war

War questions

Why did people go to war and fight for their country?

Because people wanted a better living history like having a better land with water and better resources.

How many New Zealanders died in war?

Around 18,000 New Zealanders died, and about 41,000 were wounded or felt ill,2779 died at Gallipoli and around 21,000 on the

Western front.

Who was the person who killed Franz Ferdinand?

Gavrilo Princip.

Why is ANZAC important to New zealand and Australia?

Because the people who go off and fight represent their country and the people who get killed during war get remembered.

Who’s idea was it to start war?

Because Gavrilo Princip killed Franz Ferdinand and then the people went over to his land and had a fight for his land.

What does ANZAC stand for?

Australia New Zealand Army Corp.

My Favourite Hockey Player

     ANITA PUNT

Anita McLaren is a New Zealand field hockey player. She has competed for the New Zealand women's national field hockey team since 2009, including for the team at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Born: October 2, 1987 (age 29), Nelson                       

Height: 1.63 m

Weight: 55 kg

Spouse: Scott McLaren (m. 2016)

Earthquake information

Protect Sea Turtles

Save and Protect Sea Turtles!

I think it is very important that our sea turtles are safe because they’re becoming extinct and should be protected by the country. To support my point of views I’m going to share some interesting facts about human interferences and easy things we can do to help the sea turtles survival.

Did you know that sea turtles have outlasted the dinosaurs? So here are some more interesting facts about where and what sea turtles do during their life. Sea turtles grow to the size of a dinner plate and the leather back turtle grows to the size of a dining room table. But each year thousands of sea turtles die getting caught in fishing nets and drowning.

Human interferences have been messing with our precious sea turtles, which is very sad. People are destroying their nesting sites and using their poor little bodies for illegal black markets, their meat is eaten by special people on special occasions and their shells are used to carve combs, jewellery, spears, fishhooks and tools.

Here are some easy solutions we can do to help the sea turtles survival. We can stop our sea turtles dying by picking up rubbish and also keeping up to date the latest news because you’ll know what’s happening to them. Another solution we can do is to keep away from where they nest and feed because we’ll destroy their environment and wreck their life cycle. We can also help people by putting signs up that say, help increase turtle numbers!.

In conclusion I believe that sea turtles should be protected because they’re becoming extinct and should be looked after. So will you stop killing our beautiful reptiles, or will you be one of the caring humans that help look after them.

Asha O’gorman

22.11.16

Kenepuru stream

HEALTHY HARBOURS

Yesterday we went on a trip to learn about the Kenepuru Stream down the old road, One thing I found interesting was that, when the adults are pregnant they swim to Tonga and breed their babies there, then once they have hatched, the babies swim all the way back to New Zealand and the cycle just keeps going.

Things I have Learnt:

• Banded Kokopu are endangered and rare
• How yuck and healthy the Kenepuru Stream is
• You have to put your nets out earlier because some of the animals come out at night, we caught a short fin eel and 5 banded kokopu
• The clarity of the water was quite clean
• The temperature was 3.90

microlife

Microlife That Rots Things

-If you leave a fruit lying around it will turn mouldy and start growing pine moulds from the middle outwards.

-Fungus grows through old wood then decomposes into a powder.

-Getting recycled.

-Chemicals called fungicides stop the mould growing.

When fungus grows through wood it decomposes into a powder that forms a chemical called fungicides, fungicides stop the moulds growing from farmers who spray their crops. When dead plants and animals die their leftover pieces get recycled into soil so new plants and animals can eat them.

By Asha

My woven box

My Woven Box

Making my box was really hard because the skills we used were very confusing, especially weaving the papers under and over each other. When I started making my box I had to use skills that I had never used in my whole experience at school, and from there I have learnt how to weave, problem solve and heaps of other stuff.   But sometimes I keeped getting really confused because of the distractions around me and getting mucked up. The hardest part of this was measuring the strips so they could all be the same length. I choose to write about this because I’m really proud of it and I think I did a really good job on my first go.

How to make a woven box

First we had to get a piece of card paper and rule 10 strips of paper that were 3 cm x 45 cm. Next we cut the strips out and started drawing some patterns on them. After that we layed 5 strips vertically and then we laid 5  horizontally, then we started weaving them over and under each other until it formed a checked pattern.  Then after we did that we folded the strips so they could bend up.  Then as soon as we did that we then started on our longer strips.  We grabbed another piece of card paper and ruled 5 strips that were 3 cm x 70 cm.  Next we cut the strips out and started weaving them one by one, around the outside so it started to form a box, and then we sellotaped the ends together.  After that we got our last strip of paper and put it around the rim of the box.

Asha O’Gorman

21/10/16

financial literacy

Life cycle of sea turtles

  Sea turtles life cycle

Sea turtles have been around for over 150 million years, and it’s a miracle they are even here, but sadly they are now a threatened specie because human pollution has made them perish.

The sea turtles life cycle begins with laying eggs. Female sea turtles lay their eggs high on the beach where they are hidden from the predators. Female sea turtles can lay up to 200 eggs but only 80% will hatch. After the mother has laid her eggs she will then leave them for 6 weeks to hatch.

Secondly, when the sea turtles have hatched they squirm up to the surface and rush to the sea. But on there way they have to avoid predators such as, seagulls, crabs and human interferences like rubbish and plastic bags. After all that only 50% survive.

The third stage is all about growing up. Firstly, when the sea turtles have reached the sea they have to be aware of any thing that can kill them such as fish, sharks, killer whales, waves and currents. Then they would set off and find a patch of seaweed to settle down under, as they come up for air they have to watch out for sea birds flying above that can dive down and eat them. After a decade they are now the size of a dinner plate, that is approximately 2 metres big.

The last stage of the of the sea turtles life cycle is when the turtle comes back as an adult to lay some eggs. This process will happen many times and ensures the survival of the species.

recycling plastics

RECYCLING PLASTICS!

Have you ever heard of the recycling process?  Well most plastics such as bottles, containers, plastic bags, and thin plastics are made from heated oil.  These different recycled plastics have to be separated from the others because if these plastics combine then it will form a whole new thing and let out a toxic chemical that could harm animals, land, people, and poison food.

On the different types of plastics they each carry a symbol on it that is a triangle with a number in the center of it, these numbers help identify the rubbish bin they go in and what type of plastic it is.  After the plastics have been sorted they get shredded into tiny bits then bagged, next they are transported to places where they are shaped into a new product.

Sea turtles

Save and Protect Sea Turtles!


 I think it is very important that our sea turtles are safe because they’re becoming extinct and should be protected by the country. To support my point of views I’m going to share some interesting facts about human interferences and easy things we can do to help the sea turtles survival.

 Did you know that sea turtles have outlasted the dinosaurs? So here are some more interesting facts about where and what sea turtles do during their life. Sea turtles grow to the size of a dinner plate and the leather back turtle grows to the size of a dining room table. But each year thousands of sea turtles die getting caught in fishing nets and drowning.

 Human interferences have been messing with our precious sea turtles, which is very sad. People are destroying their nesting sites and using their poor little bodies for illegal black markets, their meat is eaten by special people on special occasions and their shells are used to carve combs, jewellery, spears, fishhooks and tools.

 Here are some easy solutions we can do to help the sea turtles survival. We can stop our sea turtles dying by picking up rubbish and also keeping up to date the latest news because you’ll know what’s happening to them. Another solution we can do is to keep away from where they nest and feed because we’ll destroy their environment and wreck their life cycle. We can also help people by putting signs up that say, help increase turtle numbers!.

In conclusion I believe that sea turtles should be protected because they’re becoming extinct and should be looked after. So will you stop killing our beautiful reptiles, or will you be one of the caring humans that help look after them.


 Asha O’gorman 1.8.16

Moment In Time

 Pollution in Rio

As I am going out on my stand up paddle board I started gasping for breath, because all I could see was green dirty water that was full of food packets, containers, plastic bags, buckets and heaps of smelly dead fish.                                                                            

Then as I was on my board all I could feel was the bodies of the  rubbish pushing me deeper into the sea, I thought this was a beautiful place to take a photo, but then I realised the quality of the water was really  embarrassing, and it made me feel sorry for all of the people who live in Rio De Janeiro, because they shouldn’t be living like this.

I try not to think about all of this, but I can’t believe that people would do this to pollute the sea, wishing that I regret littering because I was one of those people who may have caused this pollution.

As I am surrounded by all of this yuck mucky sewage that stunk of rotten stench, I feel like my heart is aching with pain but I can’t do anything about it so I decided to head back to shore, but as I was heading to shore I was shocked with happiness because all I could see was the beautiful sunlight peaking through the white fluffy clouds.

SO LET’S HELP, AND STOP THE POLLUTION!!!

Matariki writing

Matariki Have you ever heard of Matariki? Well, Matariki is a special tradition that happens all over the world, it brings people together, and they celebrate what has happened over the past or things that will happen in the future. Its also the Maori New Year where it signals new beginnings and brings people together from all over the world. Some other things they do to celebrate Matariki is weaving, fly kites, hangi, kapa haka performances, games, story telling, and remembering the people who have passed away. Did you know that Matariki concludes more than 300 stars in the constellation, and most other people say that Matariki is the mother of her six daughters, and she is surrounded and loved by her six daughters in the sky, which are Tupu-a-nuku, Tupu-a-rangi, Waiti, Waita, and Waipuna rangi. Another thing people say that Ranginui and Papatuanuku, the earth mother were separated by the god of wind's, Tawhirimatea, Tawhirimatea became so angry that he tore his eye’s out, and threw them into the sky. One day if you’re outside during Winter time and you don’t know where the 7 sisters are in the sky, then maybe if you looked more in the eastern sky, that’s where they’ll be.

Te Whare Tapa Wha

Please look at my slide show about Te Whare Tapa Wha.

olympics

            OLYMPIC CREED:

  The most important thing in the Olympics is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

This was written by, Pierre De Coubertin 

Camp

Memory's of camp

Camp was really fun because I really enjoyed the things we did, and I still wish I was sitting there munching on all the delicious food we had. My experience at camp has been the best thing that has ever happened to me, and I will never forget the week we spent down there.

When we were at camp we did many of activities such as slug guns, team building, orienteering, waterslide, archery, swimming, confidence course, abseiling, rock climbing, and a swimming inflatable. All these activities were really fun, but required a little strength and trusting yourself. One of my favourite activities were confidence course and abseiling, because I had never done it before, and I found it really cool.

   
Another thing we did while we were at camp was, a 13 k walk through the Abel Tasman National Park, walk way. We stopped off at many places like Pelorous bay, and Apple tree bay. We also stopped off at Anchorage for a nice relaxing swim, in the glorious blue water. Then after our swim we got picked up by a water taxi, and it took us for a ride past the Abel Tasman National Park, and then it dropped us off at Kaiteretere beach

At camp we each got given a camp diary, this diary was used each night to write something cool we did, and stuff you have learnt or just found out about. Some things I learnt down there was giving everything ago, trying your best and I also made new relationships with other people I don't really know.

On the last day of camp each cabin group performed a act, we each performed an act because we were having a lip syn battle, my cabin group was Molly, Tanishah, and Jahvana, we were all very scared so we joined up with Phoenix's group, and we performed wake up in the morning.

HERE IS A PICTURE OF THE ADULTS PERFORMING THEIR ACT!!!!!