Today we made a life size South Island Giant Moa to put up in our class. It stands 3.7 metres tall and we had to bend its head to fit it up in the room. The children cut out feathers to stick on its body. When we were putting it up the children made lots of comments about how big it was.
Connor: It is bigger than adults and kids.
Raul: It is as big as a T-Rex.
Amelie: A giant is bigger than a moa.
Dakota: They are bigger than emus.
Lily: Moas are gianormous.
They also started developing some theories.
Eva: Moas are long necked dinosaurs, that eat trees. Dinosaurs with long neck eat trees and moas have long necks.
Tyra: A giraffe has a long neck and eats trees too.
We refined their ideas and wrote down the theory as...
We think moas eat trees because they have long necks.
We wrote a list of where we could go to find out whether our theory was right or not.
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