Term 4 Week 2 Reflection.

This week we have been working had.

We have read some more of the Boy In The Striped Pyjama's . Here is and activity I have done this week. We had to find up to 10 facts about the concentration camps in World War ll. I think they are extremely sad and I would hate to have been sent to one.

We also have been learning how to write and explanation .This week I had finished writing my explanation on the lifecycle of a frog.

A frog is a living animal that is a tailless amphibian with a short squat body moist smooth skin, and very long hind legs for leaping. It is green and sometimes brown and sometimes have spots. They live in swamps or ponds so they can lay their eggs in water. There are approximately 4,740 species of frogs all around the world and since 1980 120 species of frogs have disappeared.  The lifecycle of a frog is a very interesting one.

Frogs lay up to 3,000 to 6,000 eggs at a time. They lay about 20,000 eggs per year.  It takes about 6 to 21 days average for the eggs to hatch while the little tadpole is moving around in its egg which means it is an embryo. An Embryo is the thing that protects the tadpoles while it is growing and getting strength . After they hatch out of the embryo they hang onto a water plant like weeds , elegy, and a lilypad. while they start to grow . The first stages of a tadpole is that they start to grow, their tail and it gets longer and longer. It is so they can swim faster in the water and get away from predators.  The reason they need  a long tail is because there parents leave them to fend for themselves.  

While the tadpoles cling onto the water plant they start to grow even more. Their main body parts they need to survive start to grow such as. The first body part that starts to grow is there External gills for breathing. The reason why the external gills grow first is because they need their gills so they can breathe. If they didn’t have their external gills they would not survive . Then there tail keeps on growing and growing throughout the whole process . It just gets longer and longer. After a while there hind legs start to appear . It takes about six to nine weeks for the hind legs to appear. During that process the tadpole starts to look more like a frog. Its body starts to get more circular around the face and its leg gets longer.

The tail is now long enough that the frog is now starting to live from food that is stored in its tail. Now the front legs start to appear. The front arms will start to appear and the elbows will appear first .then after 9 weeks it will start to look more like a frog. There legs start to grow and get a lot of strength. Then there tail starts to become shorter and shorter and then Eventually it falls of . It starts to shrink . The frog does not eat until the tail is absorbed because it is a valuable food source. The front usually leaves the water before the tail is completely gone. Now it is a Young healthy frog.

Now the frog is an Adult. It will start to Leave the ponds and swamps and explore the world. They will meet different spices and predators. It will have lots of strength to survive and it will start to have a family of its own.

A frog lifecycle is a great thing to learn about and it has many stages in its life to be fully grown.

On Thursday we also have started our calender art.I choose to do an agorignal art and I am  doing a butterfly. This picture is the thing that inspired me to do a butterfly. 

Today we also have Grandparents day and I have invited my Grandparents to come and I can't wait to show them all my work.