For these coming holidays some students will be selected to look after the Burrowing Cockroach, Snails, Strawberry Hermit Crabs and Stick Insects at home (All other pets will stay at school). If you are going away for longer than 3 days then it is advisable that you either have someone look after them or you will [...]
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Eggcellent Stick Insects (HSIE: Who will buy?) – Part 2
After selling out in record time, our new stock has finally arrived. Several eager volunteers have been assembling the kits and we are ready go. We will start selling in the Infants Playground with Group 4 and then Group 6 (Tuesday) and Group 1 (Wednesday). There are 100 kits available for sale (same as last [...]
category: Class Pets, HSIE
Eggcellent Stick Insects (HSIE: Who will buy?)
All our work on our unit ‘Who will buy? and setting up our business seems to be paying off . Group 3, who were the first ready, were lucky to be the first to market. At the end of the first day they have sold 19 Kits and Group 5, who started second, squeezed in an early [...]
category: Class Pets, HSIE
tags: HSIE, Who will buy?
New Marine Aquarium (Salt Water)
We have just finished setting up our new marine aquarium. Most of the equipment was second hand and the fish and some of the live rock was from my aquarium at home. The new marine aquarium contains a pair of Ocellaris Clownfish and a lonely Domino Damsel. The aquarium is a FOWLR setup, Fish Only With [...]
category: Class Pets
Taking class pets home for the holidays
For these coming holidays some students will be selected to look after the Burrowing Cockroach, Snails and Stick Insects at home (All other pets will stay at school). If you are going away for longer than 3 days then it is advisable that you either have someone look after them or you will not be allowed [...]
category: Class Pets
tags: Class Pets
Johanni Cichlid Fry: Honey, I ate the kids!!
This week we have been very fortunate to witness one of Johanni Cichlids (Johanni Melanochromis) eating her babies (fry). Honey, I ate the kids!! Lucky for us this is part of the breeding cycle of a mouth brooding fish. It might look like she is eating her babies, but she is actually just protecting them. We have about [...]
category: Class Pets
Pill Millipedes: Roly-Poly Pill Bugs
This term we have some new class pets to add to our ever growing collection. They are called Pill Millipedes or Roly-Poly Pill Bugs.
Some people are afraid of bugs such as spiders or beetles. But there is one bug that just about everybody likes—pill bugs. If you ever pick one up, you know why its nickname is “roly-poly.” [...]
category: Class Pets
Taking class pets home for the holidays
For these coming holidays some students will be selected to look after the Burrowing Cockroaches and Stick Insects at home. The Mantids will not be going home these holidays as the feeding of live crickets is still difficult to do. If you are going away for longer than 3 days then it is advisable that you [...]
category: Class Pets
tags: Class Pets
Looking after class pets
The responsibility of looking after the class pets is currently done by the winning table in our Monopoly Rewards. So far this is working well with the first table doing a great job. They even volunteered to spend time cleaning enclosures at lunch time.
The winning table needs to organise who will do the following list of responsibilities:
Fish
Feed [...]
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tags: Class Pets, Pets
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