The High Flyers Zoo Trip

One sunny day the High Flyers went to the Auckland zoo. There were 5 classes that went to the zoo. First we saw Miss Rayner, she introduced us to the zoo educators and talked about the rules and what we would be doing. Then a zoo educator took us to his teaching area where he talked about reptiles like the tuatara, skink and he showed us a dead python snake skin. When he finished talking we went into a dark house where they all lived and we tried to find them, they had camouflage to help them hide from predators. Next another zoo educator called Miss Rayner took us to go and see the native bird called the Kea. Miss Rayner also showed us some bones of a native bird.  After that we went to see the Kereru with a man, the kereru was so cute it's body colour was green like a kakapo. We learnt heaps about the Kereru. The next native animal we went to see was the Kiwi, we had to listen to the information about the kiwi and we had to be very quiet because the kiwi  don't like lots of noise. We found out that when we sleep at night time the kiwi wake up and search for food. This is called being 'nocturnal.' When we came out of the dark night house we saw a big glass pool with rocks around it, this is where we found out about the Eels. Did you know that these eels swim to Tonga to have their babies, then the babies swim back to live in New Zealand. Later we had our morning-tea. All of the high flyers ate their morning tea together around the rocks. Once we all finished our morning-tea we went to our teacher to find out where we were going next. For the rest of the time went spilt up into groups and went exploring the rest of the zoo. Some of us went to the safari and grasslands area to see the giraffes, zebras, the white rhino, the elephant and the hippopotamus. They are such big funny looking animals. Some  of us went to see the monkeys who were making lots of noise because they were excited about having lots of people around.  We saw the seals from under the water, they were so graceful and kept swimming past us! We had so much fun at the zoo exploring all the different enclosures and looking at the animals habitats. Thanks alot to all those who helped make it possible! Here are some of our photos.

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