Term 4 Easstle Writing

“Have you ever wondered why people choose music over sports or sport over music?”

“I highly disagree that music is more important than sports”.Firstly Sports in a good way to keep you're body working and you're bones healthy it's a way to become fit and strong.Secondly you get to go places in you're life and meet new people.Lastly sports is just something fun to do and a way to get out the house.

Firstly Sports in a good way to keep you're body working and you're bones healthy it's a way to become fit and strong.sports is a way to feel the energy pumping thru you're body and you start to develop BIG muscles and strong bones.you might start to lose some weight but that’s good that mean you don't have to worry about going to then gym because you know you're already fit to go.You also get to travel and go places.

Secondly you get to go places in you're life and meet new people.Even though sports might be hard you still get to do cool stuff like travel around the world, meet famous sports players.You will never know what sports brings you.You go on trips those trips take you to other countries then you might go to another country and play for them you never know what it brings you but you just go with it.

Lastly sports is just something fun to do and a way to get out the house.Even though you might not like it,Even though you might be scared sports is fun and it will get funner every day you play it.Sports is a fun way to express you're feelings.You can get great acheivments in sports .You might just play to get out on the house but that's alright because sports ain't always about winning it about have fun.

“That's my reason why “

Sports is more important then sports.

Life cycle of a hippo

Hippo week 2

Life Cycle Of  A Hippopotamus

Have you ever wondered about the lifecycle of an hippopotamus?

Firstly a  baby hippo is born in the water and starts to swim straight away. Its really interesting that hippos learn how to swim when they are born. Some baby hippos weigh about 55-120 pounds at birth.Young hippos can stay underwater for about 30 seconds. At about 3 weeks old, the hippo stops nursing from its mother and begins to eat grass. Baby hippos often will climb up on their mothers back to take a nap when they are tired.

Secondly when the baby hippo gets a little bigger it will still stay by its mother.They would play and eat on there own but still stay close to their mother .Hippos don't leave their mother until full grown adult when they are about 7-8 years old.

Thirdly when hippos are 8 years old they lead off to find a mate and once the (male or female) have found their partner, once they have done that the (male) hippopotamus travels to look for a herd without a leader and become the new leader.

 

In this explanation we have explained the different phases of a hippos life. We talked about a hippos life and everything from when it was a baby to an adult.

Tremaine, Renata and  Zhyon

Tuna report

Tuna Report

Opening statement

The scientific name for Tuna/Eel is Anguilliformes. In maori the eel is known as the Tuna.There are fewer eels these days because of the loss of wetlands and historical commercial fishing practice.Their are two types of Tuna the long finn  and the short fin.

Appearance

When eels  are small they have smooth heads but when they grow up they start to get a bulbous head (Which means fat and round head).Eels are like fish they have scales and fins.But the long fins  top fin is longer than its bottom that's why it is named the longfin.Just because eels don't look like they have scales doesn't mean they don't have them tiny little scales are on the eels skin so you can't really see them but there.Some eels may look like snakes but there are 800 species of eels.

Breeding

Longfin eel only breed  at the end of their life.But when they want to breed they got to the subtropical ocean to spawn they probably go deep in the ocean holes.When they get to where they   need to go the females lay millions of fertilized eggs.The eggs or known as larvae looks like nothing they are transparent they are flat and they are leaf shaped and you can't see the properly.Some people say the freshwater eels travel 4,000 miles to breed.

Diet/Food

Eels are carnivores they are meat eaters they eat worms,snails,frogs,shrimps,mussels and other small fish.They mostly hunt for food at night.Now days eels have a technique to catch their pray they slither through 2 rocks to catch their prey.But when they  grow up eels start to eat prey that are bigger or as big as them.

Habitat

You will normally find eels in freshwater streams,rivers,lakes or if they are breeding you will find them in the sea water or on their way to the ocean.They normally hide in little burrows in the water or try and find little shelters or in the side on the river banks and in the mud.

Closing statement

Longfin eels can live up to 25 to 80 years old until they breed then die but the shortfin eels live up to 15 to 18 years and people should not eat longfin eels because they are toxic inside of them.There are a big loss of longfin eels because it is from the big loss of wetlands.

Should sunhats should be compulsory

Should sunhats should be compulsory

I Recommend We should wear sun hats at school because do you want the number of  melanoma to go down there is about four thousand  people are diagnosed and 300 hundred people die each year.Do you really want melanoma?I Know sun hats can be  ugly but it's good for you because you can cause  melanoma  to yourself.Do you really want melanoma?

It's bad having melanoma even sometimes people make you cry because they mock you.

Firstly we should get a hat or an sun hat so if you like to play outside you're always protected and you know you will be safe.

Secondly it's bad not wearing a hat because it causes melanoma (skin cancer) it's good to care about yourself especially when you don't have a hat so go buy a hat right now.

Lastly why doesn't anyone love sun hats their good to protect your heads and the bucket hats look cool.

This is my writting do we need to where hats at school

This is my matariki poster all about matariki

MATARIKI

Matariki is a very important thing on the maori calendar and Matariki is the maori for pleiades and the little cluster of stars .

Matariki

What is Matariki?

Matariki is the maori name for cluster also a group of stars are called pleiades.

You can see Matariki in the mid-winter late may and early june.

For lots of maori matariki starts a new year.

A special feature of Matariki celebrations is the flying of kites – according to ancient custom they flutter close to the stars.

Only a few people took part at first, but in just a few years thousands were honouring the ‘New Zealand

The stars

You can navigate with the cluster and you can see matariki in early june and late may.

Matariki is the brightest star in the sky.

Matariki is the maori name for pleiades.

skies of New Zealand, it signals a month-long celebration across the country of the Māori New Year.

There names are Tupu-a-nuku, Tupu-a-rangi, Waiti, Waita, Waipuna-a-rangi and Ururangi.

Importance of Matariki

For many New Zealanders, 31 December means parties and

to welcome the New Year.

Traditionally, Matariki was a time to remember those who had died in the last year.

But it was also a happy event – crops had been harvested and seafood and birds had been collected. With plenty of food in the storehouses.

How it is celebrated

Kites were seen as connectors between heaven and earth, and were often flown at this event, especially on the first day of The Māori New Year signals a time for connecting with, and giving thanks to, the land, sea and sky he New york The Matariki Festival in Auckland will see the city come alive with live music performances, Kapa Haka, theatre, poetry, family events, dance and art.ear.

Today Matariki means celebrating the unique place in which we live and giving respect to the land we live on.