Habitats

We started the habitats topic last week by looking at different habitats within our garden and the creatures that live there. Some microhabitats included the stagnent water above, home to tiny, wriggling worm creatures. I have looked up a real name for them, but can't be sure of their id, being so tiny! There was also the usual, under a stone, under old piece of wood etc.

I read somewhere about putting a flowerpot upside down, as above, to entice small creatures in for observation. None came, so we've set up a pitfall trap, (works like a hefalump trap). There are little creatures still about. Maybe I'm going about this the wrong way!

On a walk this weekend we saw the black duck above.

Yesterday felt lazy, in an offputting way. Things got off to a very slow start. Apart from the pitfall trap, the boys did some maths, looked online at some information about mountains (project pre-reading), did some recitation and we all watched another episode of the French DVD. Actually, using the DVD like that holds their interest really well. In the middle R asked me for a banana, using the French he had just learnt!

Then, at the end of the day we went off to a party we had been told about a few hours earlier. I wasn't really in the mood to go any where, but alhamdulillah it was good to make the effort because the boys met some other boys their age and had fun with them for a couple of hours.