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Minibeast mansions, Woods

Week 12- Minibeast Mansions Callum

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Mini beast mansion

On Friday the 20th of January the whole school went to the woods. About a quarter of the school cycled that includes me. I had to stop because I ripped Blair’s bag on my tyre. Mrs McKinnon and I had to cycle about twenty metres fast to catch up with the rest. Luckily they stopped for us to catch up with them. We went to make a mini beast mansion.

        When we got to the woods we got into groups of five. I was in a group with Cara, Rhianne, Ross and Stewart. After we were in our groups, we had to pick a part of the woods to make our mini beast mansion. I was in a claustrophobic space.

        We didn’t have any materials to make the mansion just things that were on the forest floor. We were making the mansion of bricks. But then it was just bricks. So we had to demolish it. Then we started to think about the rain and what was the best place to go if it was raining. After all that arguing we found a shelter then started to build our mansion with sticks and pine needles. Five minute afterwards it was time up. So we had to walk to Williams’s house to get our bikes. When we arrived back at school when we were in our classrooms for Ten seconds the bell rang to go home.  

By Callum.

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 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