Recount of Visit to Skinflat Woods: Day Two
One the first of September ,the whole school and the two little ones went to the woods again to learn more about the woods but this time we went to learn ,what trees give us. We took longer route than last time because in our novel it talked about conkers, so we went the longer route, so we went to the chestnut tree: When we got there, some people were playing on the swing but some people were looking for conkers but it is not time of year for that. The last time we went a narrow way last time and that was a little hard for some people.
When we got there we all took our jackets off and sat on the log and we were waiting to find out what we had to do next. Mrs.Lennie told us to get into groups and go somewhere to sit. My team was called “The Beetles”. We had to read though a sheet called “What do plants eat?”We were learning about the process of photosynthesis. The tree needs three things, sunlight from the leaves, water from the roots and carbon dioxide. The tree needs carbon dioxide but the tree breathes something else in to, the tree breathes out oxygen but we need oxygen to breathe and we breathe out carbon dioxide. “What makes the leaves green”? Chlorophyll is a green chemical. The leave does something else too; the leaves make sugar from sunlight, water and carbon dioxide .The sugar makes the tree have energy.
When the trees breathe in the carbon dioxide they make oxygen but the trees don’t like it so they out the oxygen. But when we breathe in the oxygen we breathe a little bit of carbon dioxide gets in. So when we breathe out the carbon dioxide goes in to the tree .The tree gives us oxygen and we give them carbon dioxide. When we got back to the base, Mrs. Lennie told us some questions but we didn’t have to shout the answer out, the A B C was on the trees and we had to run to them. I got all them right. The little class went away first then a little while later we started to go but the little class were really slow and we caught up with them. It took us 30 minutes to get back but at least it was faster getting back when we were going up there.
