Story Review, Karl

The Day Mary Shook the Karaka Tree by Jan Farr

This Story takes place at the house and at the karaka tree.

In this story the Mum and Dad play tennis with Pete and Wynne. Mum and Wynne keep talking and Wynne hits the ball into the karaka tree.

My favourite part of the book is when the ball goes into the karaka tree.

I recommend this book for people who like narratives.

By Karl

Pollution, Moses

Pollution

Pollution is bad for our environment.

Pollution creates torture to our world.

Pollution is created by people throwing their rubbish on the ground. This is really bad for the world, and bad for us humans.

Car exhaust fumes is part of world pollution too. Pollution spreads around the world. It spreads country to country and city to city.

So we need to walk, exercise more and ride a bicycle or scooter, anything that doesn’t have petrol or cause pollution.

So  one solution could be that you can ride your bicycle to work or school.

So keep our world clean.

By Moses

Pollution, Aarmione

Pollution

Pollution is when people litter instead of throwing their rubbish into the bin. There are three types of pollution: Land, Air and sea pollution. These are all bad for the environment.

Air pollution is when mufflers on the back of vehicles emit smoke that is bad for the environment and human beings. The smoke is gas and gas has chemicals in it.

Land pollution is when we litter on the ground, and other people have to pick it up.

Sea pollution is similar pollution. People litter, and when it rains, the rubbish gets into the drains that leads to the sea, and the rubbish eventually ends up into the sea, killing all of the marine life in the sea.

Sea pollution can also be caused by boats that use diesel or gases that have chemicals in them that also kill the marine life.

Pollution is bad for people and animals.

How Waves Are Made, Karl

How Waves are Made

• Waves are mainly a product of the wind.
• Low pressure systems are responsible for creating good and strong waves.
• The friction created by strong winds helps to form energy waves that will travel thousands of miles until hitting final obstacles, which means, coastal areas where we live.
• In deep low pressure systems, wind speed is greater and more waves are generated by the power of the gusts.
• If winds created in low pressure systems keep blowing the surface of the ocean for a long time, swells will be bigger because energy is accumulated in all waves produced.

The link I got my information from is How Waves are Made.

By Karl 

How Waves Are Made, Hemi

By Hemi How Waves Are Made.

How Waves Are Made.

• Waves are mainly a product of the wind.
• The best waves for surfing are the result of the interaction of winds on the surface of the ocean, far away from the coast.
• Wind is the first step in the formation of surfable waves.
• Local shore winds can also produce waves, but they can also destroy the quality of the breaking waves.

• Onshore winds are typically known for creating choppy and bumpy waves because their effect is added to the direction of the wave.
• In a way, offshore winds are a sort of a counterbalance.
• Swell comes from miles away and the ground wind works as a "pause-hold" effect on the wave face, allowing longer unbreakable waves.

This is where I got my information from. Click on this site for more informationHow Waves ares Made.

BY Hemi

Facts on Waves, Melenaite

Facts on Waves

   Facts on waves

• Local shore winds can also produce waves, but they can also destroy the quality of the breaking waves.

• In a way offshore winds are a sort of a counterbalance. Swell comes from miles away.

• On shore winds are typically known for creating choppy and bumpy waves because their effect is added to the direction of the wave.

• Waves make their way through the ocean and are affected by the differences in the ocean floor.

• In deep low pressure systems, wind speed is greater and more waves are generated by the power .

This is where I got my information:

How Waves Are Made

By Meleniate

How Waves Are Made, Kyana

How Waves are made

1. Waves are mainly blown from the wind.
2. The best waves for surfing are the interaction of winds on the surface of the ocean.
3. Local shore winds can also produce waves but they can also destroy and break down waves.
4. Wind is the first step in the formations of surf able waves.
5. In deep water, low pressure wind speed is good and more waves are generated by the power.

This words  that is coloured in purple  is a link to take you from where i got my information about waves from that's if you would like to learn more about how waves are created , the words that are coloured in blue are the facts that i got form the site and this picture is to show a little on how waves may have be created   

Fishing Methods, Chris

Fishing methods facts.

Although there are many methods of catching fish, they fall into three main groups:

1. Catching fish singly or in schools by use of nets.

   2. Trapping fish in stationary gear, such as fish traps or     

        set nets.

   3.Attracting fish to get caught on hooks by use of bait,  

      artificial lures or others means such as light.

Before you go fishing  you must decide method that you want to use. There many factors to consider - especially if you are a commercial fisher. Factors include:

• Where you are fishing.
• What species you are fishing for.
• The weather and sea condition.
• The cost of the boat, gear and fuel.
• The market requirements.

By Chris

Story Review, Hemi

The Experiment By Diana Noon an

This story is about a group of children who lived on farms.They had a pie warmer

day at school. Everyone took some food to school that could be heated in a pie warmer.

The characters in this story are Alisha, Matt,  Dad, the children and the teacher. I felt happy when Alisha was able to put her chocolate chip biscuit in the pie warmer because the class felt that she did not have anything to put in the pie warmer because she had a sandwich for lunch.

By Hemi

Story Review, Moses

Big Shift by Jacqui Brown

This story is about  Dad and Mum splitting up and Mum and the kids moved to where she grew up in Wellington. The storyteller missed his Dad a lot but he got over it. The storyteller only liked the smell of food  and the different languages he heard in his neighbourhood when he moved to Wellington with his mum. One night he walked across to some boys who were beating up a kid named Tomo and he chased them off.. The story teller became friends with Tomo. Tomo introduced him to his  friend named Meilai. All three of them became friends. When they grew up Tomo wanted to be a doctor and Meilai lived in Auckland with her Mum, and the storyteller wanted to be a vet.

This story took place at the farm and in Wellington. The characters in the story are Dad, Mum, Meilai, Cherie, Terei, Tomo and storyteller. I felt sad for the storyteller because he missed his Dad a lot.

Story Review, Karl

Big Shift by Jacqui Brown

This story is about a family that splits up and the dad stays back on the farm in the countryside while the mum and the three children go and stay in Wellington. The characters in the story are Dad, Mum, Terei, Cherie, the Narrator, Tomo, Meilai, the two kids who beat up Tomo and the two kids who were tagging. Tomo, Meilai and the Narrator become friends when the Narrator stopped the two kids who are beating up Tomo. Tome introduced the Narrator to Meilai. In the end Meilai lives in Auckland, and Tomo and the Narrator are in college in Wellington.

The story takes place on the farm in the countryside and in Wellington.

I like  this story because it shows how some people feel when  their parents split up and they struggle to keep their family together.  

By Karl

The Blue Whale

The Blue Whale

Blue whales are the largest animals ever known to have lived on Earth. These marine mammals are up to 30 meters long and  weigh up to  200 tons.

Blue whales feed  on a diet composed  of tiny shrimp like animals called krill. During certain times of the year, a single adult blue whale consumes about 4 tons  of krill a day.

Blue whales  feed by first gulping an enormous mouthful of water, expanding the pleated skin on their throat and belly to take it in. Then the whale's massive tongue forces the water out through the thin, overlapping baleen plates. Thousands of krill are left behind—and then swallowed.

Blue whales look true blue underwater, but on the surface their coloring is more a blue-gray. Their underbellies take on a yellowish colour from the millions of microorganisms that live on  its skin. The blue whale has a broad, flat head and a long, tapered body that ends in wide, triangular flukes.

Blue whales live in all the world's oceans occasionally swimming in small groups but usually alone or in pairs. They often spend summers feeding in polar waters and undertake lengthy migrations towards the Equator as winter arrives.

Blue Whales are the world’s most endangered creatures and they should be protected.

I got my information from this link. Click on the link to read more about the Blue Whale.   

Blue Whales

By Hemi

How Waves Are Made, Fahina

How Waves Are Made?

These are some interesting facts about how waves are made.

1. Waves are made by wind rainfall and tide.
2. Waves are mainly a product of the wind.
3. Local shore winds can also produce waves.
4. In a way offshore winds are a sort of counterbalance.
5. In theory, low pressure systems are responsible for creating good and strong waves.

I got my information from this link:

How waves are made

By Fahina

How Waves Are Made, Sam

How Waves are Made

1. Waves are mainly a product of the wind.

2. The best waves for surfing are the result of the interaction of winds on the surface of the ocean, far away from the coast.

3. Wind is the first step in the formation of surfable waves.

4. Local shore winds can also produce waves, but they can also destroy the quality of the breaking waves.

5. Onshore winds are typically known for creating choppy and bumpy waves because their effect is added to the direction of the wave.

6. In a way, offshore winds are a sort of a counterbalance.

7. Swell comes from miles away and the ground wind works as a "pause - hold" effect on the wave face, allowing longer unbreakable waves.

8. In theory, low pressure systems are responsible for creating good and strong waves.

9. In deep low pressure systems, wind speed is greater and more waves are generated by the power of the gusts.

10. The friction created by these winds helps to form energy waves that will travel thousands of miles until hitting final obstacles, which means, coastal areas where we live.

11. The wind created in low pressure systems keep blowing the surface of the ocean for a long time, swells will be bigger because energy is accumulated in all waves produced.

12. Also, if low pressure winds affect a very large area of the ocean, all waves produced by the swell will have even more energy and power, resulting in even bigger waves.

13. We've already analyzed the "birth" of swell and correspondent waves, but there's a large distance to be traveled by those waves.

14. Original oceanic waves may have to run a long journey until they reach continental beaches.

15. The height of a wave when it is created is not the height of the waves that is ridden by a surfer.

If you want more information, click on this link below.

By Sam

How Waves are Made

The New Zealand Moa, Alisi

The New Zealand Moa

1. Moa belonged to the family of Ratites or flightless birds, which have no wings, not even small stubs of wings like the Kiwi.
2. Some Moa bones have been dated and found to be 2 millions years old.
3. The Moa’s normal posture gave its height at 1.8 metres and would have weighed about the same as a cow.
4. Moa are unique in that they have no traces of wings or other bones which are necessary for flight. Instead the Moa had large, powerful legs, with 4 toes on each foot.
5. The Giant Moa was New Zealand’s most largest land animal.