Is it a hamster?

When Archie came back from his adventure to Australia over half term he was very excited to teach us about native Australian animals. He brought in two cuddly toys. We knew that one of them was a koala but the other animal had us all scratching our heads!

Archie wouldn’t tell us what it was called…we had to ask him questions. We had all sorts of suggestions as to what it could be. Katie thought that it was a hamster, Annabel said that it was too big to be a hamster ‘’but good idea Katie.’’ She thought that it must be a baby bear instead.

William. A said that is might eat seeds and nuts. This made Freddie think of squirrels and we soon started to discuss how Archie’s mystery animal did not have a big bushy tail.

Wyatt suggested that we look in a non fiction book, we had a look in our book box but we didn’t have a book about native Australian animals so couldn’t do that. ‘’Look on the computer’’ said Malindi. Before we could even start the computer up somebody said ‘’why don’t we just ask Archie he has the answer in his head’’.

All of this time Archie had been keeping the identity of this mystery animal a very guarded secret.

Ethan suddenly shouted out…’’I know it! It’s a bat! I have seen one on the t.v.’’

(He was so close!)

Can your children remember what this mystery animal is called?

Archie did eventually tell us J