Can you guess which country Mr Waddles and Mrs O'C are now visiting?

CLUE 1:   The wildlife. 

Mr Waddles got to meet a whole lot of new animal friends including squirrels, musk rats, raccoons, chipmunks, woodpeckers, water snakes and even a moose (but not the chocolate variety). 

We saw this moose in the wild.  A moose sheds it's antlers every year and then grows new ones.

Here is a picture of what a moose looks like with antlers.

We visited a bear centre. We learnt about bears and what to do if we saw them in the wild.

When we were canoeing we saw a beaver lodge. This is the name for the house the beaver builds to live in. Can you see it in the photo? The beavers get into the lodge by swimming underneath. They can chop down trees with their sharp teeth.

This turtle just wondered across the grass where we were staying.

CLUE 2:  The Flag.

CLUE 3: Famous Landmarks- natural and man made.

Here is Mr Waddles next to Niagara Falls. This is a famous waterfall because it has the most water flowing over it in the world.

The CN Tower is a famous landmark in Toronto. Toronto is a city in this country just like Christchurch is a city in New Zealand.

Have you guessed which country we have just visited from the clues?

Here is one more clue if you need more help. 

CLUE 4:

This country is above the United States of America (USA). You might like to look at a map of the world to help you.

The next place we are about to visit is known for its 10,000 lakes and is back in the USA. See if you can find Minnesota on a map of America.

New York

Howdy Room 10

Mr Waddles and I had a fun time in New York. There are a lot of skyscrapers. This is a famous skyscraper called the Empire State Building.

This is Times Square.

Here is Mr Waddles waving to the Statue of Liberty.

Finally some grass for Mr Waddles to run around in. This is Central Park. It is a huge park in the middle of New York. Lots of New Yorkers live in apartments so they don't have a back yard to run around in, instead they play in Central Park.

GEOMETRY

Today Room 10 learned that Shapes are everywhere - Room 10 is a pentagon!

See if you can identify these shapes. Hint: You may see a  circle, square, hexagon, cylinder, triangle, diamond, cone, and a rectangle.

Reduce

Compost

We can reduce our rubbish by turning food scraps into compost.

How does this happen? Here are Room 10's ideas about what compost is and how it is made.

Our thinking was on the right track.  Have a look at this...

How To Make A Worm Farm

Last week Room 10 went to the Botanical Gardens.  We learnt lots about worms and how they are very good for the soil.  Then each of us made our own worm farm.  Have a look at the photos and read some of the instructions we wrote on how to make a worm farm....

How to make a Work Farm

By Patrick

1.        Cut open the bottle.

2.        Get some paper and rip it.

3.        Wet the paper.

4.        Squeeze the newspaper and squeeze the water out.

5.        Roll the newspaper up and put it in the top.

6.        Get some worms for the bottle.

7.        Put soil in the bottle.

8.        Look after your worms. They don’t like oranges.

9.        Feed the worms banana peels.

How to make a Work Farm

By Liam

     1.   Get a bottle and cut off the top.

2.   Put the newspaper in the water.

3.   Put the newspaper in the bottle.

4.   Wrap the bottle in newspaper.

5.   Put the soil and seeds in the bottle.

6.   Put worms in the bottle.

7.   Feed them banana skins.

8.   Now you have a worm farm.

How to make a Work Farm

By Charlotte

         1.        Cut the top off a plastic bottle.

2.        Wrap the bottle in newspaper and sellotape it.

3.        Get newspaper and put it in landscape and tear it into strips.

4.        Put it in your bottle.

5.        Get 5 worms and put them in.

6.        Get the bottle and put soil in it.

7.        Put seeds in it.

8.        Water it.

9.        Now your worm farm is complete.

10.      Feed your worms banana, popcorn, hair and vacuum cleaner fluff.

How to make a Work Farm

By Barnaby

1.        Cut the bottle open at the top.

2.        Get newspaper and wrap it around the bottle and sellotape it.

3.        Wet newspaper until it gets soaked.

4.        Rip it into strips.

5.        Take it out and put it into your bottle.

6.        Get 5 worms and put them in your bottle.

7.        Put your lid back on.

8.        Get dirt and then put grass seeds in the dirt.

9.        Feed your worms apples and carrots.

10.      Don’t feed your worms hot food.

Bonjour

Bonjour from France. We've had an action packed few days here in Paris. Mr Waddles has sore but "happy feet" after lots of walking and taking in the sites of this beautiful city. We also managed to fit in a fun-filled day in Disneyland Paris and Walt Disney Studios. 

Have a look at the photos of Monsieur Waddles below to see if you can match them to the following famous Parisian sites:

The Louvre

Sacre Coeur

The Eiffel Tower

The River Seine

Arc De Triomphe

Lunchbox Rubbish !!

Last week Room 10 collected our lunchbox rubbish from one lunch time. Then we classified the rubbish into categories, wrote descriptions about it and made a graph! Some rubbish was organic and some was inorganic. Overall, there was 52 pieces of rubbish including 9 pieces of gladwrap and 9 bar wrappers. We all think we can reduce our lunchbox rubbish. Here it is........

This is some excerpts from our descriptions about our lunchbox rubbish.

"It was gross and I wouldn't want to touch it". By Theo.

"It looked colourful. It was smelly". By Zara. 

"There were chip packets and other packets, if you scrunch them they kind of make music". By Annabel.

"It was stinky and yuck and there were chip packets and banana peels". By Will.

"It was colourful and it was disgusting". By Liam.

"It looked disgusting. It smells yuck. Some people drop chip packets on the ground outside". By Barnaby.

"It looked like a pile of socks and it was stinky". By Matthew.

"It was yuck and there was orange in it". By Summer.

"It was yuck and gross". By Eddie.

"It looked weird, it was disgusting". By Poppy.

"It looked really colourful but it smelled yuck!". By Maia.

"Orange was one of the pieces of organic rubbish". By Nathan.

"It was squishy. It smelled smelly. The colours looked like a rainbow". By Tainui.

"It smelled like a skunk. I must admit it was quite colourful". By Jaxson.

"It looked like a pile of rainbow sticky goo and it smelt like sticky goo too". By Melissa.

"There were 52 pieces of rubbish. I couldn't believe how much rubbish there was". By Charlotte.

"The rubbish was horrifying to see". By Caitlin.

"There were chip packets in the rubbish. They were scrunchy". By Patrick.