Our Trip to MOTAT,Kelly Tarlton's and the ZOO

What an amazing group of children and parents we had last Thursday and Friday for our long awaited trip to Auckland.
There was some very excited children Thursday morning at school. We got away on time and arrived at  our first stop

MOTAT  : Fabulous Flight        We learnt about the physics of flight

 We went by Tram to the main  part of MOTAT where we saw lots of interesting hands on activities .

 The next day we went to the zoo.

We saw the elephants and many other animals.
More pictures will be posted .

We are going to the zoo!

We are learning about animals we will see at the zoo.
We are learning how to write an animal report.
We need to have a title:   name it
Classification:  Tell what the thing is.
Description:  Tells what the thing has.
                      Tells what it looks like.
Location:Tells where the thing lives
The students watched a video about elephants . We talked about what an elephant looks like , where they come from and what they eat and do.

                                                              Elephant

Elephants are fat. 

Elephants are big.

Elephants have big ears.

                        Elephants live in Africa.                         

 Brody

Elephants have big ears.

Elephants have a trunk.

Elephants live in Africa.

     Elephants eat leaves.         

 Izzy

The elephant has toes.

Elephants squirt water out of their trunks.

They eat leaves.

Elephants live in Africa.

Ollie

  The elephants have big ears.

The elephant has big feet.

The elephant eats grass.

Phoebe