All about me

Hi, my name if Felicia I am 9 years old. I am a year 5 student attending  to Glen Taylor School. My goal for this term is to show more confidence and to learn more about other people. In my writing I try to make it interesting but I find it boring.I try to put punctuation marks in my writing but I don't know where to place it.

I'm kind of good in my maths and my writing. I enjoy listening to Miss Litchfield talking to the student in Room 10. My challenges is to try and not talk while Miss Litchfield is talking. My goals for this year is to stop talking to my friends while I’m working. I will do that by sitting away from them and try not to talk to them that much.

I want to achieve my 12, 11, 9 and 8 time tables. I will achieve this by saying it everyday at night before I go to sleep.

Doctors warn about dangers of Fortnite

May 10, 2018

Every few years a new video game fad explodes onto the scene. In 2016 it was Pokémon Go, now it’s Fortnite.

The game has been downloaded more than 40 million times since its launch last year. But its popularity has prompted a warning about the dangers of addiction.

The video game pits 100 players against each other in a frantic fight for survival.

No matter your skill level, the game will get you hooked.

“Fortnite is really addictive because it’s a free-to-play game and it doesn’t make any difference if you play it for one hour or 100 hours, you’re always going to get the same experience,” says video games journalist James Jarvis.

The game may be free, but players can buy accessories like costumes and dance moves. That alone reportedly made its makers more than $300 million in March

Kiwi scientist to search for Loch Ness Monster

May 22, 2018

An Otago scientist is heading to Scotland to discover if one of the world’s greatest mysteries is real.

He is on the search for the Loch Ness Monster.

Otago Professor Neil Gemmell will use tiny environmental DNA remnants, which he calls “animal dandruff”, left behind in the lake.

From this scientists will be able to establish all living life in Loch Ness.

However the project is far more than just a hunt for the infamous monster.

“While the prospect of looking for evidence of the Loch Ness monster is the hook to this project, there is an extraordinary amount of new knowledge that we will gain from the work about organisms that inhabit Loch Ness – the UK’s largest freshwater body,” Prof Gemmell says.

He predicts the team will find new species of life – particularly new bacteria.

The research will start in June this year

Guide breaks Mount Everest record

May 21, 2018

A Mount Everest guide has set a record for climbing the world’s highest mountain the most times.

Earlier this week, Kami Rita climbed Mount Everest for the 22nd time.

Rita works as a Sherpa guide and helps other people safely complete the climb.

Kami broke the record while guiding 13 other people up the summit. The 48 year old says he’s aiming to reach the summit 25 times.

Climbing runs in his family. Kami’s Dad was one of the very first guides. His brother has reached Everest’s summit 17 times and almost every male member of his family has climbed the mountain at least once

Huge meteorite hits mars

February 14, 2014

A NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars has spotted a new crater on the planet that is believed to have been caused by a huge meteorite.

The hole is about 30m (100ft) in diameter and the explosion caused debris to be tossed as far as 15m (9.3 miles) away from the impact zone

It's raining diamonds on Jupiter

November 5, 2013

Huge diamonds could be raining down on Saturn and Jupiter, US scientists have calculated.

New data for the two huge gas planets indicate that carbon is abundant in its dazzling crystal form.

The scientist believe that lightning storms turn methane into soot (carbon) which turn into diamonds as it falls and harden.

But dont think there are diamonds just on the surface of the planet as these diamond “hail stones” eventually melt into a liquid sea on the surface.

The biggest diamonds would likely be about a centimetre in diameter and about 1,000 tonnes of diamonds a year are being created on Saturn

zambia bans the hunting big cats

Zambia bans the hunting of big cats

January 12, 2013

Zambia has banned the hunting of lions and leopards because of a drop in the numbers of its big cats.

Until now, people in the southern African country could hunt the animals for sport.

But Zambia’s tourism minister Sylvia Masebo said there are no longer enough cats for hunting purposes.

“Tourists come to Zambia to see the lion and if we lose the lion, we will be killing our tourism industry,” she said.

Lions are found in all of Zambia’s major parks, but their numbers are going down, with fewer than 4,500 lions in the whole country.

The number of leopards is unknown.

Neighbouring Botswana is also banning all sport hunting from 2014, while Kenya stopped hunting for sport decades ago.

Airplane making

Today we were making paper airplane me,jane and savanah were teams.me and my group made a little air plane.I thought it wont go that far because it is little.But i got it wrong it did go far but not that far only a little bit.here is a photo of us making the airplane
and flying our airplanes.

volcanic eruption and earthquake hits hawaii

kilauea volcano has been erupted,distroying 26 homes and is threatening hundred more.
nearly 2,000 have so far been evacuated .some residents were allowed home to rescue pets.but authorities said it was not safe to stay.
new fissure and vents opened up on sunday
night were lava up to 70m into the air .
this island  was also hit by a powerful 6.9
magnitude earthquake on friday.
kilauea is one of the worlds most active
volcanoes and has been in constant eruption 

for 35 years 

Giant panda walks around the streets at china

A giant panda has surprised and delighted residents of a town in China when she went for a stroll down the main street.

Zhen Zhen, an 11-year-old panda was raised in captivity but recently released into the wild. She was then seen roaming down the main road, probably in search of food.

She strolled beside a vegetable garden, trotted across a dirt road and climbed a tree, seemingly unfazed by the attention of a large group of onlookers.

Researchers at the China Conservation and Research Centre for the Giant Panda confirmed the animal was Zhen Zhen – meaning Precious.

Born in 2007 at the San Diego Zoo in the US, she was sent to China in 2010 and released, with a tracking collar, as part of a research project.

After allowing her several hours to explore, the experts sedated and returned her to the Wolong Shenshuping Panda Base, which is part of the world’s largest breeding centre for giant pandas.