Writing Challenge #4

Your challenge this week is to tell me what you can see through the binoculars!  Be as creative as you want!  Is it a dinosaur? The beach? A dragon?  The stars?

Don't forget adjectives (describing words) and joining words to help add details. 

Through the binoculars I can see....

Science - Plants

We have started our Science unit which is about looking at history of plants in Christchurch and around Russley School.  Last week we went on a nature hunt around the school grounds spotting different trees.

Here are some of the plants we found around Russley School.

We discussed why plants and trees may have disappeared over the years.  We thought about animals eating leaves, people needing firewood and to build furniture, and that some areas needed to be cleared to make things like our school.


Today we drew the different leaves ourselves which we discovered on our Nature Walk.

Over the next few weeks we will look parts of plants and their functions and what they need to survive,

Butterflies!

Wintrow and Samantha have been bringing in chrysalises which they have found at home. We have found it very fascintating watching the chrysalis change from light green to dark green, and the to black. You can even see the wings through the chrysalis. Some of us were even lucky enough to see the butterfly hatch out. We know that the butterfly won't fly away straight away as its wings are wet and need to dry out.