Poem About Myself

My name is Dhara 

And I am 12 

I hate sickness and glumness

But I love kittens and puppies 

They are cute and cuddly

Instead of running I like games

During games they tease names

But that's how it is

So let mind our biz 

About Elizabeth Hegarty ( author from river salt)

Elizabeth Hegarty's is Originally from the UK, Elizabeth Hegarty's family live in Auckland. When she was seven they have always been a very bookish family, and with an editor for a father Liz could never get away with any  misunderstands or misplaced apostrophes. Liz went to university, studying French and English literature, and after a few years Liz went overseas travel in Europe, Liz and then-boyfriend Liam returned to New Zealand to settle down and get married. Her beautiful daughter Molly was born in 1995.

Liz worked as a business analyst for the past 12 or more years, in IT and corporate strategy, across banking and retail. In 2006 Liam and Liz decided that they'd deserved their time in the rat-race, and moved down to a tiny place called Canvas town, at the foot of the Marlborough Sounds. They now live in secluded valley, with a river running behind the house and a 50-minute drive between them and the nearest supermarket. Liz has said that the change has been a wonderful experience, and has given her time to focus on writing and painting, although she still does analysis on a semi-freelance basis for several New Zealand retailers.

Kakapos

Kakapos are endangered birds, they are low parrots, they are endangered birds because when the first Maori settlers came to new Zealand the had no food and they were hundreds of Kakapos and then the Maori settler thought of eating the Kakapos since their were so many of them and just carried on eating them. Kakapos can live to be 95 years and above average, they are important species to New Zealand like kiwi birds as such. an interesting fact that Kakapos can climb trees, they are the worlds heaviest parrots of all time.

Kakapos are flightless, fight less and nocturnal. when Kakapos are on their diet all they eat is plants or plant berry's but normally they will fruits from Rimu trees and the seeds of the Manukau Kakapos live in forests they don't live in a trees they stay on the ground just like I said before Kakapos a flightless birds, Kakapos make their nest in smalls perfect holes for them. If a predator comes near by they will camouflage themselves because their feather are color in moss green, dark light brown and little white to combined in the forest or hide in their hole with absolute silence. here is a quote I found.


There are many ways to help the kakapo get removed from the critically endangered list. One way to do it could be supporting a worldwide or local conservation foundation that is already in New Zealand trying to increase the numbers of kakapo. 
The Kakapo Recovery Team is a group of conservationists and volunteers that help make sure the remaining kakapo are healthy and ready for breeding. They do many things to improve kakapo including, regulated health checks, controlling the predators, feeding and hand raising. 
This non-profit organization receives many donations and volunteers who are flown in to a conservation island to help the diminishing numbers of kakapo.

Another way you can help is simply by spreading awareness. Many people know that animals are becoming endangered but they aren't aware of the rate at which how fast it is happening. The rate of extinction is 4 species per hour and there is an unprecedented rate of endangered species. As of 2004, there are 15 589 species endangered which was an increase of 3300 since 2003. The kakapo could easily be one of those extinct if we, humans continue our harmful actions against the animals. 

Tamaki college project (graphics)

All Finished

Dhara's review: Salt River

Book Title: Salt River	Author: Elizabeth Hegarty
Reviewer: Dhara	Grand total of books read this year: 1
Book Genre: (Highlight) Fiction Science fiction Drama Romance Mystery Horror Comedy Series Fantasy Other (state) Non-Fiction Biographies/Autobiographies Historical Instructional Other (state)	Insert photo of book cover here:
Reading Level: Easy Medium Advanced	Rating: (Leave how many stars you rate it.) ✩ ✩✩✩✩✩
Review: (Optional - Give a brief review of the book)  This book is about 2 parents and their 4 children Tom the older one Tosti the second older one Mary the one that is in charge for the supplies and Frankie the little one, this story starts off like this the four children are playing and their parents were thinking of to go for the week so the called their children and said so we have called you to tell you that your father and I are going for the week and I will see you on Monday and just to let you know tom is in charge of all of you in this week, after they had left once they had left tom was acting all manly and said thing like  'If you don't clean up your mess I'll have my belt ready. on the second day they had to do their farm chores like milking the cow and stuff like that the third day they had a break and went down the beach  then suddenly tom had saw Frankie drowning he jumped into the water and never returned.	Excerpt:  (Optional - Find a good quote from the book that might make people want to read it) He could barley see as he fell lower and lower, the muddy harbour bottom was so  churned up by the current, and then he and    the anchor struck bottom. there was a pressing pain growing and growing in his chest; the need to breathe making him desperate and stupid with fear. Did you see me go over ?.he craned upwards,    but the Arizona was nothing more but a dark shadow in a swirling brown world. no one was coming down.

The Point England Way

Hello everyone today I am going to write about The Point England Way

Everyday when Pt England students come to this school we come with a positive mind, we have rules at our school  but mostly it is especially based on the korero, (korero means to us is like a logo to us) last year our korero was about kia pai Te kotahi, (means better together). I think it’s best for everyone to follow the Point England Way, I think that way because most people would just ignore the rules and just would get in trouble then they will feel bad about themselves and think about why did they did that but some will just won’t care.

The Point England Way started in 2000-2001 it that is was made about 14 or 13 years ago, The Point England Way discovered by Mr Burt but to machine Mr Burt did not discover it by himself he did have help from a helpful teacher Miss Malaysia but she left which was very said but our teacher remember her as a legend and it is awesome that we have been carried on until 2014. This is a quote from Mr Burt that class 4 (which I am) had received ‘ The Point England Way ". “...means that it is our kawa of care, the way we do things so that we can be happy with another, safe, enjoy each others’ company, learn well and have a good time at school.”

At our school in each class we have a small TV (if you guy be thinking like ‘OMG they really watch TV that's so cool” well on that TV we all have we do not watch cartoons we actually watch Penn (Penn is short for Point England New News) penn is not a channel it is news, for our school like it tells us what is going to happen today, what sports are coming up for people who want to join in, and the weather and stuff like that and at Mrs Telea's there are a group of ambassadors, that make the news everyday it is a big job. every Friday our school has an assembly, and in that assembly we always have an new korero or the same one because some people just don’t get the word he is saying or explaining.

The reason we do this at our school is to get us ready for the future because if we wanted to buy something from your local shop then what will you say after been served? or after you have been saved from a dog chasing you what will you say ?, and most importantly our behavior and our attitude when something funny happens to a person and they don’t like it then don’t laugh if its a sad day for someone and they don’t like it then don’t laugh it just gets worse its better to do the right thing, and all these thing mean all to just one word RESPECT.

The thing that I have just said goes the same like the treaty of Waitangi the British people and the Maori people the British people made a treaty for the Maori people to sign just to bring peace and harmony in New Zealand. At Point England School we always have to your the three P’s the three P’s are protection participation and partnership.

Well I hope you learnt enough today take care.

Waitangi Treaty

Treaty of Waitangi

      In the 1840s 174 years ago there was a treaty sign by the British people and  the Maori people, it was an agreement trying to stop some of the problems  that were happening in New Zealand.

One day Queen Victoria of England had instructed to William Hobson to have  a treaty made in English translated into Maori in three months time. The day before Hobson had to present the treaty it didn't look like he was interested or cared because he hadn't even started writing it yet and didn't look like he was going to. It was finally translated from English to Maori just before all the Maori chiefs had gathered to discuss the treaty, if they should sign it or not.

                                                                                                           The Treaty talked about Participation, Partnership and Protection for the Maori people. When they all gathered together to sign the treaty, the British thought that if they would sign the treaty, they would rule over NZ. The Maoris thought that if they would sign the treaty then they would have more trade and have peace. They also thought that British will control the settlers. Somehow they started trading and it became more peaceful. But as time came on the misunderstandings lead to war.

Once William Hobson had convinced the chiefs the treaty was sent around the country for 500 other chiefs to sign. Now it is 174 year old.