End Of Term Review

As this term is coming to a end I have decided to write a blog on my feeling about this term. I have made many fond memories and have had a lot of feelings about this term. I have made a lot of cherishable friends and have had a lot of fun.

How I feel

When coming back to school I was quite nervous but as time went by I felt calm and like I've been here for the whole year with no break. But over the next couple of weeks I wasn't prepared for lockdown and when we were told that schools and other businesses were closed I kinda panicked. But over the time I settled into lockdown and I am very thankful for the experience. Giving that we had done online learning I wasn't nervous in the slightest when we were able to come back to school. Now we have done lots of good learning and I am very comfortable with were and what I am doing now.

What I am Aiming For

Next term I am aiming to work on the quantity of my work, being able to put more information into my learning. I am also working on giving more informative advice so I can help others complete their work to not only have enough but to also help improve the quality of others learning.

Those are my feelings about Term Two. I really hope by next term I can accomplish my goal.

Question: How was lockdown for you?

Dear Future Generation Letter

We have been very focused about the enviroment and what we can do. Recently we have moved our focus to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and what humans are doing to cause such a mess. Last week we wrote letters with the layout of the video Dear Future Generation, Sorry. Thiis inspired us to write letters, and this is mine.

Dear Future Generations,

I think I speak for the rest of us when I say, Sorry. Sorry for the predicament that us people put you in. Sorry we used machines to tear down rainforests and the millions of animals that have died doing so. I'm sorry we did all this horrible thing that could crush you future for money. Actually I'm not sorry because I'm going to do something, I'm going to tell you that we need to make a stand. We know what we are doing is wrong and it isn't right and I'm going to try put a stop to it, for the future of mankind , and for the animals we constantly take for granted.

Be Apart Of The Sollution, Not The Pollution

What Is Happening?

In the Kakapo class we have recently been learning about the rainforest. But this week we have focused our attention to plastic and other materials that are destroying our enviroment. We have learned about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch which is twice the size of Texas and holds around 1.8 trillion pieces of rubbish. So in Kakapo we have decided to take action. It is not acceptable to know the problem and not do anything, But in Kakapo we are taking action and doing all we can to spread the warning as we inch closer and closer to global warming. WE WILL NOT STAND FOR IT!

What Can We Do?

In Kakapo we have made a plan to send informative messages to those who continue to use plastic, but we will support and stand by the companies that have taken action and are contributing to help all life on Earth with sustainable products that do not harm sealife, enviroments and aswell as human life. We have pinpointed some companies that are constanly using plastic for all their sales and deciding to write messages that inform them about these current pandemics that invole plastic that they produce and sell.

How Can We Help?

We can start by using and buying sustainable items and products that can be reused and recycled. We can also inform others about the crisis and what can happen if we continue throwing plastic and not caring where it goes than life as we no it would be very extreme and hard to live in. As I said there are 1.8 trillion pieces of rubbish in the great pacific garbage patch and we will slowly start coming to the point were there is as much rubbish as there is fish, there are currently 3,500,000,000,000 (three trillion five hundred billion) fish in the ocean so we only need around 1.7 trillion more pieces of rubbish until there is as much rubbish as there is fish. WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING!

Dear Future Generations, Sorry

In Kakapo class we have been very focused on helping the enviroment for the future and now. We have been inspired by Prince EA and his video called; Dear Future Generation. This video has inspired us to make slides, posters and art about the Rainforest and its unique animals.
(Here is my slide about the Rainforest)

In the video he explains to the future generation about life now. He also explains the problems in the world.  (Such as deforestation, Climate Change, Rising sea levels, ect) He also explains that animals are not the problems but humans are. He says that he is disapointed about the events happening in the world caused by humans. He says he is going to do something and let his voiced be heard.

Like Prince EA I am also in support of the enviroment and will do things I am not used to to protect and help it no matter what it takes. The enviroment is the live source of the human race and shortly we will run out. Animals aren't destroying our lives, we are ruining our chances of a longer survival. If we keep this track of so called "progress" humans will be like other the animals that we've put enxtinct and become extinct ourselves. Unfortunately the future generation  wont be around to see because of the mistakes and problems we caused now.

Rainforest Report

Over the past couple of weeks my class and I have been researching about the rainforest and have come up with many cool items. We have been researching about the rainforest because of the current crisis, many people are cutting down aceres and aceres of rainforests to use for farming and cattle farms.

We cut down an average of 55,600 trees per minute, every day we cut down an average of 42,000000 trees per day, and every year we cut down a whopping 3.5 to 7 billion trees per year, and even though we have around 3 trillion trees although that is a lot with the average of 3.5 to 7 billion trees cut down per in no time will we have no trees.

we did this art to remind us and others

 who come into our class that we support

and are always going to help the

enviroment.

To create this piece we first had to make the plants outline from rainforest plants we researched. We used different sizes to make effect and layering, when it came to the shading we used darker colours for the leaves at the back and lighter shading for the leaves at the front.

We tried our hardest when we needed to make it look realistic and very detailed. Once we finished the basic design of the leaves including the colour we then moved on to dye the background. I used green dye as a detail to make it look like there were other green plants behind the main ones. Once the background was finished we went online to research and find rainforest birds. Once we did we got a seperate piece of paper and drew the basic outline of the bird and then coloured it in the colours they are (The name of my bird is the blue and yellow Macaw). We then dyed the areas that needed to be dyed so the colour would be filled and give it more detail. We then cut it out and used the off cuttings as the hold for the 3D shape.

The challenging part for me was when drawing I strained my arm a lot and it made me very tired. Although I strained my arm it was a very fun activity and everyone was able to be as creative as they wanted.

Other than doing the art we have also been making slides or posters about the rainforest (Rainforest Research) and we have been  researching about the affect of the rainforests around the world. (Did you know Rainforests cover 13 percent of the Earth) While doing this resarch I realized that the rainforests are more important than we think. We are taking them for granted and not realize the affect the rainforest has and without it where humanity would be now. I made this slide as a reminder and a warning that if we carry on with what we are doing humantiy 

will be like many animal species and be extinct.

NZ In Level One

As of the 8/6/2020 NZ has official transfered to level 1. As the country is in level 1 that means that within the past couple of weeks NZ has had no new cases of COVID-19 I are certain that we can maintain hygen and be able to stay in level 1. We have had no new cases for 18 days.

What are the perks of being in level 1?
Well as we are in level 1 we still need to keep hygenic but that dosen't mean that we can't have fun.
 We no longer need to social distance, all companies and shops are open, and we can do much more than we could, and no more qurantine!!!

How Do I Feel
As we have only just entered level 1 I don't feel much different from level 2, but I'm sure that I like level 1 more than level 2, 3 and 4.

How do you feel?

The Rainforest Crisis

As we know we have many Rainforests, Amazon Rainforest, Congo Rainforest and many more. But over the past 100 years humans have been cutting down acres and acres of Rainforest trees. The average amount of trees cut down per minute is around 40 football fields, the amount cut down per day is around 100,000 acres worth, and the amount cut down per year is astonishing the number of trees cut down per year is around 3.5 to 7 billion trees.

But the sad part is that all these Rainforests and trees are cut down for money. People break animals home and the homes of many rare species of animals for their own greed and selfish desires. We need to do something. Right now we have around 3.04 trillion trees which is a lot but we are shortly going to run out if we don't be more cautious and think about the actions we make. If  we prevent the thought of cutting down trees and tearing down Rainforests than we wont have any problems going into the future.

Powerful Paragraph

In the moring we usally do something to burst our writing and help us be a better writer. We have a set criteria and we are learning to use them in all our pieces of writing. The criteria is to have
Alleteration (Alleteration is when you use the same letter at the start as the previous word. EG Fenzy For Fun.)
Metaphor and Similes (Simle: To compare something to someone with the words like or as EG: He is as tall as a giraffe. Metaphor: To call someone something that is physically impossible. EG He is a tall giraffe.)
Personification (To give an object or concept a human trait)
Onomatopoeia (Examples: Bang! Whip! Snap!)
 Here is an example of one of my powerful Paragrapghs

As I was walking through what seemed like an endless forest I  heard the silent whispers of the wind. I saw the overgrowth of moss gathering on the dark oak trees. I saw grass slowly but surley patching itself up.. I heard the quiet rustle as the leaves swayed in the breeze. I heard the distant growl as the wind picked it up and carried it through the air. I felt the sensation of calmness. Freedom and solitude. There was no sunlight as the dark shade of the trees that even the suns light couldn't penetrate. It seems as if these trees have been here since the begining of time, I was amazed.