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Our future food

Our future food

Every year the human population of earth is increasing this is putting huge pressure on our
planet .One of the main issues we are facing is how we will be able to feed everyone in the
future . Current methods of farming use too much land and other resources. This will become
understandable. We need to start thinking of other ways to produce food. Insects are an
excellent health food and are easy to farm. Insects would be a good alternate food source
for us to start eating. 

Firstly, we need to start eating insects because they have lots of protein, fiber, good fats, vitamins and minerals. When you start eating insects your portion levels go up. If you start eating insects you won’t need to drink as much and even if you don’t like the taste of them then you can dip crickets in melted chocolate or put ants in lollipops and other things like that.   

Secondly, insects don't take up lots of room when you farm them. When you farm them you don’t need much resources like water and land. If we don’t start eating insects before cows, pigs, chickens and other things like that then we might die out because we won’t be able to produce enough food.

Thirdly, there is lots of insects all over the world. And when you start farming them or keep on farming them it will be very cheap because you don’t need much water or anything else to farm them.    

In conclusion I believe we need to start eating insects because it does not cost much money, they have lots of protein and you don’t need much to farm them.

I hope you took this piece of writing in and start eating bugs.

  

Toki Pounamu Film Festival

     Toki Pounamu Film Festival 

                 The robbery 

Today I went to the Toki Pounamu Film Festival. It was the first film
festival that we have had on the West Coast for school children.
The Toki Pounamu Film Festival is a festival that shows short films.
Each school on the West Coast made a film and shared it to the
Toki Pounamu Film Festival for other schools to see their film.
The film should have narative, cinematography, sound, scenery and
editing to be a good film. I really enjoyed the first film which was a
robbery. It was about a news report on a robbery. I liked how they
did slow motion when the detective and the news reporter found
the robber and was chasing her. They had a good story line and
amazing costumes. And I loved how they had props like a money
bag, phone cases for phones and Guns for the detective and the
news reporter when they found the robber. I enjoyed watching this
film. :)  

Kiwi collage

We have been learning to make a collage on google drawing.  We had to use explore, mask and arranged tools to get our collage to come together. We had to make a NZ bird and put it into its habitat. It was a lot of fun and I am really pleased with my bird. Have you ever had a go at this.

My NZ Minibeast Report

We have been learning 'about minibeast' in class as part of science. We have been creating information reports on minibeast of our choice. The minibeast we chose had to live in Aotearoa/NZ. Here is my wring. I worked with Billie, Hannah and Mylah.

Animation

Today we were learning to do an animation on google slides. We had to use free to use images and we had to change some of the code to make it work. We had to make the animation loop by changing the word false to true inside to code. In the code I also changed the moving part to make it go faster. Hope you enjoyed my animation

Weta report term 3

This is a piece of writing that we did for our minibeast topic when we were learning about weta. We had to write an information report on this insect.


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           Amazing Weta of Aotearoa

What is a weta?

Weta are a native insect to New Zealand/Aotearoa. Weta are invertebrates
that means they have there bones on the outside of their body. Weta live
up to two years.  Weta have their ears on top of their knees. Giant weta are
the heaviest insect in the world and they weigh up to 2.5 ounces but other
weta weigh up to 30g. Did you know there are 5 different types of weta in
New Zealand/Aotearoa? A cool fact about weta is the were alive before
\dinosaurs/mokonui. Weta also have antenna, thorax and an abdomen on
its body. Even though weta are ugly they are important to
New Zealand/Aotearoa. 

Where do weta live?

There are 5 main groups of weta they all live in many different/ke  places.
Some weta live in groups up to 20 and others live by themselves.Tree weta
live in the cold holes of trees or rotting wood. Ground weta live in deep
barrows in the ground that's probably why there called ground weta.
Cave weta live in sea coast caves and sometimes hollow tree trunks.
Tusk weta live on the ground and giant weta live in Island sanctuary/ruhui.

What do weta eat?

Weta eat lots of different types of food. Most weta are omnivores/pateri.
Omnivores only eat meat and plants. But some weta are herbivores.
Herbivores/kaiota only eat leaves.  A fact about weta is that they only
feed at night. Weta eat worms, small insects and fruit, flowers, seed-heads,
lichen and some eat leaves. 

Where do weta breed?

Female and male weta mate in spring and summer/matiti and female weta 
lay their eggs in Autumn/tokerau at night. A cool fact about weta is that the
lay 16 eggs at a time.When you see a female weta you think there is a
stinger at the end of their body but it is where they lay eggs. This is called
an ovipositor. The  weta lay their eggs by sticking their ovipositor in the
ground and lay her eggs.

Are weta social

There are lots of different weta and they all socialise differently. Only tree
weta live in groups. Some male weta have 10-20 female weta borrowing
with them. Did you know male weta fight over female weta? Some weta
rub their legs together to communicate.  

What are weta threats?

Weta have lots of different threats so it is hard/haumauiui for them to
survive/oranga tonutanga. There threats are mustelids(stoats, ferrets),
cats, hedgehogs, birds and reptiles. Humans can help weta by saving and making more habitat for a start.  

By Ilish!