A busy fortnight

We’ve had a busy couple of weeks in Primary 5!  On Wednesday 29^th April Lindsey Taylor from RSPB came in and helped us to do a Bioblitz around our school playground.  We counted the different types of wildlife we saw and found and recorded them on our results sheet.  We were quite amazed at how many different types of wildlife there was in our playground alone.  We are now going to work on cleaning and developing the pond area as part of our conservation topic. 

On Wednesday we donned our wellies and headed out to start cleaning the pond area.  We took most of the duck weed off the top of the water, checked for any litter and removed some of the overgrown grass from the pond too.  We made sure we placed any vegetation on the side of the pond so that any pond creatures can crawl back into the pond.  The pond is already looking much clearer and it will hopefully be ready for our tadpoles soon. 

On Thursday we had some special visitors to our classroom!  Eileen and her Dad took in her pet rabbits to show us.  They were very cute and cuddly!  We enjoyed holding them and watching them in their carry box.  It was interesting to hear about how Eileen cares for them and how much responsibility it is. We were very lucky to be part of the baby rabbits naming and were delighted to meet ‘Strawberries’ and ‘Cream’ along with ‘Waffles’!  Thank you very much to Eileen and her Dad for taking them in to let us see.