Moa Bones

Thursday 19th August

Today vida brought to school some moa bones that had been found on a farm.

Vida: This is a moa bone.

Miss B: What is a moa?

R: It swings from tree to tree

Campbell: They climb

Hannah: Scratch people

Charlie: Run Fast

Claire: (Pointing to bones) They look like claws.

Amelie: They lick people.

Lily: Moas are extinct.

Miss B: What does extinct mean?

R: They are gone and turned to bones like dinosaurs.

Dakota: They are dead.

Alex: They are like a kangaroo.

Charlie: They don't have pouches.

Connor: They got stinged. (extinct?)

Amelie: They are Stinky

Miss B: What do they look like?

Charlie: Brown fur. I hopped ona pretend moa that was hard and black.

Claire: It looks like a rock that is brown. (Talking about the bone)

Connor: It has sharp teeth.

Thomas: Like a T-rex

Connor: No

Vida then showed them a picture of a moa in a book, we talked about the fact that some were taller than us. Vida explained that they were hunted for meat and that the bones she was showing us had been cooked which was why they were black, where the fat had burnt into the bones.

Miss B: Who would have eaten the moas? (Wait time, no response) Who were the first people in NZ.

Lily:Maori

Claire: Was god the first one in New Zealand?

Caitlyn: They cooked them in ovens and they turned black.

Miss B: Did they have ovens?

Hannah: They didn't have ovens, they used fire.

Claire:They had pots and they put the moa in and put it on the fire.

Vida: They killed them with spears they made.

Hannah: they have fur.

Connor: I think they look like kiwi mothers.

Claire: I think that the people who ate them picked them up, put them in a fire and cut them.

Vida: They have tiny wings like kiwi so they can't fly, it makes them special.

Amelie: Why did they eat moas?

Miss B: Where do you think the Maori lived?

Dakota: In the desert.

Amelie: In a different country.

Lily: Caves

Charlie: Tents

Claire: Boxes

Amelie: Big Containers

Hannah: They make houses out of straw.

R: They lived in trees.

Eva: Cubbies

Dakota: They made their houses out of wood.

Connor: Moa look like giant birds.

Vida: Like ostriched but taller than them.

Dakota: Moa have sharp teeth

Brody: and vampires

Amelie: Why did they get the moa?

Campbell: Why did moas become dead? (extinct)

Amelie: Where did the Maori and moa live?