Wow Fact Competition!

What facts make you go wow! Look in information books or go on the internet with your parents to find amazing facts about minibeasts and you could win 5 gems. Choose your best wow fact and write it in the comments box below. Only write one wow fact please and remember to add you name. I'll choose the best wow fact and name the winner on Friday. Happy fact hunting!

Can You Classify?

We have been learning how to classify minibeasts. Classify means to put things into groups. We can use a tree map to help us classify. Here we see the Dragonfly group (Fah, Idea, Ong and Phupah) who made an excellent branching tree map that helped them classify nine different minibeasts correctly.

Fah's Information Book

Fah has made an excellent ant information book at home using the computer. Her book is full of interesting facts and pictures. She has also used paragraphs and different headings. Well done Fah - have three gems for such good work!

Classify Minibeasts Game

We have been learning to classify minibeasts. Here is a great game which uses a bee flying around a tree map to classify different minibeasts. Be sure to get a good look at each minibeast when deciding 'yes' and 'no'.

To play the game click here

Number bonds

In maths we have been learning about number bonds to 10, 20 and 100. Learning number bonds helps us answer maths questions.

Click here to play a game of number bonds to 20. If you get it right the mummy starts to dance! (This is a Flash game so will not work on an iPad)

The Millipede Movie

Here is a short video clip of the millipede we found on our minibeast hunt. Watch how the millipede uses its antenna to feel what's around. What do you think the millipede was doing?

Bugs in a Box

We've been making bugs in a box in our design and technology lessons with Mr Eccles. Here are some of the bugs we made!

Our Minibest Hunt

We had a fantastic minibeast hunt in the school grounds. We found some interesting and unusual minibeasts. Group A found a large hornet sitting under the branch of a tree and Group B found two very large millipedes. One was curled up in a ball and the other was coming out of a hole.

We also saw spiders, ants, butterflies, flies and snails. We saw lots and lots of eaten leaves but we could not find any of the caterpillars that had eaten the leaves.

We have been learning about the habitats of different minibeasts and we looked at lots of different habitats during our minibeast hunt.