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We have been trying to save nature in different ways. At home we have been planting seeds and picking up litter. At school we have started a new nature club. It’s called the Nature Goddesses. We go into the bushes and teach the other children about different creatures and plants, with the adults helping too. Every time a new child comes, it’s like another new beautiful plant has been saved! We learn about the spectacular gifts of Mother Nature. Any time we see any plants on our wide and majestic field or in the nature area, we explore them and learn about them.
Things we have found at our nature club: garden tiger moth, common blue butterfly, a shield bug, snails, garden spiders, caterpillars, ladybirds and dragonflies, and last but not least four bumblebees. While we investigate these gifts, our minds fill with wonder! Questions float in the air yet to be answered.
Rosalind’s most interesting fact from Nature Goddesses is that spiders are not actually insects, because insects have six legs and tend to have wings, antennae and three body sections, while spiders have two body parts, eight eyes (usually), no wings or antennae, and eight legs. Beatrix’s favourite thing is the age that some trees can reach. Just a few miles away is a tree called the Bowthorpe Oak, supposed to be about 1,000 years old. It’s amazing to think of all the different people who have touched the tree throughout history.
We explore these treasures on hot, sunny days when the wind is softer than cotton and cooler than ice and the birdsong is gentle and magical. Secrets still lie while the rest is explored.
Rosalind, eight, and Beatrix, eight
