20.6.2018 Nick Pollock From LeaderBrand Has A Visit

Bigger & Better Meat Poster

This is my poster, encouraging more people to eat more red meat. It relates to my Bigger & Better Meat Activity Work.

Whangara Farms 11.6.2018

Whangara Farms

We have been looking at farms and what they do, we also have been looking at the different seeds, grasses and plants that farms may use. We are also looking at what plants grow quicker, and what plants grow slower than the others..  Our guides were Renee and Andrew. Andrew was the manager of were we went, he isn't the manager of all of the land Whangara farms have there is another man that has some of the land. We saw how they trailed their grass and we learned new types of plants. We took some soil samples too. We are looking at testing them tomorrow.

We did it because we are looking at what agronomists do in their job and also what farmers can do to keep their farm healthy. We also did it because we are learning more about what farmers do in their farming lives they have.  We already know what one farm does now we know what two farms do. We are getting better at naming plants and looking and collecting soil samples.

Somethings that stood out to me are that some farms use solar powered machines and easy and quick gadgets to collect info about their farm, how it's doing and the things that are affecting the farm. Some farms are trying to prevent erosions, farms also like to still have lots trees around the landscape. A key ideas is that having dams and ponds in paddocks, don't really help the animals when there is a drought, and having no water. Tanks that fill troughs are much better than dams and ponds, and troughs hidrate the animals better

I liked learning about why the farm was re-planting trees on hillsides to prevent erosions, and preventing poop and dirt going into the river. I enjoyed finding out that lots of different grasses grow in different conditions and grow in different areas. I like how different farms have different ways on how they look after their farm.

I am still wondering do farms ever have to move animals to other paddocks that they don't own. I am also still wondering that if there is a storm and all the paddocks are really flooded, do you have to keep the animals and babies in the flooded paddocks??

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Lisa the vet comes to tell us about her job @ school 1/6/2018

Today a vet came and visited us from auckland for the weekend. She is my Aunty, and her name is Lisa Hulme-Moir. She is a vet pathologist. She told us more about Mycoplasma Bovis. She told us about white blood cells and red blood cells. She showed us some of the stuff she has in her lad, and told us that she came to Makaraka School for some of her primary years. She also told us about her journey on becoming a vet.

Bigger & Better Meat Activity

This blog post is linked with our class business which is “Seeds ‘R’ Us”. Our class tests soil and grows different types of grass, we also look at the animals and their health conditions on farms. This activity is mostly about animals and their health conditions on farms. I hope you enjoy learning some new things about animals, and thank you for reading it, hope you give it a comment!

Whatatutu School Trip

Whatatutu School Trip

This is the school trip we went on on Tuesday 2nd in school hours. Here is my recount about the trip to whatatutu. We learned about whirikoka and his seal OiOi, and where he lived. We also learned about our waters and that the children are always having the attention from adults because us, children need to learn and grow up with our elders beside us encouraging us on, but if we didn't have any adults and elders beside us we won't be able to mande our lives by ourselves for long at the age we are at. We wanted to learn more about the history about whirikoka and his pet seal. We are going to perform a dance of the story of whirikoka at a theater in front of audience. We got to keep a quarts crystal for ourselves. We went down to check out the ancient PA site down the road from the marae we arrived at in whatatutu. I liked the crystals we got to keep and i also liked the ancient PA site. We learned that OiOis oil is still in the ground on the hills on whatatutu. I am wondering how Whirikoka and OiOi meet or found each other and became best friends and how much of a relationship Whirikoka and OiOi had between each other.

Term 2, 2018 Maths Grid Scores, Times And What Day We Do Them

This is my maths scores for maths grid. Hope you enjoy looking at my marks and times in maths, and how good i am at my maths now.

Term 2 Goals 2018

This is my goals for term 2. I hope you enjoy reading and looking at my goals for each week.

Ice Skating 11.4.2018

Anzac Stories

This is me and leah's anzac work about anzac stories. We had to read and listen to stories about anzac and war, then write about them in our own words or what it's about. We researched about war and anzac because we wanted to know what's anzac is, and what happend at war. I liked learning what happend at war and how the enemies attacked each other. I liked learning about what happened at war.