This block has been great and its thankfully not over yet but sadly we will come to the end on Thursday 22nd of December so here are the most enjoyable memories of the rainforest topic

• Creating all the layers of the rainforest with tissue paper in 3D!

• Having Fionns dad coming in to upgrade our knowledge!

• Making the plants and some of them were evil!

• I loved doing the paper mache masks which are still in progress!

• In maths we  did symmetry and I thoroughly enjoyed doing that with half the animals face!

• I enjoyed writing the reports!

As you see I loved this topic and would happily go back a year and teach this topic to the P5s!

Fin’s uncle, Dr Jeffrey, is coming to talk to us in the last week of term about World War II. Dr Jeffrey is a historian and specialises in WWII. Think of any questions you have about WWII that might have been sparked by our Goodnight Mr Tom novel study and add them to the padlet being clicking on the link.

Dr Jeffrey Questions Padlet

The poison dart frog can be found in Central and South America. They live in humid tropical environment’s including Bolivia, Costa Rica, Brazil, Columbia, Ecuador, Hawaii and more. The species are brightly coloured to warn of prey.  The brighter the colour the more toxic they are.

The frogs body is covered in poison. They do not bite or sting anybody. Their poison is 250 times stronger than the most known   poison. If you touch one of them you will have a stroke. The poison can kill 30,000 mice. Tribes use their poison on the tips of their blow darts.

Most species of poison dart frogs are small but a few  can grow up to 6cm in length.

Many take their hatched tadpoles into the canopy and put them in the pools of water that gathers in the plants.

Chemicals from a certain frog can be used in medicine . Scientists use this for painkillers.

What is it and where can you find it?

The Aye-Aye is a type of lemur only found in the rainforests of Madagascar islands in the trees and avoid coming down to earth. It is a mammal, nocturnal and a omnivore.

What does it look like?

It has large eyes, Slender fingers and large sensitive ears. It has shaggy black or brown fur and a tail bigger than their body. They have claws on their fingers and toes except for their big ones which help them dangle from branches.

Fun facts

• They are related to chimpanzees, Orang-utan  and humans
• They are endangered
• They can live up to 20 years
• They weigh around 4 lbs

Isla’s homework By Isla

Farming in the rainforest is when you clear either by burning it or chopping down the trees  a lot of land and use it for…

Farmers clear the land they need to grow  food  and they also use the land for cattle and sheep . The farmers sell the wood for furniture and houses, then the farmers use this money to buy their sheep or cattle and equipment this is bad for the rainforest because it means that animals have been forced to move homes.

In 100 years there will be no rainforests if they don’t stop.

By Sara and Poppy.

Logging is chopping down trees to get money. Logging is very bad for the rain forest because only 6% of the rain forest remains. Only humans log its not the animals because the animals don’t have chainsaws. In 1 minute  the size of 20 football pitches disappear

This is the website we used :

http://kids.mongabay.com/lesson_plans/lisa_algee/deforestation.html

By Tim and Josh M

      Logging is some thing  that machines do , You cut down the tree and cut it in to logs that’s what logging is .  Here’s an  other fact, always by farmed wood. They have  destroyed  the size of Germany in the amazon rainforest. That means millions of animals have died because their  homes have been destroyed. Since 1978 they have cut down 289,000 square miles.

Poaching in the rainforest is getting worst. Poaching is when  you kill animals for fur, body parts and to sell them.  Every year in the Amazon  rainforest alone 9.6 to 23.5 million birds , reptiles and mammals are harvested. In some parts of the worlds it is illegal to take wildlife. It is bad to poach because some animals might be extinct. By Kell and Ruby

Logging is when you chop down trees to get more land, and to use the trees for wood. They make roads that destroy the rainforest. They take it to build houses ,furniture ,flooring .Many rainforest animals cannot survive in the changed environment.