Highlanders reading

Today we read a book called sniff, swing , swipe from Connected 2 2006 with our teacher.  Before reading we predicted what we thought it was about.  Predictions ranged from head lice  to animals at first but it was about a zoo. First the story talked about how animals can get bored at the zoo without anything to do. So the zoo keepers came up with a few ideas but they wanted some ideas for the animals to get food from the kids. Using the examples from the story, we designed a success criteria for a toy for an animal in a zoo.  When this was done we used the ipads to see if we could design some interesting way for Keas to get food. We had to research more about Keas to find out about them and see what they can and can’t have.  Using the information from the story and what we found in our research, we have begun designing a toy that meets our criteria.