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This week for Summer Learning Journey, I decided to comment on people's blog, about their activities. I have commented on 10 people. Each of them have great work they have done with the SLJ activities. I have commented on Farzana, Sulia, Florence, Taheesha, Avalon, Matthew, Miiana, Joel and Fau's blogs.

Right now I have a total of 10 comments

Explanation:Should NZ Ban Plastic Straws?

Have you ever thought about what a single plastic straw could do to our environment? Well you’ve probably used plastic straws all the time. You probably haven’t realized, that you have been harming creatures using plastic straws!. Well plastic straws can be really harmful to many creatures. Can you guess how many years it takes for plastic straws to biodegrade? Well did you know that plastic straws take about 500 years to break down. These years are more than our lifetime.

If you think about it, there are many micro plastics in oceans around the world, which can poison and effect these poor creatures. On the news, have you seen many creatures getting hurt and being harmed by plastic straws?. If you have, do you ever feel sad, would you ever give up using plastic straws?!. Plastic straws can be really harmful to these creatures. Do you want to see creatures to stop breathing and start bleeding?. This is what plastic straws can really lead to. Creatures swallowing plastic straws can even affect them from digesting food!.

Almost everyone in this world, uses plastic straws while others have done the right thing and stopped using plastic straws. It's time for us to make a big change and ban plastic straws. About 65,000 plastic straws have been laying on the beaches in NZ. Plastic straws lead to a lot of pollution. Between 5 to 10% of plastic straws are being filled up on beaches. Plastic straws are a waste of using, because once you use them, it’ll be thrown out, so why have plastic straws?

Plastic straws are harmful, dangerous and poisonous to these creatures. In a few years there will be more plastic than creatures. Think about all the fish that would be gone in a few more years. How are we going to have fish and chips if there aren't any fish? How are we supposed to eat our favorite dish that includes fish, but there isn’t any fish? This is what plastic straws can really do to these creatures.

This is my opinion of plastic straws! I won’t change my opinion for the fact that these poor and helpless creatures are being hurt. We need to and we should ban plastic straws immediately!, for the safety of these creatures.

Stardome Trip

Yesterday on Thursday night from 5:30 to 7:45, we went to the Stardome to learn about Space. When we went inside Stardome, a guider named Tobias led us into a big room. We sat on seats which we could lye back on. Tobias introduced himself to us. When we looked up, we could see the sky. It was beautiful and looked real. When we looked to the left we could see the sun. It was really small compared to the sky and clouds. It was really cool, because the sky from daytime turned into night time, where all the stars were seen.

 Tobias taught us about the constellations that different countries from around the world saw. One of the constellations we saw was the scorpion. If we found a bright orange star and we connected it to other stars that Tobais showed us, we could see the scorpion. Tobias added a image of the scorpion to show it to the other people who couldn't see the scorpion. We also looked at the hook and Sagittarius constellations. The special hook was from Maui.

After we learnt about the constellations, we learnt about Jupiter and Saturn. Tobais zoomed into Jupiter and Saturn. The planets were so big, the light flashed on my face. I learnt that Jupiter has a total of 96 or 98 moons. I also learnt that Saturn's ring was actually made out of tiny bits of ice and dust.

After we learnt about the constellations and the planets, we went outside of the room and looked at different information about space. Something I saw was Yuri Gagarin and Sputnik 1 Lego figures. My group in reading were reading about Yuri Gagarin and Sputnik 1. Yuri Gagarin was the first cosmonaut to orbit Earth in vostok 1. Sputnik 1 was the first satellite to launch into space. There was really cool entertainments, like Angry birds, pulling the lever to connecting parts of a rocket together and weighing yourself to see your weight on different planets. I enjoyed experiencing my trip to Stardome.

Kiwi Can

This term for a great session of kiwi can our new theme was integrity. Integrity means making the right choice when no one is looking. One example of showing integrity is picking up rubbish, when no one is looking. Something I learnt from Kiwi Can was the definition of honesty and why we show it. The activity we played was role play. The role plays were about showing honesty. My group's role play was about cheating in a test, but then owned up to it and told the truth. The image below shows the role play activity.

Information about Matariki

This week for inquiry we made a DLO about information about Matariki. We were collaborating with LS2. First LS2 got into partners and chose two people from LS1. In my group I had Nyjah, Nicole and Chavda. After that we watched a video and set a 3 minute timer. We wrote down facts about Matariki on a piece of paper. Then we made a DLO. My group and I decided to do a google slide. For the google slide we wrote down information about Matariki. We used our smart searching skills to find information. We were talking with each other on what we would do. We shared ideas with each other too. I had fun working with LS2 and creating a DLO about Matariki.