Learning Intention: On your blog, post a description of your beast. Use interesting adjectives (describing words) to tell us about your beast.
Roar! A huge half deer half man appears in the deep dark green forest. The deermans antlers sharp as a dagger, hanging with blood infested guts. If you dare to stare directly in its deep blood red eyes, watch out! The deerman starts to grow and grow into this huge giant deer. The deermann lifts its top lip and grows sharply with deep fierce. It bows its head and stares straight at its prey, then scuffs the ground with his huge hoof and charges antlers first into its unlucky victim.
The deerman stinks horribly of rotten flesh. Its fur grows only one direction but feels so rough.
An evil, dark, vicious roar summons the prey to stay put, giving the deer a snack.#
Activity 2 Week One Day Three ,Doc Ranger
Learning intention: 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.
Good Things Being A DOC Ranger
-The first good thing about being a DOC is that they help animals in the environment such as the Weka, Kereru, Tui, Black Robin etc. They help these animals survive and help keep more of them.
- Another good thing about being a DOC ranger is that even though the 1080 does kill our farm animals etc it does still help our native animals being killed from pests.
-The last good thing about being a DOC Ranger is that this job can lead you to many other like being a zoo person, vet, local animal care etc.
Bad Things Being A Doc Ranger
- A bad thing about being a DOC ranger it they want 1080. This is a type of poison that kills pests such as the stoat, rats, weasels and cats as well. 1080 still helps our native animals such as the Great Spotted Kiwi from getting killed by pests. 1080 does not only kill our pests it can kills our pet cats, dogs, horses, cows, sheep, goats etc.
-Another bad thing about being a DOC ranger is how much money they are getting paid an hour. I researched and found that DOC rangers only get paid from $15 to $16 an hour. This is a really low pay rate being it said the minimum pay rate is from $16.50 upwards.
- Lastly, a bad thing being a DOC ranger is if you are in the bush helping animals, trees or setting up 1080, or setting up traps you could be hunted. Movement in the bush attracts deer and you could get killed. You can even get shot by a hunter because they may think you are a deer as well.
Personal Comment: When I am older I wouldn't want to work as a DOC ranger because I am not interested in helping animals. I am more interested in mechanics like fixing cars, motorbikes etc.
Activity 3 Week One Day Three, WWF
Learning Intention: To learn more about their amazing work, click on one of the two video links below.
Clip #1: Freshwater Seals
Clip #2: Tigers
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.
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 name of the animal the WWF is working to save is called the Saimaa Ringed Seal. What the WWF is doing to help the Saimaa Ringed Seal is they are building huge snowbanks for the seals to give birth in, instead on the open ice close to predators. There has been success with them trying to protect the animal, there were only 120 of the Saimaa Ringed Seals left before the WWF team decided to help them and ever since they started to help them and few years later there was over 300 left which definitely increased the population a lot.
Hi Jack
ReplyDeleteYour beast sound very fierce. I am scared just reading all about it. I would not want to come across this on the edge of a dark forest. This beast sounds like it would five all the beasts in the fantastic beast a run for their money. I am sure that Newt would agree with that.
This sounds like it belongs in the Twilight series with all of the vampires. I wouldn't even like to get a sniff of it as the smell of rotten fish is not very nice.
Well done you have described your beast really well.
It is ok that you are not interested in being a DOC ranger. This job would not be for everyone. If you are more interested in perhaps being a mechanic and fixing peoples cars that is fantastic. There will always be a need for people to fix their cars.
It is great that you know maybe what you would like to do.
The work that the WWF is doing with the seals is amazing. It is great something so simple can make such a big difference to the survival of this species of seal. I imagine that the inside of the lair that the seals make is like an igloo inside and would protect them from all the predators in the outside world.
Great work Jack, keep it up!
Until next time
Allie :)