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.