Week Seven - Lost City Revealed!!!

Our Party was a huge success with the Monkey gift Baskets being drawn for, The big Z won one and he chose number 150 for the other winner. Hopefully M will pick up her prize soon. The Secret Word was (SAFARI). I went back to the Secret annex for one last time and said our word SAFARI 3 times. The last time I looked on the wall and the picture below apeared with the word KIJIJI under it.... Kijiji means village in swahili.

What a great day. Jungle explorers I want you to know that R.D. Alot would be proud of you …..

The Lost City of KIJIJI was found!!!!

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The PHOTO prize will be awarded at the end of the month with two prizes given out!!!

Come back and we will post the winners on the blog next week!

Week Six - Photo Contest

Each week we will post a picture of an animal hidden within the library. The featured animal will be based on one of the stories/books that were read in the corresponding week.

This Week's story is about a boy who loved Bananas just a little too much!!! He turned into this animal....

Can you find me?

My species are divided into two geographically separate groups - the New World species of South America and the Old World species, found in Africa and Asia.

The Old World species include some terrestrial species such as the baboons, while New World species are exclusively arboreal.

Some New World species have a prehensile, or grasping, tail. The tail can be used like a hand.

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Once you have located the animal you are then free to post your own picture of the hidden animal.

• it can be the real thing (picture of the real thing that is)
  
• a pet dressed up (please be careful with your pet and also have an adult help you)
• a stuffed version of the animal
• you can dress up as the animal
• scan a drawing
  

Send your pictures to marjoriemews@live.ca

The best picture at the end of the summer will win a prize!!

Week Six - The Lost Artifact.

Once again I have braved the dangers, delimas and dust bunnies of the Secret Annex @ the AC Hunter Library to bring back another artifact in our quest to meet the challenges, prove our worthiness and find the name of the lost city. A picture of the totem Kweli siKweli is below.
(Kweli si Kweli means true false in Swahili)

Today was our last meeting before the big reveal of the Secret word! We chose our Jungle Names and I am now Red Wind Sugar Glider. By combining our favourite colours with an elemental word (Earth, wind, rain fire) and a jungle animal we became real warriors!!!In our face paint we are a fearsome lot!

Our Brave Jungle Warriors faced another tricky challenge that required them to use all their “Jungle-knowledge” .

They had to answer true/ false questions about animals and the four who did the best won a prize!

The Last letter is a Sneaky, Slithery and Slimey one Can you guess what it is???

Email your answers to us at marjoriemews@live.ca

Week Five - Animal Tracks

Today’s brave and intelligent crew was faced with a difficult challenge. They had to find the animal tracks hidden in the library and match them to the photo of the animal they are from.

All the explorers rose to the challenge and were awarded with their challenge bead.

Our story was a rhyming tale about a giraffe who couldn’t dance until he learned to move to his own beat! We are nearing the end of the expedition….

What will the final challenges be????

Was the letter of the week revealed, I don't know but something tells me it is hidden within this blog!!

Week Five - Photo Contest

Each week we will post a picture of an animal hidden within the library. The featured animal will be based on one of the stories/books that were read in the corresponding week.

Can you find me?

I am among the most beautiful and marvelous creatures in all of nature. Tropical Central and South America is the richest region in the world for my species, but we can be found in many other places as well. Costa Rica has over 1300 species.

My life begins with a very tiny egg laid on a leaf. From this develops a larva, then my caterpillar stage. Eventually, the larva makes a cocoon or chrysalis. Safe inside, I develop into a pupa.

Eventually, a beautiful winged species is released from this container, flying heavenward, fully-developed. What an astounding transformation, from a humble, earth bound worm-like creature to a delicate flying wonder!

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Once you have located the animal you are then free to post your own picture of the hidden animal.

• it can be the real thing (picture of the real thing that is)
  
• a pet dressed up (please be careful with your pet and also have an adult help you)
• a stuffed version of the animal
• you can dress up as the animal
• scan a drawing
  

Send your pictures to marjoriemews@live.ca

The best picture at the end of the summer will win a prize!!