SLJ - The WWF: World Wildlife Fund

Week 1 Day 3 Activity 3

Click on one of the two video links below. Once you have watched the video, go to your blog and, using full sentences, tell us: 1) The name of the animal the WWF is working to save. 2) What the WWF is doing to help the animal. 3) What, if any, success they have had protecting the animal.

Clip #1: Freshwater Seals

Clip #2: Tigers

I chose the Freshwater Seals

1) The name of the animal is the Saimaa ringed seal.

2) Building snow banks for the female to build a lair inside so she can have her pup inside instead of on the ice where most pups would dye.

3) They have helped to increase the population by helping the pups not dye at the very beginning.

SLJ D3 A2: The Secretive Skink

On your blog list three pros (good things) and three cons (bad things) about working as a DOC ranger. At the bottom of your post, tell us whether you would like to be a DOC Ranger or not.

Here are my pros and cons of being a DOC Ranger -

Pros:

• You get to see some many beautiful things the everyday person can't
• Getting outdoors into the natural world
• You get to learn so much more things about the wildlife

Cons:

• Many people won't like what DOC decides to do and will protest
• Most people don't stop and try to make themselves better to help out
• Having to be outdoors whatever the weather is

I have an idea of becoming a DOC Ranger and Grandad worked at DOC being the manager of Greymouth for part of it for 18 yrs and my uncle is also a DOC worker and my family is around the wildlife quite a lot. I am very lucky to live next door to a kiwi sanctuary and I have helped out so much a kiwi was named after me, now wow, that is very incredible and I still get the regular updates on her. My family also owns the Moonlight hut, which is in the Paparoa National Park. 

SLJ D3 - Fantastic Beasts

For this activity, please watch this cool book trailer. Year 7 and Year 8 students in South Auckland, New Zealand helped to make it. Once you have watched the video, use your imagination and create your very own beast. What does your beast look, smell, feel, and sound like? On your blog, post a description of your beast. Use interesting adjectives (describing words) to tell us about your beast.

Kimbodrous Dragon

Description - 

It is a very large beast weighing 5 tons and can grow up to 50 feet long and 30 feet high. If you see one there will be no escape for it can smell scents up to 3 km away and can go up to a speed of 100km per hour. These creatures live anywhere and everywhere. They are a burnt red/ rusty colour with spikes as sharp as knives all the way along their spine down to a bombay knocker at the end of the tail. The only way to tell them apart is that a male has a bigger tail. Their breed is endangered and there is a population of only 80 left.

The Kimbodrous Dragon

SLJ D2: Weird and Wonderful

On your blog, tell us how to solve this maths problem. You can write your answer in words, use a Sketchpad image, or post a video explaining how you would figure it out. Be sure to give us your final answer in millilitres (ml).

It was actually quite easy, all I did was... there are 365 days in a year so I times that by 3 then add ml on the end to end up with 1095 ml (one thousand and ninety five)

SLJ Day 2 Activity 1: Giants Among Us

On your blog, tell us whether you would like to go and visit Tāne Mahuta one day. Be sure to tell us why you do (or do not) want to visit this endemic tree.

I would like to visit Tāne Mahuta because it is incredible how big and different trees can be.

I have visited what is called ' The Biggest Rata Tree In NZ' in Reefton with my Grandparents and my Parents. It took quite a few of me to get around the large tree.

SLJ D2 A2: Fabulous Ferns

On your blog list three sports teams that have the word ‘fern’ in their title. Beside each team’s name, post a picture of their uniform. Then, at the bottom of your blog post tell us which of the three uniforms you like best and why.

I chose three teams that wouldn't really be heard about, before this I never even knew about the Ice Fernz or the Kiwi Ferns. My favourite uniform would be the white ferns because you could wear this outfit most days.

Ice Fernz - NZ Women's Ice Hockey

White Ferns - NZ Women's Cricket

Kiwi Ferns - NZ Women's Rugby League

SLJ Activity 3: Ice Ice Baby

On your blog, make a copy of this footprint and, inside the footprint, explain how you create a positive, digital footprint. What do you do to stay smart online?

SLJ Activity 2: North and South

Now it is time to think about your hometown. What is special about where you live? On your blog, describe your hometown. Be sure to include lots of describing words (adjectives) in your post.

My home town would be Moonlight/Atarau. Back in the 1800's Gorge Moonlight sailed across from Scotland and ended up down south in otago, Moonlight/Macraes Flat, where he started a gold rush. After that he started to travel up and ended up on the West Coast. He found himself up in the Paparoas, where he found gold and created a new gold rush. He because of that, everyone started to build houses along the tracks, shop started opening like a butcher and a greengrocer and there was a school. The place was there for named after him. He had a wife and two children. Afterwards they moved to Murchison to own a hotel.

What is really awesome that I am the 7th generation female to live in Moonlight which is pretty cool.

Where I live it is mainly farmland and beautiful bush. There are many rivers and creeks around us where we can fish and swim. There are heaps of tracks around for a tramps and day walks. In our bush there are many rare and endangered things like the great spotted kiwi or the yellow rata, which my Grandad and I spotted and got a helicopter ride to see them up close and to get some photographs. 

I am so gratefull to live in such a beautiful inviroment and i don't think there would be any better place to live.

SLJ Activity 1: The legend of New Zealand

To learn more cool facts about New Zealand, check out the Tourism NZ website. Read the fun facts posted on the website and choose your ‘Top 3.’ On your blog, post your ‘Top 3 Fun Facts’ about NZ.

There are so many maori legends about NZ. Different tribes have their own myths and legends about our beautiful Aotearoa, The land of long white cloud. Here is my top three favourite facts off this website.

1. Gisborne is the first city in the world to see the sunrise because it is 496.3 kilometers away from the International Date Line.

2. It is one of the three countries in the world that has two official national anthems of equal standing. The first is God Save the Queen and the other is God Defend New Zealand.

3. It was the first major nation to have universal suffrage. In 1893 all male and female citizens are legally allowed to vote.

Another cool fact is that New Zealand was once governed by the territory of New South Wales and later was a part of Australia.

Digital Badge

Pick a Path - Skiing the Slopes

WALA: Using google forms to make a pick a path story.

Sticking with Pigs - Movie Trailer

    Last term for reading, the year 7 and 8's were reading the book Sticking with Pigs. It was about a boy, Wolf, whose brother, Davey, had addison's disease and got hit by a car. He was basically living in hospital. His dad's brother, Jem, took Wolf out on a hunting trip, away from all his family stress, but what happened was more the they had anticipated.

For the last activity, we had to make a movie trailer and here it is. We all had different jobs to do, I was the director and editor. We had some help from someone who does things like this alot. I hope you enjoy it and please tell me what you think of it in the comments.    

  

Aerodrome Visit

This term our topic is 'Flight'. Nine of the seniors took a trip to the Greymouth Aerodrome to look and learn about the planes. There 4 planes but one was away for maintenance. We watched one take off and land and we got to sit inside the other two. At the end we had a paper plane competition. Here are some of the photos... Enjoy!

 

 

My Writing, The Brain

The Brain

The brain is made up by two parts, the left and right hemisphere, even though there are many different

segments that grow bigger the more you learn.

The Brain takes up only 2% of the body’s weight and and the Cembreum is the heaviest segment in the brain, make 85% of its weight

Right now what you’re doing is controlled by the brain. Do you want to know more about it? Well here are some information about some different parts.

The Frontal Lobe

The Frontal Lobe is located in the forehead. It helps to choose between bad and good decisions, most of the Nerves are connected to it. It is made up from different parts, including the Motor Strip, which takes in Movement.

The Temporal Lobe

The Temporal Lobe mainly revolves around hearing and selective listening. It receives sensory information such as sounds and speech from the ears. It is also key to being able to comprehend, or understand meaningful speech.

The Nervous System                                                                                                                                                      

The Nervous System is made up of billions of nerve cells, called ‘Neurons’,  that join together to make nerves. An Adults brain holds about 100 billion Neurons and trillions of Glia cells. A glia cell carries out tools like transporting nutrients.

References:

• Science In Seconds, Hazel Muir

Term 3, Welcome Back

Welcome back to term 3, 2018. I hope you had an awesome holiday and and enjoy being back. Here are some things I had done throughout the holidays.

First on Saturday my mum and I drove over to Christchurch and flew up to New Plymouth to visit my uncle Andy, my aunty Bridgy and my baby cousin Claire, who is 5 months old.
   

 

I also went to the mining protest on the Taramakau Bridge opening and I helped at the Grey District library's Mad Hatter's Tea Party. 
                                         
                                                                                   

My School Jobs/Responsibilities

At school we all take up our own jobs and responsibilities. I'm going to tell you mine and explain a little bit about what I have to do.

Bus Monitor: Some students have to take a bus to school. The two oldest that have been on the bus the longest will become the bus monitors. We have to remind people about the rules and make sure everyone is safe.

Librarian: We organise competitions and look after and work in the school library.

Notices: At the end of the day, if there are any notices to hand out, as people walk out to the gate, I hand them out to them.

As being a part of the seniors at the school, it is our job to help the junior kids out and help in the junior class

My Haybale Problem- DLO

WALT: Figure out the mass without making in with the cubes, Can you find the answer without modelling with rods and paper. We are also making more DLOs for our learning.

Recipes

This term our topic is Baking/cooking. For our second activity you had to write down some recipes you like in the way you would find them in a recipe book. You could work by yourself or in a group and i'm in a group with Caitlyn and Kurt. I hope you enjoy this and maybe try some of these recipes out

Acrostic Poems- Respect

This week in every classroom  we had an activity to do with one of our school values, Respect. In ruma waru we did some acrostic poems about respect.  Here is mine, I hope you enjoy it

Responsibility is taken seriously

Equal rights should be showen

Stand up,  show yourself, don't be scared

Positive behavior

Encouragement to do the right thing

Control yourself

Take the time to help others in need

Exode Writing

We have been writing video stories. We were given three stories and I chose Exode, hope you enjoy.

Exode

The house was a trembling mess, the walls begin splitting, dust was sprinkled  from the roof. We had to leave. Mother grabbed Little Brother and father assured his parents out. The taste of dust wandered around in my mouth, what a taste. As we ran out around the corner we suddenly fell to the ground then were flown into the sky to land with a thud, what was happening? We came across a cluster of other villagers who had an injured child who was being carried by back. We saw hills collapsing to the floor of the earth, the smell of old musty sandstone was all around us.

Everyone had now gathered together, the chief and wise men gathered to come to a decision, they had to leave their home. We wandered forward wondering what would come across ahead on their path. Our shadows were in front of us, night must be dawning. As our only light source slowly crept away, the noise of the animals grew stronger until we found a solitaire cub on the path. His parents must have been near, we had to go back. Once out of the bush, we turned around and went onward.

Wolf’s howls echoed through the canyons, Crickets flew all about us, clicking and buzzing about. After all the trudging around we finally came to an edge, but what was the edge for?, there was no cliff in sight forward on. The men gathered again to decide if we should go down this hill/cliff, it was not to steep but many elderly would get suck. Chief leaned over the edge with his men holding him back, just trying to see what was down there and hoping there was another ruote, then all of a sudden, a tremendous bird swooped down and plucked him up as if he was an unwanted hair on an arm. The bird had flown out of sight and fog was building up around us. A ghostly feeling was within the area.

‘AAAHHH!’...

THE END

My Poetry...again...but I like it

My Advanced Google Draw

I've been working on descriptive writing and this is what I have wrote about.

My advanced google draw

Have you heard of a advanced google draw?

Well i’m going to describe mine that I have created with you.

For my advanced google draw I chose to copy a parrot. Parrots are very humorous because they copie whatever you say and make such a racket (“polly wants a cracker, ruuhh”). I chose the parrot because I could see the range of different colours were clearly set out in different places and the tints and shades of the rough but silky feathers. I had thought it would be challenging enough. Some parts were quite difficult because they were very hard to define but it was very fun.

I had first started off with the detailed body outline then I started to outline the colours. To make my own range of mixed colours, I went to the the little quadrilateral (Next to the outline pen) And went into gradient. I chose the main colour I wanted then I went back in and clicked on custom. I would say this task was quite confusing but I had got there in the end.

A way to get a practically the full outline I drew over top of the original outline then moved it into detail.

MY REVIEW

I would rate google draw a 7/10 for this task because once you know what tools to work with then it can get easier but if you didn’t know, it would take a lot of your time. I wish they would show simple, little example videos.

All About Me 2018

I have not done much sorry but will update it.

Week 4 Day 5: Looking into the Future

I would like to study drama and performance or study Marine Biology. I love they ocean and all the amazing creatures it holds and I would wish to investigate and find more do beneath. Every now and then I will go onto my mum's phone (With her permission) and go onto instagram to watch Ocean Ramsey. Ocean is a shark expert, marine biologist and a model-(Even though thats no the point)she was born in California and was in the sea ever since she was a little girl. She will post videos and pictures of her with sharks, dolphins, turtles and fish. She is the one I mainly look up to for a future career and she even said the thing she look up to the most is a shark she can keep track on and can find whenever it around. I also like drama and performing to people. It is fun to be and/or create some chaterter. I take drama classes every thursday with my teacher Mrs Smith at limelight drama. I is also fun because you get to create new friends.

New Zealand Post Card

Wk4 Day1 Activity 2: Lord of the Rings

If I was given $300 million from Peter Jackson I would give some to charity, some on a holiday with my family, buy Lego and other toys, a jet boat and/or a jet ski for my dad, heaps of food, help my mum finish getting her pilots licence, a helicopter, upgrades for the house or buy a new house and save the rest. I would probably get some other things but I can't think of much.