Snails

Today we have nothing to blog. So I wanted to do something. I wrote a big fact file about snails. I enjoyed writing about them because I used to love them. Also it was new learning for me. I found it tricky to find what it ate because it would just say the same thing. "They eat almost everything." I clicked on a few more sites and more information came up. Here it is:

Snails

Snails are known as Pest. To me, a pet. I used to pick them up at daycare and try to take them home. ( I was not allowed! ) But I thought I should share some cool facts about them. Here we go:

Diet

A snail is actually herbivorous, carnivorous, omnivorous, and detritivorous. So they eat pretty much everything. Here are a few examples of what they eat. Worms, vegetation, rotting vegetation, animal waste, fungus, and even other snails.

Habitat

It usually lives in forests but is also found near rivers, streams, shrublands, and gardens. To help them survive in these hot and humid conditions, this snail has adapted to it. Snails have made their habitat all over the world, including the Arctic and Antarctic oceans.

Wow Facts

A snail can sleep for three years. They might be the inspiration for cupid. The world's smallest snail can fit through the eye of a needle

Matt Stanton

This week for writing we have been learning how to make links between our paragraphs. We wrote about our favourite author. I chose Matt Stanton. Matt Stanton wrote the Funny kid series. Not much is known about him so I put what I could find. I enjoyed learning about him because there were lots of cool facts. I found it tricky to find his adulthood because my search results just came up with clothes. So I searched up life and it showed up more information. 

Here is my Writing:

Author Study

Full Name: Matt Stanton       

Date of Birth: 24 December 1983 

Place of Birth: Sydney Australia

Famous for: Writing Children's books like ‘Funny Kid’ and ‘There is a monster under my bed that farts.’

Childhood:

Matt was born in Sydney, Australia on Christmas Eve in 1983. He created his first story when he was five years old. It had only a few words and a lot of cartoons. His teacher threw this book into the bin because it was Rude and Inappropriate. But the story made the kid opposite him almost wet his pants because it was so funny. He said that it was pretty amazing to make someone almost wet themselves from his writing. When he was seven he knew he was going to be an author when he grew up.

Adulthood:

Matt has worked as a checkout man, a cheese grater, an accountant, a mail man and an art director. It took him a long time to publish a book but he never gave up on his dream of being an author. He has a wife named Beck Stanton and has three children. Their names are Bonnie, Boston and Miller. He likes to grow mangoes in his backyard and they are his favourite fruit. Matt works 10 minutes walk from the beach and thinks Sydney is the best place on earth. 

Fun Facts:

Matt created his first story when he was five. Both he and his wife are Bestselling Authors. He is really good at claw machines. He does all of his drawing and writing on computers. 

Mecodema Punctellum

For a couple of weeks we have been a report on an extinct native animal. I chose is Mecodema Punctellum because I love bugs and it was the only bug. Mecodema Punctellum is a very hard one so I did not write much.

I found it easy to find an image of the mecodema punctellum.

I found it tricky to find information because it is extinct and not much was written about it. 

Next time I will change what I put in the diet and find more things on it.

Mecodema Punctellum

This is where I got my information: https://enacademic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/5974665

Classification

In maori Mecodema punctellum (me-co-de-ma punk-tell-um) is panipini mecodema. Its greek name is actually its name.

Habitat

Nothing is known about its habitat but it could have been living under lage logs. They also could have lived in native forests.

Description

The Mecodema Punctellum is a black beetle that can't fly. They are almost 4 cm long.

Diet

All I know about its diet is that it eats snails.

Last sighted

It was last seen in 1931 in Stephens Island. It got extinct because of habitat destruction. There were no logs left on Stephens Island

Report Writing

This week we were given a cut up level three Lion report that we needed to make paragraphs that made sense. First we had to pick buddies and I chose Mya. Then we got the cut up pieces and we had to put them together. After we put them in order, we needed to grab a paper clip and clip them together. I got a blue one. The next day we glued the sentences to yellow paper and drew the success criteria on where the title goes. Last we saw that two other people were done so we clipped them together on a wire. My glue stick almost has no more glue from the glueing!
I learnt that a report needs to have a title, a classification, a description, where what your reporting  lives and a dynamic fact (Fun Fact).
I enjoyed drawing the success criteria.
I found it tricky to glue the sentences.
Next time I will change the coloured cards colour to blue.
My digital learning object shows that I can download the picture Mya took.
Here it is:

2020 March Reflection

Today we were doing our reflection of March.
I enjoyed taking the photo of myself.
I found it tricky to find my favorite line of my writing this month.