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Trees, Woods

Recount to Skinflats Woods Day 1

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On Thursday 25th of August I went to Skinflats Woods with my school. We went there to discover about the wildlife.

The first thing we did was establish some rules. When Mrs. Lennie blew the whistle, we had to go back to base. If she blew the whistle three times that meant we had to go back to base. If she blew the whistle one time that meant inhalers were needed
We sat down and started to talk about what makes a tree. A tree is something that has a single, tall trunk. Branches don’t begin until thirty cm high. A trees girth is at least thirty cm when it has grown up.
There are different trees in our wood. There are deciduous trees and coniferous. A deciduous tree is a tree that has flat, green leaves that fall off in Autumn. A coniferous tree is a needly tree with cones. We mostly have coniferous trees in our wood. Mrs. Lennie gave us leaf ID envelopes. We got asked to go and find different kind of leaves.
In Winter the trees are bare. In Spring, trees blossom and buds come out. In Summer trees are covered in leaves. In Autumn leaves change colour and fall off. It took us twenty five minutes to get back to school because we were tired. The part I enjoyed most was when me and James found a big tree had fallen down and it was really big and the roots were very big.

Minibeast mansions, Trees, Woods

Recount of Visit to Skinflats Woods Day 12 William

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Last Friday we went to our woods we had to build minibeast mansions. Some people walked and some people cycled, I cycled. We built minibeast mansion to help the insects from dying so quickly. We split up into groups. In my group, I had Blair, Dean, Skye, James and me. We went searching and I found a tree that had fallen down and I thought it was a Scots Pine tree. It had needles and so I thought it would be sheltered so our minibeast mansion didn’t fall down.

We all went searching for twigs, bricks and soft bark. Skye was our captain she told Blair and Dean to get shelter. She asked James to collect bricks and I had to get damp wood. Luckily When Mrs. Lennie came to look at our minibeast mansion she found an old pipe. Ske put the pipe in to good use. Ours kind of looked like a minibeast playhouse. I thought our group got on well.

On the way home we left the same time as the walkers and they beat us to the school. I liked this week very much!

Photosynthesis, Trees, Woods

Recount of Visit to Skinflats Woods Day 2

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Yesterday the whole school went to Skinflats Woods and this time the primary 1s came. We went to the woods to learn about why trees are so important. We went a different route because we wanted to see the chestnut tree. We are thinking of taking our bikes down this path soon.

When we arrived we got into groups. We had to go to a den to read our story called “What do plants need?” We had to learn the process of photosynthesis. Photosynthesis is how a plant makes its own food. How you make photosynthesis is with sunlight, water and carbon dioxide. The chlorophyll is a green chemical that gives the tree’s leaves colours.
We have a good relationship with the trees because we give trees carbon dioxide and they give us oxygen.
When we came back to base Mrs. Lennie gave us a quiz. We had to go to A, B or C signs on the trees.  She gave us possible answers. I got five right and one wrong in the quiz. The wee ones left fifteen minutes before us and we caught up with them and we got back to school in time so there couldn’t be any grumpy parents!

Trees

My Scots Pine Tree- William

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Convex, Gaunt, Colossal,
Viewing up, I perceive,
The tree trunk was like a khaki snake extending upwards.
Looking closely I see an outstretched woodlouse scaling
And an embracing, enormous spider
I see a face in my tree
Its mouth is puckering for a satisfying kiss
Lonely, he curves towards potential mates desiring to fall in love

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.