Kids Teach Kids!

This week is Kids Teaching Kids week at our school so we have been working with our buddies. They have taught us about persuasive texts and they helped us put our ideas together to summarise the work we have been doing about living sustainably with native wildlife.
We used our iPads to create videos we can share with other students in our school to teach them about living in harmony with native animals, especially possums.
First we used our favourite new app: Pic Collage to make a picture about our ideas and then we used Sonic Pics to record our voices explaining our ideas. There were lots of different jobs we had to do when working with our partners and our buddies. Some of us had great ideas, others could write the ideas down quickly. Some of us are very good at using the iPads to make picture collages, others are great at reading with clear voices. When we work together we can create great things!
You can watch our videos here!

Olivia and Joshua

Hannah and Fumi

Kyan and Ryan

Nathan and Nic

Ella and Maya

Ben and Edward

Sam and James

Amelia and Charlotte

Ella and Jacinta

Penelope and Sophia

Hunter and Zac

Harrison and Jacob

What else could people do to live more harmoniously with native animals? 

What reasons can you give for your ideas?

The Easter Bilby

In Australia, we have many symbols of new life that we recall at Easter time.
Yesterday in our class liturgy we used eggs, seeds, mealworms, butterflies and the crucifix as symbols to remind us of the Easter story.
A special Australian Easter symbol is the Easter Bilby. The bilby is an endandered Australian animal that looks a bit like a rabbit. We want to give our endangered animals hope for a new and better life at Easter too.
We made Easter Bilby baskets from recycled milk cartons with our buddies today and we wrote a report about bilbies too.

Bilbies
Bilbies are marsupials. This means they have a pouch.
Bilbies have fluffy grey fur and big, rabbit-like ears.
They have a black tail with a white tip.
They have a long snout and sharp claws.
Bilbies use their sharp claws for digging their burrows or to protect themselves.
They are nocturnal. During the day they sleep in their burrow because it is too hot.
Bilbies live in the desert in Australia.
Bilbies eat insects and their larvae, spiders, fruit, bulbs, seeds and very small animals.
Bilbies are endangered because other animals like feral rabbits eat the same foods as the bilbies and take over their habitats. Some feral animals like cats and dogs eat the bilbies.
We have the Easter Bilby as a symbol for Easter to remind us that we need to give the bilby a chance at a new life.