More Heavenly Habitats!
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Monthly Archives: June 2015
Habitat Heaven!
We have finished our brilliant habitats- have a look through the gallery and leave some comments to say which ones you like best and why!
Make a Superbug!
Thanks to Alec, who found this cool game! Can you make your own superbug?
http://www.mylearning.org/minibeasts/interactive/311/
Minibeast Scenes
We made these brilliant minibeast scenes with Mrs. Glass. You can see the different habitats we have learned about. We collected the things we needed from outside. Here are Joseph, Gabe and Jake’s minibeast scenes!
What’s next?! Over to you!
Since you are now all minibeast experts, Mrs. Ward has decided to let YOU decide which minibeasts we should study next week! YOU will be planning next week’s learning!  Have you got a favourite you would like to learn more about? Could you be the teacher and teach your friends about a minibeast we haven’t studied yet? Would you like to look at minibeasts from the ocean? From long ago? Really dangerous ones? Really big ones? It’s up to you!! Do you want to do group work? Paint pictures? Make some videos?
Leave a comment to tell me what you would like to learn about and how you want to learn it!
Remember this video from the start of the topic? It might give you a few ideas!
Fantastic Feedback Week!
This week we have been learning to give and receive feedback on our minibeast habitats. We had to find out what feedback is, why we need it and how it can feel to give and receive it! We have been presenting our habitats to our feedback teams and giving good quality feedback to our friends on how they could improve their habitats, based on what we know about minibeasts and what they need. Next week, we will be acting on the feedback and making some final improvements to our habitats before we bring them home!
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- We have moved our development lab inside!
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- Hamish has worked very hard to build his habitat according to his plan.
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- Well done, Hamish! Some people gave some feedback to help Hamish make his habitat even better!
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- We agreed what our feedback had to be before we started- giving an getting good feedback is an important life-long skill for us to learn!
Awesome Habitat Week!
Our habitats are now well under construction! This week we have used our notes to work out what each minibeast would need from a habitat. We went searching in the school grounds for the materials we thought we would need. Some people also brought in extra things from home. Next, we planned our habitats carefully and have started to build them using our plans. Next week, we will be looking at each other’s habitats and giving feedback on how to improve the design, using our knowledge of minibeasts and what they need from their habitats. We want our habitats to be as good as they can be! When they are finished we will be taking them home and finding a good place outside to put them. Over the summer, we will be watching closely to see who moves in! Maybe we will add some pictures to the blog so Mrs. Ward can see!
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- Sam’s habitat has something to suit all minibeasts!
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- Will’s habitat for a ladybird is coming on well!
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- James’ habitat for a beetle looks good.
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- Jacques made a habitat for all minibeasts
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- Jake’s habitat for a snail is looking good!
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- Minibeast habitat development lab!
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- We went on a search to collect our supplies, categorised them then did our plans to show how we would use the materials we’d found to make suitable habitats.
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- Hamish found a friendly slug whilst searching for bark for his habitat!
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- Macy M found an old cocoon- I wonder what lived inside?
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- Joseph spotted the aphids on these nettle stems after watching a David Attenborough documentary about ladybirds and taking careful notes.
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- We were very excited to find these eggs on a nettle leaf- we think they could be ladybird eggs!
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- Gabe found this slippery slug on this old piece of roofing.
Make a Snail Shape Poem
Have fun making a shape poem about snails! Remember to use good adjectives to describe your snail! Can you use alliteration too?
http://www.tagxedo.com/app.html
Build a Minibeast Game
From Caterpillar to Butterfly
How our little caterpillars have change over the last four weeks! Watch the video below- can you remember each stage of the butterfly’s life cycle? Soon our butterflies will lay eggs and the whole cycle will start again! The special word we learned for how the caterpillars change is metamorphosis. What other minibeasts have we studied that go through a metamorphosis?
