This week you have been learning about the humble Ant.
In task D you were asked to find five interesting facts about ants.
- Choose your favourite ant fact and post it as a comment below this post (choose a fact that hasn't already been put up).
- Read some other children's facts. Choose one or two of these and click 'Reply' underneath their fact.
- Write your name and a short comment about this fact. You may like to add what you learnt from them or a question you had once you read it.
We will look at these next week to see each others reflections.
Charlie BG- The Maori name for ant is Popokorua.
ReplyDeleteAmelia Thomson(Amy)- soldier ants can not feed them self because they have big jaws. The worker ant has to feed the soldier ant.
ReplyDeleteYashvi R- Army Ants can devour anything in its path such as other insects ,reptiles such as snakes and lizards.
ReplyDeleteAmy- cool. I want to see them turn into a snake.
DeleteJames F : I think we should all know that so we can be careful about army ants.
DeleteRici C some queens can live for many years and have millions of babies.
ReplyDeleteLily M
DeleteHow many babies can queen ants have at a time .
Lily M
DeleteI learnt that queen ant can live for many years, and have millions of babies.
James F :native ants can protect farms from termites and even gardens. And most of all they keep our world balanced for all creatures and man kind to be happily together.
ReplyDeleteAlex: without ants our world would be taken over bye insects and ants have poor eyesite
ReplyDeleteAlex: James what is the difference between an ant an a termite?
ReplyDeleteLily M
ReplyDeleteAnts are social insects they all have lots of different jobs .Ants work so well together that they behave as if they are a single animal .Each job is important in keeping the colony alive.
I miss room28 I am a student who last year was in that class but I moved down to Hamilton I love all the fun things you have been doing i miss you all.
ReplyDeleteHi Alexandra this is part of our reading stories & activities.
DeleteDid you had cool activities to do in your new school too?
Katie
ReplyDeleteI learnt that an average life of an ant is 45-60 days
Selina y
ReplyDeleteIf you kill one army ant, then a million of will attack you! Better watch out!!!
Today I played in onetreehill park and I saw an ant carring a large piece of my cereal bar crumb. I followed it and so I found the ant hole so I took somemore food and put it in the hole. But it took a long time :( But it was fun anyway :P
ReplyDeleteThanks Jenny!
DeleteIt is so wonderful that you are relating your weekend events to things we have been learning about at school. Keep up the fabulous work!
Ms Brown