Kiwi report
Kiwis are flightless and extraordinary birds which are native to New Zealand only. They are known for their adaptations which are like mammals. This makes them outstanding creatures. Its main adaptations are behaviour and structures.
Kiwis have two main behavioural adaptations which they developed long before humans came to their land. They became flightless and nocturnal creatures.
Kiwis are nocturnal birds which means they come out at night. They are also flightless and live on the ground because their main predators many years ago were only hunting birds who also flew..
A kiwi has developed some structural adaptations to suit their habitats too.
They have whiskers at the base of their beaks to help them get around in the dark. They also have nostrils at the end of their beaks to help them to find food.
The brown feathers of a kiwi helps them blend themselves from danger in the forest from predators. Kiwi have small feets but have extraordinarily strong legs and long beaks to get food.
Many kiwis adaptations have no longer been effective on other creatures, due to the arrival of humans in Aotearoa. A long time ago kiwis used to have wings, birds and other animals used to strive to get food, by competing against each other to get food, but there weren't any so kiwis started to live on land knowing that there weren’t any predators, but when humans arrived so did predators. Rats, stoats and weasels came with humans. They are also nocturnal and live on the ground so they hunt kiwi and also eat their eggs.
I think kiwis are one of the most extraordinary creatures I've seen yet. Kiwis have made their choices to live on land a long time ago, but when their predators came, they still stood up and fought to survive. We should look after our kiwis because they are native to our cultures and to Aotearoa/ New Zealand, if we dont look after them they might go extinct.
This morning me and my class were doing some quizzes, and we came across a quiz for this show. I used to love this show of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, so Mrs Prendergast suggested that we could do a blog post of any of the new things we learned this morning. This is what I learnt...
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a movie loved by children, it was released in August 25, 1939. It is based on a book that was first published on May 17 1900 so it is is the 120th anniversary of the wonderful wizard of oz! It was written by L Frank Baum.
My discovery of the Egyptian tomb.
Dear diary:
On early April 2 1952, me and my group were planning to go on an adventure to the Egyptian deserts in north Africa where the Nile river is located. We drove all the way to the airport, to get our tickets for our flight to the africa. After hours on the plane, we finally arrived in Africa, so we started our adventure to try and discover artifacts in the desert, we had all the things we needed to start our adventure in the mysterious desert. We started a big party search to find ancient artifact from egyption royal tombs and etc..
There were 4 of us, each one took North, South, West and the East. I took the South.
So here I am by myself searching the desert, with the uncompany of the heating sun. As I traveled throughout the heating desert, I came across a permanent, my emotions were quickly heighted and I was feeling scared to see what was in the tomb or what could be roaming in it. But if I don’t there won’t be a point of us coming here anyways.
So I called my group to meet me . The problem is it took them like 3 hours to arrive, Once they all arrived, we decided to go and check out whatever is in that permanent. So we got in without any regrets. Inside was dark and and real creepy, we walked inside it like it was forever, but the next thing I saw was a coffin. I was too afraid to open or to get close to it, thinking something would jump out and eat us all. So my friend Zac went to check it out, when he opened there was a mummy wrapped in wrappers but there were 4 artefacts of different animals faces.
I was scared to open it because I heard that when an Egyptian person or a royal person dies they have to take out the organ of the body.
After being in the permanent we took everything valuable including the mummy and the coffin/Tomb. We took to our lab. And tried to research it to see if we could find anything useful.
After researching important values and who died in the tomb, it turns out who died was just a loyal servant to a powerful king, Pharaoh.
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This week in T4 we have been focusing on our geometry work that we have done over the pass few weeks. Now we have been creating our own street map, we enjoyed doing it together, it took some time and some of us have finished and some of us have not finished. I'm one of them that finished! I really enjoyed doing this and I really hope we could do this again Here is my street.
Last week on Wednesday I went on camp with my class to Hanmer Springs. It took 2 and half hours, when we got there, there were other classes there, T1 and T2 we got out and we ate lunch. Ten minutes later we went and got our sleeping bag and took it in our room. My room was the first room then our teacher said to get ready for our first activity. We went mountain biking it was a amazing and lots of fun after the whole activity. 
