Love Birds

Shelton's Mum brought along some baby 

Love Birds to show us.

The bigger ones are five weeks old,

and the smallest one is three and a half weeks old.

When they are born they have no feathers,
but then the feathers begin to grow.
They are covered in a little plastic sheath when they
come through and the birds have to pull this off
so the feathers can come out.
This one has a tag on its leg.

This bird has most of its feathers, 
but it still needs the feathers around the neck to grow.
Love birds can be trained to talk.

Love Bird eggs are small.

 Love Birds are beautiful. 

They belong to the parrot family 

and originally came from Africa.
Love Birds can live for 15 to 20 years old.
Some can live older.

Mushroom Spore Print

Ms McNeill is teaching us for three hours a week.
We talked about how you find mushrooms in Autumn.
We made these spore prints.

Community Study

This term we are studying how a Community helps us.

We visited the shops with Mrs Powell.

She is teaching us for two hours on Thursday and Friday.

We visited the war memorial 

and looked at the poppies.

We worked in pairs to match symbols 

to the name of the buildings and shops we had seen.

Finn is visiting school.

We have a new Finn starting in our class in Week 3.
He is doing some work on a whiteboard.
Jack is looking at Finn's work.

"How To Train Your Dragon."

Jasper went to Auckland in the holidays.
He went to a dragon show called
"How to Train your Dragon,"
and bought this dragon.

ANZAC DAY

Anzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand. It occurs on 25 April every year to honour those who died and served in military operations for their countries.

The date 25 April was officially named ANZAC Day in 1916. On 25 April 1915, the ANZAC forces landed at Gallipoli. In that campaign 2,721 NZ soldiers lost their lives.

 Paper poppies are widely distributed by the Returned Services Association  (RSA) and 
worn as symbols of remembrance.

Commemorative services are held at dawn, the time of the original landing, mainly at 
war memorials in cities and towns.

The service is marked by the National Anthem, hymns, a piper, laying of ANZAC wreaths and the ANZAC Dedication which incorporates the final verse of Laurence Binyon's 
"For the Fallen":

                       They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
                             Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
                             At the going down of the sun and in the morning
                                                 We will remember them.

Finally, a single bugler sounds the Last Post, followed by a minute's silence, and the sounding of Reveille.