Habitat Planning

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: We made these amazing minibeasts!

: Is the grass a safe habitat for them?

: We were very busy building safe places for our minibeasts to live!

: We had to use our knowledge of what the minibeasts need to be safe and happy.

: We used lots of things from the playground to help us!

: Some people chose the paving stones as a good place for the minibeasts.

: Some people preferred the soil and grass.

: Wow! This is a minibeast fortress!

: A camouflaged minibeast den!

: Those brak chippings provide good cover.

: Watch out Toby, that beetle seems to like you!

: Which minibeast is this?

: Look at this tiny shell!

: The boys found a HUGE spider under the flower pots!

: He moved so fast!

: Another little beetle friend- he was very fast too!

Tellagami Update!

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Click the link below to see our latest Tellagami:

https://tellagami.com/gami/2GS9NW/

Bee-ware, Bees About!

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This driver in Poland got more than he bargained for this week when a swarm of bees took a liking to the front of his car! Queen Bees lead the swarm to a new place. Why do you think the Queen Bee led the swarm here?!

It’s Bee and Ladybird Week!

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Listen to ‘Flight of the Bumblebee’ by Rimsky-Korsakov.

Does the music make you think of a buzzing bee, dashing between the flowers?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/stories/melody-the-lost-bee

And here’s the ladybird video we watched in class today. Can you remember what we learned about ladybird habitats?:

Look What I Did At Home!

Favourites!

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What part of our Minibeast topic have you enjoyed best so far?

What’s Next?

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Which minibeast are we studying in class next week?

Can you guess from these clues?

This minibeast starts life as hairy, smooth or spiky. It is often brightly coloured or camouflaged to scare off or trick predators!
This minibeast changes completely during its lifecycle. This change is called metamorphosis.
There are almost 20,000 different types of this minibeast.
Once grown, this minibeast sucks up its food through a curly tube called a proboscis.
We will be looking closely at the ‘Painted Lady’ variety of this minibeast.
Here’s a close up of this minibeast at an early stage of its life cycle, do you recognise it?!

Post a reply to tell me what minibeast you think it will be!

Tellagami Update

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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!

Our Tellagami Video

Minibeast Managers

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Think you are an expert on mini beast habitats? Try this cool game and test yourself! You have to choose habitats and then select the best habitat for each mini beast- if the mini beast doesn’t like where you put it you will see it quickly move out to somewhere it likes better! Click the link below to get started:

http://www.iboard.co.uk/iwb/Minibeasts-Habitat-Manager-48

PS- this game isn’t tablet friendly, so try it on your PC or laptop! Thanks to Will’s mum for bringing this to my attention!

Bug Hunters!

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We went on a minibeast hunt last night! We found a spider in his web. He made his web under a brick. We saw a slater in the web- he was going to get eaten! We decided to save his life! We got a brush and a jar and we gently swept him in. We were really careful not to damage the web. Sorry you didn’t get any dinner, Mr. Spider!

By Lyall and Paddy