Warren the Entomologist

We had a great time with Warren Chinn, an Entomologist. He came in and talked about spiders and answered our questions. He even brought in a (very) grumpy weka for us to look at!

spider

Spiders vomate on their food when their food is wrapped in their web.

amazing spider facts

Spiders vomit on their food before they eat it. Spiders live in different places, like in the garden

spiders

spidir live in differentplacces and some live under water and they can still breath.

Jumping spiders

Spiders can jump.

spiders

spids eat bird.

(Spiders eat birds.)

Spiders

I did not no that the spiders kiel the bug.

(I did not know that spiders kill the bugs.)

Spiders

spiders vomit on flies before they eat it.

the spiders

We lint that spiders vonet thiy food.

(I learnt that spiders vomit on their food)

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spiders can grow more legs back.

spider

spiders have fangs on head.

spiders

i lot that spiders  vomit on their food

i learnt that spiders grow their legs back

What i learnt about spiders

I learned htat spids kan grow nuw Ligs

(I learnt that spiders can grow new legs)

spiders

Sbidis vomit on there food be for they eat it.

(Spiders vomit on their food before they eat it)

Millie and Bellas work

spiders ets little ladibaz and fly

(Spiders eat little ladybugs and flies)

Spiders

they  vome  on the insect be  fom   they etn

(They vomit on the insect before they eat it.)

Spiders

I learnt that spiders eat flies. Why do spiders have 8 legs?

Spiders

Spidir can grow liges wen thay thal of grow back.

(Spiders can grow legs when they fall of and then they grow back.)

Spiders

Spider vomit on there food.
Some spiders can bite you.

SPIDERS

i lotere spiders vomit on fliyes d fol they ett the fliye

(I learned spiders vomit on flies before they eat the fly.)

Mac's weekend with Q

I was so happy when Q came to my house. I liked Q at my house. We did things together. I went to Macleans Is bike track with Q. At home we made pillow huts. Q jumped on my trampoline and climed in my tree hut. Good bye Q till next time.

Ben's Weekend with Q

Q came home with Ben on Friday night. They had a play and tea together then were off to bed.

On Saturday morning we all headed off to soccer. Q loved watching the game which the boys won 5-1. Ben, Harry and William all had a great game. When we got home Q had a play on the trampoline, and a game of snakes and ladders with Ben and Libby.

On Sunday Q came with us to visit a friend who had a new kitten. Q had a great play with Lote the kitten. Then we headed off to the beach for a play around the rocks and in the sand. Q felt quite at home out in the cold weather and near the sea. He didn't want to leave. Ben, Libby and Q had a quick nap in the car on the way home as it had been a busy weekend. Q and Ben finished the weekend watching Wild Vet on tv which had some of Q's cousin penguins on.

Thanks Q for visiting our house this weekend.

Space Day

Space Day
Today we had our space day. It was an amazing way to finish our Inquiry on Space. We learnt lots of new and exciting things and got to be a real astronaut visiting space.
We started the day in astronaut training, where we discovered what it would be like to be a real astronaut. We tried lots of different activities astronauts would do to prepare themselves for space. We looked at what they eat, where there sleep, how fit they need to be and what it might be like to wear a space suit.  It was so amazing to see what need to do. 

In the afternoon we went to outer space, we got to visit lots of planets and learn about how unique they all are.......no 2 planets were the same. We visited Mars, Jupiter, Saturn to mention just a few. We were all very tired after our space trip so we came back to space ship 5 to debrief with Miss Smith. Below are some of the new things that we learnt.........

Ben - Mars has a pink sky around it
George - Saturn's ring is made of rock, gas and ice
Corin - Jupiter only has a tiny bit of rock but is mostly gas
Bailey - You be a spacemen you have to be able to balance.
Eric - Astronauts need to eat sticky food
Bella - they have drink in a bag instead of a bottle so it does not fly away
Lily - Jupiter has 60 moons
Mac - Jupiter does have a missing ring
Millie S - Saturn has hundreds of rings
George/Thomas P - Jupiter has 3 rings
Oscar - you need to eat dry food in space
Annabelle - Jupiter is made of clouds and gas
Millie W - Saturn is made of helium, like a balloon
William J - you can't stand on Jupiter

Things we enjoyed -
"i enjoyed making saturn"
"finding new facts about every single planet"
" I liked it when we made saturn, because you got to colour it in the yellow you wanted."
" Making play mercury"
"I enjoyed watching the videos to find out stuff - one of the planets can be hot and cold at the same time"
"I liked making saturn, because it is cool."

As we are now all experts, you can now talk to Team 5 about what they learnt and add it to the blog. 

George took Q to the snow in the weekend!

George went to Wanaka for the weekend but he got stuck in the snow on the way home!! Q was really excited though and felt right at home in all of the snow - he even wanted his picture taken....so we stopped and got out and took his photo and then we had to turn around because the road was closed and drive the long way home to Christchurch. Q was exhausted after that and he has been asleep ever since!

Thanks for coming on our holiday Q.

The adventures of Q and George K

Q came home to George's house for the long weekend. He was given a guided tour of George's bedroom and even had dinner with George. Tomorrow he is off to Chipmunks with Harry and George and then he is going on a long car ride to Wanaka for the Queens's birthday weekend. We have loved having Q at our house - he has beautiful manners and he eats all of his dinner!

Thanks for coming Q

From George K