Month: March 2017

End of Term Thoughts

It’s hard to believe that it is the Easter holidays already!  We have really enjoyed this term, especially using our camera trap, we feel we have really got to know what goes on in our garden when we are not around!  We are hoping that this increased understanding will help us to support the wildlife we have and encourage us to think about how we can attract other species.  The camera was on loan to us as part of  a project, we do however have the chance to win the camera by entering a short film about what we have captured on video.  We have made a few films and will decide on a final one after the holidays.  You can see them via the links below.

https://youtu.be/Ftz7V43Vkc0

https://youtu.be/5zb74E-exNQ

https://youtu.be/36gFdB-bETI

 

We really enjoyed planning and making our tasty treats to sell at the showcase and would like to thank everyone who supported us in raising over £100 which meant we could cover our costs and have enough to adopt a Red Panda at the Highland Wildlife Park.

Our Showcase

It has been a great term for dancing! We have enjoyed making up our own  animal themed dances with Miss Edwards and following Miss Crawford’s dance steps to create a response to a modern song.   You can check that out at this link https://youtu.be/kEcY4oRzcB4

Our favourite moments of the term

Megan: When we visited the Highland wildlife Park I saw new animals I had never seen close up like the Artic fox and the Red Panda.

Freya: Our visit to the Highland Wildlife Park I was really into red pandas and I got to see one in real life.

Erin: Going to the Highland Wildlife Park, I discovered that animals are endangered because of what we do.

Enzo:  I liked the Highland Wildlife Park I’ve never seen some of the animals like artic fox, polar bears, snow leopards.  I also liked seeing a baby bunny under the tree hut.

Hester: When I went to Highland Wildlife park I got to see real snow leopards and polar bears it felt really cool.

Max:  Highland Wildlife Park because I hadn’t really seen much animals where we live like that before.

Jillie-Ann:  I liked seeing new animals in the camera trap, we were surprised to get lots of bunnies, we didn’t realise that we had a partridge.

Jacob:  When we were at the Highland Wildlife Park and I like seeing the animals in real life.

Nina: I really liked the new animals in the camera trap, they were very exciting I liked the bunnies.

Sofia:  I loved going to the Highland Wildlife park, I had never seen a lot of the animals before.  My favourite animal was the artic fox.

Ursie: My favourite thing was the Wildlife Park I had never seen some of the animals before, I liked the polar bears.

Freddie: My favourite moment was the camera trap I liked seeing the red squirrel.

Julia: My favourite thing was seeing the snow leopard.

Minette: My favourite thing about this term was the Wildlife Park because I’ve never seen a snowy owl before.

Eva: My favourite bit was finding out that the mouse in the camera trap was actually a vole!

 

We can’t wait to see what next term brings!  Happy Holidays

 

Visitors and fact finding

This Monday we started our brochures on what we have discovered in our camera trap.  The brochures will help people who visit our garden see what wildlife there is and where to spot it.

On Tuesday we created a pop dance in PE we learned some new dance moves and turned it into a dance.

Wednesday the 8th, a ranger called Polly came in and told us all about wildlife. Polly gave us clues from animals that are quite common in our area, and we had to guess which animal it was from. Polly told us that one of our ‘mice’ is actually a bank vole!

 

 

Thursday is here  we came up with another dance with Miss Edwards.

It’s Friday and we moved our camera trap to see if there are any bigger animals in our garden.

Megan Freya and Erin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An animal filled week!

We really enjoyed the Highland Wildlife park our favourite animal was the Red Panda. Then we went to see Walker the Polar Bear and the Snow Leopards Chan and Animesh getting fed. We learned about some animals that are endangered and we also learned about how we can stop that from happening by reduce, reusing and recycling.

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We have had mice, pigeons, blue tits, robins, great tits, dunnocks, male and female chaffinch, rabbit, and a cheeky cat in our camera trap.

 

We had visitors from Generation Science we learned about magnets and how magnets attract metal that contains iron. They told us a story about Manis and his grandfather and how Manis learnt about magnets. We learnt a song about the northern lights and got to experiment with the different poles on bar magnets and disc magnets.

We have been enjoying dance in PE with Miss Edwards and Miss Crawford.