Maliah @ Kumara School: 2020

Monday 2 November 2020

Thursday 17 September 2020

Thursday 10 September 2020

In this speech I am going to talk about Air pollution. Air Pollution is a mixture of solid particles and gasses in the air. The solid particles are chemicals from factories, dust, pollen, mold spores and Ozone which is a gas. Some air pollutants are poisonous. Inhaling them can cause irritation in the eyes, lungs, nose and throat. It can create respiratory problems and exacerbates existing conditions such as asthma and emphysema. Eldery and children are at greater risk from air pollution because it can lead to an early death. When you're exposed long term us humans can become higher risk for cardiovascular disease along with other health problems. There are many deals with two types of pollution: pm10 and pm2.5 and these refer to what is known as the particles released into the air that are small enough to be inhaled.

What caused air pollution?

Air pollution is caused by solid and liquid particles and certain gases that are in the air. These particles and gases can come from cars and trucks exhaust pipes, factories, dust, pollen, mold spores, volcanoes and wildfires. The solid and liquid particles in our air are called aerosols. Air pollution is also caused by the ozone, Ozone is a greenhouse gas that can be both good and bad for our environment. It all depends on where it is in the earth's atmosphere.

If you didn’t know what aerosol is I’ll tell you. Aerosol is a mix of fine particles and droplets of liquids in gas or in the air. They can be natural or human-made. Natural aerosols for example are fog, mist, dust, pollen, steam but human-made aerosols include smoke and air pollutants.

Air pollution affects global warming. Aerosols can also impact how the Sun’s light hits Earth. For example some aerosols reflect sunlight while others absorb sunlight. It depends on the color of the particle. If the colour is any light bright colour such as white it is most likely to reflect sunlight. Dark colours on the other hand, like black will absorb the sunlight and help global warming.

A few ways to do your part to help reduce air pollution is things like no littering, recycle and reuse, no to plastic bags, reduction of forest fires and smoking, the use of fans instead of air condition, the use of a filter for chimneys, choosing to go for walks or bike rides instead of driving everywhere.

That was my speech about Air Pollution. I hope you enjoyed it.

Thursday 18 June 2020

MY BABY BROTHER IS CRAWLING

MY BABY BROTHER IS CRAWLING!

A few days ago my baby brother who is 8 months old started crawling! He was only rocking on his knees and then he was off. When it is time to have a bottle I always sit it on the ground and he goes as fast as he can to get to it.

Wednesday 3 June 2020

My Mihi

Mihi for me Maliah!

Tena koutou katoa

Ko Maliah toku Ingoa

Ko Kumara toku kura

Ko Taramakau toku awa

Ko Mount Cook toku maunga

Ko Ngai Tahu toku iwi

Ko Ebony toku whaea

Ko Evan toku matua

No reira

Tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou

Katoa

Greetings

My name

My school

My river

My mountain

My tribe

My mum

My dad

I’ve finished

Thank you, thank you very much.

Thursday 21 May 2020

Beach & play ground.

FAMILY TIME!

We all went to the beach, it had been like a year since we've been to the beach and it was baby Kane's first time going to the beach and to the park. He liked to watch the waves roll up on the stones, we didn't go to far cause of the beach breeze. We had a wee play at the play grounds and a picnic lunch together.

Fire wood.

WOOD MISSIONS.

Well we went on a fire wood mission a couple of days ago, as its starting to get pretty cold already and its not even winter yet. At least it was a very sunny day for it. I really enjoyed it we climbed up a bank to where dad was cutting the wood up and asked mum to take a photo of us! So here it is.

Beautiful art work

OUR BEAUTIFUL FAMILY ART WORK.

Created by my Dad, my Mum, my sisters Kaylee & Keesha, my baby brother Kane and MYSELF!!!

We made this during the Coronavirus/Covid-19 lock down 2020.

Friday 15 May 2020

VEGETABLE & BACON HOCK SOUP

The other day Mum, Dad and I made a delicious veggie, bacon hock soup. We put in a veggie mix, an onion, pumpkin, potatoes, red capsicum, carrots, peas, and a bacon hock all into our slow cooker. We let it slow cook overnight, then we ate it the next day with cheesy bread buns.

Monday 11 May 2020

Should The Wst Coast Open?

In my opinion I think that the West Coast region should not open up at all! The way that COVID 19 is partly getting around is transmission and while it is Alert Level Three people are extending their bubbles to people. So that means you need to have trust with who you're preparing to expand your bubble with. As you don't want someone in your bubble that's popping everyone's bubble then coming back to your bubble, that kind of behaviour creates a massive chain link. For example if you have the virus and you see someone outside your bubble then that person would be around their people then their people would be around their people and so on... It all comes down to who has been seeing who and that could easily spread the virus around so many people. Even though moving down to alert level 2 and we’re allowed to see family it could still be dangerous if people don’t follow some of the restrictions. I love my family to bits but I don’t want to put their lives at risk with this virus around and I definitely don’t want to be the person that carries the virus around to everyone. The Coast is a caring, kind and loyal place where we are alway helping each other and that has been put to a stop (just the helping each other bit). So say if a family that had a crying baby, moaning children and stressed parents had a car that broke down on the side of the road, people would pull over and help them but since we’re in lockdown we can’t which isn’t that amazing. I would not open the Coast up and risk the innocent lives of our people and if we were to open the region up I would put big road blockers to block people from coming on to the Coast. They were some of the reasons I believe the Coast shouldn’t open even though I put one reason on the good side.

Thursday 30 April 2020

Covid 19

LOCKDOWN IN NEW ZEALAND 2020

On March the 23rd in 2020 our Prime Minister, Jacinda Adern said NZ had 24 hours until we were going to be at alert level 4 which meant that New Zealand would be in lockdown because of the virus COVID 19.

This virus originated from Wuhan, China. The Coronavirus was spread from animals and humans. It has spread all around the world, to 210 countries and territories too. It has been reported that there have been 2,994,958 confirmed cases of the virus. There have been 206,997 deaths in the world but NZ has had 19 deaths when I checked and hopefully there are NO MORE!

Since the lockdown started school and certain shops have been shut. Then only stores open are the essentials service are supermarkets, gas stations, doctors and pharmacies.

We’ve had to do our school work at home online everyday besides the weekends like normal. The ministry also sent out homeschooling kits to help parents know what to do with their kids.

Our class has morning meetings via video chat everyday to see what people have been up to and so we still stay in touch with people.

We have enjoyed being at home spending time together but we still miss some of our family and friends. We know this isn’t forever; it is just to keep the virus from getting out of control and it seems to be working. New Zealand has had low confirmed cases lately. The other day Jacinda Adern moved to alert level 3 but that still means we have to keep our bubbles small and have low contact with people.

Written by Maliah, Kaylee and help from Mum