Science Microscopes

For the last couple of weeks in science we have been looking at all of the different cells in animals and plants and we have been looking at what the differences are. On Tuesday we went out to the park across the road to go look for some bugs and we also got some leafs and some other plants that we could look at under the microscope. We were over at the park for nearly the whole lesson so once we got back we had to put all of the living things into a test tube and put Ethanol in ti and then put something over the top so that they could not escape. We did not have science on Wednesday so we had to wait until Thursday to look at them under the microscope. On Thursday first we had to get a microscope and we had the choice of two different types Dissection Microscope and the  Monocular Microscope. With the Monocular Microscope we had to put the plants or the onion onto a little glass slide witch would be clipped into a peace the microscope and then you can look at it through the eye peace. But with the Dissection Microscope you just needed to sit the bug or insect onto the plate under where you look through the eye peace. When I looked at the onion through the eye peace it looked really weird because all that you could see was diamond like shapes that were all connected together. I did not have a really good look at  any of the spiders or other bugs but I did get to use the dissection microscope to have a close look at them. Below are some pictures of what some of the cells looked like.

P.E Gymnastics

This term in P.E we have been doing gymnastics, I would like to learn how to do a backwards roll and then be able to stand up. I would also like to be able to do a forward flip and land on my feet without falling over. The last two thing that I would like to be able to do before the end of the term is a forward dismount on the parallel bars and being able to side mount the beam and then jump over all of the cones.

When we first started to do gymnastics I thought that I would not really like it but after 2-3 lessons of it I started to really enjoy doing it. I have ended up being able to complete a lot of the things that I wanted to do at the start of the unit. I have completed three of my goals but I as still not able to land the forward flip without falling over and i as not able to do a backwards roll. Even though I could still not land a front flip or do a backwards roll I think that I have gotten a lot better at it then what I was at the start of the term.

Science Ecology Organisms

A couple of weeks ago in science we had to think of any animal and then draw it and what we think that there habitat would look like and also some dangers that there could be for the animal.

For this I choose a Unicorn, My Unicorn lives in the forest next to a river, trees and a big cave to keep it warm and dry if there is a storm or any bad weather. The Abiotic Factors of my Unicorns habitat has are that there is always a river going through the middle of the forest which never drys. The weather is always hot in summer and it only rains and is really cold in winter. In spring and autumn the weather is random. The biotic Factors of the habitat are the grass which is there for the Unicorn to eat and also the trees which it also eats. But there is also the other animals that could try to hunt and kill the Unicorn. Some of the things that hunt Unicorns are Big pigs, Lions and Humans or hunt them for there horns.