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Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Playground Bulling

This is a poster of not to bully someone in the play ground 



Made by: Jamie

A WINTERS DAY IN 1939 (Part 2)

This is the second part of the book I'm reading. The activity is ,What if the book was made into a block buster film


Tuesday, May 31, 2016

A winters day in 1939

Part one of a reading topic we are doing. This book is called A winter's day in 1939

Train trip to Taumarere

This was a train trip that the whole senior syndicated rid on 

Pa model build

This is something that we were doing at school. This topic was we were constructing a pa then made an explanation on it

How to build a Pa model

Have you ever asked yourself do I make a paper mache pa?

The maori used to live in or use as a defence for a location. (Made usually on a hill) The pa contains defences inside of it like cannons or towers. It also contains maori huts and a marare.

The first step of making a pa is to plan what you are going to build on a piece of paper. What you are going to plan.

Now cut out cardboard to fit the size you're going to make the pa. Next you it rip or cut strips of paper a glue them to the foundation covering it in strips. Make hills to give your pa a realistic look by scrunching up paper and gluing it on. After you finished wait for it to dry.

The next step is to start picking out which paints to don your pa with. Pa’s are usually found by rivers and lakes for the maori to supply fresh water with. Paint the water blue like all water is then paint the bank brown. If you already have huts, a marae, towers or any building of some sort paint that the suitable colour as well.

After that start finding sticks, leaves moss, anything that you will use for your fence to cover the pa, buildings, cooking stations, storage (etc) Soon as your paint dries the connecting to your landscape will be glued down. The best options are either a hot glue gun or pva glue.

Finally after the glue that you used hardened in place and your pa is painted and edited with huts a marare fences Kumara pits (ETC) your pa that you made is finally done for you to place it on a table, show it to your friends or parents and keep it on display in your room, classroom or living room.

This is our groups pa
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Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Axolotl report on ThinkLink

Another Axolotl report made on ThingLink on Axolotl. On the hot spots there are 4 attributes to the Axolotl. Appearance, Habitat, Diet, and Predators

Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Axolotl report

I class we were writing a report on axolotls. Now its finally finished :-)



Axolotl

General statement
Axolotls are walking Mexican Fish. They are amphibians who spend their whole life underwater.
Axolotls are salamanders and are one of the three branches of class Amphibia, which also includes eel-like order. Their scientific name is Ambystoma mexicanum.


Appearance
An Axolotl is grey or white in colour with black eyes. The colour of an Axolotl depends on its cells. Axolotls can grow up to 30cm in length and weigh from 60 to 227 grams. The Axolotl  ages but it remains in larvae from its entire life.  Wild axolotls are usually  black or chocolate brown.             

Diet
Axolotls adapt to eat a variety of food. Their habitat food include Trout and salmon pellets, Blood worms and black worms, earthworms  and feeder fish. They often show cannibalism and they suffer from impaction related issue. Axolotls use their teeth grasp rather than bite. They grasp to prevent slippery prey to get away such as earthworms.

Predators
Axolotls have quite a low amount of predators hunting them. The main predatory fish to them is the tilapia and carp. Bacterial contamination is also a threat to the axolotls.

Habitat
The origin of axolotls is the Lake Xochimilco and Lake Chalco of Central Mexico. A high altitude body of water along with risky terrestrial environment is ideal for most neotenic species including axolotls.
Ending statement
Axolotls are an endangered species that scientists are fond of. They have a low amount of predators and are usually called sea dragons. They are transparent when they are in larva form and stop developing on the final stage of larva.


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