‘The Kiwi’

Room Three’s story

Cluster Share March 2007

2006

A virtual field trip embedded within an integrated unit on the Kiwi

We shared all the things we knew about the kiwi

We sorted all the facts we knew into a Y chart

Why do they have

little wings?

What do they eat ?

Why do they look for food

at night time ?

How big are kiwi eggs ?

Why do Kiwis have such long beaks ?

Where do they live ?

We had some question’s

To find answersto our questionswe decided weneeded to

Look in booksAsk ‘experts’

Look on the internetGo to the museum orthe zoo

How big are kiwi eggs ?

We decided to find answers to some of our questions

We used this tocompared thesize of the kiwi egg with things inour classroom

We found abook that showed us theactual size ofa kiwi egg.

Shea found that the egg was the size of his hand.

Taiga found that the egg was the same size as a piece of mobilo.

We compared the kiwi egg to a hen’s egg.

A Kiwi’s egg is 6 times bigger than a hen’s

egg.

Shea thought it would be a good idea to show the size of the kiwi’s egg with play dough.

Wow !

We looked on theinternet andwatched a video ofan kiwi hatchingfrom its egg.It wasso interesting wewatched it twice!!!!!.

We decided to present what we’d learnt about the size of a kiwi’s egg on our classroom wall.

We decided to answer another question

Where do

Kiwi’s live ?

To find the answer toour question wewatched a video and ……..

… looked at

books

We found out that…………….

Kiwi’s live on the

forest floor

Kiwi’s live in New

Zealand

Kiwi’s live in

the forest.

Where they live is called their habitat

burrowLeaf litter

Kiwi

egg

We made a display of the kiwi’s habitat in our classroom

We also made a class Y chart which answeredsome of the other questions we had about the Kiwi eg what they ate and why they had a long beak

We found out the kiwi was endangered and we wanted to know why ?

We found out that the kiwi is killed by ……

We passed the Kiwi around andshared how we felt …

mad

angry

sadcross

I feel angry when possum traps are on

the forest floor

I feel sad because the

kiwi is getting killed

I feel angry when people

take their dogs into the forest

I feel angry because the kiwi will be

gone for good

We looked at an Interactive bookon the Kiwi Recovery website about 006 the kiwi chick……

……and found outthat people arehelping the kiwi.

To show how ‘006’ was helped by people whocare about kiwis we organised all the photos we had of ‘006 ’

We put them in order from when the egg wastaken from the bush

to the Bird Recovery

Centre……

where it hatched and ‘006’ the chick was lookedafter to…….

when ‘006’ was released onLimestone Islanda kiwi reserve

We looked at someother photos of people helping the Kiwi.

We wrote about whatwe saw in the photos

To help the kiwi a transmitter is puton the leg to track the kiwi in theforest.

They look at the egg with a torch to see ifit is growing

They take the egg.

To fix the egg they put nail polish on it.This keeps the germs out of the egg.

When we ran the school assembly we shared some of the things we had learnt about the kiwi and the ways people are helping to save them.

We sent Perky the pukeko our Northcote Primary ambassador on a virtual field trip with Audrie the learnz teacher.

PerkyAudrie

We all got to cuddle him before he went on his trip.

Every day for a week we met with rooms 1 and 2 to look at the pictures and videos of Perky’s trip with Audrie

We saw how they marked a trail to it so they could find it when it was dark

We watched themfind Jack a male kiwi and his burrow

We watched them go back at night time and lift Jacks eggs from his burrow

They wrapped the egg very carefully and put it in a box with a hot water bottle

We also got to see inside Jack’s burrow it was full of dry leaves and feathers.

The next day we saw a video of Audrie taking Jacks eggs to the Rainbow Springs hatchery in Rotorua where they candled each egg and found only one of the eggs was viable.

They took the photo of this kiwi that had hatched in the morning.

The next day they went to Warrenheip reserve, which is surrounded by a pest proof fence. The rangers caught a young kiwi called Cassidy for a health check.

They showed us where Cassidy’s ear opening is just behind her eye They measured her bill and weighed her.

Then they changed Cassidy’s transmitter to her other leg.

We really enjoyed watching the videos so we watched them again in our classroom.

Throughout the week we received emails and photos of Perky and we……..

sent him emails to tell him how much we enjoyed getting the daily photos and videos.

We decided that oneway we could help the Kiwi was by raising somemoney for the Bank of New Zealand operationNest Egg programme so…

we drew beautiful pictures

to sell

Every class inthe Kowhai teamput their art workin the hall to sell

Room 2 Room 7

Room 1 Room 3

Room 5

Room 10

Room 6

We raised over $350 and presented it to representativesof the BNZ kiwi recovery trust.

Perky returned toschool on the lastday of the term. We were pleased to see him back.

We look forward to sending him off onanother adventurenext year!

The end