SLJ - Towering Timbers

Week 1 Day 5 Activity 1

What do you think about logging? On your blog tell us whether you think logging should be allowed in New Zealand. Be sure to provide at least two reasons to support your argument.

I don't know what to believe because

• Wood is extremely helpful for creating things e.g. houses, chairs, tables
• It makes nice money for NZ

but then 

• Where the trees have been logged it just ruins the landscape
• Wildlife create homes to have them taken away

SLJ - Salt and Pepper

Week 1 Day 4 Activity 3

Let’s imagine that you were given enough money to build your very own hotel. On your blog tell us where you would build your hotel and what you would use to build it. For an extra five points, use Google Drawings to design one room in your hotel. You can also use a paper and pencil to draw your room, take a picture of the drawing, and post it on your blog.

I would build a hotel underwater in a submarine type thing which is attached to a floating island. I took inspiration from Roald Dahl's book, Charlie and the great glass elevator, where the President of America and NASA created a space hotel. You would get a 3 minute boat ride out to a floating island, with the rooms underneath you can stay for as long as you would like. There are many cool things to do including diving, watching great movies at the theater, enjoy a relaxing time at the spa and sauna, work out at the gym, looking around at the underwater life in the glass room, get boat tours to see whales, dolphins and other underwater creatures and eating the best seafood and ocean inspired food. The hotel would be made of aluminum (And lots of it) because it is a strong and lightweight metal.

It would be called ' The Sunken Treasure ' with a slogan ' Where the water takes you '

SLJ - Pancakes and Maple Syrup?

Week 1 Day 4 Activity 2
For this activity you are asked to choose one of your favourite foods. On your blog, write the name of your favourite food and then tell us how to make it. You may need to ask a family member, friend or Google (!) for help, if you do not normally make this food for yourself.

Salmon bagels have been my absolute favourite food for a long time.

I just buy some bagels from the supermarket or a bakery and just cut one in half and then I put them in the toaster on bagel mode. Once that is done, I spread on some cream cheese and place some salmon on and there you have Salmon Bagels.

Here are some photos we took of me last year at the Pancake Rocks.

SLJ - Scaling New Heights

Week 1 Day 4 Activity 1

Let’s imagine that you met Sir Edmund Hillary in real life and were able to interview him. On your blog, post five questions that you would like to ask Sir Edmund Hillary about his life.

1. Why did you want become a mountaineer?
2. How long were you a mountaineer for?
3. How many mountains have you climbed?
4. If at all, how much training did you do?
5. Were there times when you were regretting climbing a mountain?

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