Ailie

  Today, June the 4th 2021, we got a surprise visit from Nanny Andrea and her cockatoo Ipo. Ipo had many health conditions Nanny Andrea talked about such as broken wings, bad blood, and a broken toe. Nanny Andrea also said he was an omnivore, an animal that eats meat and plants. Humans are also omnivores. We got to pat Ipo and learn about his many journeys such as being a star on 'Fanimals'. The students in his art class love him. He wears a poncho because of his blood disorder as he gets cold. Nanny Andrea and a vet have to pluck some of his feathers because they go bad. Ipo enjoys chewing on paintbrushes and pencils. He also likes listening to music. He came from Wellington. When they left we watched the episode of 'Fanimals' he was included in. It featured his student saying kind and wholesome things about him.

 On the 17th of May 2021 We did a DMIC problem about Feijoas. We had to figure out how much money she made all together and for each day how many of each bag she. I did this with Lulu, Lilley and Jess. The 1 kg bags were $2, 2 kg bags were $3.50 and 5 kg bags were $6. On Monday she made $13.50, On Tuesday she made $47, on Wednesday she made $25, on Thursday she made $34, on Friday she went to the movies, on Saturday she made $42, and on Sunday she decided she had enough money. To figure out how much money she had we added all the costs together separately then added those numbers together and ended up with $161.50. Then we had to figure out the second question which was also simple. We used Guess And Check. On Monday she sold 2 1 kg bags, 1 5 kg bag, and one 2 kg bag. That came up to $13.50. On Tuesday she sold 20 1 kg bags and 2 2 kg bags which was $47. On Wednesday she sold 2 2 kg bags and 3 5 kg bags which was $25. On Thursday she sold 5 5 kg bags and 2 1 kg bags which was $34. ...

 These were my research cards for this week.

 Friday the 21st of May, we had Rã Haka day and Pink Shirt day were combined. Quite a lot of people wore pink to support the anti-bullying message. Including me. I wore a pink tutu and feathery boa. Most of the day we learned a waiata and the college haka. The waiata was easy to learn for me and we did it about 10 times before we moved onto the haka that went alongside the waiata. That was harder to learn. All the moves were confusing for me and I'm still pretty bad at it.  After break one we split up into our house groups to preform the haka as a house. Kauri, my house was assigned the small gym I was one of the most dressed up in the whole house as most people didn't even dress up and wore normal clothes. That was ok though. When we were done our 20 minute practice went to the big gym. It took about 5 minutes for every house to arrive but when they did we began. Of course Kauri had to go first which was annoying. I did the same moves and stood next to the same people as in t...

These are my research cards for week 4  CURRENCY Australia $100 = NZD= $107.47 Japanese Yen= ￥8,434.00 USD= $77.53 Chilean Peso= $56,899.31 Chinese Yuan= ￥497.13 NATIONAL GEOGRAPCHIC There are only two types of elephant in the world Elephants are the largest living land mammal Elephants can't jump Elephants spend 16 hours a day eating Elephants use mud as sunscreen Elephants are afraid of bees Elephants travel in a herd Elephants can live to be 70 years old Humans are elephants strongest predator  Elephants have a excellent memory Elephants can use their trunks to breath underwater

 This week for my research cards I focused on space. The distance from Earth to Venus is 248.6 million kilometres The distance from Earth to Pluto is 5.0492 billion km The distance from Earth to Saturn is 1.445 billion km The distance from Earth to the Sun is 151.31 million km It takes 365 days for Earth to orbit the sun It takes 687 days for Mars to orbit the sun It takes 4380 (approximately) for Jupiter to orbit the sun It takes 10585 days (approximately) for Saturn to orbit the sun It takes 88 days for Mercury to orbit the sun