Thursday @ Stubby (part 2)

What another jam-packed day!

5D completed their Eggstreme Challenge...
  

5M had a quaking time at the Earthquake zone...

    

We both discovered a secret guest in our mammal hotels!



We were lucky enough to have an evening visit from Mrs Mann and Miss Lott too!


Can't believe we're coming home tomorrow. We've had such an amazing time but looking forward to seeing you all :)

Stubbington - Day 4 (part one)

After another delicious breakfast and room inspection (they are getting slightly better!), it was time to check our Small Animal Hotels to see if any visitors had checked in overnight.

There were promising signs in some of the hotels, with two looking as if they may have a visitor.

We carefully carried all the hotels to the classroom and hoped there would be something for us to examine.

Very quietly and carefully, we opened up the animal hotel...

We had a visitor! It was a common shrew. An amazing and quite rare find as these little creatures need to eat every couple of hours. 

Not sure if Miss D was nervous or excited...










As an insectivore it hadn't been very impressed by our seeds, apple and chocolate however it soon cheered up once we found it some delicious worms and woodlice to munch on.

The children had lots of questions about the shrew.

We were able to study the shrew to answer all our questions and we also discovered it was a female - Charlotte the Shirley Warren Shrew!!

The children had an opportunity to estimate the weight of the shrew - inside a bag for the shrew's safety!

After the session we released Charlotte the Shrew back to where we had found her - she was very happy to scurry off into the bushes.

The afternoon session was an exciting trip to Earthquake!!!  See Miss D's blog for photos. All I can say is that Mrs Mead managed to fall in...

This evening, we had the delight of the 'S Factor'! The children all performed their house song amazingly well, showing their fantastic teamwork and courage in front of an audience.  

However, there could only be one winner - I have to say the best team, Kestrels, won. Although as Kestrel Team Leader, I may be a little biased...

All in bed and snoring away.  More adventures await tomorrow before our journey home.

See you all soon.

Mrs Mills and 5M.

Stubby Day 3 - 5D focus

Another great day down here at Stubby lead 5D to the Earthquake Rescue Zone!

 
 
  

Luckily everyone made it through the rescue zone in one piece!

This afternoon, we had the challenge of learning how to use a compass - this was much trickier than it looked but by the end of the session, we could all use our compasses to navigate around the centre!

 

We've also designed, created and hidden mammal hotels around the conservation area (see 5M's blog post for pictures - Miss D was having too much fun creating her hotel... oops!). Photos to follow tomorrow when we check if we had any overnight visitors!

Once again, thank you for your comments on the blog - it's making us all feel very loved! Lots of Stubby postcards are winging their way home to you right now.

Goodnight!
Love, Year 5 x

Stubbington day 2 (5D focus)

Hi everyone at home!

Wow - we've had so much fun today. Here's a brief snapshot of what we've been up to - with more photos, just like Miss D promised! :)

After an extremely delicious cooked breakfast, we headed to our rooms to tidy up for inspection. Some room for improvement, it seems...!
  (Side note - happy birthday HL!)

Then, we were stranded on a desert island (figuratively of course!). Luckily, we used our amazing teamwork skills to build some (mainly waterproof) shelters. Quite a heavy rain storm (which may have actually been the teachers with a bucket of water...) landed though... we got a bit wet!

   


In our free time, we're loving the adventure playground! It was such a beautiful day for it too.



This afternoon, it was down to the beach for some rockpooling! We found some really cool things: anemones, mussels, cockles and Miss D, AT and AC each found a shark's tooth!

 

All tucked up now ready for another good night's sleep and another busy day tomorrow!
Thank you for all your comments on the blog - we've loved reading them :)
Love, Year 5 x

Year 5 hit Stubbington!

We've had such a jam-packed first day at Stubby! So busy, in fact, we only have a few photos (partly due to a technical difficulty) - but we promise we're having lots of fun (and will take lots more photos tomorrow!).

Luckily, the rain held off for most of the day and we only got a little bit wet on our seaside walk. We did find lots of shells on the beach! We're going back down there tomorrow to build the world's best sandcastles..!

We've explored our indoor bases too...

   

...before learning lots about all the animals we might see this week! (Here's a sneak peek of some badgers the girls spotted tonight!)


We're all settled down in bed now safe and sound, looking forward to our cooked breakfasts tomorrow!
 

(More photos tomorrow - Miss Dickinson promises!)

Love Year 5 x