Ruby's Puppy Lulu

Ruby's puppy Lulu was very excited to meet us.

Design a Bird

These are the special birds Room 7 have created. The birds have to be adapted to live near the sea, and mudflats that appear when the tide goes out. They eat fish and shellfish in the mud, or fish swimming in the water when the tide comes in. 

Kang Owl by Ayla Dewson

My bird is called Kang owl. It gets it’s food by diving under water and searching the beach.  It eats crustaceans and salmon.  It can walk very far in water.  

My bird is very smart.  My birds habitat is on rocky beaches so it can lay it’s purple and blue spotted eggs.  She lays her eggs in little rock forts and squeezes into the rock hut that predators can’t get into.  My bird has webbed feet since it walks in water and dives underwater.

The Kang owl’s biggest predator is a wild cat because the Kang owl can only just flap off the ground on short notice and wild cats are way faster than them.  The baby chicks get to stay in their fort for 7 weeks and then gets forced to go and get it’s own food.  When it’s ready to leave it flies off and finds a mate for life.

Kang owls have light brown feathers with a tiny white patch under its neck.  It’s head is full on black with a gold yellow beak for scooping up oysters, crustaceans and salmon.  They also have a pouch under their wings just in case they hear or see danger coming.

Kang owls have a noisy, booming voice to attract dinner because it’s voice is magic so it hypnotises it’s prey to come closer and closer until,  “SNAP” - dinner is served.  It even works on the crustaceans because the fish inside even get hypnotised.

Kang owl protects itself by doing a loud screeching voice that pushes the predators further away so that Kang owl can make a run for it.  Kang owl can also see half way across the earth so he knows when he needs to find a new nest.  Kang owls never go in flocks, they go in with their mates instead.  

Kang owl’s wings are as small as a fantails wing and he is as small as a fantail.  They can fly easily because they have hollow bones.

The Cheron by Luke Jordan

The cheron has long wings so it can speed into the water to get it’s food.  It has spots so it can be  camouflaged on rocky mountains.  It has a bill that can prise open shells that have food in them.  It lives in caves on the hill so it won’t take long to get food.  It has speedy feet so if a predator comes near it can speed away.  It has a tail so it can hang on  cliffs, branches and power lines.  It’s voice is like a lion.  It’s eyes can move all around it’s body.  It has an invisible nose so it can trick people.  

Gizmo by Ruby Thorpe

Gizmo has an amazing egg sac that holds 17 eggs in it.  Gizmo is a great climber because on her webbed feet she has three climbing claws.  She has one huge patch of fluffy feathers.  Gizmo eats oysters, fish and clams and uses its sharp beak to catch them.  Gizmo makes a noise that is a warning.  She has three yellow feathers that help her swim and climb.  Her favourite thing to do is playing in the mud.  Gizmo has two horns that she uses to attack other mean creatures.  Gizmo lives on a rocky cliff in a burrow made out of twigs.  It uses its sharp beak to cut its food up.  Now you know all about my bird Gizmo.

Golden Eyed Duck by Jordyn

My Golden Eyed Duck lives on a mountain near the sea and a lake.  It has webbed feet and a special flying feather so it can dive to get it’s babies food for tea and breakfast.  

My Golden Eyed Duck lays two eggs a day but if the Golden Eyed Duck is too scared to lay her eggs she will not lay any.

The food priority is 20 fish a day because the Golden Eyed Duck has to have enough energy to carry her little babies.

If it wants to, it breeds on the 1st of July with it’s mate.

The Winger by Jackson Fraine

My bird is called a Winger.  It can fly up to 145 km and lives on a sweet, sweet island called Sweet Island.  Sweet Island has trees, very tall trees.  The bird can fly up the tree when predators come.  Sweet Island has amazing and very soft sand.  On Sweet Island it also has several bird houses.  Inside the bird houses is water and lots of little seeds.  My bird has a pouch.  Baby birds are kept in the pouch when the mum bird is out getting food.  They jump into the pouch so they can keep safe.  

My bird has a beak, a crushing beak.  My bird camouflages and freezes when it sees danger.  My bird can live up to 200 years old.  My bird has hunting talon feet.

The Rainbow Falcon By Ruth

 My bird is called the Rainbow Falcon. It protects itself by fanning out its tail feathers and whacking the predator so it’s unconscious.  Then it flies away. 

It can also camouflage.  It lives on over-hanging rocks on cliff faces near to the sea with mudflats down below.  The cliff face usually has a cave carved into it between the two over-hanging rocks. 

This cave is where the Rainbow Falcon lays its eggs and lives.  It eats stoats, weasels, ferret and birds that aren’t native.  It also catches the native birds when they are falling or in trouble.

Crusher By Reuben

This bird is called Crusher because he likes to crush things.  It sounds like a penguin.  His feet are spread apart because he needs good landing feet.

His habitat is the forest.  He is really smart, strong and fast.  He also has hollow bones because he loves flying and he loves heights.  He has x-ray vision so he can see insects in the ground.  His egg colour is sort of red and sort of black.  The egg size is 100mm long and 100mm wide.  His colour is yellow, green and black strips.  His wings are 50cm wide and 25cm long.

He camouflages because it can crouch down and he has green on his back so it can camouflage with the grass in the forest.  He is 10cm long and 3.9mm wide.  He keeps his food in his pocket because when he kills insects he keeps them to his pocket for the family.  He also keeps his eggs in his pocket.  He has around 50 feathers because he loves being fast.  This bird is a herbivore and like to eat grass and drink water.

His eyes go all around his body to see if there is something behind him.  It has lights on his had to see in the dark.  This bird is very rare to find in Blenheim.

Diving Road Runner By Lucas

 My bird is called Diving Road Runner.  My bird has webbed feet so it can paddle on estuaries and dive down to get tiny fish.  The Diving Road Runner has a spear beak so it can spear fish and plankton.  You can tell a girl from a boy because a boy has a wattle bit on its neck which is white with a pinch of very light red.  The girl doesn’t have one but the she is light yellow with a spot of light purple.  The boys are dirty grey and a pinch of black on each feather.

My bird eggs are shaped like an American football.  They are yellow so they can camouflage in the sand while their mum goes and gets fish and plankton.  The Diving Road Runner has eggs every 6 months.

My Diving Road Runner can run up to 165km an hours and it can swim up to 100km an hour.  The Diving Road Runner can also dive down 125ft under water.

My bird’s predators are Hawks, Falcons and Eagles and schools of fish.  The wind length is half a metre.

My Bird  By Brodie

Name: Dinodejay

My Dinodejay has a beak that can suck sea bugs off the rocks and crushes it up and then eats the sea bugs.  It is also really hard for Dinodejay to crush it!

It has pockets that seal up and carry the eggs.  It carries the chicks when they have hatched out.  They cannot fly.  When they are five and older they will be able to fly on their own. But they have to be ten to have the spikes on their body.

Its skin coloured so it can camouflage on people.  He changes colour when he is feeling something.  He camouflages blue so nobody can see Dinodejay in the sky.

He has a special sound to attract his friends when he is in danger or when he has found food.

Pākapo By Shuun

 My bird is called Pakāpo.   The Pāakapo carries its nests and eggs in its beak because the beak is a pelican’s beak.  When the eggs hatch and become chicks the chicks still stay in the beak so if the chicks can’t eat the food the father can just swallow the leftover food.  Before she lets the chicks eat it, the mother crushes all the food, for an example fish.  Their predators are gorillas, bats, possums and sharks.  Their pray is fish (any types), seahorses, crabs, shellfishes and eels.

To hide away from predators they dig holes with their feet and then they fly into the deep dark hole.  Afterwards they put the dirt and grass on top of them.  Before they get out they have to dig somewhere else and then dig up he’s back on top of the cliff.

 Instead of the mum taking care the dad takes care while the mother Pākapo gets all the prey.  When the father gets its food it gets a few things.

The mother goes away when they are five weeks old and the mother comes back in a year.  The mother goes away to see if there are any better places to live around the country.  If there’s a good place they move to a new good cliff by the ocean.  It makes a weird noise like “Ha..Kaa”! 

They have hair on their head so the predators think they are part of the grass.  They have strong feet so they can grab and kill the prey.  It’s only found on the coasts of New Zealand.

Falfish By Rory

My made up bird is called Falfish.  It’s two animals, it is a Falcon and a Fish.  It’s a male because it has a pouch.  The female doesn’t have a pouch because it dives in and gets crustaceans and snapper.

Food:  Their only food is shellfish and snapper.  Snapper and shellfish are their only food because of their bill.

Its bill is long and sharp to dart at snapper also to crack open crustacean.

The most important bit is their nest.  It’s made up of reeds, mud and leaves from a palm tree.  The mud keeps it altogether and it’s for softness as well.  Mostly the leaves for camouflage.

Its predators are swordfish because tackling and it can only stay under water for 26 seconds.

The Killer By Cohen

My bird is called the Killer bird. It copies other noises.  It’s a carnivore that means it eats meat.  It has a spear beck so it can attack animals.  It also has claws on its feet to attack.

When it has nothing to do, it plays video games.

The Killer bird has a back pack with eggs inside.  Its backpack has fur from the animals it kills also it has straw colour eggs so it’s eggs camouflage in the backpack.

You will be able to tell it is a female because the female has the backpack

DESIGNER BIRD By Matilda

 My bird is called the Crymingo. The Crymingo got its name because it looks like it’s crying.

My bird lives in dark caves near the beaches. It has lights on its head to see in the dark but they only go on when it’s in a dim and dark cave.

 Also, the Crymingo has a beak to grab food. Its diet consists of fish and crustaceans. When hunting, the Crymingo dives down with its legs crossed, because its legs are so long and stretchy.

 The Crymingo has sharp claws that can attack its predators. The fabulous Crymingos all have a yellow stinger.  The male Crymingo has spots that attract females.

The female is mainly red.  The female lays pink and red eggs, the pink eggs are boys and the red eggs are girls. It depends on the Crymingos colour as to what colour the eggs will be.

The Crymingo nests on rocks in dark and misty caves. Baby Crymingos have got their lights on their head, but they do not go on.  The Crymingo protects their young by attacking predators with their tiger-sharp claws. 

Crymingo’s songs are horrible.  They sound even more horrible than screeching roosters.  The Crymingo sings in the early morning.  It goes out of its cave and goes on the highest branch of a tree that it can find. 

MY BIRD By Darcy

 My bird is called Sea Kiwi.

Sea Kiwi can’t fly, because he is 80-years-old.  He can swim, but only because he has a fish tail, which moves side-to-side.

Sea Kiwi gets his food when the tide is out.  He hunts for crabs and sea snails when the tide is out.  He puts his beak in the snail holes to fish them out. 

Sea Kiwi can live in water and on land.  Sea Kiwi eggs are red and green.  He carries his eggs in his pouch to keep them warm.

Sea Kiwi has a shell on his back, and when predators come to attack, it doesn’t hurt him at all.

When Sea Kiwi feeds his babies, he crushes the food in his beak.  This makes it easier for the babies to eat the food.

Sea Kiwi is smart, because as I said, he crushes up the food for the babies.

Sea Kiwi has brown eyes.  This helps him see in the dark when he is flying home to his nest.

PLATADUCK By Laela

The Plataduck lives near the sea, since it is a land and water creature.  The Plataduck can swim 300 kilometers per month, so it can find a place to lay its eggs. 

Its feet are webbed so it can push its way when it is swimming.  It helps it to walk in the mud and sand too.

My Plataduck has flight feathers, but it can only just fly.  My pet eats white bait and other small fish.  The Plataduck is very, very friendly.  It has never bitten anyone before. 

Plataducks are yellow, green, black and brown, because it needs feathers and fur.  The brown and black is the fur, and the yellow and green are the feathers. 

Plataducks babies are layed from June to August and hatch in December. 

MY TAPU By Bailee

My bird is called a Tapu.  A Tapu carries its eggs on their feet, because their feet are the warmest part of their body.

Also, a Tapu has a special pocket, because when they go out to catch food from the sea, they put the sea snails, fish and crabs in their pocket.

When a Tapu has hatched, the mother puts the baby Tapu on her back so the baby can’t get hurt walking over the sharp rocks.

The Tapu has webbed feet so they can walk in the mud when the tide goes out.

Also, the Tapu cannot fly, because an adult Tapu weighs 60 kilograms, and the baby Tapu weighs 30 kilograms.

The mother Tapu has spikes on their back to protect themselves from predators. Some Tapas have water dripping from their beak, so they know when they are hungry or not. 

A mother Tapu is very protective, because there are a lot of bad predators out in the wild.

An adult Tapu is very aggressive; even if you are about 25 feet away from it, because they are terrified of people.  They think that the people will capture them. 

MY BIRD By Sylvie

My bird is called Edmond.  She eats fish.  Shell fish and great white sharks.

My birds species is a Hastowl.  Today, I’m going to tell you about what my bird eats, where it lives, and other stuff!

Eggs:  The Hastowls’ eggs are the size of an orange, but their eggs are creamy yellow.  The reason the eggs are so big, is so they can fit in the wing pouch. 

Food:  The Hastowl eats seafood.  It carries its food in a basket, so the food doesn’t escape.  The reason it eats this food is so it has super energy to fly.

The Hastowl lives in tree tops, but the tree has to have a colossal trunk and huge leaves to hold up the nest (the nest is the size of a desk).

THE FAN BIRD   by Connor M

My bird is called the Fan-bird.  It has sacks on its legs so it can carry its eggs.  It also has egg-warmers.  Usually, this bird has a green tongue so it can lick up its food.  Its food is octopus, fish, bugs and insects. 

Its eyes are like hawks eyes.  It can see for up to 3 to 4 miles.  For example, if it is going home, it can see its home easily. 

The Fan-birds eggs look like fish wrapped up in a rugby ball.  This is because it has scales on the egg.  The habitat is at a beach or on the mud flats.  Its nest is made of sticks and stones.

The Fan-bird uses its sacks when it is moving nests.  My bird has a beard.  The beard has a shiny glimmer that attracts insects and bugs.  This is how it stocks up on food.  It has webbed feet so it can swim fast and catch up to its prey.

It has four hands and 32 fingers, so it can defend itself.  It has strong wings so it can fly long distances. 

And those are all the facts about the Fan-bird!

Reuben's Balloon Creations

Reuben learnt to make balloon creations over the holidays. He was very kind and made some for children in Room 7.

Connor's Tennis

Congratulations to Connor who

won his tennis tournament over the holidays in the 8 and under singles at the Marlborough Junior Tennis Open.

Addi's Swimming

Addi has been improving her swimming at the ASB centre.

Spellebrities

Congratulations to these amazing students who achieved 100% in Term 2's spelling.  Bella was away but was also a Spellebrity.