Possum

In reading we read a book on possums and how they affect New Zealand's native animals. We learnt that possums are happier here in New Zealand than over in Australia. This is because New Zealand doesn't have any predators that will eat possums. But over in Australia they have lots of predators like snakes, dingoes and goannas. Another reason is that possums like it over here better than Aussie is because possums have more to eat. The reason for this is that a lot of our native birds are flightless which make it easier to catch them. Possums also carry diseases. This leaves us to a conclusion that possums must go. If you discover claw marks on the bark of your trees, pellet-looking poo (possum poo), clawed lemons and new leaves with claw marks than it would be a good idea to set up some traps.I hope you have learnt something about possums.

My Slide

In Reading we learnt about Pacific myths and legends. We had to create a slide show this is my slide show with little snippets of the story The Turtles of Namuana. This myth is from Fiji. I did this slide with my two friends Molly and Frankie. I chose this myth because it interested me and I like turtles.
  

The Turtles of Namuana

In Reading we have been learning about Pacific myths and legends. This one is from Fiji. This wanted poster is about the myth The Turtles of Namuana. The wanted poster is about the three fisherman wanting to kidnap the princesses when they waded out to far one day while swimming. The fisherman pulled them up into their boat. But the gods saved them and created a storm. The fishermen were to focused on the storm and forgot about the princess. While they weren't looking they transformed into giant sea turtles. The men chucked them overboard and they lived happily in the sea.

Book Week

On Friday the 22 of June Good Shepherd had their book parade. The book parade is when every one can dress up as their favourite book character for the whole day. Sometime during the day we have a parade so every one can show of their costume. Book week is one of my favourite weeks because we can see every ones different ideas. This year me and my friend Gina went as he Twits. During the week we also had Chris Gurney come in and talk to us about writing. She read us some of the books she wrote. We also performed a skit of one of her books. Chris Gurney writes the kiwi kauka series which is the fairy tales except with a NZ twist. We had a lot of more fun activities but those were the main ones.

My Country Study.

Recently in Room five we have been doing country studies. We had to include things like their traditional clothes and food. This is my country study of Russia.