Day 6 found us in dangerous territory, getting far too close to the animals. This is how Year 2 described their adventure.
Daniel
The elephants were cool because we went down the waterfall and they were suddenly there. I found out a really interesting fact because I didn’t know that elephants have 100,000 muscles in their trunk….The elephants were using their noses as snorkels.
Charlotte J
We were following the river… We splashed against diagonal rocks. Down at the bottom there were some elephants grazing in an open space. From the corner of my eye I spotted some zebras drinking, hidden behind the grey, ginormous elephants.
Alex B
Today was the most panicking but most amazing day because our bar went to the red… My heart was pounding with fear because we were far too close to the animals.
Christopher S
A mother elephant washes its baby by sucking up water and spraying the baby two or three times. There was an elephant using its trunk as a snorkel because it wanted to swim underwater. Near a shallow river there was long grass. In the long thick grass there were some small and big warthogs stamping on the ground.
Lily
By the water hole at the elephants’ side were lots of zebras drinking from the river but they never got splashed by the elephants. As well as the elephants using their trunks to spray the babies, some were wading into the water and sticking up their trunks like snorkels…. Just then the elephants from the water hole shouted out their war cry and retreated from the zebras.
While some children controlled the game other children, as observers, wrote notes to help them write their journal entries later. Here are William’s -excellent work for children just learning to make notes.

These journals are being made into books with covers inspired by African fabric we have looked at….

…and will include illustrated maps of Africa.