Earlier in the year we were playing in our woodlands in warmer weather. We were all really busy making shelters for some woodland creatures. We have been exploring our woodlands, selecting materials and working together to solve a design brief. We discussed what makes a good shelter and shared our work with all our friends. Check out some of the amazing leaf skeletons we found! We also tasted some delicious sour bramble berries, it’s not just the birds and small animals that love brambles!
Animals need somewhere to live, and a lot of the places they could build a home are not there anymore because of people’s houses and gardens. You can make a habitat for an animal using small containers, tubes or boxes! Log piles in our woodlands make a nice home and we have a bug hotel for the animals.
Here is a link to help you get some ideas for making a home for animals in our gardens!
CLICK HERE!
This week we had another visitor in our school! We found a frog or toad near our door! Meet ‘Chris’!
We had a ‘who am I?’ internet research challenge to find out what species we had visiting us and some interesting facts about her/him.
We found out he was a… common tree frog! We named him Chris. Here are some of the facts we found.
Facts about Chris the common tree frog:
Full name: Chris Marf Shields
‘Ranidae’
Britain’s most common frog, also found in Europe. They are often found in garden ponds
Males grow to 9cm and females 13cm
Average weight: 22.7g
They eat algae, insects, snails, slugs and worms
They vary in colour from grey, brown, yellow and olive green. Limbs and backs have dark blotches
They breed at age of 2-3 years old
They are found in February to October
Common frogs hibernate through the winter, either at the bottom of ponds (breathing through their skin) or on land under refuges such as compost heaps
Chris did not like the noise in the playground so we carefully captured him and released him back into the wild!
'Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.' – John Muir
