Bird of the Year

This week we celebrated the Bird of the Year competition that runs annually. Because we have already studied the ecosystems of New Zealand, in particular NZ birds, there was a lot of excitement about the news. We've structured our programme to extend what we already knew. We looked at the phenomena of flight and the sound waves. We've found out that owls are almost silent flying machines, no sound waves could be recorded. With almost 80% of our endemic birds being at some risk, we studied a few more birds. We found out that there is a surprising contestant this year, a tiny bat called Pekapeka. How could this flying mammal enter a bird competition?! Well, we learned that from a Maori perspective, this endangered fluff is considered to be a bird! Some students voted and encouraged their families to vote as well. We've had a 'bird' dress up on ZOOM and a chance to create a favourite bird. The kereru at the bottom was created on Snapchat! Miss Aiston, our student-teacher created a Kahoot to see how much we've learned. So many students were eager to learn how to participate in this fun quiz. Now we are looking forward to spotting some of these birds and their melodies when we're in nature, even more...

Tui description

NZ falcon needs you-please vote! They are in trouble

Karearea vote

Kahoot quizz

Testing our knowledge

Tui costume out of household items

The controversial bat, pekapeka, entry in 2021

Record environmental sounds task

Discovery-owls are such quiet machines, no sound pattern

Technological creation-Guess who this tui is?

Recording sound patterns

 

Snapchat Kereru by....Vivaan

Kiwi by a 'kiwi'