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Posts by esmee

A long weekend #1 – Lake Taupo

Posted by on Jun 2, 2009 in stones | 0 comments

A long weekend #1 – Lake Taupo

We went to Lake Taupo for a lunch break. And I found some stones. One looked like my mother’s necklace. The other one was two colours. The next one looked like a shell. And the other one I don’t know, it was two colours again.

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A trillion crickets!

Posted by on May 15, 2009 in insects | 0 comments

My mum breeds crickets. And on Friday the 15th May 2009, we had trillions of baby crickets. And I got ten crickets. I put them in a little tank. What you could do is that you put egg carton or something else for them to hide under. If they are babies they eat chick mash food. When they are adults, they eat smashed cat biscuits. What I did for them to drink, I grabbed a milk lid and put a bit of cotton ball in it, so the crickets wouldn’t drown.
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A weekend in Wanganui

Posted by on May 6, 2009 in beach, river | 0 comments

A weekend in Wanganui
We went to Wanganui. We went to go and see birds. And we saw a cockatoo that could talk. And it said: “I like pie”. And on my last saying bye bye it said “bye” and waved its left wing.
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Mighty mushrooms #2

Posted by on Apr 30, 2009 in mushrooms | 0 comments

Mighty mushrooms #2
Have a look at this!

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Mighty mushrooms

Posted by on Apr 23, 2009 in mushrooms | 1 comment

Mighty mushrooms

We got mushrooms from the market, mum came home with them. One day over a few weeks, guess what happened? A big mushroom appeared, and mum knocked it off with the door of her car. I took the mushroom to school. The kids kept asking me the same question all over again. “Where did you get it from?”, and I kept saying “from seeds”.

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