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Recent adventures, a visit to the museum

Recent adventures, a visit to the museum

21 August 2016
by Angela

Luna and Blake are quite keen on fossils and geology. Just a year ago Blake had an on-going ‘project’ carefully excavating our driveway looking for fossils, creating and…

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Finding Fossils...

Finding Fossils…

2 July 2015
by Angela

Seeing as Luna and Blake are really keen on geology, archaeology and fossils, I have been looking for opportunities for them to have hands on…

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An ancient forest on Takapuna beach

An ancient forest on Takapuna beach

1 June 2014
by Angela

An ancient forest has recently been exposed on Auckland’s Takapuna beach, it’s really exciting, making news. There is the well known fossil forest at the north end…

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Barnum's Bones

Barnum’s Bones

2 April 2014
by Angela

Barnum’s Bones: How Barnum Brown Discovered the Most Famous Dinosaur in the World, by Tracey Fern, pictures by Boris Kulikov. We have been learning about…

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We're going on a fossil hunt

We’re going on a fossil hunt

29 November 2013
by Angela

If you have been following our journey in home education, you will probably recall our fossil project a couple of months ago. We had been…

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Fun with Fossils

Fun with Fossils

24 September 2013
by Angela

Luna has recently become fascinated with fossils, mostly dinosaurs – and it has evolved into a full-blown learning adventure!  It illustrates perfectly to me how…

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