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Me, Daddy, ella and Dobby out for a picnic

This week’s Nature Detective challenge was to go for a picnic.

It rained all week, so yesterday we decided to go anyway!

We went to the stream and found a great big tree to sit under. We stayed nice and dry while everything else got wet. We think it was an elm tree because Mummy bought her book with her that tells us all about trees.

I wrote my picnic menu.

It was starter: salmon fish cakes

main course: cheese sandwich with fresh tomatoes, cucumber and pepper

pudding: jam tart, which I made myself

Drink: smoothie from mango and passionfruit.

After that I wrote a cd template of sounds I could hear and we made them into two lists of man made and natural sounds.

Natural sounds

• stream
• breathing
• birds - especially robins
• squirrel rustling the leaves
• rain
• voices
• sheep

Man made sounds

• cars
• tractor
• aeroplane
• helicopter

We heard lots more natural sounds than manmade ones and I think that is because we were in the country side. If we had been in the town I think we would have heard more manmade noises.

I made a placemat with all the things I saw on my walk to the picnic.

They were

• spider
• butterfly
• squirrel
• beetle
• wasp
• ant
• bird
• fly
• rain clouds

Even though it was a bit cold for a picnic I enjoyed it and Ella and Dobby came too!