Category: Hanga | Create

Today Room 7 did another Epro 8 challenge to make a bridge that was about 2.5 metres long, 700mm tall, 400mm wide. It took a long time to build this. It’s been really tough this week because we’ve done only two activities, half of our class were already tired, some of the groups had bridges that were really about 2.3 metres long and some had just started doing the bottom.

My group made a lot of upgrades, we weren’t going to use instructions or a video because our teacher wanted us to see how we built this on our own, which I thought was a great idea. Once we were finished we made our own cars to test out the bridge, when we tested out our car it worked out perfectly except for the balance because it was a bit sturdy. The rest of the groups tested their cars on their own bridge which turned out the same way as us. It has been a wonderful weekend Engineering our own buildings.

Dear Lord…

I pray for the Bishops, Priests and Pope that they stay healthy and clean, look after themselves may they bless the people who are weak and sick and guide them to make the right decisions even through tough times.

I pray for the Country leaders, Presidents, Governments and Prime Ministers to look after them and may they make the right decisions for their country and for the world. Also may they have a safe journey through tough times.

I pray our Teachers and Staff who are stress and tired, that work very hard for our school and the community may look after themselves and have faith that they will be safe where ever they are even when they are stressed and we hope that our missions sister will spread good news around the world.

I pray for the Sick, Poor and the Lonely may they have a home to not be homeless anymore and look after them when they have no shelter above them may they have a family that will take good care of them. Also may they have a life that will be remembered forever.

I pray for our Families and Friends please look after them when they are at home sick and when they are isolating may they do the right deeds for our community.

I also pray for ukraine who are having tough times through russia, may they have our blessing to them and pray that, they will have a safe journey around their country.

In Jesus Name

Amen.

This week my class is doing Epro 8 Challenge with five equipment boxes in each group, where you can engineer stuff like making a car, bridge, swing which is also like doing your school work but with tools. Today we built a crane in our own groups, what we had to do was follow the instructions in the book cover and on the video, my group thought it was that easy to build it, but once we look at the video, it was actually hard, our teacher ( Mr Bell ) had to test out each of our buildings once we were all finished, each of the groups had to make the crane rotate, lift a bag, then put the bag back down gently in another area.

My team got so tired that we didn’t have enough time to finish building it. My teacher tested out our crane once we were finish, it was a bit crooked but we didn’t mind, our teacher tried to rotate the crane which was a bit tricky but we made it through then he had to lift a bag with a lever ( which by the way we forgot to do) but when our teacher started to lift it, it didn’t move so he gave us  2 to out of 3 effort which was better than zero. My group felt great except for the fact we didn’t finish it. I had a great time building this crane for the first time.

Peacock Mantis Shrimp: Packs The Biggest Punch In The Natural World 

Mantis Shrimp is an animal that lives in burrows, both in tropical and subtropical waters. The substance of the burrows depends on the type of mantis shrimp: spearing shrimp dwell in soft layers, smashing shrimp in harder substances, and grow to lengths of 2 to 7 inches. This species is not threatened and they weigh between 0.4 oz and 3.2 oz.

It is neither a shrimp or mantis. These creatures can detect more colour visions than anyone on earth and see polarised light. Their spring loaded clubs strike 50 times faster than we can blink, for a moment the surrounding water reaches the temperature of the surface of the sun.

Mantis shrimp are powerful marine crustaceans called stomatopods.They first appeared in the oceans millions of years ago, there are over 500 known species, almost all live in shallow, marine waters and most inhabit the tropics. They usually inhabit rocks or coral crevices or burrows excavated in the seafloor sediment.

Mantis Shrimp are highly efficient predators that feed on animals like fishes, crabs and shrimps and mollusks. They have special adaptations for hunting, the second pair of thoracic appendages are enlarged and modified as powerful raptorial claws  that can extend rapidly, the raptorial claws can take two forms,depending on the species this divides mantis shrimps into smashers and spears. 

 Smashers have thickened, hard pads on their enlarged thoracic appendages that they use to strike at passing prey or rivals. Smashers tend to be more aggressive and they inhabit crevices instead of excavated burrows, they may fight each other for the best crevice. Smashers stalk prey like snails, crabs and clams.

Spear Mantis shrimps hunt by impaling their prey, the spear mantis shrimp have tough spines on their enlarged appendages instead of a hard pad. Some mantis shrimp pair for life and share the same burrow, others come together only at the time of mating. Female mantis shrimps produce an egg mass that may contain 50,000 eggs, they also guard their egg until they hatch. 

Some of them have different names like:

Odontodactylus scyllarus

Lysiosquillina maculata

Oratosquilla oratoria

Gonodactylaceus ternatensis

Odontodactylus japonicus

Gonodactylus smithii

Squilla mantis

Squilla empusa

Lysiosquillina glabriuscula.

Hammerhead shark: The Best Visions in the Natural world

Hammerhead shark is an animal that lives in tropical, warm waters from all over the world. They mostly stay along continental shelves and coastlines, but on occasion they are found in the deep ocean cruising near the surface. length of 13.1 feet (4 m)  and weighs 500 pounds (230 kg). 2.

The shape of their head is what gives them their name. Many believed that their head was some kind of rudder, allowing the shark to move its body forward, backwards and side to side. It appears the shark does use its shaped head to facilitate lightning-fast agility in the water. 

What’s even useful to the shark is their vision, they can see mostly anything around them. During the night they use their visions to hunt their prey like sharks, rays, bony fish, crustaceans and maybe squid. They can detect electric currents in the water around them.

Knowing that the pups ( baby sharks ) are born, their heads are round until when they are old enough their heads look truly like a hammerhead. In the meantime, by moving their head sideways as they swim they can observe much of what is behind the all the better to find their meal and sense them too.

Also once they find their meal they use their brute head and pin them to the seafloor like a stingray. The largest hammerhead species can grow to be up to 20 feet in length although that is really that small.

They have a sensory organ called the lateral line packed with nerves. This enables the hammerhead shark to pick up small vibration and pressure changes  in the water. The lateral line is so precise that combined with a shark’s vision a shark can detect prey over a mile away.

There are over 9 different species of the Hammerhead shark, they are called:

Winghead shark

Scalloped bonnethead

Carolina hammerhead 

Scalloped hammerhead

Scoophead

Great hammerhead

Bonnethead

Smalleye hammerhead

Smooth hammerhead

The largest hammerhead shark is The “Great Hammerhead”.

During February my teacher ( Mr Bell ) gave the class a task to do. So what we had to do was a Math in me poster it’s like where you make your own question then the other person answers. We all made our own questions about our height, how many minutes to go to school and how many male or females do you have in your own family. This is how my one looked. Also if you answer the questions correctly well done.

Thanks for reading this stay safe with your whanau and many blessings to you all

check out my other post in the past too.

Pangolins: The most harmless creatures around the world 

Pangolin is an animal that lives in Africa and Asia 12 inches (30.5 centimetres) to 39 inches (99 cm) long.They weigh from about 3.5 lbs. (1.6 kilograms) to 73 lbs. (33 kg) 

Pangolins have scaly skin on their back when they’re out looking for dinner. Pangolins are not very ferocious, they don’t even have teeth and it’s not very fast either. It has to wobble on its hind legs and tail. 

It has two formidable tools,the first it has are it’s claws,they are huge and it can rip up dry ground to find ants and termites. Once it rips open the side of the ant/termites colony it dives its heads first. Its second tool is its long sticky tongue, which it uses to slide through cracks and crevices. The tongue gathers thousands of ants/termites every day.

Ants use the old way to save the colony, swarm and bite but the pangolin has protected armour so it can’t feel a thing. It’s eyes have a thick lid, it’s ears and nose have special valves that close off when the ants/termites attack.When the ants gather up and rebuild their home the pangolin will destroy it all over again.

Pangolins are not really reptiles, they are actually mammals, there are eight species of them, four in Asia and four in Africa, all of them are threatened with extinction.Pangolins are shy nocturnal animals mostly found in forests, they live either on the ground or up in the trees sheltering in hollows. 

Pangolins mean roller, the word pangolin comes from the Malay word pengulling  meaning something that rolls up because they curl up into a ball when they feel threatened. Pangolins are often called scaly anteaters due to their love of ants and the way that their scales overlap across their body. Their scales are made from keratin which are the same as our own hair and fingernails. 

They’re also the only mammal in the world to be completely covered in scales which provides them with protections from predators. Pangolins can eat up to 70 million insects each year. They walk from their knuckles and they do this to protect their long sharp claws. Pangolins can help to introduce air into the soil using their long snouts, claws and long tongues too.

There are over eight different species in africa and asia they are called:

On Thursday the yr 7 went out to play cricket with Room 8. On the first day we learned how to throw under and over arms with our coach ( Coach Lucas) . It was actually not that simple because he demonstrated how to aim and throw first. Then it was our turn. First we had to face our bodies to the side with our legs spaced then we throw the ball ( Over arm )  as far as you can at Coach Lucas. Then we played this cool game called freeze tag. After that we told Coach Lucas what we learned about. Then we went back to class.

Thanks for reading stay safe with your Whanau and many blessings to you all

Today I did all my times table on another website where you could learn all your times table. This website had Awards and trophies and it had these tests you call a diploma. Every time I finish I get this certificate.  It was actually that hard to do because I had to remember the times ( which by the way I keep on forgetting to do ) Now I can memorize my time tables.

Anyway thanks for reading this stay safe with your whanau and many blessings to you all

People think that Narwhals have a long horn but that’s not true. It’s really the Narwhals left front tooth, it doesn’t grow out of it’s forehead it grows out of the lip. Other animals who have tusks are curved, Narwhals are the only ones with a straight tusk. It’s tusk has a spiral shape, the tooth Grows a counterclockwise spiral. It is flexible and can bend a foot in any direction without breaking.The Tooth is actually inside out compared to other animals. I got this interesting information from a video that was very exciting,

Thanks for reading this Stay safe with your whanau and many Blessings to you all.