Butterflies, Flutterblies

Have you ever really paid attention to the most elegant creature in the world, The Butterfly? Well that's alright because this is my report on the Butterfly.

The Butterfly flaps it's wings up and down side to side. They have a strong muscle in their thorax for power. The Fast Flying Skippers can fly up to 30 miles per hour or faster. Slow flying butterflies fly up to 5 miles per hour or a little more. The Monarch Butterfly flies very far every year during it's annual migration.

Butterflies don't eat but they drink nectar and sip from small puddles. They also drink wet raindrops on leaves and plants. Butterflies don't necessarily sleep but they go into an inactive mode called Quiescence. In this mode they hang upside down but there eyes are always open because they don't have any eyelids.

Butterflies are all different colors but some main colors are Brown, blue, black, copper, orange, green, grey, white, yellow, red and purple. There are also many shapes and sizes.

   2 interesting facts!
The first butterfly fossils were found 40 to 50 years ago!
There are more than 20,000 species of b
   utterflies in the world!

Interesting Fact Of The Week!

Did you know that a normal housefly usually lives for at least 2 to 3 weeks.  Farewell flyer! 

 

Be Funky

Today M.s Whitwell showed us a new website called 'Be Funky' where you get a picture of yourself and customize it. We  had a turn to just mess around and have a play but then we had to get serious. Everyone in Room 2 made 4 photos and put them on publisher. We put our name on it and then Ta-da! We had our very own 'Andy Warhol' pictures.

P.S. You should check the site out. It's called Be Funky!

Andy Warhol was an American artist who had a passion of getting any photo (especially pop artists) and recreated the photo to something amazing. His art inspired a lot of people from back then to now.

Fascinating Fact Of The Week

If you don't know this, you might want to listen.

 Cows kill more people than sharks! Amazing right? About 10 humans are killed by sharks every year but nearly 100 people die each year from being stepped on by cows.

Tawa Take The Lead!

Another house challenge and Tawa won again? That can't possibly be true! Well it is, and this is there fourth victory! The house challenge was very competitive and needed a lot of good effort. Each house had to choose either a school singing song or just any song.

• Tawa chose 'The Time Warp' off the rocky horror show
• Miro chose 'Hey Baby'
• Kowhai chose 'We Will Rock You'

Every house did outstanding but Tawa had just a little bit more!

Tineisha's Birthday Party

Last Saturday it was Tineisha's 10th birthday party. It was at her house and there were a lot of people there. For presents we sat in a circle and went around giving her the present . I got her  some coloring felt tips, a coloring book and some lollies. She got so many presents from everyone else I can't even list them! She did also get an ipad, a puzzle, some perfume and cantebury pants and a purple sweat shirt. I think she is super lucky! We played some games and watched a movie called 'Bring It On' . I was very thrilled that I was invited!

Happy Birthday Tesh!

The Museum Trip

 This term we are learning about flight.Today we went to the museum and looked at all the birds feathers, bones and structure. We arrived and went in with Mrs. Beautrais to the back room. She showed us the different stands with a variety of birds. One stand had birds that can not fly, another had fast flying birds, the other had acrobatic birds, there was  also a bird bone stand. They were very interesting, so after, we did a sheet with all of the knowledge we knew . There were 7 questions that we had to answer. I worked with Tineisha and we were done pretty fast! In the end we went to the bug room and looked at all the fascinating bugs. There were butterflies, beetles, bees, and lots of other amazing bugs. The whole experience was super interesting and fun And I hope we can come again.

P.S. We handed in our family treasures booklet and they are awesome! 

Anzac Quizzes

Lately Room 2 have been learning about the Anzacs and doing some quiz's. Well now after the boring stuff, we get to make our own quizzes using the information we have learnt! The quizzes have to have 6 questions and 6 answers to be completed. Next you have to design a title and color the middle picture area. Last you laminate it and then it's ready to test! The circuit board is connected  to wires to match to the questions and answers. If you get it right the mini light bulb will light up brightly or the fan will blow vigorously.
Some are quite tricky but other's just look stunning! I thought my quiz just looked amazing and was sort of hard. I am proud of mine and hope we do some more one day.

Happy Testing!