31/8/2020 Sunny 21°C

That Stings When Mum was clearing the path, I got seven wasp stings. Later, Mum found a hole in the ground that was the wasp’s nest. I am glad Mum found the nest because we know where to avoid until winter. Elder We found some elder which has fruit that looks like blackberries except that … Read more

20/8/2020 Sunny 21°C

Grass and Sedge We saw some grass and sedge. Grasses are flat and have bumps like knees. Sedge is flat and has edges. Rhubarb We saw some rhubarb with huge, soft leaves. Herb-robert We saw some feathery-leaved herb-robert. It has pink flowers that flower from April to October. Pigeon Feathers We saw pigeon feathers scattered … Read more

7 Electrifying Things You Should Know About Benjamin Franklin

When did Benjamin Franklin Live? From 1706 to 1790. Where did Benjamin Franklin come from? America. What were his two occupations? An inventor and politician. What was Franklin’s most exciting invention? The lightning rod. How did this invention work? Lightning gets attracted to the rod and goes down it and a wire. Why has this … Read more

Lightning

Lightning is produced by electricity being pulled to something from a cloud. The electricity is made from 2 ice chunks bumping into each other. Electricity is a flow of charge. It can be a positive charge or negative charge. Here are the names of different lightning: cloud to ground, ground to cloud, intracloud, cloud to … Read more

Sugarcube Corner

Outside Its candy roof is as fluffy as pink cotton wool clouds. It has smooth brown gingerbread walls. You might hear the clattering of cakes being made. You may smell chocolate cake. Also, you may smell strawberry frosting. Inside Inside you may see the super-duper party cannon. You will see the balloons and streamers that … Read more

12/8/2020 Sunny, humid, 27°C

What’s eating our leaves? There are some leaves with holes: maybe they are being eaten by slugs, snails and caterpillars. Rock home In a rock we might have seen a web or a nose. Drone flies and buddleia We saw some drone flies drinking nectar on buddleia. Wood ferns We saw sori on the sporophyte … Read more

The Mystery of the Missing Apple

Introduction Every week, we’ve wondered who has been eating our apple cores at the woods. Last week, we solved the mystery up in Tumble. However, the one down in Cobble had gone, but our camera didn’t catch the culprit; we will try again in the future. Results The mystery animals are mice, and maybe some … Read more

4/8/2020, Rainy, 16°C

There were loads of mushrooms. There were some sulphur tufts. We saw Hydnum repandum. Today, we found some stump puffballs. There were also some berries belonging to lords and ladies. The berries are poisonous. There were berry-like arils on the yew tree. There were two types of poo. There were loads feathers.

Compasses

What do compasses do? The red part tells you where north is and the white part tells you were south is. How do compasses work? Inside there is a magnet. The red part is the north pole of the magnet which is attracted to the north. The white bit is the south pole and it’s … Read more

Persuasive Writing

Twilight Sparkle is the best pony to be the Princess of Friendship Who is Twilight Sparkle? Explain who Twilight is and state your opinion. Twilight is a unicorn character in My little Pony, and her talent is magic. Twilight has a right to be the Princess of Friendship. Friendship Elements Think of a reason why … Read more