Arcademics Website

Here is the link to the website we were using to practise our number knowledge today.

http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/games/

These games will really help you with your basic facts. There are also reading type games on there too!

MONARCH

MONARCH BUTTERFLIES – BY ALEX T

Every year we go to a nursery and buy a swan plant with baby Monarch butterfly caterpillars on it.  The caterpillars eat the swan plant until they get really big and fat.

Then they attach themselves to a leaf and curl up in a hook shape like you see in this picture.

It doesn’t take them long to turn into a chrysalis – it is bright green with a row of gold dots around the top.

After a couple of weeks it turns black, then in a few days it cracks open and the butterfly comes out.

When it first comes out the butterfly’s wings are all screwed up and the body is big.  It pumps it’s wings and they unfold.  After an hour or two the wings are big and smooth and the body is smaller, then it can fly away.  This is the butterfly on 25 February 2013.

YIKES!!

Mrs Asplin spelt Samantha's name wrong in the newsletter! The wonderful (disgusting) story in the school newsletter is actually by Samantha Winsloe

I wish…

I wish I was a zombie.

I want to be a zombie because I will eat the delicious brains of people who annoy me. I will look like: I will have dark red eyes and tattered brown hair, my clothes will look like rags. I would be wearing a pink dress that has black stains all over it, my dress will have pale pink buttons at the top, I will be a dim grey colour and have claws like a lions to tear through my prey. I will eat bloodsoaked raw meat and my favourite food is… BRAINS! Pink juicy brains, I will absolutely adore them! I will wish I could eat them for breakfast lunch and tea.

Congratulations

Congratulations to Briley, Corbyn, Alex M, Ike and Daniel S who have no homework this week because they have completed their work to an excellent standard 3 weeks in a row!!

Ben's Summer Poetry

Summer  Fun

Summer fun, summer fun,

Like wet rocks between my feet.

When the waves pull me,  

To the summer land,

I see the glittering sand.  

I high step quickly,

On the sand.  

The sand is burning hot.

By Ben Elliotte

Briley's Summer Poem

Summer’s Here.

Summer’s here summer’s here,

I wish it will never leave me there,

When the sun goes down I just wish it,

It will come out again,

But that’s just how summer ends.

So bye bye sun.

I just wish you never go away.

Summer gave me, summer gave me,

The iceblocks that melted all over me,

Some ice cold drinks were so delicious,

I think I’ve forgotten what they taste like.

Summer taught me, Summer taught,

The fun things that you can do in summer

Like swimming,

Bringing the waterslide out,

Having iceblocks and lots more.

Summer flew away, Summer flew away.

Just like my kite,

Stopped flying,

So summer’s gone,

Everyone is starting school.

By Briley

Summer Goes

Here is Samantha's poem about Summer.

    Summer Goes

Summer’s here, summer’s here

And the beach we all can share,

Don’t be scared there is no fear

We can all have a lot of fun here,

Everybody’s exclaiming “wow!”

At all the glistening shells.

Summer fun, summer fun

Catching fish,

And having fun

Hot nights,

Late nights

Don’t have any fights.

Summer kite, summer kite

The wind blows,

Up in the sky

Way up high,

Tugging on the rope

Is it coming down? Nope.

The wind gets my hair,

As the kite stays up there.

Summer waves, summer waves

Wipe the lovely summer away.

Now its Autumn where the leaves fall,

Brown, orange, yellow and red

There’s more wind in my head,

Summer’s gone.

But am I sad? No not one bit.

                    By Samantha Winsloe