Daisy Chains

We had to pick and make a daisy chain. It was not easy to make one. I was getting grumpy because I couldn't make the cut in the stalk of the flower to put the piece through.

I counted the petls on three different flowers. 1 had 21 the other 25 and the last one had 28 petals on it

 

 on this side of the photo, you can see the petals I took off the flowerhead. It was very hard to count them being so small

This is a closeup of the chain. you can see where we used our nails to cut into the stalks and put the stem through

This is a close up photo of a daisy I picked. I like the brightness of the yellow middle 

BINGO! Get to know a tree

 

What to do

1. Choose a tree

Head into your backyard and choose a tree 

This is a kowhai tree. I had to do some activities for boys brigade so have a bark rubbing, leaves and flowers from the tree we have in the garden.

2. Record your observations

What animals do you notice in and around this tree? We have heard bellbirds, tui's and seen lots of wax eyes in the tree. Mum said the wood pigeons love being in there too. Under the tree is chickens as it is on the edge of the chicken run

Record any interactions between animals and the tree. Look closely for birds and insects on the branches, trunk, and in the surrounding soil.

Consider:

• What reasons would the observed animals have for visiting or living on this tree? The bellbirds, tuis, and pigeons love to eat the nectar from the flowers. The chickens would use the tree to hide in the shade on a hot day. 
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• What else do you notice about this tree?  The flowers are yellow and drop down in bunches. the leaves on the tree are very small and in lines the bark is smooth it's a young tree. Mum said they turn a very dark brown colour almost black colour when very old. When Mum was younger she had three in her yard and used to play and climb in them when the birds weren't in them Pigions used to love them and dive bomb her when flying around the tree
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• Would you notice different things around this tree at different times of day? I think in the mornings it would be more busier with birds waking up
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• Would you notice different things on different days and over the coming weeks. On a wet day, I don't think you would see much. i don't like coming out in the rain so why would birds On a fine day they would be plenty happening the birds would be extra hungry from hiding in the rain
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• Would you notice different things about this tree at different times and over the coming weeks? As the birds go from flower to flower they would eat all the nectar and then be nothing left the birds will leave the tree alone

Conservation Week Bingo

For conservation week we have a bingo board to fill in. This is my something down low. It was to wet to go outside but I found this or mum found this first.

Yesterday while Mum was in my room she found a honey bee on the window sill. It probably flew in on the weekend when the windows were open. It looked pretty sad so we gave it a sugar-water drink and then put it outside on the porch by the kitchen. Mum said the water should give it some energy to be able to fly away back home.

It was really cool to see one up close. I was reading a book yesterday with my reading group about a man who photo's bugs and insects in his garden. This reminded me of that.

Lego Weekly Challenge

This is a white heron and beside it is Mum's version of a New Zealand Falcon. She wanted to make something as well

I'm going to tell you about the white heron. The white heron is on the New Zealand two dollar coin 

The white heron is found in New Zealand on the West Coast on waitangiroto river down at Whatatroa. The Maori name for it is kotuku. You can take a guided jet boat ride to see them from September to January when they are breeding.  Birds make their nests in the crowns of tree ferns or in kōwhai or kāmahi trees along the bank of the river 

We see them on our way to town in the farm paddocks, creeks, and on the river. When we go into lake mahinapua for a look you can always see some before September.

They eat little fish like whitebait, eels, frogs, mice, insects, and small birds like wax eyes. 

Mum said my neighbour has to put netting over her fish pond as she had one that used to come for breakfast and eat her gold fish. It would sit on the roof of the house and wait 

 

It must have looked like a real bird to my cat as this is what it looks like after she attacked it!

Weekly Challenge

Mrs Hickfords Weekly Challenge 

Mrs Hickford gave our class a weekly challenge. the rain has stopped me from getting outside to take a photo so mum and I decided to do the daffodil one. 

We had a look online and checked out how to make paper daffidols on you tube. there were so many videos it was hard to choose what to pick. Mum picked one and we started after looking in her box of craft stuff. We had to get the right colours for the flowers. 2 different coloured yellow and 1 orange is what we found. Mum went to the baking cupboard and got some cupcake wrappers as well for the middle of some the flowers. 

We started by making squares out of the paper and then folded them into a triangle we had to fold them again in half and then into quarters mum said this is using fractions and maths. once we had folded them enough we had to make a cut like a petal. it was really hard to cut the heavier cardboard but mum helped me. we unfolded the paper and they turned out like flower petals. to make some of the trumpets in the middle we cut circles and then cut that in half. cut zigzags and taped them together. WE glued all the petals together on top of each other. Mum used some curling ribbon to wrap the ice cream sticks to make them green for the stems of the flowers. We made two butterflies to go with the flowers.

 

                                                           

These are the flowers I liked the most. The butterfly is in the back I haven't coloured them in yet. I like the different styles of petals we were able to make by cutting the different ways.

We are going to find a vase and put them in it and leave it on the table 

TC Marching Ants

 This is my Marching Ants. it took me quit a while to do this. I did this  because it was a school challenge but then my teacher gave me the hint today then I got. 

Photo Challenge

Bubble Photo

Mrs Long put a class challenge on our home learning to take a family photo. We had to put everyone in the photo that was in our bubble. I was able to get our dog Kyla in it but not the cats we have. Fluffy Minx Marley and Naharla would not get in the photo with us. 

I did not read the instructions very well and our neighbour came over to take the photo for us on my Mums phone. I wanted the photo to be all of us on our bikes. We all like going down the beach on the bikes.

In the photo is my Mum Nina Dad Sean dog Kyla on Dads knee and me in the middle on my bike.

video challenge my favourite thing to do

Donuts and Drifts my favourite thing to do

Mrs Long has set a video challenge for our class this week.
We had to make a video and it could of us helping with something or reading a story.
I chose to do something I love doing.

This is me riding my new motorbike doing donuts and drifting down on the beach and this is my favourite thing to do donuts and drifts. I had to get Mum to take the video as i couldn't do it myself and ride the bike at the same time.
To do donuts you need to get lots of speed like i did go really fast and then turn the handle bars and then you have to keep the gas up while going round the corner To get out of the donut you have to turn the handle bars the other way.
When drifting you go really fast down the beach in a straight line and then turn the handlebars one way and then the other way quickly swinging the bike at the same time.


 While we were down the beach doing my video challenge we also made a hut with all the driftwood.
we are going back down later today to see if the wind and rain did any damage to it. I hope the tide didn't take it away when it came in overnight.

We used two main big sticks leaning on each other and then added the other sticks laying them on the sides to make the walls. There was a big log that I used as seat and then uncovered another smaller one for the foot rest.         
           

Lego creation challenge

Lego creation

                          This my lego build that I made. It was originally a whale and a tractor.

 I like it because it can fly and drive and it is used for jumping off the back of it because then you can jump into the hot tub. You can take the tail off it and the wings on the top to transform it to a truck.
The blue and white bricks under the tail at the end are a turbo to make it go really fast.