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!
Habitat Heaven!
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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.
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?
Habitat Planning
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- We made these amazing minibeasts!
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- Is the grass a safe habitat for them?
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- We were very busy building safe places for our minibeasts to live!
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- We had to use our knowledge of what the minibeasts need to be safe and happy.
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- We used lots of things from the playground to help us!
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- Some people chose the paving stones as a good place for the minibeasts.
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- Some people preferred the soil and grass.
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- Wow! This is a minibeast fortress!
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- A camouflaged minibeast den!
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- Those brak chippings provide good cover.
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- Watch out Toby, that beetle seems to like you!
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- Which minibeast is this?
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- Look at this tiny shell!
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- The boys found a HUGE spider under the flower pots!
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- He moved so fast!
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- Another little beetle friend- he was very fast too!
Tellagami Update!
Tellagami Update
We used ‘Tellagami’ today to make a short animation about our caterpillars. Click the link below to see it!
Tellagami is an app we have on our iPad, we linked this to our Smartboard and all worked on the Tellagami together. We are very proud of how it turned out, what do you think?
Click this link to watch our first ever Tellagami!
