Garden Bird Survey

Can you recognise these birds?

Have you seen them around your home, school or local park?

Landcare Research needs your help with their annual bird survey. Click on the link to find out more... http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/science/plants-animals-fungi/animals/birds/garden-bird-surveys

(The survey needs to be done over 1 hour any time from now until Sunday 3rd July.)

Get a recording sheet from school, or click here.

To help you identify the most common birds, click here.

Here are the results showing the most common birds in the past 10 years...
Click on the chart to find out more.

Charlotte Jane's Voyage

What was it like on board ships like The Charlotte Jane?

Have a look at this map...

and go to this link to read parts of Edward Ward's diary.

Not everybody survived the voyage...

(The entries on the 8th and 9th October are about "crossing the line"...or crossing the equator. Read about the way they celebrated that.)









There are several place names mentioned in the diary (Lisbon - 14th September; Canary Islands - 20th September)...can you find some of them and mark them on a blank map?

What animals (including birds and sea creatures) are mentioned in the diary?

Can you find examples of difficulties faced by passengers, and signs that people were getting grumpy? What would you have done to make life on board more pleasant or interesting?

Studying Early Canterbury

Starting this week, we will be finding out about early European settlement of Christchurch (around the 1850s, when Victoria was Queen of Britain).

For your Home Challenge this week, study the map and pictures in “The Voyage Out”. What can you say about the symbols used on the map and the voyage of the Charlotte Jane? What can you tell about the people and the conditions on board these sailing ships? For extra info see..

http://www.firstfourships.co.nz/

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nzbound/fourships.htm
http://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/early-christchurch/