Babies

Baby dogs are called puppies or pups and so are seals. Kittens are baby cats as well as baby rabbits. Baby cows are called calves and so are baby giraffes and elephants. Baby koalas and baby kangaroos are called joeys.

Ladybirds eat aphids and so do their babies. Their babies are called grubs.

A lot of animals have to be able to run soon after they are born. Goslings are baby geese and they have to swim and run straight away after they hatch. Giraffe calves have to run soon after they are born. If they don’t keep up with the heard they will be easy for lions to catch.

Baby rabbits have no fur and they don’t have their eyes open when they are born. But baby hares have fur and they are born with their eyes open even though they are similar to rabbits. The reason is because hares are born on the ground and rabbits are born underground.

Mammals

Mom showed me how to draw a rabbit and so I did a new one. I used real fur. I made the tail white because we see the white tails of the rabbits in the garden as they hop off.

I have decided that this looks more like a hamster.

Grade Two Books

Science.
This first crossword puzzle I did not like. Once I had finished it I was so glad I had finished it. At the next crossword puzzle I liked that one more. I don't know why. I guess it was because it was smaller. (Belinda "The second puzzle had just as many as the first. I think she enjoyed the second one because I told her how much Nana and Grandpa love doing crossword puzzles. I am sure that helped. It was probably easier the second time around too.")

Language

Maths

Sports Day

On Tuesday we went to a sports day. And we played a whole lot of games. We had to line up in our teams. We got stickers for which team we were in. There were children from different schools and from home schools.

The first thing we did we had to run over polls on the ground and then run around a cone....

and on the way back we had to jump over jumps. It was so much fun. This was one of my favorite parts.

I hated this one. We had to take blocks and run back and forth and get as many blocks as we could into our hoola hoop. Once the blocks in the middle had finished, we had to steal from the others. That was why I was so shy and did not like it.

Here we had to get balls and run back and forth putting the balls out in the three hoola hoops. We had to take one at a time. And then we had to go to the back of the line and the next person had to bring them back, one at a time.

First we had to bounce the ball to the person on the other side. Then we had to roll the ball across to each other over a hoola hoop...

and then we had to throw the ball through the hoola hoop to the person on the other side.

Sports Day - part 2

We ran and we jumped over a jump and we had to zigzag between cones and go under a bench and we had to crab jump back to the back of the line.

We had to throw a heavy ball and then we had to wait for instructions and then we went to go fetch the ball. We had to put our left arm straight in front of us where we were aiming and have the ball under our right ear and then we had to "push" the ball when she said "three".

We had to throw a beanbag and get it into the bucket. If we got it into the bucket it was 2 points and if we got it into the hoola hoop then we got 1 point. I got one in the bucket.

We had to run and jump into the sand. That was called a "long jump".

We had to throw the ball around the circle and count how many good catches we had. When the other team said "stop" we had to stop.

We put balls on a parachute and we had to put the parachute up and down, up and down to try and get the balls off.

Then we counted up to three and then went under the parachute. Then we did it again. It was like a big tent.

It was so much fun.

Felines

Yardil by Rosanne Hawke

Once upon a time there lived a girl. She wanted a snow leopard. But her dad didn't want one. One day when she had finished helping her sister make flour she went into the mountains. She went on and on. Then she heard a crying sound. She picked up her courage to go further. Then she saw a baby snow leopard caught in a bush. She said "let me help". She rushed forward to help the snow leopard. She went home to show her mother. The other people said "how will we protect the goats?" But her dad said "let her be, because I know a story of a leopard and there was a reason for it coming."

One day she was cleaning the rice at the river. Then she slipped and fell into the water. The snow leopard ran up and down. Her dad saw the snow leopard. He was just in time to save her.

That night, she head another same kind of cry. She said, "that is your mother." She let the snow leopard got to his mother.

The picture is of the snow leopard when she was in the water. He was worried about her.