My Speech

                                       My Speech 

My speech was on the subject is on protecting native birds of New Zealand. I really enjoyed in researching native birds and how some of the species went extinct hundreds of years ago like the Moa and Huia. 

Speech!                                                              Stepping daintily on the cool grass streaked with moonlight.You hear the trees swaying but something is missing. What is it?  The native birds, as you strain to hear the hoot of a morepork, the tapping of feet in the undergrowth, But you hear nothing. But no songs are heard.

This is what will happen if we don’t protect our native birds.I think should be protecting these unique birds because they are so important that they are on our money! As a nation, we call ourselves kiwis right? What will we call ourselves if the real cute kiwi was extinct?

More birds are going extinct than being helped.To be exact,49 species of native birds are extinct since human set foot on New Zealand. 23 species are Nationally Critical,14 are Nationally Endangered and 33 species are Nationally Vulnerable. So that equals 70 species are threatened.

When people arrived in New Zealand they brought rats, ferrets and weasels only to name a few.When Europeans came on ships the rats brought diseases with them inside crates of food they were hiding in. When the rats got off the boats, the native species were unprepared for the four-legged creatures that landed on our shores some 700 years ago.When rats had seen how much food was around, they breed faster and wreaked havoc everywhere they went.

People say saving native birds like the kakapo and kokako is not New Zealand’s top priority but the housing crisis in Auckland and Hamilton. But really do people think that building houses is more important than saving birds of New Zealand that are found nowhere else in the world?

We should be doing more to protecting these native birds because they are unique, their melodies fill the air and they are a major part of the ecosystem in New Zealand wildlife.Now would you start protecting these helpless, dying birds of New Zealand?

 

the dissection

The Dissection!!!             Ripping the tough muscle from the huge clump of fat, I hear a startled gasp from not so blood and guts from Libby. I put point the scalpel down hard on the cattle’s heart.A wow came Jessada and Lexi as we found the tissue that held everything together. Everyone wanted to cut a string of tissue (well except Libby).

I cut one of the main tissues so did Lexi and Jessada and then we pulled that the not so main tissue strings.After playing with the strings, I cut on the left side of the heart.Then a screeching noise comes from the middle of the heart, horrified I stop cutting there before I was a bone …

A bone the of the scalpel itself! I showed everyone in the group and Libby cringed. Then we all tried to get the bone out but couldn’t. So we dissected another part of the heart, and we found more tissue strings and cut them up.

Then I picked up the dissected heart and held in the air.Then I put my hand in the atrium and squeezed the bottom ventricle. Then Lexi cut a bit off the left ventricle and we all had a turn to squeeze the tough muscle in our hands.After we dissected, a cattle's heart we hobbled over to the ultrasound where Aidan's dad tried it then Aidan himself then Flynn and it was lunch time and we packed up the room put everything in the truck.

Treaty of Waitangi

I liked learning about the Treaty of Waitangi and the history around Pirongia. And I liked sharing my information with Libby and Lexi who in my group.We 6 weeks of planning and creating a slide that had information we gathered when we when to the Pirongia museum and barracks near the cafe.

And is the slide that me, Libby and Lexi made hope you enjoy!

Treaty of Waitangi Slide