Marie Curie

Cows and calves

Calves are born when a mother cow is lying down or standing up. The calf pops out and the calf try to stand up and gets milk from the mothers adder.

The farmer check if the mother and the calf is all right and the calf is taken away from its mother and is put in a shed where other calves are.

In the warm shed where calves are they are very hungry and greedy and want to have more milk.
When calves get older,they nibble on grass.  They eat lots of grass when they are growing and less milk and also need to drink lots of water.


Young calves have little tiny horns. There horns are removed or disbbuded by using hot iron and calves are given injection to prevent infections.


The calves will now not grow sharp dangerous horns and play with happy calves in the field. The farmers keep the best female calves to be the best milking cows. A milking cow is called a heifer. They are taken to be a dairy cow. Cows milk 20,000 liters a year of milk. The male cattle, well they get killed and make it for beef. They keep the best bulls for breeding.

Maire Curie

Marie Curie

Marie Curie was born on November 7 1867.  She lived in Poland with her brother and sisters.

It was a hard time for Poland because Poland was under the control of Russia. Time went on and Marie Curies’ mother died when she was just 10, so she had a very hard time with her jobs.

Her dream was to study again but although she did not have the money, it took 6 whole years to get all the money she needed to go to France. She could not take the university in Poland because it was only for men and boys. By the time she was there she worked hard to get her french                                  students visa application.

Marie was a scientist,  she worked with a man called Pierre Curie who helped her with her experiment and fell in love with her, they got married. The next year and they had two children called Irene Joliot-Curie and Eve Curie.

Marie and Pierre Curie worked in a small laboratory and did more research in radioactivity  and found a strange small thing called radium an element.

Marie Curie died on the 4th of July 1934 and Pierre Curie died on the 9th of July 1934.

By: KC

Kakapo

Kakapo

Kakapos are very sweet and cute, Some are funny and clumsy.They are lime green coloured and have adorable tiny beaks.

Kakapos are endangered species and they are cared for. The  people that take care of these kakapos squirt food inside the kakapos beak using a tube and syringe, after they stroke the Kakapos beak so it won't get stuck.

Kakapos eat Totara berries, Supplejack berries and Kahikatea berries, they eat berries because they are herbivores.

Male kakapos can grow up to 60 cm and weigh up to 4 kilograms. The females are very small.

The male kakapos  attract the females by puffing their chest and make a deep booming noise. The noise can be heard up to 5 km away.

In taking care of the kakapos, they always wear clean clothes and shoes before touching the kakapos because they might carry any sickness or diseases that might affect the kakapos.

Kakapos can't fly and they are nocturnal like owls.

They are called Kakapo, which means night parrot.

Most kakapos live for 90 years. Some people think that the kakapos are the longest living birds in the world!

My creation of a specie, ZETAHDOG

ZETAHDOG

This is Zetahdog. A breed between a zebra and a dog. It is a special specie we found in the grassland of South Africa.

It loves to eat grass and bones of dead animals; and drinks water from rivers and streams. It can adapt in places where there are lots of plants. They survive wild animals by running away from them. It has cheetah’s legs and runs as fast as a cheetah. When in danger it has a dog’s tail to say to others “get away from it or ill whack you with my tail!”  It has strong zebra teeth and head, cheetah legs and a dog tail. Can you imagine that, a combination of 3!