Botanic gardens

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B O T A N I C   G A R D E N S

On Thursday, 29th of July, a group of kids from Tangaroa went to the botanic gardens. We learnt about the birds and trees there and we did some fun activities. First we got into groups of 2 and we each had a native, endemic or threatend animal from Nz clipped to our back on a lamenated card and we had to ask each other questions to find out what the card had on it. After some learning about those animals and when they came to Nz, or were discoverd we walked to a different spot and we did some more activities. First there was a group of 10 that went to do an activitie in the forest and the other group did an activity on birds on the grassy area. Kiwa and I were in the first group so we went to the forest and the activity we had to do was to find a specific tree and we were again in groups of 2 and me and Kiwa were in a group. We had a tree called the Totara tree and we had a map with a number on it and we had to find the number 4 then we would be near the tree we needed to find. Once we found it we had to do some sheet work and answer some questions about what the tree looked like. Next we had to find our way back to where we started. We all had to share our answers with the other groups. Then we swapped over so we went and did the bird activity an the other group went and did the forest activity. For the bird activity, we started on behind a rope because it was the starting line for the race and we had to use carpet sqaures to not touch the grass. It shows how the birds have to stop on safe spots to get to thier desentation for the summer.

M A T H

For math today we did some more mesuring.
So we did a challenge where we got on the bikes and rode until we thought we were a metre from where we started and see who got the closest to a metre. I got probably a full metre acording to the ruler. And here is a photo of how much i got.
I got a full metre it looked a tiny bit under a metre but that was just the end of the ruler.

MRSGREN about horses

I worked with Kiwa to do this slide.

M A T H !

For math today we did a ruler trick. For this trick we only used a ruler and a pair of two or three people. First one person holds the ruler at the top and the other person puts there fingers apart like this.

Here is a video of me and kiwa demenstairting. (I will add this later because it is not working!)

my score was 26 and in the video it will show how to do it.

B O O K S !

Lately i have been reading a book series called the land of storys. Its a really interesting series about a girl and her brother and they get given a book by thier gran and the magically fall into the book and land in the fairytale world and they go on heaps of adventures and meet all the princesses n stuff. I deffenetly reccomend this series because the writer has great information added to the book and its safe for kids all ages but younger ones may not understand it. Here is what the series look like.

they are all in order

They are my fav series so far. Hope you can try these books!