Cooking
For tech arts we have been doing food it is so cool. So far I have made a smoothee, pizza snacks, wedges, banana cake and hot potato savouries. On Tuesday we are having a boil up and all we have to bring is one potato. If you want to learn some recipes go to ultranet.teawamutuint.school.nz and then go to Technology food technology and then you will see them down the side of the page. This is my favourite thing at school because I want to be a chef when I am older. My friend Alex is going to work with me when we have this food thing where you invite your parents to come and test your food!
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Elephants
Elephants are mammals they are also the largest land animal! When fully grown at 25years they are the 2nd tallest animal after the giraffe. There are two different types one of them is the African elephant and the other is the Asian elephant. They both can live up to be 65 years old!
An elephant has the best memory that can sometimes last up to when they were born! Their small brown eyes are protected by big giant eyelashes. They have very good eyesight but are colour blind. Their wrinkly grey skin is 2-4cm thick. They have very sensitive skin and the wrinkles keep them cool. They keep them cool because the trapped water evaporates slowly and then starts to cool them down. They have all different ears kind of like the human hand print. Their ears are very good at hearing. The trunk is the most important sense of all. The trunk is the elephant’s nose so they can breath out of it like us. But unlike us humans the elephant picks up its food and sucks up liquid using its trunk. Their tusks are really their teeth and continually keep growing until they are 1.5 metres long. They weigh about 45 kilograms. They are made out of a hard creamy-white substance called ivory. Their tusks are useful for things like digging, fighting, feeding and lifting.
The African elephant is the biggest elephant at 2-4 meters tall and can weigh 7500 kilograms. Both females and males have tusks. The Asian elephant has smaller ears and the upper edge is curled forward. They are endangered and only the male has tusks.
Elephants live in all sorts of places like in the dessert, safaris, mountains, tropical forests, Africa, India and Southern Asia. They live in family groups called herds and they all protect the young. They have short naps for 2-4 hours a day. They can sleep standing or lying. Elephants are herbivores and in the wild they eat things like grasses, leaves, roots and shoots. They usually eat for about 20 hours and eat up to 250-330 kg a day. In captivity they eat hay, oats, potatoes and some meat.
Elephants communicate to each other by trunk touch each other, make noises like a trumpet sound, a bellow, a cry and a snort. When an elephant is in danger they flap their ears against their head and then the herd gathers. They are endangered because of ivory poachers and forests being cut down. Elephants are very good swimmers. When they are under the water they use their trunks as a snorkel!
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Title- Cracking Coasts, Author- Anita Ganeri, Publisher- Scholastic, No. Of pages- 128, Genre- Non fiction, ISBN- 0-439-96397-4 “Are the following questions true or false? 1. Baffin Bay is named after ace explorer William Baffin. True/false? 2. Shark Bay got its name because its shark shaped. True/false? 3. Repulse Bay got its name because it’s so repulsive. True/false? 4. Chesapeake Bay means “great shellfish bay”. True/false? 5. Botany Bay is named after its lovely, green bloomers. True/false? 6. Limpets cling on to rocks by their fingertips. True/false? 7. Mussels have hairy beards. True/false? 8. Tellins have trunks like elephants. True/false? 9. Piddocks can drill through solid rock. True/false? 10. Sea snails ride the waves on surfboards. True/false? Answers 1. True2. False3. False4. True5. True6. False7. True8. True9. True10 TrueCracking coasts is about a child on holiday and his geography teacher is there. So this cool surfer named Shelley teaches you and the little boy all about coast and what has happened in the past like the hotel that feel off the cliff. Shelley also teaches you about the headlands, cliffs, sea caves, stacks, arches, stumps blowholes, Barrier Islands, the Coral Reefs, Fjords (fee-ords), Estuaries, Deltas and Mangrove swamps. Shelley also has said something about a guy named Joseph Banks and what his diary might have looked like. Anita Ganeri also has put “horrible health warnings and earth-shattering facts” in cracking coasts. ”What I thought about cracking coasts.I thought that it was an awesome book. I have really learnt a lot about coasts and everything that happened in the past that was about coasts. My favourite characters would be the little kid and Shelley. I could not take my eyes of this book once I had I would recommend it to people who like going to the beach so you will know what beach are the best and safest
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Last week we had to do poetic writing about doors. Mine was about a door with a light shining underneath it. This is what it said: I catch a glimpse of a mystery doorway with a bright light in the distance. I start walking and then I here a noise “thud thud thud”. I start sprinting; eventually I’m at the door.I get the key out of my pocket, it’s as rough as rock.Very quietly I put the key in the hole. I turn it right but it won’t work.Then very gradually I turn it left.Suddenly the light fades away and it seems the entire planet has gone to sleep.Slowly I reach my shuddering hand to the knob.Feeling the handle I get a humungous shiver up and down my backbone.It feels scorching hot like the boiling bright yellow sun shining down on me.
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