A Christmas Eve at Botanic Gardens

This post should've been posted earlier but I am going to tell you my time at Botanic Gardens at Christmas Eve. So here we go.

Credit: https://www.nzroses.org.nz/

At 10:00 AM, we reached Botanic Gardens. It was quite hard to find the carpark. Luckily, we had found a car coming out and we parked in. We got all the equipment that we needed and went off to the Botanic Gardens. First, we went to see the Rose Gardens, where there are heaps of different kinds of flowers. We had first looked at the roses at the front. We started looking from the left side and keep on going. The flowers had different colours, red, cream, white, orange, yellow, pink, light pink, and more.

I had taken some photos of the flowers at the Rose Garden, here it is.

After visiting the Rose Gardens, we went to the Cunningham House, where we will see more plants and flowers. When we went in there were so many plants and weird ones too. There were so many photos that I had taken so I will choose the main ones and show you.

I've created a short video about my time at Botanic Gardens.

An Island Country with Six Major Islands and Over 600 Smaller Islands

After a long time posting about the Summer Learning Journey, I am going to post about a country that you might not know, like always, I will give you some hints about this country. This country is an island country, located in Oceania. Last post, I had posted about a country located in Africa named Somalia, which is a territory located in the Horn of Africa. This country is located near Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu.

This countries name is Solomon Island. Now let's know some facts about Solomon Island.

Credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Islands

1. Solomon Islands' capital is Honiara.
2. The population of Solomon Islands is 629,166, which is more population than countries like Vanuatu, Iceland, Samoa, Guam, Kiribati, Tonga, Bermuda, Greenland, Palau, Cook Island. Tuvalu, and more.
3. The official language of Solomon Islands is English and Melanesian dialects.
4. The major religion of the Solomon Islands is Christianity. 
5. The currency of Solomon Islands is Solomon Island dollar.
6. The calling code is +677.
7. The time zone of Solomon Islands is GMT +11.
8. Drivers in the Solomon Islands drive in the left side.

Credit: https://www.flysolomons.com/destination-guide

10 Things to Do in the Solomon Islands

1. Honiara - which is Solomon Islands' capital city. Which has National Parliament frescoes and WWII relics at the National Museum.
2. Guadalcanal - which is one of the islands in the Solomon Islands, which has the capital, Honiara.
3. Rennell Island - which is one of the islands in the Solomon Islands, the island is known for the raised coral atoll with a massive lake.
4. Gizo - which is known for surfing, scuba diving and snorkelling. 
5. Savo Island - which is a volcanic island and is known for the WWII battlefield. 
6. Kolombangara - which is known for rainforests, volcanoes, forests and hiking.
7. Tetepare Island - which has protected areas, turtles and rainforests.
8. Russell Island - which is known for beaches and scuba diving.
9. Vanikoro - which is known for forests, museums, monuments and history.
10. New Georgia - which is known for history, coral reef and lagoons.

Map of Solomon Islands

What's the next country?

From now, I will ask questions about what do you think is the next questions, I will give you hints about that country, try to guess it.

This country is located in the Caribbeans in North America. This island country is around the bottom of the Caribbean islands. So now it is your time to comment down below what country is it? 

I hope you like my post the out Solomon Islands. Comment down below if you've learnt something new about the Solomon Islands. Have a cool day!! Bye!!

Summer Learning Journey 2018-19 | Week 3 | Day 5

DAY 5: Here to Stay

Activity 1: Persistent Pollution [4 points]

In 2016, the World Health Organisation announced that Timaru, a small town in the South Island of New Zealand, had the highest recorded levels of air pollution in New Zealand. Some of this pollution was caused by natural events (eg. fires) but most of it was produced (made) by humans.

Watch this short video on air pollution. It will tell you more about natural and human causes of pollution.

On your blog, share three new things that you learned about air pollution from this video.

1. Climate change increases smog, rises in mould, more in pollen.
2. Smog is one type of air pollution which makes visibility less. Smog is divided into two parts, Sulfurous and Photochemical.
3. One type of air pollution is toxic pollutants, which makes health problems and environmental effects.

Activity 2: Changing Climates [4 points]

Over the past decade, the climate in New Zealand (and around the world) has been changing. In fact, the climate has been getting warmer and warmer. While many of us like warm weather, climate change is not good news. Higher temperatures can cause glaciers to melt (leading to flooding) and increase the amount of rain that falls.

Here in New Zealand, we have noticed the change. In fact, we sometimes have torrential (huge) rain storms causing flooding, landslides and road closures. When it starts to rain really hard, Aronui and I usually hide out in our lounge and play games like Yahtzee, Monopoly and Uno. If it rains all day, we will also spend some time reading, watching movies and baking.

What about you? What do you like to do on a rainy day?  

On your blog, tell us about five things that you like to do when it is too rainy to go outside.

1. Play board games
2. Watch TV
3. Play games
4. Watch some videos
5. Do some of my badges - Maths and Science

Activity 3: Let It Rain [10 points]

Over the past few decades, we have seen an increase in the amount of rain that falls here in New Zealand. We are lucky, however, that most of the rain that falls is regular rainwater and not polluted acid rain. Acid rain is rain that has bad chemicals (pollutants) in it. When acid rain hits the ground it can enter the water system, killing plants and animals. Click here to learn more about acid rain.

Let’s imagine that New Zealand was hit by a massive acid rain storm. Acidic rain fell for three days and three nights. When the rain fell, you stayed inside with your friends and family. When it stopped, however, you and your family decided to go for a walk outside. You opened the door and...

On your blog, write a short story about what happened when you opened the door and walked outside after the acid rain storm. To earn full points, you must write a story that is 8 – 10 sentences long.


Finally, the acid rainstorm had ended, I was happy, but sad at the same time because it harms the animals and plants. We had decided to go outside for a walk with our family and friends. I had opened the door and there were some drops falling just one step ahead of me. I decided not to go outside. I just wanted a nice warm sunny day, rather than a bad stormy day. We played board games, watched TV and did more fun indoor activities. We hoped that it would be a sunny day as soon as possible.

For the rest of the week, the sun wasn't coming up, we wanted the sun to come and go outside for a walk. After a few days later, the sun had come out, we were celebrating and wanted to go outside for a walk at the park. It was a fun time, and we hoped that the acid rainstorm will never come again.