Showing posts with label week 10. Show all posts
Showing posts with label week 10. Show all posts

Thursday, 18 June 2020

Hedgehog adaptation

Hedgehogs: Adorable, But Do They Make Good Pets? | HowStuffWorksThis guy is so cute!! : Hedgehog
Hedgehog Adaptation


Hedgehogs are animals that can be a pet but can be a dangerous
scared animal, hedgehogs feel threatened quite a lot and have this
amazing ability to curl into a ball so they won't get attacked and
try to protect themselves. Hedgehogs are adventurous animals and
love exploring, they are very good at camouflaging into their
natural habitat. 


A hedgehog's behavioural adaptation is to camouflage and to
curl in a ball. Hedgehogs have an ability to blend into their grass
surroundings and the mud and leaves, Hedgehogs do blend in quite
well to their natural surroundings. Hedgehogs have spikes that are
coloured like some of the leaves and the grass and mud and the ground
of their natural surroundings to blend in so they don't get attacked and
so their predator can't see them as easily. Hedgehogs colours make
them camouflage into their surroundings when their predator comes
they will lay in their curly ball and not move a muscle.When a
hedgehog feels safe it will be able to be touched sort of but as soon as
it feels threatened it will curl into a ball protecting itself with its
amazing prickly spikes. Hedgehogs feel threatened even when you
walk up to them. If a hedgehog curls into a ball, don't touch it or try
holding
it, it will make it feel more threatened. If a hedgehog feels
threatened it will stay still in a spiky ball not moving an inch. 


Hedgehogs have structural adaptations.  They have very sharp spikes
to protect themselves from their predators when they roll into a prickly
ball.  The spikes prick those predators who try to attack the hedgehog.
Hedgehogs have a full back of their sharp pointed spines, If a
Hedgehog gets attacked or feels threatened by something they
will curl into a very prickly pointy ball that will keep away most
predators, Hedgehogs usually sleep in the position in a curled ball not
moving during day and then they awaken to search for their food at
nighttime. Hedgehogs rely on their sense of smell and vibration in the
ground because their eyesight is kind of weak.


Some hedgehogs have a physiological adaptation to some venom of
certain animals. The hedgehogs have an ability to be immune to the
venom of certain animals, it allows them to eat small venomous snakes
and arthropods. If some certain hedgehogs see a object that produces a
unfamiliar smell that the hedgehog doesn't recognise it will lick the
object and and form a frothy paste inside its mouth. The hedgehog
then uses its tongue to spread the paste over the it’s spines. It is thought
to camouflage the hedgehogs natural scent and its meant to put off
their predators who will often avoid the new unknown substance.

Hedgehogs have very interesting adaptations I think they are very
cute and very smart little critters, Hedgehogs have a beautiful spines
and are such cute animals!

Wednesday, 17 June 2020

Kiwi report adaptations

Kiwi adaptations

Kiwi’s are a Flightless bird that is native to New Zealand, it is a flightless bird just like an ostrich but it's still counted as a bird. Kiwis are very populated in New Zealand, Kiwis have very long beaks to help them sense food moving around in the ground, They are nocturnal and have mammal-like features, it makes them very unique.

A kiwi has two main behavioural adaptations which are being nocturnal and flightless.

Before humans arrived there were no land mammals that preyed on birds which is why they didn't fly. Flying takes away a lot of the birds energy and with no land mammals being on earth trying to prey on the birds they could just walk around and do their own thing without worrying about being attacked. Since people arrived in the kiwi’s land the forest floor has become a place of threat for them.

A kiwi has some structural adaptations to suit its habitat.

Kiwis have whiskers to help them find their way around in the darkness. They also have an exceptional sense of smell because this helps kiwi locate food beneath the soil. Kiwis' beaks do more than just smell it helps them sense where their prey is when it's moving.

Some of Kiwis' adaptations no longer work since humans arrived in New Zealand. This is because with humans came many land mammals like rats and stoats which became predators for kiwi. They are also nocturnal just like kiwi. Kiwis used to be safe and be able to roam around on the forest floor but now they can't because that is also where the threats of rats and stoats are.

Kiwi’s developed some structural and behavioural adaptations many years ago to survive. Sadly many of them no longer work due to the arrival of pests like stoats and weasels when pakeha came to New Zealand. This means that many of our kiwi are now endangered.

Tuesday, 2 July 2019

Power hill station walk

Hi, Today On Tuesday 2019 me, and the year sixes in mamaku one, and the whole of mamaku 2 went up to the grey mouth power hill station. We met this person called Cosmin, he was helping us, and teaching us some things about a word called... 

Electricity.   Electricity can be used for all sorts of things! like, using Chromebooks, cooking food, Do you know what helps electricity? Well  water, sun, wind, and power! Its simple.
Alot of us thought it was tiring walking up the hill, eh. I guess I could agree! It was pretty steep! Also when we got their it was freezing! When we were listening to Comsin I found out things I didnt even know!  I learnt how to work circuits, My favourite thing we did their was walking up the hill, and seeing the power hill station!

Heres some photos to show what we did today:  


 
 











Thursday, 11 April 2019

Easter eggs in a basket

For this activity we had to solve the maths questions then we had to count how many equations are higher than 25 or 25, then when we counted them we had to write how many eggs would go into the basket! I put 12!

Easter Alphabet Challenge

For this activity we had to write something that describes Easter from a to z!
This activity was pretty hard, but i finished it!  

 Easter Alphabet          
Challenge

WALT: Find a word relating to Easter for each letter of the alphabet -
it is trickier than you think!

A
pril
N
ew Zealand
B
unny
O
pinion
C
celebration
P
eople
D
ecoration
Q
uaintity
E
aster
R
abbit
F
estive
S
unday
G
ames
T
radition
H
oliday
U
nique
I
magination
V
ariety
J
oy
W
eekend
K
indess
X
oxo
L
ovely
Y
ummy
M
emories
Z
entangles

Easter Poem!

WALT: Write and Easter poem!
for this activity we had to write a poem about Easter! I chose to write a cinquain poem about Easter!
This activity was fun to do! My favourite poems to make are probably cinquain's!
 

Easter tradition


For this activity we had to choose 3 countries and find out facts how they celebrated Easter, and we had to write how we celebrated Easter! 
the countries that i chose were France, Fiji, and Scotland!

Wednesday, 3 April 2019

Humpback whale found 15m from ocean in amazon jungle

WALT: Use the 6 thinking hats to reflect on our learning!
For this activity we had to find a random fact on something!
Me and Arliah found , : Humpback whale found 15m from ocean in amazon jungle!!