Zoe

Blogging about the zoo  WALT report, recount and reflect When: On Thursday week seven term two Where: The Auckland Zoo western springs  What: A school trip with all of Te Waka Ako syndicate Who: The senior syndicate and parents Why: Because NZ animals are our inquiry subject  How:By a two story bus Hi bloggers, on Thursday the senior syndicate went to Auckland Zoo  in western springs for inquiry. We went on a two storie bus to the zoo. When we first got to the zoo we had a tour guide who told us all about the Zoo. Then we went into our groups to look at the animals. The first animal we saw was the Red panda and that was my favourite animal. After we saw the otters, penguins, tigers, wallabies, birds and the bats.  T hen alll the groups went  back to the front of the zoo where we then went into our classes and were put with a tour guide. When we were with the tour guide we went to see the native or endemic animals...

This is my painting  Hi bloggers in week seven we made a art piece of a native or endemic animal to New Zealand. This is a fairy tern filled with squares then split it into triangles.  The materials that I used were:  acrylic paint coloured paint art brushes paper  sketching pencils These are the steps we did:  first we got our piece of paper and painted it with white acrylic paint and then let it dry.  Second we went on our Chromebook and chose the photo that we wanted of the animal and put the photo that we wanted on to a google doc and traced it.  Third we printed the google drawing out in a larger form then traced it on a larger piece of paper.  Once we had traced it onto the piece of paper we drew geometric shapes on to our animal.  Then we painted in our shapes to finish.   Probably  one thing that I liked was the colours that I used. If I could change something I would make...

Hi bloggers, on Tuesday my school went to Tiritiri Matangi. We saw lots of amazing endemic and native birds. Personally my favourite bird is the fantail. I'm really glad that we went on this trip because it was such a great experience. I learnt that Tiritiri Matangi used to be farm land and they had to plant most of the nature on it. Also when they planted the trees the pukeko liked to pick at them, so they had to plant them again then hide them. Here are some photos of the birds. These are two tui at the bird feeder. At the bird feeder they feed sugar water to the birds. This is a fantail. Fantails are birds that usually like to follow you because when you walk you kick up bugs, they like to eat them. This is a NZ pigeon. Sometimes they eat too much and have to wait up in a tree for a long, long  time because they are too full and heavy to fly.

We had to make a google drawing all about ourselves. I learnt to not make my background so colourful. I think I did a really good job. Here is my all about me hope you like it.