We thought that even though there are only two of us we would do 4 squares. We found clay, rocks and grass. We have also found ants.....

lots of ants. These ants are red-headed ants that like to BITE! Ouch!!! We have red cedar trees, fir trees, and balsam trees, big leaf maple trees...just to name a few. We have found mushrooms and orange fungus stuff We also have really big slugs, they come in yellowish green, black, brown and green ( sometimes with black spots) like the photo:

Ee think they are very cool! We found sow bugs or pill bugs (they look like little armadillos) a wasp nest, spiders...ewww says Meg! Lots of berries....salal berries, blackberries, huckleberries, blue elderberries....Although we did not find an actual deer in our squares we did find...ummm...evidence!...you know deer poop!  We also found this.....

but it was really just Luke!

We found a really great website telling everything about the temperate rain forest....stuff that we didn't even know! It is  www.scsc.k12.ar.us/2001Outwest/PacificNaturalHistory/Projects/LachowskyR/Default.htm

We decided to compare our squares to three other schools squares. We tried to pick locations that would be as different as possible from ours. We picked Cornerstone Prep. In Georgia USA, Diocesan School for Girls in New Zealand, and The Sullivan’s School in Kanagawa Japan.

This is what we found…all of the locations had ants, beetles, spiders, grass, trees, dirt and small rocks. We were the only location that reported frogs, lizards, snakes or snails.

We thought maybe the reason we found more living things other than insects was because most locations were school yards and these kind of animals don’t usually live open places like school yards and we did our squares in our own yard. Although it seems that Insects can be found anywhere.

We have learned that there are some things that can be found everywhere, like grass and trees and some things that can be found only in certain places on the earth, like big rocks and fungus.