Punctuation

Punctuation

Today I played an awesome game called Punctuation and I learnt where to put commas,speech marks full stops and capital letters.I had so much fun playing this game.

Spell It

Spell It!

Today I went on study ladder and played a game  called spell it and I learnt that you can always look at the picture when you're going to write a word or spell it out.I really had fun playing on it

The New Zealand Weka

The New Zealand Weka

• The North Island weka, once widespread, is now only found on the mainland in the hills between Matawai and Opotiki, where a few thousand survive. Since 2000, weka have been released near Russell, in the Whirinaki Forest and there is a small population on the margins of the Hauraki Gulf near

• Western weka are the most common subspecies and are found throughout the Marlborough Sounds, scattered in other regions of Nelson.

• Buff weka were once common on the eastern South Island. They have been reintroduced to The Pekekara and Wakatipu islands

• Weka occupy a range of habitats including forests, sub alpine grassland, sand dunes, rocky shores, and even modified. The fact that some weka populations persist in highly modified habitats suggests that they can adapt to a wide range of environmental conditions..

http://www.nzbirds.com/birds/weka.html

The New Zealand Kakapo

The New Zealand kakapo

• One of the world's longest living birds. They can live up to an average of 90 years to a maximum of 120.
• The world's heaviest parrot
• The world's only nocturnal parrot
• A polygynous lek breeder
• A non-flying bird
• A parachutist from trees because it cannot fly
• Featured in the documentary from BBC 'Last Chance To See
• Critically endangered

http://www.doc.govt.nz/conservation/native-animals/birds/birds-a-z/kakapo/

The New Zealand Kiwi

The New Zealand Kiwi

• Kiwi have a strong musky smell that is irresistible to dogs
• Little spotted kiwi and North Island.brown kiwi breed in pairs and only the male incubates the egg
• The kiwi egg is six times as big as normal for a bird its size, almost exactly the size of eggs produced by the now-extinct bush moa
• Kiwi have one of the largest egg-to-body weight ratios of any bird. A mature kiwi egg averages 20 percent of the female’s body weight (compared to 2 percent for an ostrich). In human terms this would mean a 50 kilogram woman delivering a 10 kilogram baby!
• A female kiwi can lay up to 100 eggs in her lifetime

  http://www.chemistry.o.nz/kiwibird.htm

The New Zealand Moa Bird

The New Zealand Moa Bird

• Moas were unique among flightless birds, having lost any trace that they once had wings.
• Not even tiny wing bones or a wishbone were left.
• As well as bones, mummified moas and well preserved feathers have been found.
• Fragments have been found at many sites, including prehistoric Maori settlements, where the eggs had been cooked and eaten.
• Related to the ostriches and emus, there were 11 species of moa, from the turkey-sized Euryapteryx curtus to the huge Dinornis giganteus.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Moa