A House is Not a Home

On your blog, tell us which project you find most interesting and why.

Basically, I study an animal called a cobra and the most interesting part is, that it has the strongest venom in the world which is impressive. The cobra left in the world is 427 which is almost extinct.


 

The Southern light

On your blog, use the word ‘LIGHTS’ to write an acrostic poem about the Southern Lights. Be as creative as you can!

Sharing

Picnic

Revisiting family

Inspiration people

Nice breeze

Gorgeous flowers

Spring is a lovely season, because it has many beautiful flowers, like daisy, sun flowers, and many more, also spring has freshly breeze which is great if your hot. 

Wind Beneath My Wings

Corn Snakes DLO

Corn snakes are also known as the red rat snake. They are a snake that can constrict - means tighten or contract, their preys, like pythons, emerald tree boa, boas and many more. Also, it’s called that because of it colour.    

Corn snakes have a unique way of catching their prey without venom. First they wrap around the prey like a coil (circle). Then, they squeeze with an almighty force until the prey can’t breath.

Corn snakes have excellent survival skills. Baby corn snakes can survive without food only 5 to 7 days. On the other hand, adults corn snakes can survive for 7 to 10 days. This is about the same as 2 weeks and a half which quite impressive!

Corn snakes are very useful to some people. Corn snakes are snakes that love eating rodents - such as mice or rats. That's why farmers like having them as pets. Also, corn snakes are 90% harmless,  therefore it’s commonly kept as pets by some people. Corn snakes are not like other snakes that have poisonous venom, like cobras, Viper, tiger snake and more which they are 5% or 10% harmless.  This is why corn snakes are skillful creatures that are used by humans.

Corn snakes are one of the snake species that rarely bite you. They only bite if it’s frightened or hurt. But there is something strange about corn snake’s bite… That it has no effect on you! For example, there's no pain at all, but when an adult corn snake bites you’ll have a tiny drop of blood falling out. While corn snakes venom doesn’t kill you, it can sometimes cause infections. To heal the infections you have to a special creation known as an antivenom. Despite their size, the corn snake is not as harmful as other snakes.

Corn snakes max length is 1.2meters or 1.8meters which is a size of a keyboard.

Bird of the year

My bird is a moe a very ancient bird found years ago when dinosaurs existed. The moa's sciencetific name is Dinornithiformes which is a great name for a Moa. The height of the moa is 3.6 meters which is 12 feet tall which is taller than an elephant. The Moa lived in NZ for 1,400 which is a looooooooooooong time. Also their were 11 species of moa but nothing greater like this Moa which is impressive. The moa lives in 3 main habitats scrublands, grasslands or subalpine. Moa are herbivores, because they eat berries, daisy, leaves and other plants. 

On your blog, write a short description of your bird. Where does your bird normally live? What does your bird normally eat?  Post a picture of the bird underneath your description. Be sure to attribute your picture properly.

     

Bee Informed (Summer Learning Journey)

• The word ‘bumblebee’ is a compound word (bumble + bee). The word ‘bumble’ means to move or speak confusly.
• Bumblebees can fly very quickly. They can reach ground speeds of 54 kilometres per hour (km/h).
• Bumblebees are very strong! They carry up to 90 percent of their body weight in food with them to avoid starvation.
• Bumblebees can do more work and carry more pollen than other bees, including honeybees. In fact, they can do up to  50 times as much work as a normal honeybee.
• The number of bumblebees is declining in New Zealand due to a number of factors, including the  Key food source.

Flying Fungi (Summer Learning Journey)

In the middle of winter it can get quite wet and damp in New Zealand, can’t it? When it gets really damp, it is common for things like mould and fungi to start to grow. We can often see them on the walls, ceilings or floors of our houses or outside on footpaths, buildings or roadways. Some types of mould and fungi are so small that they can’t be seen. Some of these tiny fungi/mould can be found in the air. They are called ‘airborne fungi’ and they can be unhealthy for us.

Let’s imagine that we tested the air in your classroom and found 7 different kinds of mould. Eek! The cleaner says that it takes 5 days for each mould to be eradicated (removed). If the school had to remove each mould one at a time, how long would it take to remove all the mould from the classroom?

Find 7 moulds and find 5 days

Then times it which equals 35

Burning up (Summer Learning Journey)

While it can get hot in New Zealand, especially in the middle of summer, it gets even hotter in places like Dallol (Ethiopia), Dasht-e Loot (Iran), Tirat Zvi (Israel), Kabili (Tunisia) and Bandar-e Mahshahr (Iran).

The hottest temperature on record in each place is: Dallol: 41oC; Dasht-e Loot: 71oC; Tirat Zvi: 54oC; Kabili: 55oC; Bandar-e Mahshahr: 51oC. Crazy ‘eh?!

For this activity, you are asked to use this information to create a graph. The graph should have a title along with the names of each city and their hottest recorded temperatures. You can draw the graph by hand or use a computer programme like Google Draw to create your graph. It’s completely up to you!

Sun smart (Summer Learning Journey)

Activity 1

People in New Zealand love spending time outdoors. Unfortunately, the sun is very powerful and the rates of skin cancer are incredibly high in New Zealand. In fact, they are higher than anywhere else in the entire world! To protect ourselves against skin cancer, we need to be careful about how much time we spend in the sun. We have to be

Wear a proper hat to protect you from the sun.

Sunscreen to make your skin nice and fresh.

Tightly woven clothing that blocks light.

Go somewhere that has shade.

Wear sun glasses.