McPatches Travel Log

Hello Mr Corlett’s class

My name is Patches McPatches the Travelling Lion, but you can just call me Patches. I’m from Wellington in New Zealand, but for nearly 2 years I’ve had a new home. I live in a small rural village in Papua New Guinea called Kapuna. It’s a hospital in the middle of the jungle next to a big river with crocodiles in it and we help the people who live in the nearby villages when they get sick.

I like my new home and there’s lots of interesting things to see and do here.
This morning I went to school just like you do. The children were doing science. Their river is a tidal river. That means that it has fresh water from the rain but also salt water from the sea in it, so the river has a high tide and a low tide just like the ocean does. They have done an experiment measuring high tide and low tide in their river and taught me how to draw graphs to show what they found out.