How Male Tuatara Find Their Mate

 

Whakatauki slide show

 

Campfire Safety

Helping Out

These are the work of two year 3 students after i taught them how to use google drive

First one made by Leo and the second by Brandon

NZ Writing

This Is Just To Say 

by William Carlos Williams & Wyatt Brooking

I have stolen 

The diamonds 

That you left in your chest

And which you were probably

Saving for a diamond pickaxe 

Forgive me they were 

Amazing 

So shiny 

And so efficient.

Statistics

What i have been reading

Statistical Investigation

WALT: follow the statistical investigation inquiry cycle

Summer learning journey Taylor swift i was supposed to finish this earlier

DAY 1: ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Activity 1: New Zealand Royalty

Profile

Followers: 8ml

London UK 2020 coming soon...

At the movies

Why Are Wasps Enemies To Bees?

WALT: We are learning to write an information report.

Success Criteria:We will plan and write an information report on a topic of our

choice related to bees.Our report will:

• Bee interesting!
• Give information about a topic of our choice related to bees.
• Show a clear link to our planning.
• Start with an opening statement about our topic.
• Have at least 3 paragraphs.  Each paragraph will have an
• opening statement and a series of facts related to that statement.
• Include some complex or compound sentence structures.
• Include at least one diagram, photograph, illustration or map to go with the text.
• Finish with a general statement about the topic.
• Use information from at least 3 different sources. 
• This information will be written in our own words and
• we will write down our sources at the end of our report.

Why Are Wasps Enemies To Bees?

What are bees and wasps?

Bees: The queen bee can live up to 5 years and is the
only bee that lays eggs. She is the busiest in the summer months,
when the hive needs to be at its maximum strength, and
lays up to 2500 eggs per day. Larger than the worker bees,
the male honey bees also called drones, have no  stinger and do no work.

Wasps: Wasps make up an enormously diverse array of insects,
with some 30,000 identified species. We are most familiar with those
that are wrapped in bright warning colours—ones that buzz
angrily about in groups and threaten us with painful stings. 
But most wasps are actually solitary, non-stinging varieties. And all do
far more good for humans by controlling pest insect populations than harm.

Wasps are predators 

Wasps, specifically the Common and German wasp as well as hornets,
are predators of bees.  Wasps and hornets are natural predators,
and to some extent honey bees have developed ways to ward them off. 
Bee keepers do not like them for this reason.

Some defences of the bees

Bees can defend themselves with more than their stingers. Certain subspecies,
such as Japanese honey bees, guard against hornets by "thermoballing.
"Thermoballing means that  honeybees can kill hornets by
completely engulfing them, making the predators die from the heat inside the ball of bees.
Yet Cyprianbees Apis mellifera cypria can manage to kill the insects by mobbing them.

Wasps: Wasps make up an enormously diverse array of insects, with some 30,000 identified
species. We are most familiar with those that are wrapped in bright warning colours—ones
that buzz
angrily about in groups and threaten us with painful stings.  But most wasps are actually
solitary,
non-stinging varieties. And all do far more good for humans by controlling pest
insect populations than harm.

Koha

We have been learning about Maori tikanga and I made a stop animation to show what I had learnt about Koha.

Welcome