Delabole Slate September 2021

Termyn Gwari Fleghes
(children’s playtime, in Cornish)
It’s September already! This year seems to be passing so quickly. A new
school year is starting and hopefully you will be able to return to a more
normal school routine this year.
As I am writing this, the swifts are still here but will be leaving for the plains
of Africa very soon, to spend our winter hunting insects over the herds of
zebra. Swallows and house martins are still here but will be leaving this
month because the flies they eat are dying as the weather gets cooler. By
the end of this month we could even have frosty nights and then you will
definitely not see very many insects. Larger insects like bees and butterflies
will hibernate, only coming out to feed if we have very sunny autumn/winter
days. The weather cools as autumn starts, then fruits and berries ripen and
leaves turn yellow, red, orange and brown.
The berries we notice the most are probably blackberries because we like
them as much as the animals and birds do! Only we would most likely rather
have blackberry and apple pie than raw blackberries.
There is a word search to do this month. There are 21 words to find all of
which have an autumn theme. Remember the words can be backwards and
diagonal as well as up, down and across! I’ve given a few to start you off:
blackberry, acorns, barley, apples, colours… When you’ve found all 21 there
are 11 letters left over. Ten of these letters spell out another thing you very
often find in the autumn. Also, can you find the mystery letter that’s left over?
It begins the season name.
b r a m b l e t n p
u l h o c y a d u e
t s a c o r n s t a
t a z c n r t e c r
e p e f k e w e o b
r p l o e b h d l a
f l o g r o e s o r
l e a v e s a r u l
y s t o l l t s r e
m u s h r o o m s y