Amazing projects from Australia!

We looked at our continents again at the beginning of February and finally decided with a majority vote that we would explore Australia.It has been  fantastic ! Every day a child runs in with a beautiful project and proudly tell us all about their animal.Today,Anna burst in the door so eager to show us and share her knowledge of the duck billed platypus! What an amazing little animal with his webbed feet like an otter,beak like a duck ,lays eggs (though a mammal)and has a marsupial pouch! I never knew that he carried a venom in his back foot! One learns something new from these little children every day! Eamon also proudly presented his kangaroo project today and did the beautiful writing and colouring all by himself!Lana- Maye had a difficult project :Tasmanian devil(but a strange little marsupial that arouses my curiosity) and she too did beautiful colouring and writing!Saul entertained us with his super frilled lizard especially as the children are fascinated by the reptile world!Moss also did a reptile,  the thorny devil and mummy once again displayed her great artistic talent whilst daddy shared his  scientific knowledge. We learned that thorny devil has a false head on the back of his neck to scare off predators!Saibh s mummy is also a great artist and her echida is wonderful !Another strange Australian mammal that lays eggs!Cara did lovely drawings and writing on the Kiwi from New Zealand and we are all fascinated by this strange bird that has hair instead of feathers!Lula told us that the laughing kookaburra is called the “bushmans clock” as he sings so early in the morning..also a wonderful project! Rian loves his koala teddy so it was very appropriate that he should do the koala! And what a fabulous project ..mummy even made a felt koala. We leaned that he sleeps for up to 20 hours a day and loves to eat eucalyptus leaves!Another cute little marsupial!Rian also brought in a beautiful story book called “Over in Australia” and we had great fun trying to find the animals that were hiding in this book. Umi s mummy helped her this time with her kangaroo and she too is a great artist producing lovely pictures and told us about the grey and red kangaroo!We are learning so much about this very different animal world down in Australia and huge thank you for the very hard work to Mums and Dads.