Summer Learning Journey Week 3 Day 3 Activity 2: Flying Foxes

Hello bloggers, 

NZ is an amazing home to lots of bats and native animals, but there is one thing that Australia beats us at, and that is their 'flying fox'. The flying fox is the biggest bat in the whole world! It's wingspan is 2 meters, or 6 feet. That is surely bigger than me!

This amazing bat has an amazing hearing skill, and it uses that when it needs to communicate with other bats. This is a splendid super power for them. Well if I had to choose a superpower, it would definitely be flying because I've always loved the thought of me playing with the clouds and looking at the world around me, just like a nights dream. 

I would want to have flying as a superpower because flying to different destinations is such a fascinating idea. You would still get your exercise, but also having extreme fun. I wouldn't be lazy and teleport everywhere, so it is a good substitute for cars and things like that which ruin our environment. This makes it an Eco-friendly superpower which many people will love. I also want to fly because it makes me feel like a free and happy person, with all of my weight being lifted with my wings. I know this because sometimes I lay on the bed and pretend to be in the air. 

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Summer Learning Journey Week 3 Day 3 Activity 1: Bird of the year!

Kia Ora bloggers,
NZ is an amazing place where there are so many different native birds which thrive and live life happily. Sadly, some birds are in serious trouble of being extinct. For example, there was once a time when there were 12 million kiwis all over NZ. Now thinking of that, it seems impossible that that was even true. 1/3 of our birds in NZ are getting close to being extinct, forever.

But on the other hand, there is a big event that happens every year which people choose which native NZ bird is their favourite. For 2018, it was the kereru, or the woodpigeon. I am going to go through the website which the votes are found, and try to find a bird that catches my eye.

Rock Wren:

The rock wren only lives in the south island and is a very small, cute bird. It lives primarily in the Tasman mountains of the northwest Nelson, the Southern Alps, and the Victoria Range of West land.

These cute birds eat mainly insects, and also eat nectar from flax flowers. They even eat different fruit from coprosma species. The insects they eat are flies, spiders, moths, beetles and scale insects.

It has a small patch of yellow fur underneath their belly and have a small, short but black beak. Over it's eye it has a white stripe which gives this bird a very cool effect. You will definitely not mistaken this bird if you know what it looks like!

This bird is a highly endangered species which is at high risk of getting extinct forever. Especially our commonly known native birds, these birds are only in NZ and will not appear in different countries as they are only found here.


Credit goes to Google Search and en.Wikipedia.org. I do not own this picture and all rights goes to it's rightful owner.



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BYE!!!

Summer Learning Journey Week 3 Day 2 Activity 3: Flying Fungi

Hello bloggers,
When winter strikes, everywhere around us gets damp and wet. In the areas of where it gets really damp, mould likes to stay and live there because that is their habitat - damp and warm. But not all fungi live in damp corners, some of them are so minuscule that we can't even see them, and they live in the air. This sort of fungi is called airborne fungi, and mould is not good for us humans health, so it is better that it gets removed right away.

Lets imagine that I'm in class and testers come in our class to check the air. Eek! They find 7 different types of mould in the air and have to remove it immediately.

It is going to take 5 days to remove 1 fungi (quite a long time) and we have to get rid of 7 different types. How long will it take to get rid of all 7 different fungi? Here is a video of me explaining this problem.


As I said in the video, we take the number of days it takes and multiply it by how many different fungi there are.


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Summer Learning Journey Week 3 Day 2 Activity 2: Food Drain

Kia Ora bloggers,

Did you know there is a gas called carbon dioxide (CO2) which is made everyday naturally and put into the air? If too much builds up and is not taken out, we humans can not survive. Luckily, things like forests and oceans are like 'carbon sinks' and take the carbon dioxide out of the air, and one of the largest 'carbon sink' is in the south western part of the South Island of NZ. It is a gigantic forest which takes away about 60% of unwanted waste.

OK, I have to imagine that there is a magical sink which can flush away any kind of food that I hate. I am going to choose and determine which foods I absolutely look at in disgust, and wash them down the drain.

I would put rice in the drain because we have it every single day for lunch as a Nepali family, and I am getting sick of it as I am 11 years old! I would also put bamboo shoots, because when my parents cook it, it smells so indistinguishable but pungent that I think I really can't really compare it to something else, and I refuse to eat it no matter what. I really enjoy lots of food though, and it is hard to choose things I would drain down. I love chicken, but I would most definitely put lamb in the drain because I can't even take 1 bite without spitting it out.

I hope you've enjoyed reading my blog post about big carbon sinks. Thank you for coming to my blog. Please give me feedback or if you have any questions, please ask. What foods would you put in the drain? Tell me in the comments. 

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Summer Learning Journey Week 3 Day 2 Activity 1: Unbee-lievable facts about bees

Hi blogging world,
As you know, sometimes in the summer, bumblebees can be quite annoying and sometimes scary. But did you know that there is more to it than just plain annoying. Recently, they have been going in decline and the numbers if them are going down. If bees were not there to pollinate plants, we wouldn't have had plants. They also pollinate greenhouses and orchard crops. Here are some sentences I have to complete about the ignored but important bumblebee.

1. The word 'bumblebee' is a compound word (bumble + bee). The word bumble means to buzz or drone.

2. Bumblebees can fly very quickly. They can reach ground speeds of 54 kilometres per hour (km h)!

3. Bumblebees are very strong! They carry up to 90% of their body weight in food with them to avoid starvation.

4. Bumblebees can do more work and carry more pollen than other bees, including honeybees. In fact, they can do 50 times more work than a honeybee. 

5. The number of bumblebees is declining in New Zealand due to a number of factors, including their habitat being destroyed and lost, removal of wildflowers and flowering trees, and excessive use of pesticides.



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Summer Learning Journey Week 3 Day 1 Activity 3: Burning up

Kia Ora fellow bloggers,
As my last blog post was about extremely hot weather, lets get this straight. There are times when the temperature gets so high that no one can even go outside. Lets see some very high recorded temperatures on a graph to show how significant they are.





I hope you've enjoyed reading my blog post about the highest recorded temperatures. Thank you for coming to my blog. Please give me feedback or if you have any questions, please ask. Has your country reached these temperatures? Tell me in the comments. (credit to Wikipedia for giving this info.)

Stay sun safe!

(Here is an extra graph as I have to use the provided temperatures)