How NZ Native Species Have Adapted Over Time.

Animals live everywhere and they have to adapt to live and survive, for example whales were not as big as they were  till now, they had to adapt  into a sea creature to travel the world and find food to eat.

Adaptations are really important for animals and plants, because if they don’t adapt they might die or suffer but for plants they will need water and soil and care for them to survive, because plants bloom when springs start but when autumn comes the plants slowly die.

Huia are extinct because they were haunted by the Maoris and they also did not adapt to survive and to search for their food safely so it was pretty easy for predators and Maoris to haunt it and kill it, this is why adaptations are important for animals.

Kiwi’s are in serious danger and there are about 70,000 kiwi’s left, but if the kiwi’s are able to adapt they may be able to survive against all predators, this is common for kiwi’s to get attacked because they were used to not being a prey.

If animals that are not harmful adapt, predators may not want to attack them, this may be the reason why animals cannot survive in different places, it’s because some animals are warm blooded and will only want cold places to cool them down and cold blooded animals would want somewhere hot so they can be warm.

 Moa were large birds and the could not fly, so when the Maoris came to New Zealand they saw the Moa as food so they started to haunt it and eat it but before the Maoris arrived but there was a haast  eagle that liked haunting it down so the Moa were easily extinct, but if the Moa could of adapted it would probably be still alive till now.

Adaptations are really important and some animals can adapt and some cannot adapt, us humans are so lucky to have objects and items to keep us warm or chilled. 

The Water Cycle

                                                         

                                                                                 The Water Cycle

 

The water cycle works in four ways with its evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection, without those steps there will be no water cycle on earth, and the water cycle is very useful to humans and plants.

 

The water cycle happens because it’s the heat of the sun that starts to evaporate, and then the water that’s on the ground turns into steam and goes into the clouds.

 

After that condensation starts to take over because the steam that went into the clouds starts to cool down and slowly turns into liquid and  it’s water vapor, and sometimes it can be big raindrops or small raindrops. It actually depends on how much steam that went into the clouds.

 

After  precipitation takes over the liquid can change into rain, sleet, snow, and hail and it can sometimes be useful and sometimes it can’t be useful just like hail, hail happens when the water is too cold so it freezes the rain drops and turns into hail.

 

Then the collection takes over, collection is actually the best steps, it’s actually all those steps, it just heats the water and turns it into steam and drops down like rain  and ends up in the sea, the ground and the ocean, and it can be very useful.

 

 

 

            

My reading poster

In my group, our teacher told us if we can make a poster, we had to make a poster about how we can solve our problem and that’s what we did. it took us two days but it was worth it and I really enjoyed it, after we were done with it we showed our teacher and he putted up on the wall, I really hope we can make another poster but with a different situation, and I even have a photo of it.

Nora Swann

Nora Swann

 

On the 26 of June a designer came to our school and introduced herself as Nora Swann. During morning tea, my friends and I saw our teacher rushing into the classroom so we went to check out what was happening. When we got there he told us to start cleaning up the room and make lots of room because the whole school is coming in here.

 

After cleaning up the room Nora Swann came into our classroom and Rm 8 was coming inside the room, after Rm 8 came into the room the other classes started to come inside the our room, after all of the class coming in to our room, Nora Swann started to explain her life and was showing us a slide deck.

 

Nora Swann is Samoan and Niue, and she owns her own business career, and New York wrote a book about her, she said when she was young she use to be so shy and she very much disliked boys, but each time her passion was growing she was getting confident and she had a husband and two children, she visits school and tells her life to them.

 

Nora Swann also got a badge from the prime minister Chris Hipkins, it’s because she carried on with her passion during COVID 19.  Nora Swann also won a trophy for fashion this year, but Nora Swann said to us if she reads a book she leaves everything behind and get stuck into the book,She also said that if we read lots of books we will achieve our dream.

 

She showed us a quote of what Ariana Grande said and she also said we should never give up on our dreams, she is going to Samoa today for some fashion business and their are different cultures just like her and she’s the representative of NZ. Nora Swann even went to japan to teach people English but she didn’t really like teaching so she came back to NZ.

 

She even posts pictures of her styling, and people comments bad things of her posts, but she  putted up with all of those comments but she didn’t care about it, as long as she’s happy with her style, she always didn’t give up on her dream and I hope she doesn’t get pulled down from all those bad comments. 

 

I am really inspired by her words. I wish I can grow up being just like her, and I hope I can spread out the words she said to us and may she live the best life.

 

What’s in my basement 😱

At 3:00 I heard a noise in my basement, it was a very awful noise it sounded like an baby crying and cats fighting, but the worse’s sound of them all is the banging, it is like a human banging so hard on the wall to let her or him out, at 3:59 the noise finally stopped but I know whatever that is it won’t stop.

 

The noises only happen at 3:00 and ends at 3:59, it is so horrible to hear it it almost makes me feel like to abandon the house, but I can’t it hurts me to leave a gift from my parents, my parents told me never to leave the house when it reaches 12:00, because my sister went outside and she never returned home.

 

It was like someone kidnapped her and treated her like a slave, by the way my house is in a forest which that makes it even badder for me to get connection to call my parents, I always wondered what kind of animal that looks like a human  and crawls like  a baby, it is also white so it makes it easier for me to see it at night.

 

I never want to call my parents and say that the house they bought for me is not good enough for me, it’s because they might cry so bad like how they cried for my sister, so I will always try my best to be good enough for them and score for the best, but one person like me can never be that successful.

 

 During the next day I went to the supermarket, and I made sure I locked every door and windows of my house, especially my basement, then I went to the supermarket and bought a flash light, house locks, plants that were on sale, and I also bought binoculars and cameras that last until 24 hours.

 

When I got home my front door was open,  I thought to myself I did lock all the doors the windows and the creepy basement, but how did the front door open, then I saw whatever that weird creature I was talking about trying to run to me and attack me, so I quickly went into the house and locked my front door.

 

After that I started setting up all the cameras and house locks, after that I ordered a american pit bull online that can sit or sleep by my bed and bark when they sense something, that night I said a prayer and went to sleep with everything ready and I also set traps everywhere around the house also inside the house.

 

And then it finally happened the noises that happened at 3:00, a moment later I checked my camera and saw that weird creature inside the basement with my sister, but luckily I set a trap inside the basement so the weird creature easily got captured and my sister was there crying.

 

I finally knew what that crying noise was my sister, the only reason why it sounded like a baby’s cry was because of the echo that changed the cry of my sister voice, I quickly rushed to my phone and called a priest and my parents to come quickly, after that I went to my basement, I open it up and bring my sister to my bedroom, and she was still human.

 

I thought that she would barely remember me but she did, so I took her to the shower and gave soap, shampoo, and conditioner and she started to shower, and I gave my best summer dress to her to make her feel better just like when I wear it.

 

Just when she finished showering and changing the priest and my parents finally arrived, my parents were worried and the priest started to prepare a ritual, and my parents helped me drag the weird creature where the ritual was happening.

 

The weird creature finally disappeared and my parents were crying and were happy to see my long and lost sister, I was also happy to see my family all together and I was also happy to see that weird creature gone, so I thanked the priest for making that weird creature gone, and my family and I lived               

happily ever after. 💙

 

Ki O Rahi

On the 13th of May Rm 6,  Rm 7, and Rm 8 were playing the Ki O Rahi tournament, the first game was kauri and rata and I am in kauri, I didn’t really get to see kauri vs rata, because my teacher told us let’s go back to the class to do some RE work, my group were almost done with our work but my teacher said just leave it and let’s go watch the games.

 

When we got outside, it was totara and rimu that was versing each others, and kauri won the first game, totara and rimu were playing their best but totara was ahead of rimu, totara was the winner of that game and the next game was kauri and totara versing, the game was intense, and I was playing in that game, the only thing I was good at was ripping of there tags and being a guardian.

 

I was so tired after the game but the only good thing about it was that we had so much fun and kauri also won against totara, and after that game it was rata and rimu the game was so cool and fun and they look like they were happy,  after that game the bell rang we all had a good lunch time and some of us were so excited for the last game.

 

We all drank lots of water to get us hyped up and my friends were also excited but I had to verse  one of my friends but I got that of my mind, and then the bell rang and we had to all go to the canopy to see who is going to play, it was kauri  and rimu and then we were told to go to the coaches to sort out which colour tag we should wear, the colour of putted on was yellow and rimu weared red.

 

The game was real good and some of us had to sub because the game was so long because each of the team were never going to give up and then the coach blowed his whistle and said kauri won and rimu lost, I was so happy I can stop cheering about it, and then the last game came up rata and totara.

 

Rata had lots of good players and totara had lots of fast players, the game was so cool I had to cheer for both teams because none of them were bad they all played their best and their hardest and then the coach finally blows his whistle, and he said rata won and totara lost and then and then my teacher said go sit under the canopy while the rest will clean up the field and the tags.

 

After cleaning up the mess I went to sit under the canopy along with the people that helped, the teachers were standing on the stairs and they were announcing and the third team was tie both rimu and rata won and the second was totara, and the first team was kauri I was cheering and was so happy, after the announcement we had to go clean up the classroom.

 

After cleaning up the classroom we played silent ball and I felt happy I didn’t win the silent ball but it was alright. I even went home happy, I hope we can do that again.

 

Prototec

I am Grace and I am on stage 6, but I wanted to see how hard  stage 7 is in prototec. I challenged myself to do stage 7 and it turned out a little bit hard, all though it was my first attempt I still wanted to keep stepping up a bit so I can master all stages. I only got 82% but next time I will try even harder, I hope I can achieve more next time.

And here is a photo.

My Jesus Strand

On week two during term 2 my class and I started Jesus Strand for RE.  There are  80 slides in total, and each  slide teaches us new things, it is all about Jesus’s life and how he told the good news, he also tells people that God is not a bad man  but God is a loving father to us, if we turn back to God and ask for forgiveness and he will forgive us, I also learned about faith, hope and love, I really had fun learning about Jesus Strand I hope I can do  it again.