Don - Eels

Kia Ora,

Welcome back to my blog. Today I am talking about our visit from Don. He catches eels - We have been learning about eels, so this is handy. Here are some interesting facts he told us:

• Eels have slime to slip through small spaces
• Eel can swim forwards and backwards
• Spots on longfin means that it is an Australian Spotted Longfin
• The biggest they've seen longfins grow is 2 meters!
• They have an amazing sense of smell - especially longfin
• Longfin are cannibals - Eat other eels
• They can grab a hold of something they wanna eat and if they can't bite it off they twist their body round and round until they get it off
• Longfin usually have 112 vertebrates (things on their backbone) 
• Eels can breathe through their skin
• You can tell how old eels are by cutting their ear bone in half, every year they get a ring in the ear bone - this kills the eel
• Females are bigger than males
• They don't eat while travelling
• Eels try to eat crabs
• Eels don't like sunlight - they come out during the night
• Eels like hiding in pipes
• When you put something in an eels mouth it can't get out - this is due to their small, sharp teeth.

Thank you for reading,

Lexie

This photo is about the largest eel he has found - 2m long

South Sudan

Kia Ora,

Welcome back to my blog. Today I am talking about South Sudan, some people who work in Juba, South Sudan called Janet and Phil came over to our school. They talked about what it is like to live in South Sudan and more... 34c New Zealand, is $30 in South Sudan. Isn't that amazing! Did you know that roads are dangerous in South Sudan? I didn't. Roads are dangerous because if they is lots of people running around on the roads and cars driving not knowing that people are on the road, that would be a disaster! Here are some interesting facts they told us:

• Sometimes at night, it is so hot that they have to put their sheet in the shower to cool it down.
• A 100 pound note is $1.14 New Zealand money.
• They have no electricity, no water (only from the Nile), no toilets and no sewers.
• The reason why they have no toilet is because they can't afford a toilet so they dig a deep hole in the ground and squat over it and do their business. 
• It is 4km to the Nile - it takes 1 hour to walk from Juba  
• Not many tourists come - 0.01% of people come to stay at South Sudan
• The way you greet people in their language is : As-salama alaykum then you greet back : Alaykum as-salaam
• The most common food is beans & rice
• They cook using charcoal
• Girls don't grow out their hair - it gets very curly
• Children are scared of white people
• They play volleyball
• There are around 500 people in Juba
• They get red in their hair from... Cow pee 
• They mark their skin to show where they're from/what tribes they are in - They use razor blades
• They love posing for photos
• They use a stick to brush their teeth
• They fly planes because it's too dangerous to travel on roads
• Because of heat - planes break down
• 4 guards at night
• 3 guards at day
• Dancing = Jumping around
• Their music is very different from ours

Hope you liked my facts, this was all from Phil and Janet. Huge thank you for them from coming to our school. Here is a few photos:

Thanks for reading,

Lexie

LEARNZ

Kia Ora, 

Welcome back to my blog. Today I am talking to you about LEARNZ. This morning we did a video call with some scientists! They talked to us about water. We asked lots of questions about how water works in our environment.

Points

• Fossil water
• Salt water turned into fresh water 
• Groundwater will never run out because of our water cycle 
• Plants and soil never go into the water
• Special feed for cows and animals

Explanations

Fossil water is old water that has been stored underground below a dry land, this can be called an aquifer.

Sea water being turned into fresh water, this is called desalination.

Water takes nutrients so that plants cannot go in the water

Special feed for animals is better for water ways.

Thank you.

Lexie

Swimming sports

Kia Ora Everyone!

Welcome back to my blog, I am blogging about our swimming sports on, Friday 1st March. I was doing backstroke, freestyle, and breaststroke. I got 4th in freestyle, 1st in backstroke and around last in the breaststroke (all the girls were better than me). I was so nervous I was about to pee my pants, although I've already done it, it's still nerve-racking.

Eel Trip - Te Tuna Taone - Urban eel

Hi Everyone!

Yesterday, Thursday 8th March we went to Centennial Park to visit the Heathcote river. We went with Hillary Hub and the rest of the Batten Team, I was in group 2 with my friends Bella, Finn, Rubi-lee, Maddie and many more children but most importantly, My Mum. We did small exciting activities... The first one I went to was Water Bugs with Matt, in this activity we had a tray with all sorts of water bugs in it and we had to pick them out with either a alien

Global Play-Day Week 3

Hi everyone!

Two weeks ago on Friday, we did another global play. This time, I didn't do much, all I pretty much did was sewing. I was sewing up a top for my friend, Rose. Rose has a doll, that's what I was designing the shirt for. The shirt has black with polka dots and a layer overtop which has green with stars, this fabric is a little transparent so it fits.

Here is a photo!

Thanks for reading,

Lexie 🌝