Guardians of the Earth – Informational Report.

Intro:

On Earth, many people don’t even care about Earth at all but wouldn’t it be crazy to think no one wants to drink clean water or see birds in the sky? In my opinion, everyone should be a guardian of the earth. I strongly believe that everyone should take responsibility for the environment that surrounds us like trees, animals, plants, forests, birds, air, sea, lakes, streams, land, drinking water and so much more.

What are Guardians of the Earth?

In Aotearoa/New Zealand, Guardians of the Earth is called Kaitiakitanga. Guardians of the earth are the gifts that god has given us including the environment, our talents and other resources that we have. It even means that each and everyone should start to consider the environment. One of the main things to take care of is trees. Without trees, we would never be able to breathe because to breathe we need oxygen and we get it from the trees and some plants.

What will we need to do to become part of the Kaitiakitanga?

To become an Earth Guardian means to take responsibility for the environment that surrounds us. For example, Watering the plants that you have at home; planting as many plants/trees as you can at your place or in the forest close to you; feeding the right food to the right animals; throwing less rubbish on the floor so it doesn’t end up in the seas and damaging the sea mammals; encouraging recycling and waste management (Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle).

• Air Pollution: There are Three main types of air pollution sources. The first one is the mobile source that comes for cars, buses, planes, trucks and trains, to stop air pollution coming from there is to try to use electric and eco-friendly verticals. The other sources are power plants, oil refineries and factories. To stop all of this we should try to use fewer things that include oil too much. The last one is Area sources, this happens with wood-burning fireplaces, to stop that we should all use heaters not fire because that even comes from natural sources.

• Precious paper: In every year more than 15 billion trees are cut down, and more than half of it is used for making paper. Some of the children use it as scrap paper for colouring, party decoration, and so much more things but think about the trees first. To stop using too much paper for the party decorations, we could even use magazines and the leftovers could be used as scrap paper for so many things.

•  Less Resources Left: In the past, people used to take whatever they wanted without thinking. Now, we know we can’t do that anymore, one day our planet will run out of resources. That’s why we must try to eat less meat and seafood. It is not just if we all stop and become vegetarian, it is soon our water around the world will be not enough for the fish to survive in. Around the world, we eat 360 million tonnes of meat and 156 million tons of fish every year. To stop that we could all try to eat vegetarian or vegan meals. There are loads of meat free and plant-based recipes.

Why are Guardians of the Earth So important?

For more than a hundred years, every signal person protects their surroundings, environment and other resources. Without Mother Earth we human beings could not exist. Mother Earth provides us with water, clean air, food and shelter, materials and space for recreation. So all of us need to start cleaning our earth because its resources feed us and provide the materials for our way of life.Summary:

Our ownership is caring for the gifts that God has given to us, including the environment (planet: the earth, the sea, and the sky), our own personal talents and other resources. We are kaitiaki – guardians of the earth. Everyone’s honour is to save our ecosystems which make up the earth and are important for our survival and the well-being of future generations. If we all try to do a little bit and save lots of things. There will be a significant impact on the Earth and our environment. Our beautiful earth will be saved.

The Incredible Peter Jackson:

Do you know about the incredible Peter Jackson? He is an amazing director. He has directed more than 65 movies. The most famous ones were remakes of King Kong, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Ring. He is most known for the director of those movies. His net worth is $1.5 billion in USD.

Childhood of Peter Jackson:

Peter Jackson was born on 31 October 1961 at Pukerua Bay, New Zealand. It’s a small seaside town not far from the country’s capillary city, Wellington. His father Bill, was a local authority employee and his mother Joan, was a homemaker. At an early age, he was interested in a television series called “Thunderbird”. With its vehicles and special effects. That made him more interested in science fiction and model building. By the age of nine he was so inspired so he started to make his own short videos by using the special effects he loved. When he saw the 1933 film King Kong on Television. The day Peter Jackson tried experimenting with the stop-motion animation technique that had made him so excited in the movie.

Peter Jackson’s high school life:

Up to the age of 15 he continued to make short videos. At 16, he dropped out of school and took a job as apprentice engraver in a newspaper’s photography department living with his parents to save money for camera equipment and film. When he buyed his first 16mm camera, he set out to make a short film to give himself with the equipment. This project, science fiction horror fantasy called Bad Taste. The project would eat four years of his life. He wrote, directed and photographed the film, building all of the models and special effects, playing multiple roles, including the lead, and giving neighbours and friends to fill out the cast. After that he made about 65 movies.

Achievements of Peter Jackson:

In 1987, he got married to Dame Fran Walsh. After his marriage he made a lot of movies like Meet the Feebles(1989), Dead Alive (1992),Hercules and the lost kingdom (1994), Jack Brown Genius (1996), The Ugly (1997) and SO MANY MORE. In between that, in 1995 Billy Jackson was born, just after 1 year Katie Kackson was born. At this moment Katie Jackson is 28 years old and Billy Jackson is 29 years old. Jackson has been awarded three Academy Awards for The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King (2003), including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. His other awards include three BAFTAs, a Golden Globe, two Primetime Emmy Awards and four Saturn Awards among others.

Summary Peter Jackson’s life:

That was his amazing, special and marvellous journey of becoming a Director. Who lived in a small town by Wellington, who didn’t even have a camera when he started his journey of a Director and now Peter Jackson has achieved more than he thought he would. In the future Peter Jackson might make another incredible movie.

Fly Away Home

The house was flying away like a hot air balloon.
My house flew so high that I could even see the moon.
Whoosh, when the pig saw my house flying it started to fly like Santa’s reindeer. People nearly died being shocked that stayed near.

When I woke up, I almost had a heart attack. It was scary like the Ghostbusters movie (fun fact). I would rather live in a normal home but in a flying house. I think only aliens could live like that, not humans or mouse.

I could hear so many noises like factory machine noises. There is nothing to do at flying home, there are no choices. I have no contact with humans like aliens don’t have with humans. The only thing I could do was go back to a normal house, that was the last solution.

 

 

Have you ever had Red velvet brownies? Well, today I am going to tell how to make red, rich and fudgy brownies swirled with cheesecake filling.

Ingredients:

• 170g salted butter melted.
• 225g sugar.
• 2 tsp vanilla extract.
• 1 tsp red food colouring.
• 3 eggs.
• 40g cocoa powder.
• 110g plain flour.
• 1 tsp white wine vinegar.

For the cheesecake swirl

• 250g soft cheese.
• 1 egg yolk.
• 3 tbsp sugar.

Method:

1. Start by buttering a 20cm square brownie tin and lining it with baking paper. Preheat your oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. In a bowl, whisk together the melted butter, sugar, and vanilla extract until combined. Then, slowly whisk in the food colouring and eggs until the mixture turns red.
2. Please sift the cocoa powder and flour into the mixture, and then add the vinegar. Fold the mixture together using a spatula. For the cheesecake swirl, combine the cream cheese, egg yolk, and sugar, and set aside.
3. After that step, pour most of the brownie batter into the tin. Then, dollop in the cheesecake mixture. Afterwards, pour the rest of the brownie batter on top. Use a skewer to lightly swirl the two together. Bake for 30 minutes until shiny on top. After baking, remove from the oven and cool in the tin for 30 minutes. Finally, remove it to a wire rack and it is ready to eat!

I’m sure that you really enjoyed my recipe. Thank you for reading it and don’t forget to try it!

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The first few days as a year 8 in Kahu have been amazing with the year 7’s. I have made new friends like Inaaya and Guneet.

I have learnt the things in SDL work in so much detail, I have even learnt how to make Chinese Lanterns. They look so beautiful.

I am looking forward to camp in term 4 close to November.

How to make Kūmara Cake for the Matariki celebration: Kūmara (also known as sweet potato) cake with buttercream frosting has the best taste and is the best dessert to share with friends and whanau on Matariki celebration. The good thing about Kūmara cake is that there are two kinds of Kūmara cake, the first one is the spicy and crispy kumara cake. The second one is the delightful, yummy, sweet cake. The recipe I am going to tell you today is the sweet cake one. Ingredients: Eggs – 3 Neutral oil – 1 cup Brown sugar – 1 cup Vanilla essence – 1 tsp Crushed pineapple – 1 cup Zest of ½ orange Orange kūmara, grated – 3 cups Plain flour – 3 cups Baking powder – 1 tsp Baking soda – 1 tsp Cinnamon – 1 tsp Ginger, crushed – 1 tsp   Icing: Butter, softened – 20 g Cream cheese – 200 g Vanilla essence – 1 tsp Orange zest, plus extra to decorate – 1 Tbsp Icing sugar – 1 ½ cup Slivered almonds, to decorate – 3 Tbsp Method: Step 1 Preheat an oven to 170°C (fan-forced 150°C). Line a 23cm cake tin with baking paper. Step 2 In a large bowl combine the eggs, oil, sugar, vanilla, pineapple and orange zest mixing well. Step 3 In another bowl combine the kümara, flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and ginger, mixing well. Step 4 Add the wet ingredients into the dry and combine. Pour the batter into the tin, smooth the top. Place into the oven for 45 minutes. Step 5 Remove from the oven and allow it to cool completely. Step 6 To make the icing, beat the butter, cream cheese and vanilla until smooth. Step 7 Add the zest and icing sugar, combining well. Spread over the cake and decorate with extra zest.

 

Hi, my name is Gurman, today I am going to tell you some information about New Zealand & Australia and when you read this please tell me do you want to live in which country you will like to live in New Zealand or Australia.

First, about New Zealand, there is more than one type of kiwi I think you are thinking about the kiwi fruit it is not that, I meant the national animal because there are 2 types of kiwi. New Zealand has the world’s longest name for the hill Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanata-hu (that is so big). New Zealand has 3 national languages it is English, Māori and sings language but it is not the same as the UK and the last fact but the least, Auckland is surrounded by about 50 different volcanoes.

Time to tell you about, Kangaroos are an Australian national animal and Kangaroos can only exist in Australia. Australia is home to some of the dangerous species like spiders, snakes and blue ringe octopus, if it stings you will just be dead (it is that bad). As you all see in the news in 2019 (I think) bush fire happened because of climate change and it is very hot there.

I hope you like my fact about New Zealand and Australia.