Magnetic Fridge Poetry

Wild about words? Create your own animal and plant poems using ARKive’s fridge magnets.

Share your poem as a comment.

Game of the Week

A Maze Race

A Maze Race » Puzzle games

Trapped in a maze, you must get out before the computer player does, if you want to win ProProfs Maze-Race game. Direct your green ball through the maze and get to the flag before the red ball does to earn points and advance to the next level. Watch out for dead ends, for if the red ball gets to the flag first, your game is over!

Wonder of the Week

When Will Pigs Fly?



Did you know?
What do you think of when you hear the phrase “when pigs fly”? Do funny images of pigs with wings fill your mind? This common saying is used to express the idea that something happening is highly unlikely or even impossible.
For example, if you ask your parents when they’re going to buy you a brand new Ferrari, the answer might very well be: “When pigs fly!” You can spend a lot of your time scanning the skies for flying pork, but your chances of seeing a flying pig are about the same as seeing a shiny new red Ferrari in the driveway.
Can you think of any phrases where the answer might be "When pigsfly!" Post you phrases as a comment.

This Week in History

The Fall of the Berlin Wall - November 1989

Most of us are familiar with Germany’s involvement inWorld War II, however their story after the war also has historical importance. Following World War II, Germany was left in conflict. East Germany was communist and had similar beliefs to the Soviet Union, while West Germany was democratic and supported by the United States. Berlin, Germany's capital as well as one of its

16 states, sat within East German borders, however, it as split into two.

The Berlin Wall was built by the East Germans (or the German Democratic Republic) to keep its citizens from going West. Construction on the Berlin Wall began in 1961. To begin with, East Berlin and West Berlin were separated by barbed wire. Streets, railway lines and subways were torn up and barricades were erected.Within the year, construction work began on a solid wall separating the two cities. It was 155km long, 4 metres high and topped with barbed wire to keep anyone from climbing over.

On Nov. 9, 1989, East Berlin residents were given permission to visit West Berlin. That day, thousands poured across the checkpoints, and in front of guards, started to tear down portions of the Wall. People used whatever tools they could find to chip away at it. The entire world watched the momentous occasion on TV as East Berliners were greeted by West Berliners. People drank champagne and danced on the Wall at Brandenburg Gate, the gateway between the two cities.

Pieces of the wall were sold as souvenirs and the government later used industrial equipment to remove the rest of the wall.

Brainteaser of the Week

Word Teaser

What do these words have in common?

age, blame, curb, dance, evidence, fence, gleam, harm, interest, jam,kiss, latch, motion, nest, order, part, quiz, rest, signal, trust, use, view,win, x-ray, yield, zone?

5 people and 1 guitar

In Room 8 we are learning how important each person's efforts are to a team's performance when working in cooperative learning activities. This video shows how every team member has a vital role to play towards the groups performance.

Play Reading

As part of our reading programme we are practising reading and performing plays in preparation for presenting our own palys based on endangered species.  What do you think of our efforts

Design a Species

As part of our topic we have been looking at animal adaptation.  One of the activities we did was to design a new species by blending together attributes from different animals.  We were given a habitat and either a predator or prey card.  We then had to research different animals from that area to hel use design our new animals.  Look at our wonderful designs.

Do You Sudoku?

Do you like puzzles? I'm not talking about the kind of puzzles that consists of 500 pieces you have to fit together to make a picture. I'm talking about puzzles that test your brain in the areas of language, logic or math.
One of the most popular puzzles today is called Sudoku. A Sudoku puzzle consists of 81 boxes arranged in a 9X9 grid. That means there are 9 rows and 9 columns. There are also 9 sub-grids — sometimes called boxes or blocks — arranged in 3X3 groups.
Sudoku puzzles feature numbers, but they test logic more than math. The goal of a Sudoku puzzle is to fill in the boxes with the numbers 1 through 9 in such a way that every column, every row and every 3X3 sub-grid contains all of the numbers 1 through 9.
Each digit 1 through 9 may be used only once in any particular column, row or sub-grid.

Ready to try your hand at Sudoku? Just jump online to try out this fun and free Sudoku puzzle!

Word Safari

Hunt down the habitat themed words camouflaged in this wordsearch.

Game of the Week

A game with a difference for you to investigate this week.  Your task is to build a perfect habitat for one of the worlds most endangered mammals in the world, the black footed ferret.

Trick or Treat Quiz

Do you know your vampire bat from your ghost bat? Test your inner animal with our terror-ific Halloween quiz. Will you get more treats than tricks?

This Week In History.

Guy Fawks - 5th November 1605

Every year, on the 5th of November, many New Zealanders celebrate ‘Guy Fawkes’. This festival signalsthe beginning of summer and it’s an opportunity for family and friends to get together and enjoy the sight and sound of fireworks lighting up the sky. Like so many festivals, there is a story behind the tradition, and Guy Fawkes is no exception.

Do you know the story behind this tradtion, post you thoughts as a comment.

 

"Remember, remember, the 5th of November,

Gunpowder, treason and plot.

We see no reason why gunpowder treason

Should ever be forgot."

 

Brainteaser of the Week

Camera Shy

In Oklahoma you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg.

Why?

Build Your Wild Self

As we have been designing new animals in class by blending together lots of different animals I though it might be fun for you to have a go at build a wild version of yourself.  First of all you need to desgin your human self then choose your favourite animal parts to go wild.  It would be great if you shared your creations with the class by emailing them to me.  Click on the wild version of me to create your own wild self.

Switch Zoo

This week in class we have been looking at how animals adapt to survive in their environments. We were given a habitat and either a predator or prey then we had to design a new creature to survive in our habitat. Watch this spaceto see the fantastic animals that we designed. To learn more about habitats and adaptations visit Switch Zoo to play animal games and make new animals in a virtual zoo. Click on the link below for the fun to begin.