Our Learning Journey

We are finding out about minibeasts. We are investigating the features, habitat and interesting facts about minibeasts.
We now know heaps about honeybees!

• they have 6 legs
• they have compound eyes
• they have 3 body parts (head, thorax and abdomen)
• they have a pollen basket in their abdomen
• they have wings
• each hive has one Queen Bee and this is the only bee that lays eggs
• female honeybees make male bees leave the hive in Winter
• in summer there can be more than 20,000 bees in one hive
• only female bees have a stinger
• male bees are lazy
• honeybees make honey and they help fruit to grow on fruit trees

Wild Action Zoo

On Thursday 5th May Xavier from Wild Action Zoo came to our school. We saw lots of different minibeasts and each of us got to hold one of them.



Giant Burrowing Cockroaches!



The minibeasts that Xavier bought were

• stick insects
• centipede
• bird eating spider
• millipede
• scorpion
• giant burrowing cockroaches
• yabbies
• hermit crabs
• golden orb spider
• meal worms

He also showed us a bearded dragon lizard and his name was Snake. Snake loves to eat meal worms!