Leilani - Summer Learning Journey - Day 3!

Walt: To finish day three of the Summer Learning Journey activity's.

DAY 3: Awesome Animals

Activity 1: Fantastic Beasts [4 points]

In New Zealand we have many unusual animals. One of the most unusual is the kiwi bird - a bird that does not have wings and can not fly. Pretty strange, eh?! J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter books, has recently written a new book about strange or unusual animals called ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.’

For this activity, please watch this cool book trailer. Year 7 and Year 8 students in South Auckland, New Zealand helped to make it. Once you have watched the video, use your imagination and create your very own beast. What does your beast look, smell, feel, and sound like?

On your blog, post a description of your beast. Use interesting adjectives (describing words) to tell us about your beast.

Information:

Here I have my beast. My beast is not very a beast. But I got inspired by the beauty and the beast. The face I got from the beauty and the beast and the rest of the body I got from the Little Mermaid. I added a identification about himself ( Ricky. )

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Activity 2: The Secretive Skink [4 points]

We have a number of small lizards (geckos and skinks) living in New Zealand. One of the least common is the Chevron Skink. According to the Department of Conservation, Chevron Skinks live mostly on two islands - Great Barrier Island and Little Barrier Island. These islands are ‘animal reserves.’ Very few people, other than staff working for the New Zealand Department of Conservation (DOC), are allowed to live there. The DOC staff are called ‘Rangers.’ Their job is to protect the wildlife (animals and plants) living on the island.

Would you like to be a DOC ranger and live with the animals on Great Barrier Island?

On your blog list three pros (good things) and three cons (bad things) about working as a DOC ranger. At the bottom of your post, tell us whether you would like to be a DOC Ranger or not.

I would LIKE to visit Great Barrier Island and DOC. This reason is because it sounds fun and great. I would also love to see how everyone works around there and see how the island is. It sounds like both Great Barrier Island and DOC would be a fantastic trip!

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Activity 3: The WWF: World Wildlife Fund [10 points]

In 1961, a number of people came together to start an organisation called the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The main goal of this organisation was/is to protect life on earth. Hundreds of WWF staff work in countries all over the world trying to protect our planet and the animals who live here. To learn more about their amazing work, click on one of the two video links below.

Clip #1: Freshwater Seals

Clip #2: Tigers

Once you have watched the video, go to your blog and, using full sentences, tell us:
1) The name of the animal the WWF is working to save.
2) What the WWF is doing to help the animal.

3) What, if any, success they have had protecting the animal.

Number one: The name of the animal the WWF is working to save.

Well I only got to watch one video as the other was restricted. I could only view clip one. Moving onto this question. The WWF is working to save seals cubs from being harmed.

Number two: What the WWF is doing to help the animal.

The WWF organisation is helping the baby cubs as well as the mother and farther seals get ready for the mother seals to give birth. They are helping the family of seals by making snowbanks for the cubs. This reason is because without the snowbanks mostly all of the cubs die. But , with the snowbanks most cubs stay alive. This reason they snowbank helps them out is because when they mother seals give birth to the cubs they are protected by the snow surrounding them. The snow is protecting them from predators and other harmful things that can harm the cubs. 

Number Three: What , if any , success they have had protecting the animal.

Well the WWF has had many success protecting all sorts of animals. But for the seals they have helped out many mother and farther seals by building them snowbanks to give birth. Usually without these snowbanks most of the cubs die which is EXTREMELY bad! So the WWF have done such a fantastic job by keeping our world protected and also by doing that with our animals as well. 

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Task Description:

Yes! Holidays are over and we are back on with more Summer Learning Journey activity's. Today's post is all dedicated to that. In this post we are set to learn about our animals. First activity we got to create a beast which was inspired by the new J.K rolling book. My beast name is Ricky , Ricky is a very unique beats and has his own talents. Moving onto the second activity , here we did a pros and cons poster. We got set to write three of each , pros and cons , but I only wrote two. For my poster I laid out two circles name pros and cons. Then I compeled with the two pros and cons inside of the circle. For the third activity we got to write three facts about two clips that we watched. The second clip that they gave I couldn't watch it. So I did the work off the seals. Hopefully you all have loved my writing or are just about to love my writing. Thanks for reading and we would see you's all later!