These are the stories we wrote: "I liked trying to break the legs. They were yum!" - Jacinta "I liked putting the icing on top." - Angelina. "I liked the cookie." - Arina. "I liked the green icing." - Mikayla. "I liked the legs and I liked the body." - 'Alani. "I liked the body because it had marshmallow in it." - Kaezyn "I liked the legs." - Keezia. "I liked spreading the icing." - Cheyler. "I liked the head. It was hard and the body was soft. I was trying not to break it." - Marino. " I liked eating it. It was yummy because we put the icing on." Jahzarian. " I liked the spider. It was yum!" - Matariki. "I made the feet." - Naomi.

Look at Room 11 enjoying the microscopes to explore the details on a spider (alive), a fly, a daddy-long-legs and a weta (all dead). It was a girl weta and we could see the tube that she lays her eggs out of (the ovipositor).

I wrote down some of the comments, so you can picture what we saw: "It's creepy"; "It's BIG!" (the fly); "Come and look at this guys" (the weta); "Woo-ooooo" (the weta); "I don't think it's creepy";

"I can see the patterns on the legs (of the daddy-long-legs)"; "It's soooo hairy" (the fly); "Look! Look! It's moving!" (the spider) "I like it" (the weta); "There are 6 eyes" (the spider).

It was hard to take turns when there was so much to be see.

We need to get better at taking photos down the lens. We hope Room 8 were excited to see it today.