This week we were invited by a lady called Kathy from land services to sow wild flower seeds with her, the local wildlife rangers and some members of the local church; we were excited to take her up on the offer.

We explained to Kathy that Santa always comes with us when we do anything ‘sciencey’. She was happy to let Santa come along with us to help us sow the wild flower seeds.

The day before we went, Miss Yarrow wanted to check our understanding of how plants grow. We shared all the facts that we knew about how to plant seeds, what they need to grow and how to look after them. We also listened to an interactive story online. The information from the story matched what we had already told Miss Yarrow, so she thought that we were definitely ready to sow some seeds. Santa learned a lot from us too!

On Monday morning some Kathy and some kind parent helpers came down to the school to walk up with us to Gartmorn Dam. Luckily, it was a lovely morning for us.

When we got to the dam, some adults had already prepared the soil so that it was ready for us to sow the seeds. We split into different groups and teamed up with some adults. Each group was given a tub that had a sand and wild flower seed mix in it. Our job was to ‘shake, shake, shake’ the tub so that the seeds and sand spread across all of the soil. Santa helped us out too!

Once the tubs were empty, we were given some extra poppy seeds to sprinkle across the soil as well.

One group was very excited to have found a worm when they were sowing their seeds. They think the worm popped up because of all the stomping around the ground (it must have thought it was raining).

 Before we left, we were given some packets of wild flower seeds for us to sow in the school, as well as some little minibeast hotels to build. The countryside ranger said that some of the minibeasts might have started hibernating already, so we are going to hang onto the hotels and build them in the spring time.

We had great fun with everyone and can’t wait for the flowers to grow. We are excited to have helped make a new habitat area for the wildlife up at the dam (especially for the bees).

Thanks to Kathy for inviting us up and to all the adults that made our morning fun! Keep an eye out in the Alloa Advertiser for us and Santa. We got lots of pictures taken by the photographer!