The Magnificent Trip

Friday (12/11/2010)

a) The Bird park
• When we reached there, the peacocks first attracted everyone’s attention from the main door. There were so many of them. We were lucky to see a few spreading its train of feathers. They were so beautiful. Peahens aren’t able to spread their feathers.
• We saw many other birds. Among: rooster, love birds, parrots, crowned pigeons, emu hatching their big green eggs, ostriches, ducklings, fish in ponds, a little waterfall, strange looking owls, Hornbills, tortoises, little chicks hatching from eggs in a nursey building. There were so many colourful little birds as if painted by artists. The Bird Park was surrounded by an extremely huge net thus disabling monkeys from getting in.
• We had lunch at the comfortable cafeteria, played at the playground for a while and journeyed to the tunnel waterfall. Along the way, we saw birds discharge on the floor and cautioned one another. It was a wonderful trip as if walking down the Memory Lane.

b) Discussion and recording.
• We reached school early around 3.30pm. Everyone was so tired that almost all took an hour nap in the classroom.
• After waking up, we started discussing about our wonderful trip. Everyone had so much to share that eventually, I drew almost all the birds that we saw in Bird park….thanks to kids’ sharing.
• They started sketching their favourite moment. From my observation, 4 years old love the tunnel waterfall. The others especially love their moment with the peacocks. Their recordings were really beautiful.