Living on the Edge

TASK. On your blog, write a letter to your best friend or a family member telling them about your trip to the tundra. Your letter must have a greeting (eg. Dear…) followed by 5 – 6 sentences of information about what your experience. Let’s imagine that your teacher decides to take you on a class trip to the tundra before the weather changes too much and you aren’t able to go.

                                                            Dear Mum

this is a story about my trip to tundra. One day miss Ireland decided to go to tundra she invited the whole class to go for a visit. It was a 20 hour walk. It was really cold and dry and there were no sighs of trees any where it was kind of hard to breathe it was 280C!

There was nothing but sand and scrap metal floating around everywhere it looked like we were in the middle of nowhere. We found a place to sleep we all got a pile of rocks to sleep on all 27 of us. We were all running out of water and had to get back. There was heaps of sand storms and we were really cold and dehydrated we also had no food! It took us 20 hours to walk from tundra to school. We will Never go back again!

Towering Timbers (Summer Learning Journey)

TASK. 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 think yes and no that logging can be allowed in NewZealand because firstly it provides jobs for family's and secondly you can keep warm when you want to start a fire. another good thing about logging is it provides you with things like pencils,paper and houses. The thing is that bad about logging is it wrecks homes for animals and they will have to live some where else. Also logging can minimise the amount of oxygen.

Salt and pepper (Summer Learning Journey)

TASK, On your blog tell us where you would build your hotel and what you would use to build it, 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.

This is my goggle drawing on my hotel

Pancakes and Maple Syrup (Summer Learning Journey)

TASK. 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.

                                  Pesto pasta 

                      To make pesto pasta you cook your pasta  in a  pot add salt and pepper 

                      carefully drain the water out in the sink once it cooked . Put it in a large bowl add                                   chopped pesto, salt, pepper, and grated cheese mix the cheese in.

                                             

Scaling New Heights (Summer Learning Journey)

TASK. On your blog, post five questions that you would like to ask Sir Edmund Hillary about his life.

(1) Did you have to lug a lot around when you climbed mount Everest?

(2) Did you ever feel like you wanted to give up climbing mount Everest?

(3)  What kind of food did you take to mount Everest?

(4)  Before you climbed mt Everest did you think you could actually make it to the top?

(5) Did your family think you could make it to mt Everest?

The WWF: World Wildlife Fund [Summer leaning journey)

TASK. 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.

The WWF (World Wild Life Fund) Is taking quick action toward helping Fresh Water Seals by building snow banks not only to be protected by human disturbances but to be protected by predators. If there weren't any snow banks then pups would be born on open ice and they would have absolutely no protection of  getting really cold, human disturbances  or even predators! They are already starting to slowly get extinct so to lose half of that would be one step closer to getting extinct.

Activity: The Secretive Skink (Summer Learning journey)

Task. 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.

The Pros or cons of becoming a doc worker.

Pros

The Secretive Skink

(1) you get to care for and protect nativie animals.

(2) You get to learn how difrent animals are suited to difrent habitats.

(3) you get to know and learn about how they survive and live.

Cons

(1) You may have to kill animals that are eatheir pests or put them out of there misiry.

(2) You would have to take alot of your spear time reasearching about animals.

(3) Not touching the poisines creatures and be careful of the ones that could bite or sting.

The reason why I would like to become a doc ranger is because I would get the experience of learning about different animals. Being with animals nearly every day would make me happy.

Activity : Fantastic Beasts (summer Learning journey)

 Fantastic Beasts (summer Learning journey)

In New Zealand we have many unusual animals. One of the most unusual is the- a bird that does not have wings and can not fly. Pretty strange, eh?! J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter books, has recently written a new book about strange or unusual animals called ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.’

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.

Bob The Fantastic Beast.

Bob the fantastic beast has the pointy furry grey ears of a cat and a distinctive smell like burnt rubber. He also has the white tail of a dog with the legs as spotty and as strong as a cheeter. He has a back of an alligator and the belly of a striped elephant! Bob has a lama neck and head. He howls in the night time and grumbles in the day time as if he was a wolf. He feels ruff and fury at the same time. He has the eyes of a devil.

Activity 3: Weird and Wonderful (summer learning journey)

Activity 3: Weird and Wonderful (summer learning journey)

New Zealand is just one of many countries that has amazing plants and trees. In fact, the African desert is home to some pretty incredible plants, like the cactus. Some cacticous are able to survive on as little as 3 millilitres (ml) of water a day. Wow!

Let’s imagine that you are given a cactus for your birthday. To keep it alive, you must give it 3 ml of water every day.

Over one full year, how much water will you need to give your cactus plant?

Task 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.



First you times 3 ml. by 365 ml. because thats how many day there are in a year so that equals 1095 ml.

 Task 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.

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(1) Black ferns 
(2) White ferns 
(3) Football ferns 


My favourite sports team uniform is the black ferns because I love the black and white colours together and the fern. I love the white stripes on the side. I think its really cool.

Activity 3: Ice, Ice Baby (Summer Learning journey)

DAY 2: Of The Summer Learning Journey :Forest Life

Why I want To Visit Tāne Mahuta

 The reason why I would love to vist Tāne Mahuta Is because the well known tree is the largest longest living tree In three part of NZ. The three parts of New Zealand that Tāne Mahuta belongs to is Coromadel, Nothland and also Auckland. Thousand of people every year go to vist this amazing gigantic tree. I would love to climb it one day!

Summer Learning journey Activity Week One

Week one First Activity For The Summer Learning Journey Caring About New Zealand 


1) Did you know that one of 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.

 2) New Zealanders are also called kiwis but kiwi is not a fruit. It is New Zealand’s most native that doesn't fly bird.


3) Another interesting facted about New Zealand is Queen Elizabeth II is Now the current Queen of New Zealand, represented in the country by a Governor General.

Animation

Lily and I have been learning to make animation videos using stop motion animation with goggle slides. Here is our animation called just don`t get into a cannon!