Nature Club
BioBlitz Nature Club
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Nature Club – December 2016 – Artists at work
Little tomatoes, mangoes, squashes, holly berries sat on the table in a colourful heap. We tried really hard to paint and draw these fruits and seeds with pastels and paints. Luckily local artist Anita McCullough was there to give us a helping hand and we painted some great pictures to take home and frame. So …
Nature Club – November 2016 – A Rainy Day
Today it rained ALL morning. We made a giant spider’s web with Charlotte in the middle. Then we made leaf art : we rubbed the undersides of dried leaves ( the veins show more on the undersides) to make beautiful leaf skeleton pictures. Then we played Big Bingo. Menuo was a very good caller and …
Nature Club – October 2016 – Autumn Leaves
What a surprise present today: Ruduo and Menuo brought in the dried up body of a large dead hedgehog! We had a good look at its little feet and its skeleton and spines. Then we had a rather damp walk across the Flats to see if we could spot any skylarks and collected lots of …
Nature Club – September 2016 – Pond dip and Bird Song
A lovely warm day again. We listened to some recorded bird songs we were likely to hear around Jubilee Pond like coot and mallard and were pretty good at guessing which was which. We found guessing the swan’s song quite difficult! Then we went pond dipping and found a lovely fat leech, lots of waterboatmen …
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Nature Club – August 2016 – Grass Art and Grasshoppers
What do you do on a warm dry August morning? You go hunting minibeasts in the long dry grass! We looked especially for crickets and grasshoppers, the Olympic champion jumpers of the insect world. If they were the same size as us they could jump a whole football pitch in three jumps- that’s about 30 …
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Nature Club – July 2016 – Woodlice and other minibeasts
Did you know that a woodlouse has 14 legs? And that we used to swallow them live to cure a tummy ache? That’s why some people call them pill bugs. We did an experiment to find out where they prefer to make their home and found out that they prefer being in the dark and …
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Nature Club – June 2016 – Earthworm Watch and Minibeast Hunt
More Citizen Science for our young scientists! We took part in a national survey of earthworms called Earthworm Watch by looking at earthworms on Wanstead Flats and seeing what kind of soil we have. We dug a hole in a recently cleared patch of earth where some tree had been cut down. It was very …
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