We did some rocket science with Miss Fraser  yesterday. We made rockets out of paper and we tested them. They went far, some even went on to the road!

by Finn Liam Vanja

Yesterday we went to Cunningsburgh to learn about trows, peat and bogs.

We learned about global warming. When the peat dries out the carbon dioxide doesn’t have anywhere to go and contributes to global warming. We got to meet two different trows who told us their stories.

Some words we would use to describe our day are:

• really hot
• fun
• interesting
• it was a loooong way
• amazing
• smelly
• exciting

Thank you to all the organisers!

Yesterday we had a visit from Natalie and Karen from the RSPB. we did some bird calling games where we heard the bird calls and ran to a corner and if we got it right we got a chocolate bird egg . The poor chocolate birds had their eggs stolen.

After our game we tried some worm charming copying a curlew. By patting the floor the worms would think its raining and come up. We only found half a worm and 2 beetles. We tried again in the field and with more luck we found lots more worms.

by Alisers, Megan and Alice

Yesterday we had a visit from Natalie and Karen from RSPB and we went rock pooling. We found crabs, starfish, and lots of  interesting things.

By Vanja, Eldars and Sophie

It was RSPB day so we decided to go down to Bousta Beach. We made food webs to learn about the rockpool ecosystem and learned about the tide with a clay cookie, an orange and a pickled onion.

by Liam, Finn and Simone.

As part of our learning on plants, animals and ecosystems, yesterday we were learning about the five kingdoms! We found out that these are:

• animals
• plants
• fungi
• prokaryotes
• protoctista.

Here are some things we found out:

Alisers – Fungi is the biggest in our ecosystem!

Liam – the prokaryote kingdom includes bacteria

Megan – Animals are one of the most complicated organisms

Sophie – Humans are included in the animal kingdom

Alice – Trees and plants make oxygen and feed themselves through photosynthesis

Vanja – The animal kingdom is full of different animal species

Eldars – Some animals help grass to grow by fertilising it

Finn – All the kingdoms make up an ecosystem

Simone – We went outside and around the school looking for organisims from the five kingdoms. We found plants, animals and fungi.

Can you guess which kingdom these are from??

A few weeks ago, Miss McIntyre woke up to find lots of frogs in her pond. They had laid lots of spawn which we have been enjoying having in class. We’ve been able to watch as the frogspawn has hatched into tadpoles and are looking forward to seeing them change into froglets!