identity the pine tree –it was a Scots Pine. We hunted for seeds in fallen pine cones and we found a leaf skeleton but we left it to rot.

By Katie

Seed Dispersal, Trees, Woods

Recount of Visit to Skinflats Wood Day 4

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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

Seed Dispersal, Trees

Visit to Skinflats Wood 4

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Last Friday we were at the woods to learn about different kinds of seeds.

We stopped at the horse chestnut tree and there were no conkers.

We sat down under the sycamore tree and read a book called ”The Life Cycle of the Maple Tree”. The seeds of a maple tree are just like a helicopter of a sycamore tree so then we went and looked for different kinds of seeds.

We found all different kinds of seeds like blackberry seeds, rosehip seeds and blaeberries. We learned that birds eat the seeds in the fruit from the plant and it poos out the seeds.  When we got in to the woods we used an I.D guide to identify the pine tree.  Our pine trees have green cones and short pine needles on it.

Then we went back to school. My mummy picked me up then Mrs Granville picked the primary 1s and 2 up in her car then the rest were walking fast I think.

 

Seed Dispersal, Trees

Visit to Skinflats Woods Day 4

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Last Friday there were only seventeen of us because five were off. We went to the woods to learn about the life cycle of the maple tree.                                                                                                               

We stopped at the horse chestnut tree but there were no conkers because it was still the wrong time of year.

We found a good big tree that we could sit next to and Mrs. Lennie could read us a book called “The Life Cycle of the Maple Tree”.

 We learned about how different trees and plants have different shaped seeds. The seeds can be spread in different ways and Lauren found the only helicopter seed.

 We all went searching for seeds. We found one helicopter seed. We found out that it travels by the wind. Conkers drop from horse chestnut trees. Seeds with parachutes travel with the wind as well. There are seeds in blackberries. Birds eat the blackberry but they can’t digest the seed inside and when birds poo they drop out the seed and this makes a new plant. Seeds are in all fruit. We found a maggot inside a rosehip. Maggots are fly larva. When we got to the woods we only had ten minutes left in the woods. In that ten minutes we went looking inside pine cones but we never saw any seeds. Mrs. Lennie had an app on her i-phone to identify the trees from the pine cones and needly cones. The tree that we were sitting beside was a Scots Pine. We found a leaf skeleton. The wee ones got a lift back to school from Mrs. Granville. After they left we did ten-second sprints every 5 minutes to keep us fit.