🌍Zoo Trip🌍

IALT: Come up with educational idea's about animals!

Hello EVERYBODY!

Welcome back to my blog!

So yesterday, Kia Manawanui went to the Auckland Zoo! This was the VERY last educational trip we went to and I had SO much fun at the zoo with my year 7 & 8 peers and hopefully they had a GREAT time too. What was MORE exciting was that Ms Kirsty who is one of our old teachers worked at the Auckland Zoo and She was the person who gave us a educational lesson...I was in her first class at Tamaki Primary School which was back in 2013! I can't wait to tell you all about it....

So as we arrived at the zoo...We departed from the bus. Then we had to go and sit inside of the zoo and also wait for Ms Aireen to pay for us before we go in, We waited for probably half an hour which is 30 minutes because she didn't arrive till later. While we were waiting, We were taking photo's with the big green lizard that is laying down in front of the Zoo Entrance! Don't worry, It is gigantic but it's FAKE meaning its NOT real!

Then after ALL that waiting, We finally got to go into the zoo! Then we had to tell ALL the adults that at 12.00pm, We'll have to meet at the Educational Centre. So we went off and away to go see some wonderful animals! I was in Leilani's group and our adult was her father Ofa, He was really funny and I enjoyed going around with my group!

We saw:

• Flamingoes
• Tigers
• Meerkats
• Red Panda
• Zebra's
• Ostrich
• Ostrich eggs (Which were AMAZING)
• Alligators
• Tasman Devil's
• Otters
• Peacock (Harold)
• Birds (Bob & his friends)

And many more....

It was an SPECTACULAR experience walking around the whole zoo and getting to learn new educational skills and ideas about that particular animal. After that it was 12.00pm, So we had to go to the Educational Centre. ALL the groups got to get spilt up into two groups so one whole group including the adults were with Ms Komor and The other group is with Ms Aireen so my group which was Group 1 had to go to the Educational Centre first.

There were lizards in their habitats in that specific education centre and there were ALSO polar bear skin carpets and also lion ones! When I got to touch it, I was immediately scared even though it was dead, Then I touched the polar bear and got the same exact feeling. We also got to play with a tiger's toy which they chew on, The person who was educating us and worked at the zoo is Frazer, He's AWESOME and he told us ALL to play with the big black toy and get our smell on it because the tiger will chew on it thinking that the toy is a human being.

Then we got told that back in the old day, The chimpanzee's had to act like humans drinking tea and also had to smoke a cigarette just to entertain others. I feel so bad about that because we also got told that there was a chimapanzee named Jane who actually forgot she was a Chimpanzee because she had to do the same thing that I just explained above several times in her life. 

So she had to live in a cage by herself and without other chimpanzees which is sad....Then after that, We got to go and explore some more around the Zoo with Frazer, He said that there is two new cheetahs in the zoo who just turned 2 last week and have been living at the zoo for only a week and a half.

The other 2 cheetahs who were brothers sadly died. So the new 2 cheetahs who are sisters moved into the zoo! We ALL went to the same area where we discussed to meet at the Education Centre, We had lunch, Took some photos and went back to school!

Have you EVER been to the zoo? And if you did, What did you learn about a specific type of animal?

If you wanna answer these questions, Please comment!

Thanks for reading!

MALO!