Week 5 of the John Muir Award

Challenge 1 (nests!)
The first challenge we did this week was brilliant because it took the learning further from a week or

two ago when we found that whopping swans nest at Auchinlea. We had a go at making our first nest. We went on a stick hunt in the park and then came back to make the nest. Bruce boy linked up every puddle at the running track like a giant dot to dot.
Poor birds in the rain I've never thought about their nests getting wet before.

After we had done our nest I asked Isla to run and get a wee bird toy from the house for a photo and she brought a crocodile 😂 mibbes that would keep that pesky neighbourhood cat Coco from pooping in my vegetable patch!!

Today was busy for Challenge 2 Life Cycles and Challenge 3 which was kite making and Challenge 4 which was measuring the height of some trees in the canopy in the woods. Luckily the weather was kinder than before.

Life Cycles- we had looked at the life cycles of frogs already during the John Muir Award but decided to look at bees since they are so important to the world's ecosystem.

Then Bruce used his imagination to make up his own creature-the beepanther! 

Then we went to collect Bruce's home learning pack from school and went straight to count the size of the trees. We used the method where you use a piece of paper and use the 45 degree angle of a folded corner and make it line up with the height of the tree while a wee person stood to mark out a metre on the tree trunk

Our trees were 15m, 17m, 16m and 10m high. We collected some nice very thin sticks while we were out. Bruce stepped in pooh so hooray for responsible dog owners and daft kids. Every day's a school day! If I was rich I'd stick a flag in each one I found you know like the way Google maps puts a pin in things of interest. 

Then we came home and had a kite making session with bags for life that had less life in them and some daisies to decorate.

The kites were a hoot. It was the least windy day of the year 😂