My class in New Zealand is learning lots about habitats this term. We have been exploring lots of habitats in London too.
Exploring Habitats
- Finn and I went to a week long science camp last week for 6 hours every day. As well as lots of other things we did experiments to learn about how things like oil spills and acid rain effect the habitat of land and ocean animals.
- We went to the London Wetland Centre where we looked at lots of different habitats of birds, minibeasts and otters. They even have a special rain garden they have built to make it the best possible habitat for creatures to want to live in. We also did some pond-dipping, leaf rubbing and artwork painting leaves. We went to an exhibit called 'down the plug-hole' where we learned about the effect of pollution on the habitat of animals. We also played a game where we had to find giant Top Trumps cards and read and learn all about animals.
- At Holland Park we have been to 3 different sessions that they had over the school holidays. They were about butterflies, Pine Martins, and building shelters.
- At Hyde Park we went to a Nature Explorers day where we did a scavenger hunt, learned about dragonfly nymphs, did some pond dipping and I made a snake habitat craft.
- We visited Battersea Park Zoo and looked at the different habitats of the animals there.
- In Dundee in Scotland we went to a Wildlife Centre at Camperdown Country Park with my cousins Hannah and Esme. We looked at lots of different animal habitats. They even had bears but unfortunately they were sleeping so we couldn't see them.
Writing about a Habitat
At Hyde Park and at the Wetland Centre I learned about Dragonfly Nymphs. So when Mum said to chose an animal to do some descriptive writing about their habitat, I decided to chose the Dragonfly Nymph.
- First, I pretended to be a Dragonfly Nymph swimming around a pond.
- Then I did some planning and wrote some descriptions of things I might be able to see, hear, smell and taste if I was a Dragonfly Nymph in a pond.
- Then we looked online at some information about Dragonfly Nymphs and how they turn into Dragonflies.
Finally I started my writing. For this writing I imagined I was a Dragonfly Nymph! Here is my writing. (Mum typed it up for me). See if you can spot the two cool new words I made up!
One day I was swimming in my pond. I could hear a bird chirping very loudly in a high-pitched tone. I could also see waving reeds that flow like a swaying rope and they also twine like a bunch of sea urchins. When I burrow in the mud it feels skweltchy and skwiltchy.
Oh look! Over there is my friend Pond Snail lurking on the side of the pond. His beautiful, grey, shimmering shell is like a merry-go-round going too fast.
When I skim across the water it shimmers like priceless jewellery. Suddenly I spot a mozzy so I use my jet-propulsion to launch me like a rocket to the grub. When I bite it's like a stale cracker. It tastes tickley on my taste buds.
Ooh I think I am going to transform into a DRAGONFLY! Because my skin is getting tight it's like a giant, giant squeezing me intensely. First I skwish my head and chest out of my larval skin. Then I stick my legs out and my abdomen. My legs are like noodles because they are so soft and floppy. I wait a bit so my legs harden. When my legs harden I then grasp my delicate larval skin and wriggle my way out. After that I pump body fluid to my abdomen and wings. When I am fully pumped up I will be twice the size of my larval skin.
My transparent wings glisten in the morning dew. Also when I go in the sun my wings go all sparkly like a unicorn horn. My body feels so light like I could float away. I feel so zealous like you would if you got an ice-cream with 100,000,000 scoops.
Wow! I am in the air. How am I in the air? It's like you have been on Neptune for a year and you have just flown into the sun. It's because I have gone from cold, freezing water to warm, peaceful air. When I shoot through the sky the pond looks different. I can see the reeds twirl like they never had before. I can see the fish leaping through the air and diving back in the water. It feels so relaxing.
Ooh I think I am going to transform into a DRAGONFLY! Because my skin is getting tight it's like a giant, giant squeezing me intensely. First I skwish my head and chest out of my larval skin. Then I stick my legs out and my abdomen. My legs are like noodles because they are so soft and floppy. I wait a bit so my legs harden. When my legs harden I then grasp my delicate larval skin and wriggle my way out. After that I pump body fluid to my abdomen and wings. When I am fully pumped up I will be twice the size of my larval skin.
My transparent wings glisten in the morning dew. Also when I go in the sun my wings go all sparkly like a unicorn horn. My body feels so light like I could float away. I feel so zealous like you would if you got an ice-cream with 100,000,000 scoops.
Wow! I am in the air. How am I in the air? It's like you have been on Neptune for a year and you have just flown into the sun. It's because I have gone from cold, freezing water to warm, peaceful air. When I shoot through the sky the pond looks different. I can see the reeds twirl like they never had before. I can see the fish leaping through the air and diving back in the water. It feels so relaxing.
And here are some photos of my actual writing...
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