My kiwi report.

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.

Scientific sketching

This week me and my class were focusing  on scientific Sketching of plants,I did this plant,which I still have no idea the name for this plant. But luckily just a look and I've already got lots amazing facts. 

This plants stem, is stronger from the bottom but lighter as it goes up. On the stem it grows white small hair, used to reflect sun to keep the plant cool. The colour of the leaves are green on the top but the bottom is mixed with white and green. It is about 0 cm  to 26 cm for the height in reality.  

The wonderful of oz

                                 120 anniversary 

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 draft Writing

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.

Riddle day

Today me and my group were given an activities of doing riddles and puzzle, our first mystery  activity  was a puzzle of a hippopotamus.

 

Our second activity was a second puzzle, about a symbol, doing it was probably the hardest one out of all the three puzzles.

Our last puzzle was the about a space ship I think with dark clouds all over the ship.

So after all the activities we started doing maths quiz, we some and easy questions it came with letters when we got the answer right, so we has to write down all the letters that was given by our teacher, after getting all the letters, it was scrambled, so all we had to do was to unscramble the words, into a name of a country with unscrambling the word we had a map to help us with the name. After unscrambling the words we found the city out which was ancient Egypt. 

 

World news

Egypt has confirmed that they now have the corona virus with two patients that have died from the virus. The two was a 78 year old Italian woman and a 70 year old Egyptian man, also died in a isolation hospital.
Since the out break has hit Egypt 26  patients has been recovered  from the virus and that they have been discharged from the isolation hospital.

My opinion on outbreak is that since Egypt has the corona virus. They should be really careful of what they touch, they should wear mask wash there hands at all times, move away when people cough and sneeze. they should mostly look after their alders.         

My poem

My poem

Things i'm afraid to lose

Losing my friends

Losing my family

Losing memories of great time

Losing my teacher

Losing my house

Losing my will to be happy 

Losing the things that makes me, me

Losing my personality

Losing my attitude

Losing my phone

Losing my will to live 

Losing track of time.

Trouble

Story poem

I see you getting in trouble

I'm scared to ask you why

I know i want to fix it

I know I’m willing to help 

But..

What If what i say sounds wrong?

Am i Forcing you to be strong?

What if I make matters worse?

I don’t want to be thrown out

Still..

I can’t have you thinking 

Your fighting on your own