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Our Topic in Term 3 is Explorers and Pioneers. Check out some of the sites below to help you learn more about this exciting topic!

[|Wiki Answers](Ask a question, find the answer!) [|Ask Jeeves] (Ask a question, find the answer!)

[|Wikipedia](Lots of information about almost everything!)

[|European Discovery of New Zealand]

[|Abel Tasman]

[|Explorers Website]

[|Kids Website About Explorers]

[|Rock Cycle Song]

[|BBC Interactive Rocks Lesson]

[|You Tube Video about rocks]

[|The Science Guy - "Rocks and Soil" video]

[|The Science Guy - "Volcanoes"]

A monarch butterfly is an insect that fly’s around in your garden.

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Penguins are a noisy creature but they are caring for their young.

Penguins are very fascinating animals. By Sophie

**__ WORKER BEE __** A worker bee is a flying insect that collects nectar to make honey.

A worker bee is the size of a two doller coin which is a pretty small. It has stripes the colours are black and yellow. A worker bee has lots of predators such as spiders, ants, birds, crickets, grass hoppers, cats and dogs.

Worker bees lives in hives to keep them protected from their predators. Their hives are made of bee wax or they are kept in a man made hive made of wood. A worker bee is an aggressive creature because it stings people.

By Alisha

Tigers

A tiger is a mammal that belongs to the cat family.

A tiger looks like a big scary striped animal. They are very well known for their black stripes and their orange fur.

Tigers eat all kinds of different deer and wild boar. They also eat left over carcasses of other animals.

Tigers live in grassy planes, swamps and in the jungle.

The tiger is one of the most feared animals in the world.

BY BEN

**//__ Wrybills __//** A wrybill is one of New Zealand’s native birds The wrybill has very dull colours.

Most of the time the wrybill is camouflaged because of where it lives.

The wrybill eats insects, such as beetles, spiders and other things that might live under stones and rocks.

Wrybills fear stoats, weasels and humans. Humans are predators because they destroy their nests by running them over. Stoats and weasels are predators because they eat them.

I think the wrybill is a great bird but if we aren’t careful we will lose our cute endangered bird. By Haylee