Monarch Caterpillars

In Room 8 we have 2 monarch caterpillars, we used to have 3 but one died.  A monarch caterpillar sheds its skin.  When it hatches it eats the egg shell. Butterflies fly to hot places like Mexico.  The butterfly dies after it lays its eggs.  They have to dry their wings before they can fly.  They hibernate.  Butterflies have a very long tongue to get nectar from flowers.  It is called Proboscus.  The skin falls off when the caterpillar makes a cocoon.  The caterpillars take about two weeks to turn into a butterfly.

Super Hero Pictures

Yesterday we made backgrounds for our super hero pictures by drawing clouds on our paper with white crayon.  We dyed over the top with blue dye and magically the clouds appeared.  Next weput on super hero capes and lay on the floor in our best super hero pose while Miss B took our photo's.
Today we have to make buildings for our pictures and add on our super hero photo's.

Starting School

We have been doing lots of writing.  We wrote some stories about Mr Tickle.  Mr Tickle has long arms and he is orange.  Mr Tickle gets in trouble for tickling everyone.  The people all got mad and locked him out!
We have been learning jump jam.  William's favourite so far is who let the dogs out and Dylan likes the witch doctor.
We have been playing lots of tag games.  Abby likes toilet tag the best.  Tawera likes hospital tag.
Bethany likes line tag.