Spiders by James

Spiders

They live in a web or underwater or underground

They eat insects.

They are black, and they have blue blood.

Some spin webs.

And some people don’t like spiders

The head and chest are called cephalothorax.

The 8 legs come out of the cephalothorax.

By James L

Shardia's 'make a sentence' poem!

Michelle's spider diagram

Walt draw and label a spider so we can learn the names of the body parts.

Melissa's spider diagram

Art - Sketching Bugs

We learned about using a sketching pencil. We learned the names of the bugs and we learnt about symmetry. Bug Sketches on PhotoPeach

Jackson Bs bronze beetle

Jackson B talking about his bronze beetle sketch

The Monarch Butterfly

The monarch butterfly is colourful and it is a small insect.

 The butterfly lives in USA Mexico NZ it goes to a warm place in winter. It lays eggs on a swan plant.         

The monarch butter looks very beautiful with orange and black wings and white dots.

The butterfly eats nectar from flowers and sometimes eats rotten bananas and different kinds of fruit.

The monarch butterfly is poisonous. It pupates into a chrysalis that’s going to hatch.

They are the most beautiful butterfly you would have ever seen.

By Alix

The amazing Monarch butterfly 

The monarch butterfly has a little circle thing on top on top of its antenna.  They are orange and black.  It has a thorax which is its middle body part.

It sucks the nectar from the flower.  They eat nectar and suck the out of the flowers with its proboscis which is a tongue like a straw.

They lay eggs on a swan plant.  Males have to dots on their bottom wings and females don’t.  Monarch butterflies use their feet to taste.

The monarch butterflies live in Australia New Zealand America and Mexico.  They live near a place that is warm.  Monarch butterflies live for 6 months or more if they were born in autumn.

It is fun to learn about butterflies.

Butterflies are so cool and awesome.

By  Waima

Monarch Butterflies

Monarch butterflies are a bright coloured butterfly and they are an insect that has orange wing with black and white dots.

Monarch butterflies live in New Zealand and in winter they leave to go somewhere warm. A butterfly has big bright wings and they have white dots on their bodies.

Monarch butterflies have a big curly tongue called a proboscis to eat with. It can taste with its feet. It eats nectar and the baby caterpillars eat swan plants.

  Monarch butterflies are poisonous .Lavae means two or more caterpillars. Lava means one caterpillar.

They are interesting insects.

By Nicole

Holly and Kirsten's Time Measurement

Holly and Kirsten share their learning :)

Butterfly art

Some of our best artists made this mural - Kirsten, Tauryn, Michelle and Nicole.

The monarch butterflies hatched

A butterfly hatched today outside our classroom:D

narrated by. Emily.h and filmed by Michelle.c :o

Newspaper

Brianna's life cycle

Thanks for our iPod touch!

We are going to take care of our iPod touch. We are going to learn to take videos and photos.

A life cycle of butterflies and caterpillars

First the butterfly comes and lays the egg under the leaf and when the egg is to ready hatch it turns into a caterpillar.

When the caterpillar is born it only eats a little bit it gets fatter and fatter and then it turns into a butterfly they have to dry their wings.

You have to look after it until it can fly away and be free, and then it will turn into a chrysalis.  

By Brianna

The Life Cycle of a Butterfly

The transformation of caterpillars to butterflies.

The butterfly comes and lays the eggs.   When the eggs is ready to hatch it will go from white to brown.  When the caterpillars hatches it is microscopic because the egg is so small

When the caterpillar is a bit older it eats and that’s when it gets bigger and bigger and bigger. When the caterpillar is fully grown and tired it goes and hangs up side down and turns into a chrysalis.

 In about 3 days it will turn into a butterfly.  When the butterfly comes out it is a bit scrunched up but when it dries out it is beautiful.

 By Natasha

Slaves in Roman Times

Slaves in Roman.

Once upon a time there lived a king.

He was very rich! But one day, one of the slaves escaped a month later. His name was Androcles. It was a cold and dark night! Androcles had to hide. On a Saturday he was found in a cave. Later on that day he new what he would suffer. Nor did any of the knights know that Androcles had a lion friend and would not kill him because Androcles pulled a thorn out of the lions foot at the cave! The king called for the knights to bring in the chosen lion. Androcles stood very still waiting for the lion to attack but it didn’t. Androcles was so confused then he realized that it was his old pal from the cave! Then the king said “I will now announce that this lion will stay with Androcles and is not my slave any more & will be a prince!” The crowd goes wild. And they all lived happily ever after! And for the king well he became a much nicer king. The lion got named  : Melborn. The end.  

By Lexie

The life cycle of a caterpillar

First the butterfly lays the egg.

The egg is white but it turns brown when it’s ready to hatch.

Next the caterpillar is so tiny that if you were drawing a caterpillar you would have to use a magnifying glass to even see the details in it and the true colour of it.

There are lots of different kinds of caterpillars such the white butterfly caterpillar that eats cabbage and the monarch caterpillar.

Before the caterpillar turns in to a chrysalis it eats lots.

Then when it’s big enough it will hang upside down and soon evolve into a chrysalis.

When the butterfly emerges from the chrysalis its wings are all wet and yucky.

It takes an hour for its wing to dry.

There all kinds of different butterflies.   

By Waima

Our chrysalis hatched!

The Butterfly Emerges from the Chrysalis on PhotoPeach