My new pet budgie!

I’ve been waiting for this for so long, I’m getting a pet budgie! I got the idea from one of my parent’s mate’s budgie, who is so cute and adorable and I haven’t cared for a pet by myself, so I thought “Why shouldn’t I get a budgie?” They’re small, cute, they talk, and it takes real responsibility to take care of one! Since I’m a teenager now, I thought it’d be the perfect time to get one. I saved my birthday money for this, and I’m so happy.

What I needed was: A birdcage (suitable for budgies), toys (to put in the cage), food for the budgie (I’m getting that when I get the budgie), bowls for the budgie’s water, and the budgie itself. I’ve decided that I’m getting the budgie when the school holidays start (which is in 7 days!) so I have time to get the budgie used to me and comfortable, teach it tricks and try and get it to speak.

One reason why I’m getting a budgie is that I need a friend, and I don’t know how to contact my friends in the holidays. It’s really important to and for me that I have chosen this, and I am happy. 

I have been watching youtube videos and reading articles about budgies and I am only getting one because if you get two, they won’t talk as much to you. For the same reason, I am getting a girl. I am hoping to get a blue budgie, but I don’t mind what colour she’ll be. And as for her name, Her name is going to be Nellie! Nel for short, it’s a cool name that goes well with a budgie. I will be treating Nellie with absolute care and she will have my utmost attention.

My Jikoshokai! (Japanese Self-Introduction)

This is my Japanese self-introduction or Jikoshokai!

I hope you enjoy!

C.I.P - Tane Mahuta

Today In Tane Mahuta, we continued digging/tilling/weeding the garden and getting it ready for some more plants.

In period 2, Sh had Kiwi Kaha. We played a game where we had to get into groups of three, and we had five cards. The five cards all had different topics on them eg. Instruments, Clothing, Toys, Furniture, and Jewellery. We had to get five of one topic, depending on which group you were in. We had a sheet of paper to write how much money we had, how much we had spent, and who it was from/for. My team ended up getting 1st place at $1,325.

In period 3, we were digging the garden to make the soil soft, and we were weeding it aswell. We had to dig the dirt because otherwise, the dirt would be too hard for the plants to grow.

Hurumanu - Cookie mining

 

Mining Fossil Fuels

What Fossil Fuels are mined?

1.   Coal.
2.   Oil.
3.   Gas.

How are they mined?

1. Digging.
2. Scraping.
3. Mining.
4. Extraction.

Where are they mined?

1. Oil - Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Iran.
2. Coal - USA, Russia, China, India.
3. Gas - 

Activity: Cookie Mining

On the sheet provided you need to make two drawings of your cookie. 
1. Looking down at your cookie.
2. From Side on -  of the imaginary habitat that will live on the top of the cookie. ( trees, buses, flax, sea, etc)

Material:

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Steps:

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Findings: What did you find out as a result of your mining?

Conclusion: 

Hurumanu - Fossil Fuels

Today in science, we learned what contributes to climate change, here they are:

Transport: most cars need gas or diesel to work gas is made from oil which is a fossil fuel.

Cows: create a gas called methane and it is 25x stronger than carbon dioxide.

Food: we need food to survive and is transported by trains planes trucks and ships and adds carbon dioxide.

Factories: make clothes cars electronics and processed foods that create a lot of pollution.

Electricity: can come from renewable sources out of water wind and sun fossil fuels release co2 into the atmosphere.

Waste: our landfills are growing and use good land and there are gases that contribute to climate change.

Climate change at Orana park.

On Tuesday we went to Orana Park and we saw a lot of animals. I'm going to talk about what I saw, what happened and what I learned. We had a guide who was there to show us the animals and teach us about climate change and how it affects these animals.

Our guide was Richard, and he showed us around the park. First, we went past the meerkats and then we went to a lunch area to have our morning tea. We saw a tiger, five lions, a few rhinos, and a few giraffes. We couldn't see any kiwis in the kiwi habitat, but we did see a couple of keas which were really smart and very adorable.

Three things that I enjoyed about the trip were:

• Seeing the Lions,
• Learning about how climate change affects the animals we saw,
• Seeing the Keas.

Four facts I learnt were:

• Poachers kill rhinos for their horn because they think it's had benefits in medicine,
• When male lions get desexed, their manes disappear because of their hormones,
• There are 12 white Bengal tigers left in the world,
• The West African black rhino is extinct. 

Four climate change facts I learnt were:

• The Orangutans' natural home is being destroyed for palm oil
• The Gorillas' home is being destroyed for tiny metal chips that are used to make cellphones.
• Giraffes contribute to helping replanting trees because they eat leaves which have seeds on them which they poop back out into the ground and the poop helps the seed grow back.
• Animals in the arctic are losing their homes because the polar caps are melting.

Hurumanu - Solar energy

Solar Energy

Aim: To find out which colour attracts the suns heat.

Hypothesis: I think White and/or silver will attract the suns heat.

Materials:

1.  White cup x2
2.  Sheet of Paper
3.  Sheet of Tinfoil x2
4.  Plastic bag sheet x2
5.  Clear cup
6. Heat lamp

Steps

1. Write your hypothesis
2. Get your materials
3.  Set up your materials like this
4.  Turn on the lamp and position it so that each colour cup gets an even amount of heat.
5.  At three 15 minute intervals, for one minute (in total) put the thermometer in each cup and record the data.
6.   Turn the Lamp back on after you have done recording the info (not after you've done the whole lot).
7. Look back at your hypothesis to see if you were right.>>>>

Findings:

Time	Cup 1 White	Cup 2 Black	Cup 3 Tinfoil
0	16'c	16'c	16'c
15	18'c	20'c	19'c
30	18'c	24'c	21'c
45	19'c	27'c	23'c

Conclusion

My theory wasn't correct, but I can learn from this information for next time.