Save the whales

Saving the whales

Why do we need to protect them?

What is the cause of the population decreasing in number?

What is being done to help them?

how is successful is this help?

 

habitat: they live in the ocean.

food: schooling squid, krill, crab larvae, herring eggs, ghost shrimp, and small bait fish such as capelin. They also eat plankton

breeding: before whales breed they travel several thousand miles. 

facts

The biggest whale in the whole world is the blue whale. The blue whale's heart is the size of BMW and it is 450kgs 

• The blue whale is the largest living animal on this planet and can grow to be over 90 ft. and weigh 150 tons or more.
• The dwarf sperm whale is smallest of the whale species and can grow up to 9 ft. in length and weigh up to 600 pounds.
• The sperm whale is the largest of the toothed whale suborder and can grow as long as 65 ft. and weigh over 62 short tons.
• Baird’s beaked whale in comparison is the second largest of the toothed whale suborder and can grow to a length of 42 ft. and weigh around 15 tons.
• killer whale aka Orca is actually a dolphin. In fact, the killer whale happens to be the largest of the dolphin species (hence the name whale) and can grow to be larger than 25 ft. long and weigh over 6 tons.
• Maui’s dolphin is considered the smallest marine mammal in the dolphin family as it can measure 4 – 6 ft. long and weigh between 95 – 115 lbs.

Whales

• Whales live in the sea
• sperm whales they like waters that are ice-free and 3000 deep. 
• They mostly eat squids and octopus's
• threats commercial protest against whales/ also illegal in 1986
• they are mammals 
• sperm whales oil gets taken
• sperm whales tongue is the same as an elephant 
• whales get sunburn
• humans killed 28 million whales in a century
• whales largest tooth predator 

Choir

Today some 8mt students went to choir and they did a practice for their performance. The teacher that came with us was Mrs Richardson came with us. we had so much fun at Avon head school.

Our choir is the 7/8 massed choir. we are getting ready to go to a huge performance. The choir is very small and we only have 12 or more people

joints

Tough
Smooth
Strong
On the end of bones that. Move across each other
Stops fricton
Acts as a shock absorber


Things that damage joints
Exiseing threw pain
Doing the same things over and over
Carrying heavy things
Not warming up

Osteo arthritis- makes the cartilage gritty and you can hear the sounds
Rheumatoid arthritis-  where the joins are inflamed.

Tendons- connect muscles to bone
Ligaments-connect bone to bone

Gymnastics Week 2

What I want to achieve?

I want to achieve to go on the tramp and do the right thing.

 what I achieve I achieve to go on the tramp at least once. even tho I was a bit scared I still did it.

Trying, smelling, and touching

1.  marmite
2. apple ( baby food)
3.  cornflakes
4. marshmallow
5. a lolly ( sour )

taste

1. vinegar- acetone
2. . coffee-  Correct
3. chocalte caramel- correct
4. banana- correct
5. .onion- correct

smell

1. dirt.
2. clothing pins. 
3. pine cones. 
4. ping pong ball
5. buttons,
6. string. 
7. cotton. 
8. .seed.
9. marbles. 
10. pipecleans. 

touch

comments
Jade: it was fun very fun
Kaela: I think it was cheesey
Chyna: i liked it. because i got to eat

Kaitiakitanga

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Fukushima

• what
• where
• why are these important
• what effect have they had on areas around them?

Chernobyl 

what has been done to done to protect the surrounding areas from Chernobyl radiation

Between May and November 1986, a Shelter was built to contain the damaged reactor, reduce the radiation levels on-site, and prevent further release of radioactive material.

However, problems have later arisen from the fact that the Shelter had to be erected quickly and under very difficult conditions, partly because the construction personnel were exposed to severe radiation levels. Some structural parts have corroded during the past 20 years, which could potentially lead to the collapse of the Shelter and thus to the release of radioactive dust into the environment.

To avoid the top of the Shelter collapsing, there are plans to strengthen unstable structures and to build a New Safe Confinement (NSC) that would cover the existing Shelter and last more than 100 years. The NSC would allow workers to dismantle the current Shelter, remove highly radioactive material from the damaged reactor, and eventually dismantle it altogether.

what we learnt from this


Some photos and videos I found

Drama

Today in class we did drama we were professors and we made up our own names. We imagined we had an object. We had to explain what that object looked like. There was no specific object so we just said what we thought it looked like.

 this was my identity and my opinion

Name: Elmo
Country/Place: Elmos world
Explanation: It  was smooth 

Hello, my name is Elmo and I am from Elmo's world. This object looks and feels really smooth.

Endangered animals

Rabbits
Possums
Rats
Stoats
Ferrets
Weasel
Goats
Tahr
Red deer
Wallaby only in the south island
Pigs


1. An introduced species is a species living outside its native distributional range.
2. Because it fits with their habitat type.
3. Because of pests.
4. They eat eggs from birds that live on the ground and feed on them.
5. Because they are pests and predators and eat native creatures.
6. 

Hedge Hog

Possums: eats eggs of native birds and even the native, disturb nesting birds. The first possums were brought here in 1837 from Australia.
Possums are native to Australia where they are protected.
Possums are not a problem in Australia, in fact, they are endangered in some areas.
Possums were brought to New Zealand to start a fur industry.
At the height of the fur trade, trappers killed 20 million possums in a year which helped to control possum number.When possums were first released into some areas of New Zealand, such as the Wairarapa, school children were given the day off school to mark the historic event!Possums belong to a special group of mammals called marsupials. This means that the baby possum is born when it is still very tiny and continues growing in a special pouch on its mother’s stomach instead of inside its mother’s tummy.
Marsupials are found only in Australia. There are 200 different kinds of marsupials in Australia.
Other marsupials are the wallaby (which was also introduced to New Zealand), kangaroo and koala. That makes the possum the cousin of the kangaroo.

Gymnastics

Week 1
Today in PE we did gymnastics. I thought it was very fun because I enjoyed jumping over the cone on the beam. my fear was going on the beam and jumping the cone because it was scary when the teacher said it but then I was like ok it's not that scary.

first, we did front rolls, back rolls and cart wheels. I did well for the back rolls and front rolls but when it came to the cartwheels I could not do it.




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