Sir Edmund Hillary

In class we had to learn about famous New Zealand people.

My Axolotl Thinglink

This Is My Axolotl Report on an Axolotl. This includes it's Habitat, Appearance, Diet, Reproduction, And Behavior.

Axolotl Report

Axolotls

Axolotls are walking Mexican Fish. They are amphibians who spend their whole lives underwater.

Appearance:

An Axolotl is grey or White in colour with black eyes. The colour of an axolotl depends on the cells in its body. Axolotls can grow up to 30 centimetres in length and weigh between 60-227 grams. The axolotl can age but it remains in larva form for its entire life.

Reproduction:

Axolotls are an endangered species and are rarely found in the wild. There are less than 1200 axolotls in Lake Xochimilco. Axolotls do not go through Neoteny( when a juvenile  turns into a adult) like most amphibians do.

Diet:

Axolotl are carnivores.They eat mainly aquatic food as it lives in bodies of water most of its life. They have teeth that are used for gripping rather than biting, so they swallow their food whole instead of chewing first. Its diet can consist of mollusk, worms, insect larvae, crustaceans and small types of fish.

Behaviour:

Axolotls live most of their lives underwater. Axolotls are next to completely aquatic creatures but have a rudimentary set of lungs, breath through gills and, to a lesser extent, it’s skin. They have the ability to heal and/or regenerate themselves from body mutilation. Wild Axolotls can live up to 15 years in the wilderness.

Habitat:

Axolotls are found mostly in large bodies of water (e.g Creeks, lakes, waterways) in Mexico city. They were native to Lake Xochimilco and Lake Chalco. Axolotls are rare and many scientist have tried to save both of these lakes. However the remaining waterways are likely to be threatened by the city’s continuing expansion.

Axolotls are endangered for now and are kept in captivity or sold as pets. They are trying to be kept alive before they go extinct

Gollipolli War

  This is a poem about the war in Gollipolli and has been written for ANZAC day

The Hole in the Fence

Previously on Fences: I peeked through the same hole of the same fence of the same street to see what the neighbors were up to. I’ve been doing it for the last month to see what they were upto. There was always something happening but I could never figure out what. I daydreamed as I peeked through the hole.The man asked the wife “ You're stuck in a room with no doors, no windows and no secret entrances with only a mirror and a piece of wood. How do you get out???” “I don’t know. How?” “ You look in the mirror and see what you saw. You take the saw and cut the wood, you put it together and make a whole. You climb through and you’re out.” The man said. Why are you telling me this?” The lady asked.He pointed at me.”Just giving the Kid a hint for what’s about to happen” I heard footsteps but thought they were from over the fence. Suddenly a plastic bag was thrown roughly over my head And saw blackness. We got into a van that drove away Before blacking out.

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Time Warp To Present: Darkness. Why is it so dark? Did mom forget to pay the electricity bill??? I  groaned as I got up. I looked to the left and saw a mirror and a plank of wood. On the wood there was a note that read:

Dear Reader,

Hi. How You doing. Yea, you just woke up in my dungeon of Awesomeness and Tranquillity. To get out you MUST complete the test. So yeah. Try to get out. If you can :3 . BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Anywayz , lol

The Riddler,                   

PS: I am NOT the Riddler from Batman.

“OKKKKKKKKKkkkkkkk……”  I sat for ages thinking of how to get out, not even bothering to move. I thought about those people and stared thoughtfully stared at the mirror. An Idea popped into my head. I looked around and picked up the The mirror to see if the riddle was true. I looked at my reflection, my face and my nose, a saw... I looked behind me and there was the saw. I grabbed the saw and looked around. I saw a pair of goggles and put them on. I picked up the piece of wood and cut open the wood. I put it back together annddd… nothing happened. I looked behind me and saw a hole on the wall. I face palmed myself for not noticing and looked through the hole. I saw…………………………  

(Voice of Priest) Nothing. A whole (pun intended) lotta nothing. And then in a flash of light another world shone upon himself And Life was Created  (stop) There was basically everything you could imagine. There were unicorns, leprechauns, birds, big cats, dinosaurs and other stuff . I stood there all day until darkness overcame me AGAIN.

EPILOGUE: I woke up on my bed In the middle of the night. I thought It was just a dream until I saw a note attached to the lamp on the bed cabinet. It Read:

Dear Reader,

You completed the test. finally . L.O.L it took you, what, an hour???

Anyways, Congrats, and Goodbye…….. For Now.

;) LOl,

The Riddler, Not from Batman

The boat challenge

We had a substitute teacher that gave us a boat challenge where we had to make a boat with limited resources and see if it could float on water


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Testing for Writing

We had to write what we did on the holidays and to describe what happened.

TITLE: _Laughing Samoans_

Planning

1.Getting ready(Bath)

2.Driving to kerikeri

3.having Maccas

4.driving to the kerikeri falls

5.going to laughing Samoans/coming back

Writing

Laughing Samoans (Laughing emoji)

Trees. Bushes. A river. A bunch of meat ( I mean Cows). And a run down trail going to a run down house. That was the buses queue to stop. The doors opened up and we shifted through the lane and out the bus, onto the road. We turned to the house next door and trudged up the road.It was Me, Corey, and Jada. We got changed, got the bathing equipment, got into the car, turned the ignition, changed to 1st gear and pressed the gas petal. It burst down the road, doing snakeys, twisty and turnys, up and downies, to our swimming hole.

I can’t describe the swim itself  since it would take another paragraph or two (or four of five or eight). We got into the van. There was Me, Jada, Corey, His mum and dad, and his sister in law. We drove through Kawakawa, past Morewa and into Kerikeri. We went into McDonald for dinner and to get some food for the people at home. I got A Mac Attack with a large Coke. after, maybe 20 or 30 minutes, we headed over to see if it was ready and…… it wasn’t. So we headed over to the kerikeri falls. We stood on the docks and watched this guy jump of the docks repeatedly until we got bored. When we went over a SECOND time the show was FINALLY ready to begin.

They pretended to be News Reporters, little Kids, A husband and wife, an Aunt and niece, and the 3 goats that tried to get over a bridge (the baby, the gay guy and the big brother). When it finally finished, we drove home to go to sleep, play games, eat/ drink things and do other things people do on a Friday night.

Marking

Ideas	Points	Comment
	5(Me)	meh.
Miss Baker	4	Lots of ideas and some detail and elaboration about these ideas. It is a shame you  didn’t talk about the swim as your story is missing a large chunk in the middle to tie it together.