Choices for Life Production, 2017

After the last performance, joy filled my stomach. The production was finished. Sadness piled on my happy and amusing moments in the production, as I take my costume off, this is the last time I will wear this costume the way it is with feathers tickling my nose and vibrant blues bouncing off the spotlight at night. But on the bright side, I don't have to enter a really stuffed bathroom with girls trying to take their costumes off. The heat in the bathroom... there is no room to put my costume, so girls trample my precious wings that looked amazing.

The Beach

                                                                      The Beach
Excited giggling, waves of laughter coming from the beach hut.Everyone was in a peaceful mode, no swearing, no fighting, just peaceful. But I thought to myself how long will this last? Maybe an hour or something, but anyway it was my first time out of the stuffy van with suitcases piled nearly on top of me and my dearest cousin Liza.With lots of suitcases, we came tumbling down headfirst into the silky sand. Shaking off the pearl white sand, embarrassed I walk off to the restroom and change into my waterproof lace bikini once I was finished we blundered out of the restroom.Gazing in awe and amazement at the undisturbed water, washed and glazed in the sunshine. It blew me away.

Enchanted by the pristine perfect fish. I noticed each that each fish that its own unique patterns like zebras in Africa.Cupping my hands into a bowl shape, I dip my hands into the cool, clear water. We tried and tried again to catch the fish but it didn't work.But in the end, we gave up and decided to bathe in the refreshing water , all the fish away 

Science How to protect plants from bugs

                                                     The Science  

Our question was…

What is the best remedy for protecting plants from slugs, snails etc

At the Hamilton Gardens, we learnt that there are good insects as well as bad.

Our remedies were: Saucer of milk next to the plant, crushed eggshells on the soil, ripped orange peels on the soil.

It showed that all the remedies worked equally the same, with zero slugs and snails etc.

the science behind the first remedy is that they are drawn to the milk because they’re curious, and then they drown in the milk.

The eggshells are so sharp that when snails walk over the eggshells they get cut and stabbed to death.

the science behind the last remedy is that the citric acid in the oranges burns the skin of the snail, slugs etc.

The Science of Dareeya & Gracie

Gymfest

                                        Gymfest 

Heart pumping, cold sweating dripping down my wrinkled forehead. I jump, I could only hear my heart drumming in my abnormally large ears. Relief gripped me with anticipation and thrill. Finally, the thrill managed to wear off before I went to the beam. The height of the beam terrified me but luckily a giant electric blue bean bag. My turn was before Amelia but after Addison. I nearly forgot my moves, but I remembered them in time.

Hamilton Gardens

Hamilton Gardens

''Wow!'' I breathed taking in the spectacular garden.The Italian Resistance garden has so many water features and a balcony overlooking the wonderful Waikato river. The colourful flowers intrigued me into finding out on what they are, because of their beauty.On the right side of the garden, there was a marble balcony carved with grape vines entwined together with the marble pillars and two marble picnic tables sat just below the sill with hedges overhanging the garden. In the centre was a huge fountain with four lions pointing north, south, west, and east. When you walk down the stairs you see an enormous water feature like a waterfall and lions sprouting small trickle of water out of their mouths.

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

swimming lesson

                                  Swimming lesson

I tense. The whistle blew.I dived. The boy's cheer wildly as the girls skim the clear water gracefully.The next group of girls line up.Huffing and puffing like a steam train.

Dareeya's koru art

My koru is blue because I'm in Kea house.I used the hammerhead koru for the strength of my house and some small koru's around the hammerhead and two pīta on the sides.