Today Colin and Liam had their first student/parent/teacher conferences for the first quarter of the school year at Queenstown Primary School. In their Learning Journals they both included pieces that they wrote this fall. Colin wrote about his Outdoor Education Week and Liam wrote about hiking the Lycian Way in Turkey on our trip through Europe. The Lycian Way hike appears to have been an important experience for Liam because he has written several pieces about it. Both boys enjoy writing, like their Uncle Matt and Grandy!
Outdoor Education Week, by Colin:
The Lycian Way, by Liam:
Vermin count update:
Mice: 16
Rats: 0
Possum: 5
Hedgehog: 1
p.s. Doug did a little research and found out that New Zealand has approximately 4 million people and is estimated to have at least 60 million possums. With these numbers each person needs to trap 15 possums to rid New Zealand of this invasive, forest-devouring pest. That means, to do our fair share, our family has 55 possums to go...
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