Mini beasts and wildlife talk.

Early Years welcomed a very interesting visitor to the unit this week.

Mr Warnes is an expert on wildlife and mini beasts and came to talk to us about a variety of birds, insects and pond creatures.

He began by talking to us about our favourite minibeast, snails. We found out that pond and land snails have their eyes in different places!

He showed us some different birds nests and one was even still attached to some reeds! They were very delicate and we had to be very careful.

Next we learnt about how different animals, birds and insects hide to protect themselves from predators. We all practised hiding together.

We pretended to be birds looking for something tasty to eat and looked at how insects use camouflage to disguise themselves. There was a caterpillar disguised as a twig and a butterfly that looked like a leaf!

Mr Warnes showed us a special container of pond water, which had lots of examples of pond life in it. We used spoons to gently pick them up and look at them closely. We even saw a dragonfly nymph. It looked very different to a dragonfly and we found out that they live under water for years before it changes into an adult dragonfly.  

Mr Warnes answered lots and lots of our questions; there were so many that he stayed longer to answer them at the end. We thoroughly enjoyed his visit and thank him for a fun and informative lesson.