Summer Learning Journey Week Two Day Two, Activity 1,2 and 3

Activity 1 Week Two Day Two, Weaving
Learning Intention: On your blog, tell us whether or not you would like to try flax weaving. Does it interest you? Why or why not?

I would want to try flax weaving because it would be a new skill I have learnt and looks challenging but I like challenges. I am not really interested in flax weaving because I have other interests like helping my dad in the shed fix things such as cars and motorbikes.

Activity 2 Week Two Day Two, Strong Person Learning Intention: For this activity you are asked to think of someone who is very tough and strong. They can be someone who you know personally or they can be a character that you have read about in a book, seen in a movie, or on a television show. On your blog, tell us about this person. Who are they? Why are they, in your opinion, so strong and tough? This person I think that is so strong and tough is my dad. I think my dad is so strong because all his life he has been lifting heavy things like car engines, car transmissions, motorbikes and pushing cars etc. I think my dad is so tough because when my dad gets cut open by something at his work, he doesn't even notice he had hurt himself until I told him for an example there was a deep cut on his finger.


Activity 3 Week Two Day Two, Stranger Than Fiction

Learning Intention: On your blog, list three similarities and three differences between the two plants that you chose. To earn five extra bonus points, post a picture of both plants on your blog.

The two plants I chose are the Rafflesia Arnoldii and the Corpse Flower.

Similarities

1) The corpse flower and the rafflesia arnoldii are both a type of flower.

2) Both of these flower look similar by the both being the same shape and colour.

3) The corpse flower produces the smell of a decomposing animal and the rafflesia arnoldii flower produces not a very nice irritating smell. So they both produce smells that are horrible.

Differences

1) A difference between the two flowers is that the corpse flower grows to stand at 8.2 feet tall and the rafflesia Arnoldii flower grows to a size of three feet.

2) A second difference between the two flowers is that the Corpse flower only blooms every 40 years and the rafflesia arnoldii  flower blooms every nine months and lasts for a week.

3) A third difference between the two flowers is that the rafflesia arnoldii  flower grows in the forest and the corpse flower grows in a wet and humid rain forest.

 

Corpse Flower

Rafflesia Arnoldii Flower

                                               


 

Summer Learning Journey Week 2 Day One , Activity 1,2 and 3

Activity 1 Week Two Day One, Summertime

Learning Intention: For this activity, please take a picture of yourself doing one of your favourite summer activities. It could be anything! Here is a picture of one of our team members (Laura) doing one of her favourite summer activities.

 

                                                  This is me riding my motorbike.

This is me riding my Honda CRF 80 motorbike. I love riding it in the summer time. Riding my motorbike is my favourite summertime activity because  it is fun to slide around the gravely corners dropping down into first gear and opening the throttle with high revs.

Activity 2 Week Two Day One, Support Crew
Learning Intention: On your blog, list the three people you would like to have on your Lake Taupo Cycle Race Support Crew. Tell us why you have chosen each person.


Three people I would want to have on my support crew are David, Ethan and Cailan.

I would want to have David on my support crew because he is very experienced with biking.


I would want to have Ethan on my support crew because he is very funny so he will make me laugh if I have hurt myself.


I would want to have Cailan on my support crew because he is fast at mounting biking and very good at it.



Activity 3 Week Two Day One ,True Or False Learning Intention: On your blog, write out each fact and in CAPITAL LETTERS beside the fact, write the word ‘TRUE’ if it is a true fact or ‘FALSE’ if it is not true.

True or False?

1: THE OLDEST KNOWN FISH IN THE WORLD IS A 65 YEAR OLD AUSTRALIAN LUNGISH. FALSE

2: SHARKS ARE THE ONLY FISH THAT HAVE EYELIDS. TRUE

3: STARFISH ARE A TYPE OF FISH. FALSE

4: FISH COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER BY MAKING LOW-PITCHED SOUNDS (MOANS,HISSES, ETC). FALSE

5: FISH USUALLY SWIM TOGETHER IN GROUPS CALLED 'CLASSES'. FALSE

Summer Learning Journey Week One Day Five, Activity 1,2 and 3

Activity 1 Week One Day Five , Logging
Learning Intention: 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 logging should not be allowed here in New Zealand. I think this because when people cut trees down they are forcing animals like birds to move and find somewhere else to live. Without warning of these birds moving the tree could fall when the cut it and birds nests and their eggs and chicks could fall out of a tree. Logging is also killing our environment. Its killing all our native trees and other trees that could come extinct from this or endangered.

Even though I think logging should not be allowed here in New Zealand I still think there should be a specific amount of trees they are allowed to cut down so this can decrease the number of trees and animals dying from the logging.

Activity 2 Week One Day Five, Tundra Learning Intention: On your blog, write a letter to your best friend or a family member telling them about your trip to the tundra. To earn full points your letter must have a greeting (eg. Dear…) followed by 5 – 6 sentences of information about what your experience.

Kia Ora Cailan,

Its Jack here. This is a letter showing and telling you my experience so far to the Tundra. I wish you had of came it would of been so much cooler and you could experience this as well. This is definitely different compared to Greymouth the weather isn't on and off its just one freezing cold temperature. The first day we came here we did heaps of activities such as mark o polo because its a wide area and harder to play. It took a lot getting used to the weather when we first came to the tundra. Tomorrow we are coming back are you excited?

From Jack

Activity 3 Week One Day Five, Aotearoa Learning Intention: On your blog, post a description of life in New Zealand in 2018. Please remember that the people who read your post will have never been to New Zealand or even seen a picture so it is your job to ‘paint a picture’ of New Zealand using your words. You can also post pictures, if you wish. Be sure to fully attribute the pictures.

Aotearoa (New Zealand) the small country with a big name. Unusual birds flutter smoothly over my head wondering what the name of it was. The sound of the waves crashing ashore. The tall mountains covered in bright tense snow. Huge Pohutakawa trees bloom their flowers close to Christmas time leaving a dark pink forest. Dark grey clouds rolling into the bright shining sky changing the weather to sprinkling rain. Bustling crowds of tourists cover the streets with new languages.

Summer Learning Journey Week One Day Four , Activity 1,2 and 3

Activity 1 Week One Day Four, Sir Edmund Hillary Questions
Learning Intention: On your blog, post five questions that you would like to ask Sir Edmund Hillary about his life.

What other interests did you have before you got into climbing?

Who supported you the most and how?

Were you good in school, did you like it?

What did your family think when you achieved this huge goal?

What was the hometown you had got brought up in?

Activity 2 Week One Day Four, Homemade Pizza

Learning Intention: 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.

Homemade Pizza

Thing you will need:

-Cheese grater

-Cheese

-Ham

-Tomato Sauce

-Oven

Recipe:

1) To start the recipe for my mums homemade pizza you preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius.

2)Next step is to pour some tomato sauce on the pizza base and spread it around the pizza with a spoon. 3)Thirdly, you need to grate a little plate full of cheese to cover the tomato sauce and the base of the pizza. 

4)Fourthly, you can rip some pieces of ham on the pizza to make it a Hawaiian pizza.

5)Lastly you need to put the pizza into the oven and cook for 10 minutes and occasionally check the bottom of the pizza to see if it is cooked and the toppings on top.

Activity 3 Week One Day Four, Hotel Room

Learning Intention: 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.

If I were to would a hotel anywhere in the world I would build it in Arizona near where all the cliff jumping are into water. My hotel will sort of be like a batch. To build my hotel I would use iron for the roof, windows for all around the rooms for the views of the cliffs and the sea, elevator and stairs to get to each floor, and concrete for the structure of the building such as the walls.

Summer Learning Journey Week One Day Three Activity 1, 2 and 3

Activity 1 Week One Day Three, Deerman
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.

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.

Summer Learning Journey Week One Day Two, Activity 1, 2 and 3

Activity 1 Week One Day Two, Giant among us 
Learning Intention: 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.

Yes I would want to visit the Tāne Mahuta Tree. I would want to visit this tree because it is the largest tree in New Zealand. It would also be every cool to see it before it dies.


Activity 2 Week One Day Two, (Ferns) Learning Intention: 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.

Football Ferns



Kiwi Ferns

Silver Ferns

The sports team uniform I like the best is the Silver Ferns. I like the Silver Ferns uniform the best because they not only have their netball positions on their uniform but they have a grey fern going up the left side of their uniform.

Activity 3 Week One Day Two, Cactus Problem

Learning Intention: 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).

My Working

To figure out how much water you need to give your cactus you could go 3 x 365 which equals 1095. If it was a leap year you would figure it out by going 3 x 366 which equals 1098 ml of water needed.

Activity 3 Week One Summer learning Journey

Activity 3  Ice, Ice baby Summer learning Journey