Butterfly's And More At Wheelgates

yesterday we went to Wheelgates it was fun fest we went into the tropical zone we sore a butterfly cumming out of it,s chrysalis here is some information about butterflies.

Butterfly's are beautiful, flying insects with large scaly wings. Like all insects, they have six jointed legs, 3 body parts, a pair of antennae, compound eyes, and an exoskeleton. The three body parts are the head, thorax (the chest), and abdomen (the tail end). The butterfly's body is covered by tiny sensory hairs.

Butterfly's live in different , including mangroves, salt marshes, lowland forests, sand dunes, wetlands, mountainous regions and grasslands. Rocky areas and bare ground give larvae a place to find adequate food and adults to lounge in the sun. Butterfly's come in a variety of sizes. The world's smallest known species, the blue pygmy found in southern California, has a wingspan of just over half an inch. The largest species, New Guinea's Queen Alexandra's bird wing, can measure up to twelve inches from wingtip to wingtip. The fore wings and the six legs of the butterfly are attached to the thorax.

The thorax contains the muscles that make the legs and wings move. Butterflies are very good fliers. They have two pairs of large wings covered with colorful, iridescent scales in overlapping rows. Butterflies are found all over the world and in all types of environments: hot and cold, dry and moist, at sea level and high in the mountains. Most butterfly species, however, are found in areas tropical, especially tropical rain forests.

A Day At Flamingo Land

yesterday we went to flamingo land in north Yorkshire   it was grate .when we got ther we went on some good   like Mumbo  jumbo which is my favourite  , splash battle it was bad because it made me wet ,navigator was grate , hero and cannibal car my sister and my grandad went on them because I am to small   , we watched the sea lion show it was good a sea lion called merlin did cool tricks like wave clap balance a ball balance a rugby ball  we went in the 4D cinema it was bad all it did was move .

After that we went to the zoo and sore 4 Giraffes 2 witch were babys  , 6 lions 5 were females , 3 ostriches one which was siting on her eggs ,2 white rhinos ,4 zebras  , 2 Addaxs ,3 tortes

  ,then we went into the Aquarium and we sore lodes of piranhas

here are some photos

me on splash battle

a Peacock   

My First Riding Leson

Last week we went horse riding I was so excited when we got there . When we got ther we wore a helmet to protect are head.
After that I went to the paddock with a horse named  Jack he was the fastest horse ther at trotting

me on jack 

that is me at the front 

                                                                                                                       

a  person putting a shoe on a horse 

Going To shire brook valley

yesterday  me and my nan and sister went pond dipping  my sister court  a cased caddies fly larvae I court a pond skater, a water snail and a shrimp.

The place we went pond dipping has been lodes of things in 1870 it was a colliery in 1955 it was a landfill site in 1940 it was used as a training centrer  and now it is a park.

It has be cum a home to a large population of skylarks a ground nesting bird sadly the population of
skylarks has gone down now it is rare to see them but you can identify them by there flying

this is a   photo of  a  skylark

  

this is a water snail

Bald Eagle

Over the last  few days I have been watching a live feed  family of  bald eagles . 

"The male was brought to the park in 2005 and the female arrived in 2006, and since then the birds have established a territory in Sauces Canyon, on Santa Cruz Island. 

The birds were introduced back into the park in 2006  after bald eagles went extinct in the 1960s due to contamination from a pesticide called DDT. Now they have re-established themselves on most of the islands scattered throughout the marine park, but this is the first time that this particular pair of eagles 
have successfully hatched chicks, after three years of trying."

I have seen the adults getting fish ,birds,small mammals and tearing a part to feed the chicks 

I have put a link blow to the feed    

A Day At The Cinema

On Friday me and my nan , sister,friend ,her mum ,her sister and her brother went to the cinema and watched Zootropolis .

The film is about a bunny who wants to be a police officer and has trained so hard and finally her dream has come true  but it is not what she excepted  in the other part  a panther terns evil.    
14 mammals where like this in the end all of the mammals  were back to normal

The Air Museum

Last Friday I went to the air museum in Doncaster with my grandad and my sister (Abbiegail)  we made a hovercraft  and a balloon  helicopter and at lunch time  we had a  look  at some air a planes       some of them you could get in side  them here are some photos

Making Wooden Spoons

In Wednesday group me and my friend maid  some  animal spoons  and kooky s and  biscuits after        we finished we went to MacDonald  here is a picture thank you emma

Wednesday Group

Last   wednesday I went  to wendsday group with Nicky and her sister Alicia and her brother Luke and me .

In wednesday  group I made a mothers day card and played Mincraft ,pool ,table tennis and a ipad here are some  pictures .

me macing my card 

after I made my card

Leap year

As it is February the 29th Jessica has been reading about the history of the leap year. She has taken some paragraphs from pages and added them to her own writing about this topic.

A leap year is every four years the fist people who discovered it was the Egyptians . they thought of adding a leap year to the calendar every four years. Later, the Romans copied the idea. In 1582 Pope Gregory XIII reformed the Julian calendar (introduced by Julius Caesar in 45 BCE). By Pope Gregory’s time the calendar had drifted 14 days off track.

 He neatly solved this by lopping ten days off the calendar, telling everyone that the day after October 4th was going to be October 15th. Bad luck for people with birthdays during that time!

The calendar is supposed to match the solar year, in other words, the length of time it takes for Earth to orbit the Sun once. But things aren’t quite that simple. It actually takes Earth 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 46 seconds to complete its orbit (about 365 1/4 days). Those extra hours gradually add up so that after four years the calendar is out of step by about one day. Adding a day every four years allows the calendar to match up to the solar year again.

Poolsbrook County park

 Yesterday I went to Poolsbrook  a place near chesterfield it is a  big play area with a big lake there are loads of birds like:

• a swan
• geese  
• doves 
• seagulls 
• ducks 

I went and played with some gym equipment with my friend Nicky here are some  pictures 

the play area 

      

  

Nicky on gym equipment 

me on gym equipment

Home Educate Meeting And Screen Printing

To day I went to a home educate meeting I did screen printing and played on some gym  with my fend Nikki here are some pictures.

  

making my T-shirt 

after I made my unicorn T-shirt