We are in Australia!

Sonny arrived back after a wonderful holiday visiting his grandparents in Australia.He brought us a present of a singing kookaburra to add to our singing bird collection and much to the delight of the children he told us all about the animals he had seen. The stories of the kangaroos on Kangaroo Island sent a ripple of excitement through the room and so we decided that we must explore Australia and discover these animals ourselves. Once again,each child picked an animal and there is great excitement every day as the wonderful projects arrive. A very happy Seb was first in with his Frilled lizard and then Lara arrived with the Wombat!Harry was very proud the following day to have a very informative Opossum  project . This morning Roisin brought in the Emu, Eamonn the Koala(once again Roisin did the beautiful writing for both projects.) Sonny naturally did the Kookaburra and his Granny and Grandad helped him!Liadan s Echidna project taught  us a huge amount about this strange little animal who has characteristics of a bird(beak),reptiles (lays eggs)and marsupial mammal in that it has a pouch!We all loved the name of a baby echidna “a puggle”!They love hearing  stories about all the  unusual  animals ,a great favourite at the moment is “The Tasmanian Devil”, We look forward to discovering other animals as the projects arrive.

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