Sounds of the Woodlands Class Poem

Sometimes we feel calm and enjoy the quiet in our woodlands so we wrote a poem about it! We went to the woodlands and we all wrote a few lines for a list poem. We shared our ideas and chose our best line to go into our class poem.

 

The wind flying past my face and creeping around my hair,

The trees going side to side as the wind blows,

Fresh air turning into a garlicy smell and crawling up my nose,

The yellow and blue flags swaying and flapping quietly in the wind,

The leaves were silently unwrapping themselves,

They slowly came down from the trees when I walked next to them,

All the white crystal snow is melting as the bright yellow sun shines on it,

The trees dance beautifully from side to side as the branches twist and turn,

The silent logs sit on the ground never making a sound,

Not a sound, not a movement from all these quiet logs,

Silent dogs behind the sharp fence,

Little woodland animals noiselessly crawling around,

Not a sound from the branches dancing in the air calmly,

The silence of a bug waking across your page,

Trees pushing their way through the ground,

Paper is decomposing quietly and glass is just waiting to cut you when you fall on it,

The trees are walking up to me like the day has began,

The cool air brushing through your hair feels so nice,

shivers going up my spine and a tree is as still as a statue,

The leaves falling onto the soggy ground very gently,

Leaves sprouting on the trees as Spring is making it’s appearance.

By Primary 5S

Pond Dipping Fun

P5S have been pond dipping between the stream near our school and the Eliburn Park to find out how clean the water is. Straight away we noticed that the water was full of rubbish and pollution like trolleys, crisp packets, bottles, cans and a frisbee. We felt sad for the animals who live there and we thought about what all that litter meant for the environment. We could see lots of algae, oil on the top of the water and lots of foam we thought might be detergent.

We investigated how the waterways become polluted by water run off from housing estates and the streets in an experiment later in the week.

We went to different parts of the water and we used a kick test to get a sample. We kicked the water and scooped all of the cloudy water into our bucket. We tried to see what creatures were living at the bottom in the mud. We also scooped from the top, middle and bottom of the water to see what was living in the different parts of the water.

We took the samples back to class and we compared them to each other to see what was inside. We found freshwater shrimp, mosquito larvae, flatworm, pond skater, freshwater boatmen, leeches and minnow fish. We also saw swan mussels. From collecting all of the samples and using our special sheet that told us what we needed to see to show the water was healthy we could prove that the water was fairly clean.