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Active author's Christmas MC Donald's

985'ft house America no carrot's but Santa got cookies hot cocoa and milk it was unfair he ate in front of us which made it even worse had people forget us from house to house we dashed and jumped until house 1095 were Santa came out with some McDonald's carrots for all of us  journal entry 720.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.001

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Vegelicous

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List 5 water/summer safety tips:

1. put your hand up if drowning

2.never leave a child in the pool alone

3.stay staff

4.wear protective gear

5.keep your head above water

Where is your favorite place to swim?

ngatea public pool (during school time)

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What do you think the world would be like if…

If kids had tails: nothing

If leaves were fish: cut down trees and free and easy fish

if toes were teeth: weird disgusting

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What is your favorite dish?

• The name of it wendy's meal chicken burger chips ice cream nuggets sweet and sour sauce coke a cola
• An image
  
• Why you love it so much! don't know just delicious

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A primary school in Auckland has canceled its school prizegiving over concerns of ranking students against each other.

The principal of Auckland's Silverdale Primary School on the Hibiscus Coast said in an October newsletter that the school would not follow through with its end-of-year prizegiving ceremony.

Principal Cameron Lockie wrote, "Rewards - like punishments - are unnecessary" when the community is already caring and where students have a "significant degree of choice about what, and how, they are learning". What do you think of this

Negatives: none of the great and hardworking students get that encouragement to think of bigger things
positive: Nobody feels left out

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Career Quest Blog Jesse

Customs Officer 1.
Ranger 2.
quarantine-officer 3.

One reason I really like the job is that it'll be like helping people and nature and protecting them from drugs and as a ranger disercraters of nests and dens and Maori sites.

One big skill you need for all of these jobs is resilence for customs officer and ranger it's weather for quartine officer it's sleep deprivation.

DOC Ranger

I think this would be a good career choice for me as I would really like to work with the environment and I like listing to people.

Skills:

Organized, helpful, patient, creative and kind.

Sparking Curiosity! Jesse M

The Komodo dragon is what I picked as I know nothing about them and what interests me is why are they so big how and deadly is their poison.

Monster

NAME:Vânător
Description: A burned soldier looking for revenge.
Habitat: IN the mountains over a legion encampment. 
 Appearance: half a burned face with a blue eye and sand all over half a silver gas mask with a green helmet and a red eye green and black and orange dusty duster with dirt covered gray combat pants right arm sleeve torn up showing burnt skin with sand on it left arm still has a sleeve but is covered in dust talks in a raspy voice and smells like a rotting burning corpse. 
Personality/Traits: usually hunts at night as his skin burns in the day can sometimes be spotted blowing up legionnaires head with his anti-material rifle well sitting on a chair but has also been known to turn invisible and stab its enemies with its knife covered in blood from its latest kill.
Friends: NCR Troops
Enemies: legion Troops,abomanations,bandits,fiends,

Fallout 3 game review

This is my game review on Fallout 3 a game made in 2008 that I think is better than Fallout 4.

First, up the story, you play as the lone wanderer you and your father live in vault 101 your father soon leaves vault 101 for project purity after he leaves the vault breaks into anarchy Amata a childhood friend comes to warn you about her father going mad and telling his security guards to kill anyone leaving the vault she gives you a 10mm pistol and wishes you the best after you finish battling thru the radroaches and security guards you reaching the overseers office and use his password to open his overseer tunnel you leave the vault Amata meeting up with you to say goodbye when you open up the vault door and leave the rest is your story.

2nd Up enemies, there are lots of enemies in fallout 4 raiders super mutants enclave mercs feral ghouls crazy's deathclaws yao guai all types of things that you would see in the apocalypse.

3rd Weapons in Fallout 3 there are many unique weapons and none unique guns gun classes go from big guns little guns energy weapons but more pacifically nuke launchers flamethrowers plasma rifles missile launchers Chinese aks Lincolns repeater and many other things.

4th Gameplay know personly I think fallout 3s gameplay is harder than fallout 4 fallout 3 is much harder putting you sometimes in near-death situations something to note there are complaints of glitches that will break missions not being able to complete and get your reward.

Something else to note is if you have DLC you can continue the game after the ending you choose and if you complete all of them and haven't explored the wasteland you can do that.

In the end Fallout,t 3 is a great game and hard the skill a personly thought this was resilence

4/5 Sadly with the glitches I had to remove one point still pick up this game it's great and goodbye.
   

Weekly reflection

I feel competitive

Maori respect translation

RESPECT

KOTUA

Would you rather

Would you rather live in the sky or under the sea? under the sea im afraid of heights

Would you rather have a hand twice as big or half as small? half as big just to have
somewhat big hands

Would you rather live on the Moon or live on Mars? the moon it's safer

Would you rather meet your favourite celebrity or be in a movie? be in a movie
become my own star

Would you rather only be able to whisper or have an incredibly loud voice?
incredibly loud voice so everyone can hear me

Would you rather speak every language or play every instrument? speak every
language to communicate with people

Would you rather live without a TV or without a phone? without a phone ahh tv
used more and is better

Would you rather be a bird or a horse? horse afraid of heights

Would you rather live in the desert or on a deserted island? desert because I
would be with other people

Would you rather go on a roller coaster or go skydiving? roller coaster it's way
way safer

Jesse m's business

If you could run any type of business in the world….

What would it be? a toy shop 

Business name: M.W.T.S McCullough Wonder Toy Shop

what does your business do: sell and trade toys

why have you chosen this business because I like toys

Jesse m's Stranded on a Deserted Island

number 1. what would you bring 1. water 2. ax 3. matches 4. tent and 5. fishing net

number 2 why would you bring each item water to keep my self-hydrated ax because to chop down wood matches to lite a fire or torch tent to keep myself dry fishing net to catch food

number 3

number 4 what does deserted mean lost or left

resilence to not let go on life

Weekly reflection 24/8/18

Growth-minded not giving up I guess I've just been mean all week to my sister to some kids in my class kind I guess teachers and parents I've been kind to them I guess respectful I guess to my teachers and parents and some kids stuff I've always craved a fight after leaving Ardmore and sadly because of the teachers not letting go of something me and my old friends did when we were young the failed my sister and this new principal made it even worse not all my teachers were bad some were nice some weren't I always fought back then but then I came here and gave up on it for a while and started play fighting not hurting badly but just enough to hurt a little well that's it next week

NO MORE FIGHTING.    

Ghost recon wildlands game review

So ghost recon wildlands is a free roam based military shooter that has you the player leading a group of special ops soldiers into a war in Bolivia your enemies are the Santa Blanca and Unidad the Unidad are a special military force that's gone rogue and now their being paid off by the Santa Blanca NOTE: If you get into a gunfight with both sides the Unidad and the Santa Blanca will attack each other. Now to the Santa Blanca the Santa Blanca are run by a guy known as el Sueno the tattoo crazy prophet that believes God is on his side there are 4 branches of the cartel that are run by a head. first up security
this is run by el Muro next up is smuggling this is run by IIIIIIII  since its classified lets just the beauty queen that is her nickname next up influence this is run by a rogue pope last on this list is el yayo know done with the description lets talk about life skills. 

1.team work when your playing online you learn to work with other people as you play throw more missions more tactically and plan together

2.problem solving as you play throw missions you must start to get more tactical and prepared you must work out a plan and if that one fails you make a new one and then you repeat 

NOTE: only did 2 because I couldn't think of one 

so Next up what do I like about the game everything basically there are a few nooks and crannies but it's fine the game is really good

Now finally I give the game 5/5

Weekly reflection 3/9/18

• What was your favorite part of your learning this week and why? most probably because it was pretty hard at first
• What is something you found challenging in your learning this week? same answer as the first question word mania
• What is something you have enjoyed doing outside of school this week? gaming I guess
• What part of your learning are you proud of this week? my gloss testing

Weekly reflection 7/27/18

Blog mission #2

The image that relates to my week Again

Jesse M's Posted

Vocab

Oblivion meaning the state of being unaware or unconscious of what is happening around one.

Proud having or showing a high or excessively high opinion of oneself or one's importance.

Enhancement an increase or improvement in quality, value, or extent.

My favourite place

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Plastic bags no more

So Ngatea is going plastic bag free well I like the Idea because plastic is a menace to our ocean
and kills off many ocean life *cough* turtles and is overall just evil. It will make a difference by saving our ocean.

Wasps are wiping out New Zealand's native bugs, experts believe

Voracious killer wasps are causing some of New Zealand's native bugs to go extinct, insect experts believe.

Wasps are a serious problem for people on picnics, but their effects on native insect populations are devastating.

The lifespan of native insects in wasp-dense areas can be a matter of hours, and native species may even have been driven extinct.

Victoria University insect ecologist Professor Phil Lester says he was "sure" there have been local extinctions.

"There must have been at least local extinctions of species, things like the forest ringlet butterfly that we just don't see many of anymore," he says.

The more wasps, the worse the effects they have on the ecosystem, and Lester says this year is looking like it's going to be a "bumper year for wasps," thanks to the hot, dry spring.

Last year, The Nelson Mail and Stuff launched a community campaign to wipe out wasps.

With help from the Department of Conservation (DOC), the community, and other conservation groups, the Wasp Wipeout campaign raised over $50,000 and saw a 98 percent reduction in wasp populations.

Hundreds of volunteers set Vespex bait traps along hundreds of kilometers of DOC walking tracks and public areas, and this year the program is expanding into a nationwide effort.

Wasps have a very high requirement for protein in their diet, and their primary source is other insects.

University of Auckland Associate Professor Jacqueline Beggs ran a study to determine the effects that wasps have on their fellow invertebrates by placing lab-reared spiders and caterpillars into wasp-dense areas and timing how long they lasted before wasps found them.

"In some cases, you barely put the jolly thing on the plant and whoosh - it was gone," she says.

Beggs found the majority of the prey insects were gone within the first half hour, and from her data calculated that the chances of those insects surviving to reproduce in high wasp years were "next to zero".

Some of the flow-on effects of this are obvious, and still more effects are happening on a scale that most people won't notice.

Birds are not only out-competed for the honeydew wasps greedily guzzle down, they are also out-competed for the insects they might snack on.

Lester says many people told him about the changes in birds' habits depending on the number of wasps.

"People in Lake Rotoiti that supplementary-feed birds with sugar-water tell me when there's a high number of wasps the birds are hungry, but when people come and use Vespex you don't see nearly as many birds at the supplementary feeders," he says.

Wasps are generalized and opportunistic feeders. They don't target any particular insects - rather, they eat them all, starting with the big ones and working their way down when they run out.

"Particularly for the larger-bodied insects, for giant dragonflies, stick-insects, and weta, those things are just absolutely hammered by wasps," Beggs says.

"Then they just start eating smaller and smaller things, so by the end of a high-density wasp season, I've seen them eating little sandflies off the windows of huts. They're scraping the bottom of the barrel, and your heart just sinks, you think 'oh no, that just means they've eaten everything else'."

While there is no documentation to show that wasps have been directly responsible for local extinctions, Beggs says regardless, the damage they do to ecosystems should not be underestimated.

"Wasps really do restructure the whole community, I mean extinction is awful because it's forever, but even just shifting the relative abundance of things, we end up with systems that are just completely dominated by these introduced species," she says.

The danger there is that an imbalance in the invertebrate world can lead to unknown knock-on effects.

"Insects drive the food-chain, birds and other insects and lizards will feed on them. They're doing the creation of soil, they're often driving pollination, and nutrient turnover, just so many things. Insects are the real drivers of ecosystem functioning, so the fact that that is being impacted, as an ecologist, leaves me really worried."

Those ecological effects have already been playing out for decades, as common wasps have been a major problem since the seventies, and German wasps since the 1940s. But so little is known about the insect world, it is unclear what those effects are.

Bugman Ruud Kleinpaste, who has dedicated much of his life to insects, says bugs "fly under the radar".

"We actually know very little about insects full stop. We don't even know how many species there are, we know of about a million, there might be 12 million, 15 million, we don't know. But even more than that we don't know what their ecological niches are."

But enough research has been done to show "the overall effects wasps have on the invertebrate world is just devastating".

Those effects aren't limited to native insects, either.

Honey-bees are a target of wasps, and this along with their other effects lead to wasps being calculated as a $133 million drain on the economy each year.

So wasps are costing us a healthy ecosystem, our unique biodiversity, and hundreds of millions of dollars in lost productivity. But we can fight back.

"Vespex is a revolutionary tool," Lester says.

"The formulation that's been developed is one that's very attractive to wasps, it's a protein matrix that's really appealing to wasps and not other insects like bees. And when it's nailed to a tree and only left out for a few days, that limits its non-target effects."

Last year's Wasp Wipeout lead to 98 percent reductions in wasp numbers wherever the bait was used. In some cases, the effects were immediately noticeable.

Nik Joice says it could take as little as a single day to see improvements after a Vespex 

"In a really high wasp year, you put the bait out and the next day you can hear birdsong again."

Not every recovery will be so quick.

Beggs estimated even after a total eradication of wasps, it could still take years for insects with low reproductive rates to recover.

Kleinpaste says that since we don't know the full effects that the wasps are having, "it will pay for us, all New Zealanders, to look after biosecurity and become nature-literate, and look after the environment".

all info found on www.stuff.co.nz

List 2-3 places in the world you would like to visit!

note: I don't like traveling outside NewZealand because I have anxiety that something might go wrong

1.Great Britain  reason: because I love that Britain's architecture is so old-timey but also new
something I like to do: see the queen's palace in London

2. Australia reason: because of it's amazing and vicious wildlife and it's lovely city's
something I like to do: go to warner bros park

Leadership hero

My leadership goal

My leadership goal is to get better at communicating and helping my team out because I don't help a lot and I just sit there letting them solve on there own.

List 5 people who are or have been great leaders Blog

1. Cathrine the great
   
2. Barack Obama
   
3. Queen Elizabeth
   
4. Richie McCaw
   
5. George Washington
   

Leadership poem

L. Loyal
E. Effective Communicator
A.Attitude of hero
D. Daring to take decisions
E.Example setter
R.Rountine is fixed

Leader Ship Quote

A pup with super powers

Hello, my name is Kingston and this is my story cut short. It was an average day we were taking into our Penn outside but before then we went in we were given a run but during the time we were outside I saw this light green goo falling from the sky I rolled around in the goo and ran back as I heard the nice lady calling us when I went to her she gave me a bath which I didn't like then near the day were given a run but then we were put inside our Penn inside this dark room as soon as all the doors were closed I was glowing as my sisters put it but I thought they were tricking me but then when I looked I was glowing I was freaking out some much I hit are doors and it went flying towards the doors that held us in the black room I stutterd I have super strength then I barked this is amazing but when I barked loudly it sent off a sonic blast I could here foot steps outside so we sat by the door wating when they came inside they saw the place was a mess they didint blame us they thought it was something else but from that day I used my powers for good. ps I had super strength, super speed, supersonic flight, physical invulnerability, X-ray vision, super breath, cosmic vision, atomic breath, atomizing eyes, heat vision, ultrasonic hearing, a supersonic high-pitch hi-fi voice and a great calculating brain. plus my super name is mega Shepard

 

The image that relates to my week.

USA map of Michigan and Florida

Blog challenge Zoomed in animals

Blog Challenge: Copy images and write your answers on your blog - they are all types of animal eyes.   

1. I take a lot of pride in what I do. Lion

2. ANAGRAM (mixed up word): hlcaneeom chameleon

3.  I have leathery skin and short legs. frog

4. Type of reptile snake

5. Waru owl

6.for teachers.

my holidays

I made this because I went to a dog show and also because it was fun had a few drinks had some sausages and when we came home KFC& MC DONALDS.

Commonwealth games

1, What is the commonwealth?  The Commonwealth is a family of 53 countries from all over the world

2.Who is part of it?  The Pacific Africa Asia Europe the Caribbean and Americas

3.What are the advantages? Some countries are rich and some countries are big

4.Are there any disadvantages? But some are poor and small

5.Why the commonwealth games? To show diversity equality and friendship

6.When did NZ become part of the commonwealth?1931

7.Who leads the commonwealth? the United Kingdom

8.How many sports are included in the Commonwealth Games? 10

9.What sports are NZ athletes competing in? Running, swimming, boxing, netball,hockey, Rugby,shooting lawn bowls wrestling cycling

10.#EARNTHEFERN - what does this mean?The New Zealand Olympic Committee and Saatchi & Saatchi have released their new brand platform Earn the Fern. The first iteration is an integrated campaign supporting the athletes of the 2018 Olympic Winter Games that opened on Friday 9th February in PyeongChang, South Korea.

11.How does belonging to the Commonwealth support diversity, equality and friendship? (FULL paragraph answer) We share skills with each other and share the same goals. we include everyone no matter the . we care for one another we support each other. and we are all are equal boy and girl.

What I did on Easter

I didn't really do anything so here is my easter egg made out of bunchems.I did eat some choclate thoy and went to Mc Donalds and spent some time on my games but thats pretty much it.

Workshops that I went to on WORKSHOP WEDNESDAY

Yesterday we did some workshops and I want to share my favourites. The first one was the Logo Quiz. I liked working together instead of vs each other and I liked that if you came you got a Fredo. My second favourite one was Raft Wars because it was funny and cool.

LOL