Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
What we have found out about kiwi today
Kiwi like water. We found out that sometimes they like to swim in water. We thought they didn't like water. On our 'Y' chart we put that they didn't like water. We had to take that sentence off he wall and change it so it said that they do like water.
We have learnt that they have a claw in their wing. We added that information to our 'Y' chart.
We know that kiwi are nocturnal. Nocturnal means don't sleep at night but sleep in the daytime. They go fishing and searching for food at night.
They have two holes on the end of their bill that are called nostrils. They put their beak in the ground and they sniff for food. They snuffle and snort to get the dirt out of their nostrils.
Kiwi are endangered. That means that aren't many kiwi left. There are predators that eat them and their eggs. Some of the predators are stoats, dogs, cats, weasels, rats, possums and ferrets.
They are kept safe by people from the Department of Conservation and in some places they build big fences around where they live to keep out the predators.
We are learning heaps!
We have learnt that they have a claw in their wing. We added that information to our 'Y' chart.
We know that kiwi are nocturnal. Nocturnal means don't sleep at night but sleep in the daytime. They go fishing and searching for food at night.
They have two holes on the end of their bill that are called nostrils. They put their beak in the ground and they sniff for food. They snuffle and snort to get the dirt out of their nostrils.
Kiwi are endangered. That means that aren't many kiwi left. There are predators that eat them and their eggs. Some of the predators are stoats, dogs, cats, weasels, rats, possums and ferrets.
They are kept safe by people from the Department of Conservation and in some places they build big fences around where they live to keep out the predators.
We are learning heaps!
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
The Kiwi
Today Room 2 did some shared writing about the kiwi video.
We are learning to write interesting stories.
We are doing this by using interesting describing words (adjectives) and interesting doing words (verbs).
Here is our short story:
The brown pear shaped kiwi crashed through the over-grown bush with it's head bobbing. It used it's long beak to sniff for food on the forest floor.
Can you work out which words are the adjectives and which words are the verbs?
We are learning to write interesting stories.
We are doing this by using interesting describing words (adjectives) and interesting doing words (verbs).
Here is our short story:
The brown pear shaped kiwi crashed through the over-grown bush with it's head bobbing. It used it's long beak to sniff for food on the forest floor.
Can you work out which words are the adjectives and which words are the verbs?
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