Home Learning Challenge Week 9

After last week's challenge to practise sketching and "learning to look", we are switching to Science and the Living World this week. (Great attitude and effort last week, by the way...some very good sketches! Keep practising.)

This week, choose at least one of the birds that we saw at Spencer Park and research it. Find out about 

• what it looks like, 
• breeding and nesting, 
• food and habitat, 
• how rare it is, and 
• what threatens its survival. 

 
You may choose from: harrier (kahu); little owl; black stilt (kaki); wrybill; pukeko; welcome swallow; black billed gull; red billed gull; black backed gull;…
or look at http://nzbirdsonline.org.nz/

 Spelling words to learn...

pukeko, swallow,  stilt, favourite, present, weren’t, chocolate,
field, probably, we’re

Home Learning Challenge Weeks 6 & 7

We have been making models from cardboard and paper...have a look at what Oscar, Lincoln, Abbey and Claudia have done, based on Christchurch earthquake remembrance and Roald Dahl characters.

We have also been trying to sketch the map of NZ freehand (without copying)...a good challenge, and it helps us to get to know our country better. 

Keep working on your personal fitness...Cross Country is coming up early next term.

      Spelling Word Challenge

      they're, breakfast, don't, instead,  threw, brought, everybody, lightning, tomorrow, luckily