Plastic Free Challenge

 I have been learning about Why we should be Plastic free and The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. If you don’t know that place, it's a big bit of the ocean that is filled with our rubbish. It's terrible. So we read a book made by room five from Motueka South School. When I got on to making my slides I wanted to make them to make people think about how they could make a change. I really enjoyed this task because the topic has been a problem I have always thought of and one I wanted to change. I found it quite challenging to put the facts into my own words. Please comment if you're going to try this challenge and If I made you consider it. Hope you like my slides. Matewa.

What happens when you put baking soda and vinegar together?

 What happens when you put baking soda and vinegar together?

We have been learning about what happens when you put baking soda and vinegar together. Before we did the experiment we watched a  video  on it and it told us how to do everything. When I did the experiment it took a while to work and fizzed up at the bottom what I wonder if it will do the same it you try it? If you tried the experiment tell me in the comments how it went. Mine went well. Try it out!

You need

Ballon or ziplock bag

Smallest bottle you can find ( doesn't really matter)

Baking soda enough to fill balloon

½ a cup of vinegar

Funnel

Ps . If you're using a ziplock bag only put three teaspoons of baking soda in .

 

before

After

Nature art

 Do you know who andy Goldsworthy is? We have learnt about Nature art Inspired by Andy Goldsworthy. After we had watched a video about him and his art we had the challenge to make our own Nature art . At the time I was thinking about maori culture , so I decided that I wanted to make a koru. I gathered up some different coloured stones and  got to work. At the time I found it tricky to get the shape of the koru right, But I really enjoyed it at the same time. Please comment on what you think I did well. I encourage you to check out some of Andy Goldsworthy’s art. Here it is. 

Do you Compost?

Today we were learning about why composting is good and we had to end up writing a report about it. For this task we had to watch an interesting video on composting, Then we had to read two books that were also about composting. I found it fun and easy to write my plan. But I also found it challenging to write my key words into paragraphs. Please in the comments say If you have a compost or how many you have. Here is my writing  

 Composting

Why do we compost? This information report Should tell you what it is how it is made and what the benefits of it are .

What is it ?

A compost bin is a wood, plastic or sometimes metal bin that holds bugs, green waste , brown waste that makes healthy soil. We use this composting bin to create compost from the kitchen and house waste that you might just throwaway. The compost bin has two jobs, it recycles waste and creates a product that you can use back in your garden because plants love this and it helps feed them to make more food that you can use back in your kitchen!. 

How is it made?

When throwing your green and brown waste into a compost bin it actually goes through a big cycle. First when you throw your waste away you make layers, Those layers then decompose. Worms and other helpful bugs eat the green and brown waste which when it comes out the other end it has been broken down and they keep doing that over and over again till it is mostly all soil. When all the waste has decomposed and has turned into healthy nutritious soil. People put it back in their gardens to help the plants grow healthy and strong, this makes them happy and colourful.

What are the benefits of composting?

Everybody has waste, but not everybody has compost. If you are one of these people you should consider getting a compost because first you save money not having to pay to dump it.. Second It’s really good for your plants and the environment. And lastly it's just amazing healthy soil which keeps our worms happy!

Conclusion

There are only good reasons to have your own compost And if you do it right there are no yucky smells to it. I think everybody should make a compost to do your part to lessen the amount of waste that goes out into the environment from your consumption.

The Magic Jawbone

 I'm sure most of you reading this have watched or heard of Maui the Maori legend. We  watched a video on how he found his mother and father after we the    the  create was to either draw,Make a digital or lego Jawbone,Wood pigeon or stop motion video. I found it challenging to draw the maori patterns inside of the hook and draw the shape of the jawbone. Please comment if you like my jawbone and if you think it's good . Here's my picture.

Night Time

 Have you seen a real life ruru before? Because of the lockdown our teachers wanted us to get outside and get active so they made a poster of a bunch of things we could do outside and one of them was to go outside at night with a torch and explore. I live on a farm so We have lots of property to explore. I loved going out there tonight with all the fresh air around me and I got to show other people a ruru (Morepork
). I found it hard to shine the light on the ruru and record at the same time. Please tell me if my video was cool and if I showed you a ruru for the first time heres the video.

Eels

Our second task for today was to answer questions. You're probably wondering what questions I am answering . Well I am Answering questions about native animals. We got to choose our Native
New Zealand animal. I chose an eel.When It comes to these slippery and slimy creatures there are actually a lot you don't know about them like did you know that there are only two breeds of eel in New Zealand: the short fin and long fin eel.

Here are my answers to the questions

What is the Eels mori name?

Tuna

What are the two different species of eels in New Zealand? How do you tell them apart?

Long fin eel and short fish eel. 

The dorsal (witch is the top) fin extends a lot further forward than the anal (The bottom) fin.