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Summer Learning Journey #36 Funky Fungi

My Task: Let’s imagine that we tested the air in your classroom and found 7 different kinds of mould. Eek! The cleaner says that it takes 5 days for each mould to be eradicated (removed). If the school had to remove each mould one at a time, how long would it take to remove all the mould from the classroom?

On your blog, tell us how you would solve this tricky maths problem. Be sure to also post your final answer in days or weeks.

It would take 35 days/ 5 weeks to remove the fungi because if it takes 5 days to remove 7 different places of fungi you just do 5 x 7 = 35 days and 35 days is 5 weeks because there are 7 days in a week.

Summer Learning Journey #35 Special Sinks

My Task: On your blog, list all of the foods that you would put in your special draining sink.

I would put in my sink cream rice, custard, mushrooms & boiled eggs in sandwiches and salads ect.

Summer Learning Journey #34 Bee-utiful

My Task: On your blog type out the four ‘Unbee-lievable Facts about Bumblebees’ and fill in the blanks for each one.

1. The word ‘bumblebee’ is a compound word (bumble + bee). The word ‘bumble’ means to ____________________________________.

2. Bumblebees can fly very quickly. They can reach ground speeds of _______ kilometres per hour (km/h).

3. Bumblebees can do more work and carry more pollen than other bees, including honeybees. In fact, they can do  ______ times as much work as a normal honeybee.

4. The number of bumblebees is declining in New Zealand due to a number of factors, including _______________________ and ______________________________ [insert any two causes of the declining number of bumblebees].

Answer 1 blank: Humm, Buzz, Drone or move ineptly or flounderingly.

Answer 2 blank: 54kms per hour

Answer 3 blank: 50 times more

Answer 4 blank: Ants & Wasps can kill bumble bees

Summer Learning Journey #29 The Black Drain

My Task: On your blog, tell us:

1) The names of the rivers. 2) The location of the rivers. 3) What is being done to clean up the rivers (if anything).

River 1: A news article said that in Auckland that %23 of rivers were swimable and %97 of lakes were swimable. To help clean up the rest of the rivers and lakes they have made a start by putting up fences around rivers and planting around them to. 

River 2: Another News Article said that in Northland %24 of rivers were swimable and %67 of lakes were swimable. They are also putting up fences and planting lots of plants to help in Northland.

Summer Learning Journey #33 Burning Up

My Task: On your blog, post a picture of your graph.

Summer Learning Journey #32 Sunsmart

My Task: On your blog, list five different things that we can do to protect ourselves from the sun this summer!

1: Wear Sunscreen

2: You Could Stay Insinde

3: You Could Stay In The Shade

4: Wear A Hat

5: Wear Sunglasses

Summer Learning Journey #31 Togs Or Trackies?

My Task: On your blog, tell us what time of year you think is best for tourists for come and visit. Be sure to share at least three things that tourists could do while they were here in NZ.

I think for tourists the best time to come is in the summer because the weather is warm and there are plenty of beaches.
1 activity the tourists could do is visit lots of tourist attractions.
another activity tourists could do is go down to Queenstown its really popular down there and cool
and the last thing they can do is go swimming if they come in the summer and go to somewhere like Mount Cook in the winter (they can climb to the top if they really want or just do the track).

Summer Learning Journey #30 Faded Glory

My Task: On your blog, list three different ideas or strategies for raising funds to preserve the Great Barrier Reef. What could you do to fundraise here in New Zealand?

Option 1: Put a raffle table outside supermarkets and make the tickets like $2 and have around 5 decent prizes or prize baskets.

Option 2: Have a sausage sizzle outside somewhere popular

Option 3: If the people running the protect the reef thing have kids at a big primary school, if they have to wear uniforms the could say $1 for mufti, $2 for a sausage sizzle & have other activites you have to pay for and if the school is big the people would get a lot of money. This idea could or could not work.

Summer Learning Journey #28 Overfishing

My Task: What do you think about this rule? Is it fair that people are charged up to $100 000 for overfishing? On your blog, tell us what you think about this rule and why you think it!.

I think that its fair to get charged up to $100 000 (as long as I'm not getting the fine). I think that its ok because otherwise there will be no fish left and we need to protect the animals on our earth. If it says no fishing you shouldn't fish there, its simple to go to another fishing spot.

Summer Learning Journey #27 Selfies

My Task: On your blog, write a short story about what you think is happening in the picture. Be sure to tell us where you think the people are and what you think they were doing at the time that they stopped to pose for the selfie. To earn full points, the story must be 8 – 10 sentences long.

I chose selfie #3
I think that the girl is on a trip in this place and has been taking lots of selfies a long her way. I think she is in one of the cities/places that will sink underwater overtime. I think she wants to show the world how beautiful that place is. I think before she took other selfies that weren't as daring, so this time she went on the edge all for an epic photo. I also think she is wanting to be adventurous by going different places and trying more extreme things. I think she is excited that shes on a trip, and maybe partly nervous. I think that when she visits different places she will take extreme selfies from way high up. I think she could be a photographer once she has finished her trip, or she might go other places and take selfies for a living