Saving Skinks and Mr Walker's Shed

Some boys from another class found a baby skink before cross country one day.
They gave it to Room 25 to put in our bug habitat. We put it in but then realised it might get eaten! (or eat some of our bugs)
Connor, Cameron and Brooklyn captured the skink and then released it into the lizard garden on the field. They have decided to call themselves the Skink Savers!

On a Friday afternoon we decided to do a school rubbish clean up to work on our positive reputation and make sure we are pulling our weight around the school.
We collected a whole bucket of rubbish in 12 minutes!

On our way back from collecting rubbish, we saw Mr Walker. He took us around the back of his shed - there are so many things there we can use for the bug hotel revamp! We had found pallets,wood and circle pallets. A couple of years ago a class had made a bug habitat on our school field and we have decided to make new one. We are going to make this in term 3.

Air plants have arrived!

Mrs Plowright bought us some beautiful airplants to put in our bug habitat. We were so excited when they arrived. The person Mrs Plowright bought them from said he would like to talk to us about the airplants. How cool is that!

Our bug habitat is now looking pretty flashy with all the new airplants. Students have been bringing bugs in every day. We have lots of snails, slugs, centipedes, earwigs, cockroaches and more! We definitely want to revamp the insect hotel on our school field. All of these bugs will need a permanant home to live in eventually.

Thinking about our reputation

Room 25 wants people to know how our class is awesome but we are still remembering that we want to be recognised in a positive way and for the right reasons.

We have to be careful because in some of our assembly’s when a few of the teachers talk about our bug habitat, some of the classes were staring at us so we need to be careful about our behaviour. Whenever a class comes to look at our habitat, two people from our class will share and help the kids look at our habitat.

Room 14 Comes to Visit

Room 14 is a year 4 class at Elm Park School. They had heard about our bug habitat and wanted to come and visit. We thought this was a great idea - we were going to get to show off our awesome habitat to other kids!

We presented our habitat to Room 14. They thought it was pretty cool and had lots of good questions for us. Once they had looked for some bugs and watched the waterfall in action we listened to some of their haiku poems. They had written their poems about insects. Here are a few of them to look at.