The experience making this stick insect out of clay was great and I really like it and the paint I used to colour it was brown.                                                                                       
Did you know  that a stick insect can camouflage? I learned that they live in trees and I know that they are spiky and skinny. There are two different types of stick insect and they are brown and green.  I enjoyed  learning about the stick insect. We are learning about insects and I chose the brown stick insect because they are interesting. I chose the main parts of an insect, the head and then the thorax and the abdomen.                      

Once upon a time there was a giant weta who was exploring the forest of the Waipoua.  He came a across a world war two army base that had old guns that didn’t work and bones that were covered in moss.  Nails and other stuff that the giant weta knew how to use were also there.  The giant weta fixed the guns and whoever comes and starts to explore the army base they would never come back because the army base is now his home.

My favourite part of building my giant weta clay insect , was that it takes a little bit of skill but after I built the clay weta I used some colours that were very hard to make because I had to mix this and then mix that. It was very tiring and hard but I had finally built, painted and pva glued my weta.

I have learned lots of stuff while researching like weta are just giant grasshoppers and weta have there ears on there front legs.

For topics our class has been researching about insects and we made some out of clay.  We had to do a New Zealand native insect , so I did a glow worm. The 3 main body parts are the head, thorax and abdomen. The legs and head of my clay glow worm fell off so that was annoying. It turns out they aren’t as easy to make as it looks. Did you know glow worms are carnivores. .Did you know that they trap their prey with sticky silk?  They aren’t actually worms, they are mosquito’s. Most of the facts I didn’t know so it was cool learning them. I hope you like it as much as I do. It looks like this!

A soil insect is a little insect that lives in soil in the garden.
Soil insects eat root plants and other insects that are tiny.
Fun facts about soil insects are:
Sometimes they come out at night to eat roots or plants
Most soil insects are brown but they have different brown on the back.
3. Soil insects are kind of like beetle but they are not.
4. Soil insects are little arthropods that live in the soil.
5. Soil insects spend most of their time in the soil.

Soil insects are so fun to search about!!!

Soil insects have a body part like
Antenna
Eyes
Head and abdomen and some time they have wings
it was so fun search about soil insects.

This is a soil insect

Over the past week or two we have been learning about native insects I chose cicadas because I like the way they sound and they look quite cool. First I had to fill in some research about cicadas. We also had to write some fun facts so I learned that cicadas don’t like the smell of mint and vinegar.Then I had to draw a picture of a cicada and I also had to put in a real image of the chorus cicada. I didn’t know these fun facts about cicadas so it was cool to learn them. 

There is a mayfly in a magical land where there is a magical golem that can grant wishes to people that are honest like this mayfly. The golem askes God if the people are nice and God will reply and the golem gives them 1 wish each. I enjoyed making the clay mayfly because it was fun to mould the clay into the shape of a mayfly.
Did you know, when a mayfly is an adult, a male lives for 2 days and a female only lives for 5 minutes? I also learned that nymphs are very sensitive to water pollution, and mayflies are the oldest surviving winged insects on Earth, with a fossil record stretching back over 300 million years. The mayfly has wings, legs, eyes, thorax and abdomen and tail filaments with short antennae. It was fun learning about the mayfly.

In the bushy forests there lays a manuka beetle; it is different to other beetles; it only grows to 9mm tall. And it lives in New Zealand. While small, when there is prey it can just fly away. So it mainly eats roots and plants so when it flies away it eats roots and processes water from it. After eating/drinking it goes and plays in the grass, then it plays with its friends. They are having an eating contest. Whoever eats the most wins. They put the plate in front of them and he sees that there is way too much to eat so he says he does not want to do the contest and flies away he finds some moss to go to sleep on.

I liked learning about the Manuka beetle and its facts.

What is Matariki? Matariki also know as Maori New Year, is the appearance of the Pleiade star cluster in the night during the winter months. In a groups of 3 we coloured and cut out 3 of the Matariki star cluster. We had to work  together to get the colours matching so when we put it together it matched. then we glued   the stars together on a black pieces of paper and  got the Matariki star cluster.

What is Matariki? Matariki also know as the Maori New Year is the appearance of the Pleiades star cluster in the night sky during the winter months. In groups off three we coloured and cut out 3 of the Marariki star cluster. We had to work together to get the colours matching so when we put it together it matched. Then we glued  the stars together on a black piece of paper and we got Pleiades star cluster. Have you heard of Matariki?

random human facts and others

The year 5 & 6 students went to camp so we got to do a project about The Rainbow Fish Adventures. I hope you enjoy looking at my work.

Copy of Rainbow Fish Y4 (Camp)

  This is my origami fish which I made from a blue paper and my favourite part was to go back if I got it wrong and watch it work after it didn’t work

This is my SLJ project and it is a rock pool. I put in fish a starfish and a crab. I put it on my blog so you can see what I am doing. I would like it if you share with friends

I learnt what a silhouette is. I really like these silhouette. Silhouette are shadows if people but it is black.

You all know where’s Wally but can you find me? Comment how long it took you to find me! Have fun!

This is my silhouette of a humming bird. I used felts and a red piece of paper. A silhouette is a shadow and you see no colour.

I found a rock pool photo and inserted it and got a fish, starfish and a crab. I hoped you liked it.

Today I made a Tangram person. It was very fun! Her name Boblena. She likes purple and Grapes.

I enjoyed creating Boblena and hope you like her. She has blonde hair and black shorts. Welcome Boblena to the world! Do you like Boblena?