For reading we’ve been learning about the Mysterious Mammals. Context, there were little stories of how random animals from New Zealand disappeared randomly, the Moa, Moose and the Bulla Moth. Starting with the Bulla Moth, a guy went camping one day, he saw a glimpse of something in the fire light before realizing it was a big moth. He went and killed it so he could get more information, after that it was instinct, but years later they found big caterpillars. Then moose, the moose went missing after New Zealand shipped moose here, they thought people over the world would come and pay to hunt them, instead people hunted them and killed them all. The last place one was heard was in Fiorland for the last time before they were gone. One day a girl went outside she told her dad how she was chased by a big bird, her dad didn’t believe her. But one day he went outside and saw big bird footprints. Then the last time the girl saw the Moa was when she was on the beach. I summarised these into this. In 1880 a 7 year old went outside, she saw a huge bird chasing her. She told her dad, he finally saw big footsteps, then she realised it was a moa. Infomation about the Bulla Moth. Its new Zealand’s biggest moth. Its attracted to street lights on moist nights. The last one that’s been caught was over 120 years ago. We have been learning to summarise these as a new reader skill. Do you think these mammals are still alive?