!!HNI camp Room 13!!

On Wednesday the 18th of March 2015 Room 13 had Camp our camp was for three days and two nights.
Our camp was at a place called Weka Point.
We had a lot of parent helpers also some teachers that helped out to make our camp possible.
The food wasn't very good.
There were a lot of activities that we could participate in like: Archery, Raft Building, Water Slide, Flying Fox, survival skills, Kayaking and some others.
Here is a picture:

Bug Man

Today my school had a speicial visitor called Rude Kleinpaste which is also known as The Bug Man, he was here to talk to us about bugs and insects.
This is a list of what I learned:

• 10kg of grass = 1 kg of Beef
• ⅓ of our food we wouldn’t have without bees
• Orchid bees can communicate with each other
• Some sorts of preying mantis disguise as orchids do catch orchid bees
• Some geckos collected nectar
• Tui’s collects nectar
• Kiwis diet consist of mainly bugs
• You could train bugs
• Bees suck up nectar and then poop it out
• 3kg of grass = 1 kg of bug meat
• Crickets carry seeds away from the trees and poops it out with fertilizer
• Moths sit on sloths
• In South America some people eat spiders
• The French eat snails and frogs.
• Hummingbirds collect nectar
• Sloths have a brain the size as a walnut
• Sloths only have to go toilet once a week
• Ants eat bird poo
• Hummingbirds are the size of a praymatice
• Scorpions glow in ultraviolet rays

2015 Room 13 Mr Birnie

Just a quick announcement that it is the 3rd of March 2015 and I have had a wonderful start of the year for term 1 with my new class room 13 and my teacher Mr Birnie.