Soaring, padding, whooping
Glimpsing up, I observe
Curved branches shaped like a jaggy slingshot.
Looking closely I see
A slimy, slug trailing
And a scaling, gleaming woodlouse
I see a face in my tree
It is horrified and wide-eyed
From a killer badger tearing through the woods on the prowl for fresh meat.
By Lauren
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Recount of Visit to Skinflats Woods Day 2 Lauren
Yesterday the whole school went to the woods and the new p1s came too. I think the new p1s had fun. We went to the woods to learn about what a tree needs. When we went the other day we went a different route so on day two we went a different route because we might be taking our own bikes to the woods.
When we got there we were given a piece of paper and we went to learn about the process of photosynthesis so we got a sheet of paper to read.
Photosynthesis is how a plant gets its food so then they need sunlight, water and carbon dioxide. The leaves give the tree energy by making sugar.
The tree make oxygen but the tree does not need it but the human does need oxygen. We don’t need carbon dioxide. We should be good to the trees.
So after we read the sheet of paper Mrs.Lennie ask a question. She would give three answers and then we would run to the right letter. Next the primary one to fours started heading back to the school and then we started heading back then we caught up with the primary one-four class. Then we all headed back to school and then the bell rang.
Recount of Visit to Skinflats Woods-Day 1
On Thursday I went to the woods with my school to learn all about trees and shrubs.
When we got there we found some trees which were broken so we made it the base camp. When Mrs. Lennie gave three short blasts of her whistle, it meant everyone had to return back to base. Mrs. Sneddon had the inhalers in a bag and if needed Mrs. Lennie would give one long blast of her whistle.
We sat on the logs and talked about trees and shrubs and what we already knew about them. We learned about what makes a tree a tree. A tree needs a single trunk that needs to be 30cm fat. Branches will come out at least 30cm from the ground. There are two types of trees, one with leaves and then needly trees. The ones with leaves are called deciduous and the needly ones are coniferous. Our woods mostly have coniferous.
Then we went to get six different leaves in the woods. We found sycamore leaves. It took us thirty five minutes to get back to school. My favourite part was Mrs. Lennie talking to the tree.
Visit to Skinflats Wood 4
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.
