Mr D's Groups
Kereru Readers
Ivan, Lucy, Ryan, Hope, Jake and Cerys
We have been reading about the Haast Eagle.
First we read a story called Kahu and Hokioi. The story was about a big bird (hokioi) who was going to eat Kahu (a smaller bird). Kahu tricked Hokioi into seeing who could fly the highest. Hokioi was in the lead. Suddenly Kahu saw kiore (a rat), and he scooped down and grabbed it to feed to his hungry children. Meanwhile Hokioi kept flying higher and higher until he could never be found again.
Next we read facts about the Haast Eagle. Then we went outside and drew life sized Haast Eagles on the court using chalk.
Here are the facts we found out...
Haast Eagle
- In 1870 some bones of a huge bird were found in a Canterbury swamp. Scientists worked out that they were the Haast Eagle
- They have a wing-span of 3 meters
- They weighed 12-13 kilograms
- They could fly at 80km/h
- They had claws that were 9 cm long – that’s as long as a tigers claws
- They are extinct because Maori were hunting moa for food and feathers. Moa were the main food for the Haast Eagle.
- They have been extinct for about 500 years.
- It was the largest eagle that ever lived.
- Maori called the Haast Eagle, Hokioi
We have been reading the Roald Dahl novel, Fantastic Mr Fox. We listened to it on the listening post, we read it aloud, we read it silently to ourselves, we talked about it a lot and Mr D got us to do some work on it as well. We had to come up with a title for our own names, similar to Fantastic Mr Fox, we had to write down everything we could about Boggis, Bunce and Bean, and we had to write about Mr Fox too.
We found out that...
Boggis - was a chicken farmer, enormously fat, ate 3 boiled chickens everyday
Bunce - was a duck and goose farmer, he is a pot belly dwarf, he has a beastly temper, eats donuts and goose liver everyday for every meal
Bean - was a turkey farmer, very tall and skinny, he has an apple orchard, he drank apple cider and that's all he had
Mr Fox - steals from the 3 farmers, has 4 children and a lovely wife, is very smart, his tail was shot off by the farmers
Boggis - was a chicken farmer, enormously fat, ate 3 boiled chickens everyday
Bunce - was a duck and goose farmer, he is a pot belly dwarf, he has a beastly temper, eats donuts and goose liver everyday for every meal
Bean - was a turkey farmer, very tall and skinny, he has an apple orchard, he drank apple cider and that's all he had
Mr Fox - steals from the 3 farmers, has 4 children and a lovely wife, is very smart, his tail was shot off by the farmers
Maths Groups...
We are totally immersed in what we are doing....problem solving....and loving it!