In the Autumn weblog

Message posted by Sebastian Swan
Hi there. I hope you liked reading my Autumn book. What signs of Autumn can you find? E-mail me to let me know. Love Sebastian Swan.

Message posted Monday 14th November 2011 by Stukely Meadows School
Dear Sebastian
We went for a walk and we picked some wet leaves - they were yellow, red, purple and green. They were star shapes, long and pointy and  some were big and some were small. we even saw some mushrooms just like you !
how many friends have you got, Sebastian?
Have you got a garden?
love from Reception Class Stukeley Meadows School

Message posted Monday 14th November 2011 by Gerrans School
Dear Sebastian, We loved your book about Autumn.
We know it's Autumn here in Cornwall beacuse of the things we can see and hear and feel and taste and smell.
Grace said " I know it's autumn because I can see the trees that have no leaves."
Zante said " I know it's autumn because the corn has turned yellow."
Harvey said " I know it's autumn because my mum dug up the potatoes in my garden."
Ciara said " I know it's autumn because I can see lots of blackberries in the hedgerow. My nanny makes blackberry pie and I like it."
George said " I know it's autumn because I can see lots of leaves falling off the trees and they are brown and crunchy." 
Jago said "I know it's autumn because I saw a pumpin growing and blackberries too."
Sky said " I know it's autumn because we bought a pumpkin and we made pupmkin pie."
Ella said " I know it's autumn because I saw a squirrel and he was collecting nuts." We have seen lots of signs of autumn. We are looking forward to reading more of your stories.
Love from Gerrans School

Message posted Friday 21st October 2011 by Sellindge Primary School
To Sebastian Swan
I love your books. Otters went on a Autumn walk and found beautiful leaves.
Love Charlotte and Logan.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.

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Message posted Friday 21st October 2011 by Sacred Heart Primary School
Dear Sebastian,
This morning Primary One/ Two went on an Autumn walk in our school. We saw lots of signs of autumn. We saw red and green apples on our apple tree; we saw red, green, brown and orange leaves. We saw a big spider web and we also saw red berries in a bush. We had great fun on our walk! Love from Primary One/Two at Sacred Heart Primary in Grangemouth x

Message posted Friday 21st October 2011 by Maple Elementary
Dear Sebastian,
We loved your book.  We love to see the leaves change color, and we love to jump in big piles of leaves. We have been having beautiful weather and hope that it stays a nice fall.
Maple Elementary Chardon, Ohio   USA

Message posted Wednesday 28th September 2011 by St Mary's School
We saw some yellow autumn leaves in our school garden. In the jaggy thistles we saw some special fairy seeds that will fly away and make new plants. We saw some red and black berries on the bush. We saw some spider webs and a ladybird. From P1M at St Mary's Primary school Bo'ness, Scotland

Message posted Wednesday 28th September 2011 by Middleton School
Dear Sebastian Swan,
We all enjoyed your story called 'In the Autumn,' especially the part about mushrooms. We found out many interestings things.
Thank you Sebastian Swan. Puffins Class

Message posted Wednesday 28th September 2011 by Ashfield School
Hi sebastian:
We went on a detective seasonal walk. We saw lots of leaves had fallen from the trees and they were a different colour. we drew some leaves and trees. Our class topic is seasons. we have a lavendar tree and we smelt the lavendar. It was a windy day and so the branches on the trees were shaking.we pretended to be detectives and look for clues for autumn. We really enjoyed our seasonal walk and used our senses to explore the area. 
from class RA

Message posted Tuesday 19th October 2010 by St Marys Primary School in Welton
We really loved your ebook. We used it to help us learn all about the signs of autumn. We went on an autumn walk around our school and we found most of the things you talk about in your book except the woodmouse. thrush and hedgehog but we think they probably come out when we have gone home and it is really quiet.
Thank you Love from All the children in RS

Message posted Tuesday 19th October 2010 by Stoner Prep School
Hello Sebastian Swan We are the Reception class at Stonar prep school in Wiltshire. We liked your story about the Autumn. We have a forest school here and we have seen mushrooms, squirrels and we like looking for animals down the holes.
Goodbye Reception X J

Message posted Tuesday 19th October 2010
Dear Sebastian We have seen pumpkins in Tescos, the leaves are brown and green and purple and orange. We have noticed the weather is getting colder because it's windy and raining. Are you a Daddy yet? love from class 2 (Reception)

Message posted Tuesday 19th October 2010
Dear Sebastian Swan. We have really enjoyed reading your book about Autumn. We've been on an autumn walk too! We saw lots of leaves - they were green, orange, yellow red, brown and black. We saw lots and lots of red berries on the trees. We saw some huge mushrooms on the grass outside and in Wear Class garden. Good bye Liam, codey, reece, ben, aston, anna, ebony and liam

Message posted Tuesday 19th October 2010 by Bryn Nursery School
Dear Sebastian Swan,we are the children from Bryn Nursery, Llanelli 
and we enjoyed your Autumn story. We are going to the park  soon to 
see the Autumn trees .Love from Bryn Nursery.

Message posted Monday 9th November 2009 by Folly Hill School
Dear Sebastian,
We really enjoyed reading your book "In the Autumn". Afterwards, we decided to go out into the school garden and look for signs of seasonal change.
Here is our writing.We have tried to make it as descriptive as possible by choosing our words very carefully.We hope you enjoy reading it!
Love from
MOONBEAM CLASS
FOLLY HILL SCHOOL
FARNHAM
SURREY

In the Autumn, the red and yellow leaves gently flutter down form the trees like beautiful butterflies. Sleepy hedgehogs make their comfortable beds with the fallen leaves. Now the bare trees look twisty, spooky and angry against the dark grey sky.We saw a birds nest high up in the tree tops that we had not been able to see before. Nuts and bright berries ripen and are picked by hungry animals to store over the winter. Droopy flowers are slowly dying.The rain pours down outside and deep down in the ground, earthworms digest the leaves. We all like the Autumn because it is colourful and beautiful.

Message posted Friday 30th October 2009 by Northgate Primary School,
Thank you for your lovely book. We have been on an autumn walk near our school.
We saw some conkers coming out of their spiky shells. We saw lots of different
coloured leaves. We found lots of different shaped twigs. We are sending you
some pictures. We have also made up some Autumn poems.
Summer time is over
Autumn time is here
See the prickly conkers
Hear the leaves rustling
Autumn has arrived!

Days are getting shorter
Autumn time is here
See the red ripe berries
Look at the leaves changing colours
Autumn has arrived!
Have a happy autumn! From Reception 2, Northgate Primary School, Bishops Stortford

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Message posted Friday 30th October 2009 by Brooklands Primary School
Dear Sebastian Swan, We liked your story about Autumn. We have spotted some signs of Autumn. We saw leaves changing colours on the trees and falling to the ground. The leaves were yellow, green, red and orange. We made some leaf rubbings! We saw some mushrooms and some conkers. We like orange pumpkins! Love from Reception Class E, Brooklands Primary School

Message posted Monday 28th September 2009 by West Malling Primary School
Dear sebastian swan, This is our Autumn story.
“The apples fall from the tree,
Our apples are green.
We can see seeds.
The leaves go different colours
Then fall, mr shield cleans them up!”  thank you Ailish, Mitchell and Mathew
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Message posted Monday 28th September 2009 by Wick Primary School
We are Primary 2 and we live in the north of Scotland.  We loved the book In the Autumn.  We have noticed that the leaves on the trees are changing colour.  There are lots of berries on some of the trees around our playground.  When we were out looking at plants and seeds growing we noticed that lots of berries were on the ground.  We collected some of them. We left lots for the birds to eat.
Primary 2

Message posted Monday 28th September 2009 by Elton School
Dear Sebastian Swan We went for an Autumn walk and we found lots of things.  We found leaves, beans, feathers, berries, sticks and conkers. from Haylock class, Elton School

Message posted Wednesday 26th November 2008 by Academy Primary School
Dear Sebastian,
We went on an Autumn walk and found lots of Conkers and saw berries and Pinecones. We found an oak tree but it didn't have any acorns. We think maybe the squirrels have eaten them!
We loved your book. It helped us to learn a lot about Autumn.  We didn't know the millipedes ate mushrooms. We really loved hearing the hedgehog snoring.
A sick hedgehog came into our school grounds last week we called the Hedgehog Rescue Centre they are looking after it now.
Lots of Love from,Academy Primary School ,Saintfield, Co Down

Message posted Wednesday 26th November 2008 by Longside Primary School
Dear Sebastian Swan
We read your story today and we thought it was great. We have been
looking for signs of autumn around our school and found lots of autumn
leaves. Most of the leaves came from sycamore trees and beech trees.
We have made a forest in our classroom and our special fairy Onion
lives there. He has been helping us to learn about woodland animals and
what happens to them in the autumn.
We can't wait to read more of your stories.
from P1/2
Longside Primary Aberdeenshire Scotland

Message posted Thursday 20th November 2008 by Birchington Primary School
Dear Sebastian Swan
On our walk we saw lots of different coloured leaves- golden, green, red, yellow, brown, orange and white. We saw some mushrooms. We did some bark rubbings. We saw some berries and they were red. When we went for a walk we saw some acorns. We saw some pumpkins. I saw some flowers. We collected some different leaves.
From RJ at Birchington Primary School

Message posted Thursday 20th November 2008 by Folly Hill Infant School, Farnham, Surrey
Dear Sebastian,
We enjoyed reading your book about the Autumn and have sent some of our work for you to see,
Love from Moonbeam Class, Folly Hill Infant School, Farnham, Surrey

AUTUMN
In the Autumn the days get shorter and the nights get longer. Lots and lots of leaves fall. On the 5th November it is Bonfire Night. I LOVE BONFIRE NIGHT! Squirrels collect nuts. They eat some and store some.Birds collect berries.
It gets colder so get wrapped up because ITS AUTUMN!
by Connie

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Message posted Monday 27th October 2008 by St Gregory and St Patrick's Catholic Community School
Dear Sebastian Swan,
We read your story 'In the Autumn' and we really enjoyed it.
We then wrote some sentences about autumn. Here are some of our sentences:
Autumn leaves fall from trees. (Susie, Lia)
In the Autumn the leaves change orange and red and brown and crunchy. (Asha)
At Autumn leaves go brown, At Autumn leaves fall down. (Ossia)
In Autumn the leaves fall off the trees. (Jed, Evie)
The conkers fall off the tree. (Finlay, Benjamin)
When you stand on leaves they crunch. (Cora)
In the Autumn leaves fall from the trees. (Molly)
I like conkers. (Luke, Macey, Jack, Emily)
Conkers are prickely. (Adam)
I like bonfire night. (Emily, Lara)
The leaves are red. (Josh)
The leaves are yellow. (Olivia)
The leaves are crunchy. (Corey, Kieran)
Thank you, Class 7 St Gregory and St Patrick's Catholic Community School

Message posted Thursday 23rd October 2008 by Sellindge Primary School
Hi Sebastian Swan
I hope your o.k. We are finding lots of acorns on the field.
We are reading lots of yore books. We are finding lots of spider webs.
We are finding lots of leaves falling of trees when we walk to school.
We are finding lots of conkers.
Love Eleanor and Coral.
xxx
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Message posted Thursday 23rd October 2008 by Durham Trinity School
Dear Sebastian Swan
Thank you for your story An Autumn walk. We liked the story.
We have been on an autumn walk too. We found pine cones and acorns. We
found red, yellow, green. orange and brown leaves. We saw some birds. We
found lots and lots amd lots of hard, smooth, shiny, brown conkers.
from jay, max, kimberley, matthew, barry, ryan m, ryan h, daniel b,
daniel c.
Coquet Class, Durham Trinity School.

Message posted Wednesay 15th October 2008 by Westoe Crown School
Dear Sebastian,
When we went to our park we saw lots of leaves. They were brown, red,
green , orange and yellow. They were lying on the ground and they were
very crunchy. We picked some up and brought them back to school. We loved
running in the leaves! In our park there was a horse chestnut tree and we
found some conkers and the shells. The conkers were hard, shiny and brown.
Beside the tree there was a huge cobweb!
Next time we go to the park we hope we see you there Sebastian!
Lots of love from the girls and boys in R1 at Westoe Crown School xxx

Message posted Wednesay 8th October 2008 by Samuel Lucas School.
Dear Sebastian Swan
I hope You had a lovely holiday.
We liked the pictures in your book.
We thought all the information was really interesting and we leaned
alot. Thank you very much
Love from Y1/2 BG

Dear Sebastian Swan,
I love your book about the Autmn.It was fantastic. Thank you for
letting us read your book.

Message posted Monday 19th November 2007 by Southborough Primary School, Kent.
Dear Sebastian Swan, The leaves are brown and red and yellow. We saw a dead flower and berries on a bush. There were lots of leaves on the path outside. We saw some acorns. Love from Molly.

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Message posted Monday 19th November 2007 by Folly Hill School
Dear Sebastian,
we really enjoyed reading your book 'In the Autumn'. We have been looking around our school for signs of seasonal change. We hope you enjoy reading our letters,
love from
Moonbeam Class, Folly Hill School, Surrey

Message posted Monday 19th November 2007 by St.Marys Primary School, Kent.
Hi Sebastian Swan
We have read your story about Autumn, we enjoyed it. The leaves are going all different colours in our school grounds. There are lots of leaves on the ground. The ducks have left our school pond to go looking for bread. Jack has seen a hedgehog going through the leaves. Joe has seen a squirrel up in the trees looking for nuts.
Please can you e-mail us back. Thank you. From Y3 SM-W

Message posted Monday 19th November 2007 by Newton-le-Willows Primary School
Hi Sebastian! Thank you for letting us have a look at your lovely Autumn book - we really liked it! We have seen conkers on the ground, we have seen bare trees, brown leaves on the floor, we have seen some acorns, we have seen squirrels and pumpkins.
We can't wait to read another book of yours.
Love from
Y2 @ Newton-le-Willows Primary School

Message posted Monday 19th November 2007 by Oxgangs Primary School.
Leaves  are  changing  colours  and  conkers are  falling on the ground.
From  Joseph  and  Orla.

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Message posted Monday 19th November 2007 by Bower Grove School .
Dear Sebastian, We read your book about the Autumn.  We went out to look at the Autumn leaves in our playground and on the grass.  Some of the leaves were still green but some were falling down from the trees.  This was because the tree was sucking all the energy out of the leaves to store in the trunk and the branches.  The leaves turned brown, yellow, orange and red.  We made leaf pictures and took some photos! Love from Group 3H

Message posted Monday 19th November 2007 by St. Jospeh Primary School
In our autumn walk we found mushrooms, acorns, berries, pine cones, brown / red / yellow / green and orange leaves. We made hedgehogs in school. Thank you for your wonderful story about autumn.
From Primary One.

Message posted Monday 19th November 2007 by Heronswood Primary School, Kidderminster
Dear Sebastian Swan, We have been thinking a lot about autumn in our class. Leaves can be green, orange, red, brown and yellow in the autumn. Some are purple, too! In the autumn it is colder – we need to put on our coats at playtime. We have seen lots of berries like in your book – red, black and orange ones. Today is a foggy autumn day. Love from Class LH OJ - Heronswood Primary School, Kidderminster.

Message posted Monday 19th November 2007 by Rolvenden Primary School
Hi Sebastian, What are you doing today? We have been looking at your website and wanted to tell you another way to say hello. In Turkish, they say "Mahaba" (we hope we've spelt it properly for you).

Also, we wanted to tell you about the signs of autumn we've seen: Albert saw trees that were blustering in the wind. Oliver saw the acorns falling down and some sweet chestnuts. Josh saw leaves on the floor. India saw brown leaves hanging down off the tree. Tamsin saw orange leaves. Scarlett saw that the trees are starting to lose their leaves. Mrs. Thomas has seen hedgehogs. Emma saw green leaves turning
yellow. Ruby saw lots of different coloured leaves. Kit has seen squirrels and Ryan saw conkers falling from the horse chestnut tree. We hope you like our observations. 

From everyone in Horse Chestnut Class, Rolvenden Primary School
We look forward to getting an email back from you when you're not too busy writing books. 

Message posted Monday 19th November 2007 by Danbury Park School, Essex.
Dear Sebastian, We went on an Autumn walk in the country park.  We saw acorns, conkers, red berries and lots of different coloured leaves.  We picked blackberries on our walk.  Tomorrow we are going to make blackberry jam with them!
Love from Class J at Danbury Park School, Essex.

Message posted Monday 27th November 2006 by Durham Trinity School
Dear Sebastian,
We liked reading your autumn book. We have been on lots of Autumn walks. We saw yellow leaves, orange leaves, red leaves and brown leaves. Some of the leaves had fallen onto the ground and some of them were still on the trees. We saw some geese flying away to a warm country. Good-bye from liam t, rebecca, liam a, kyle, liam c, liam r, scott, kimberly and nathan. (Coquet class from Durham Trinity School)

Message posted Friday 17th November 2006 by Scout Road Primary School
We have noticed the leaves falling from the trees and seen the pretty colours. We love the sight of Autumn! Hibernatin animals gather food and rustle about under the leaves, rustle rustle!! 
Love from Scout Road Primary School,Year 1, 2  and Reception!
P.S also Love from the helpers at Conservation club which are: Lydia, Rachel, Grace, Bryony and Colette!
P.P.S We read your website it was fantastic! Bye for now! x-x-x

Message posted Friday 17th November 2006 by Longmeadow Primary School, Shropshire
Dear Sebastian Swan,
We have seen berries on a tree.  We followed the footprints. 
We made a list of autumn things: 
acorns
mushrooms
orange leaves
red leaves
leaves falling off trees
from YR1L

Message posted Tuesday 7th November 2006 by Albert Village School, Leics
To Sebastian Swan
We have been on an Autumn walk around Albert Village. On our walk we saw lots of different coloured leaves, beeries on the trees, mushrooms and fungus. We felt the wind on our faces and had lots of fun
love Class 1

Message posted Monday 30th October 2006by Bracebridge Infant and Nursery School
Dear Sebastian Swan,
We went on an autumn walk and we saw lots of conkers and some squirrels who were finding some nuts to bury. We love your book about autumn.
From Burrows group

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Message posted Monday 30th October 2006 by Twelve Apostles Primary School in Leigh, Wigan
Dear Sebastian,
This is class 1 at Twelve Apostles Primary School in Leigh, which is near Wigan. We have read your book about Autumn and really enjoyed it. We have been looking for signs of Autumn as well and we have seen leaves changing colour and falling off trees. Some children picked up leaves that were orange, yellow, red and brown. They felt dry and crispy. There was also red berries on bushes ready for birds to eat. We
also found acorns and conkers. We looked out for hedgehogs getting ready to sleep for the winter and squirrels collecting nuts but we didn't see any. So we are going to keep looking.
Good Bye, Love from Class 1

Message posted Wednesday 11th October 2006 by Tunbridge Wells Language Centre, Southborough School, Kent
Dear Sebastian,
We found lovely orange leaves at our school! And shiny conkers! Do you like them? From LB, Tunbridge Wells Language Centre, Southborough School, Kent.

Message posted Wednesday 11th October 2006 by St. Georges Nursery.
Dear Sebastian,
We are the children at St. Georges Nursery. We went on an autumn walk and we saw some leaves that were different colours. We also saw some acorns. We collected some leaves and acorns and took them back to Nursery so we could look at them and see what they feel like.
From Mrs. Humphries and all the children

Hello! We are the afternoon children at St. Georges Nursery. We went on an Autumn walk, we saw lots of leaves. The leaves had fallen down from the trees. They were red, yellow and orange. We put some leaves in a bag and took them back to Nursery to play with.
From Mrs. Humphries and the Nursery children.

Message posted Wednesday 11th October 2006 by Hythe Bay Primary School, Kent.
Dear Sebastian,
Thank you for your lovely book. We have learnt a lot about autumn from your book. We have seen lots of the things from your story.
We love you. Jellyfish class, Hythe Bay

Message posted Wednesday 11th October 2006 by Goudhurst and Kilndown Primary School, Kent.
Dear Sebastian Swan,
We had a lovely time on the walk. We found lots of autumn things. First we saw some reddy orangey brown mushrooms. There were quite a few! Then we saw some green and orange and yellow leaves and we looked at them under a special microscope in the classroom. We saw some red and black and orange berries, but don't eat them! The last thing we saw was three cobwebs. We love autumn!
Love from Class 1 and Mrs Plummer at Goudhurst and Kilndown Primary School, Kent.

Message posted Tuesday 10th October 2006 by Southborough Primary School, Kent.
Hello Sebastian Swan.
We have spotted lots of autumn signs. We found a red oak tree. Some leaves have turned yellow and brown. We love your autumn book.We found three mushrooms and a berry tree. We saw a tiny cobweb. We saw lots of leaves on the grass. Do you like the autumn? We love it. Love from Caitlin, Class 2K

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Message posted Friday 6th October 2006 by Peases West School, Durham
Hello Sebastian,
At Peases West School in Durham we have found lots of cobwebs in the
bushes. We have also spotted lots of leaves on the ground. They are green,
yellow, orange, brown and red just like in your story. Today is windy so
lots of leaves are falling down.
Thank you for your lovely story. Love from Class 1

Message posted Monday 2nd October 2006 by Langdale Infants School Dear Sebastian Swan, We enjoyed reading your book all about Autumn. We have been painting Autumn leaves for our classroom display. The leaves outside our window are changing colour.
Love from Class 2.