Good Vibrations

Kea Facts

Facts about Kea

Kea live’s in mountains in the South Island.

What do Keas eat?

Roots, berries, leaves, insects, nectar and carrion

How big can Kea’s grow to??

Kea’s are a solid  parrot and are about 46cm long.

FUN FACTS

1. The kea is a parrot.

2. Kea can breed each year and are generally  thought to mate for life.

3. It is very hard to tell the difference between  males and females.

By Kalo and Ngakiri!.

Vultures

 Vultures

      Vultures flying around all day,

Building nests and finding prey. 

       Eating things that are dead ,

       before they curl up in their bed.

             By LJ Su’a

School Rocks!

School Rocks!

Every day I go to school

It is fun and it is cool

When the bell rings

We do cool things

Some are playing all around

Some are playing at the playground

Before it's morning tea

We go to wash our hands  

Because we play in the sand

By Viliami

The Kiwi Bird

The Kakapo

The Kakapo is:

• One of the world's longest living birds. They can live up to an average of 90 years to a maximum of 120.
• The world's heaviest parrot.
• The world's only nocturnal parrot.
• A non-flying bird.
• A parachutist from trees because it cannot fly.
• Featured in the documentary from BBC 'Last Chance To See'
• Critically endangered.

By Jordan

The beginning of a musical adventure!!!

In Room 9 we have started our new Inquiry topic which is music!!! I am so excited about this topic as this is my passion!!! I hope to see Room 9 get as excited about music as what I am. This is what Room 9 came with at the beginning of our musical adventure!!!

Arataki Trip

Arataki

On Wednesday the senior school went to Arataki Visitors center to Learn about the native tree’s.

We went to see the Tea tree, Flax, Tarata, and Nikau palm. Instead of using a tea bag you can pick it from tea trees. After that we went for a bush walk and I heard a tui bird mocking other birds. Next we went to see the kauri tree. It is 700 year’s old. After that we went to the visitors center to do a crossword. When we finished we went to the frame to take a photo. After that we were going to walk back in the bush but we did not have enough time.

When we got back to school we had to put our inquiry book in our desk. When I got home I felt amazing because it was my first time at Arataki. After that we watched a movie called Waitakere ranges.

By Bianca

Arataki Trip

                                                  Arataki trip

On 11 May we went to the Native bush at Arataki. When we arrived at Arataki we had morning tea. After that there’s was some visitor told us to clean our shoe for the long walk and the sick Kauri tree. We were walking in the bush and everybody saw “a tui!” The special thing is it can mock other birds calls. We also saw the biggest Kauri tree but that one is sick.  It won’t lost  that long.

After that we went back to have lunch. When we were done Miss Kay told  us to come fast so we can go to the visitor center. We got there like about 5 minute because we weren’t listening to the teacher. Miss Kay told us to sit on the chair. When we stopped talking Miss took us up the stairs. My leg was so tired because of the bush walk and the stairs but lucky we are already there. Miss split us into two people. I was with Aj for the word find. After that we came down for the movie it was called the Arataki Ranger’s. The movie was so cool because it showed everything about Arataki.

Finally we went back to school. It was fun and awesome. I enjoyed myself at  Arataki.

By Tevita

Cats

Cats

I like a cat,  

Which is not fat

It should catch a rat

that is running on the mat.

I’ll play with my cat

and put it in a hat

like cat in the hat.

By Kestrel