last post for Miss McNae

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Individual explanation writing

Mountains can be formed in many other ways. As a result of the earth’s tectonic plates colliding together many mountains were created.The Earth’s crust is made up by numerous tectonic plates that still move today as a result of geologic activity underneath the surface.

Mountain development refers to the geological methods that underlie the creation of mountains.These processes are associated with large-scale actions of the Earth’s crust (tectonic plates). Mountain formation is connected to plate tectonic,folding, faulting,volcanic activity,igneous intrusions and metamorphism, all parts of the orogenic process of mountain building.

When two plates collide, it forces one of the plates to go up and that creates a mountain.Mountains form over millions of years.Mountains belts streched for hundreds even thousands of kilometers, and their structures pass through deep into the earth.The understanding of specific design features in terms of underlying tectonic processes is called tectonic geologically young or continuing processes is called neotectonics.To understand mountains we must first know more.

In many mountain studies this is done: instead the rock designs inside the mountains are described in analyze with tacit assumption that whatever made the designs also made mountains this assumption  is not warranted. There are three types of mountains, volcanic, fold and block. A more detailed. Organisations useful on a local scale predates plate tectonic and adds to the above categories

Spelling 30-11-15

Try these spelling words:

1. Knowledge
2. attitude
3. absence
4. complexion
5. hurricane
6. luxuries
7. direction
8. agreeable

Explanation writing

Bees have been around much longer than you have. They are ancient. Bees have existed for millions of years but not just known as honey bees. They are scientifically known as Apis mellifera which means “Honey-carrying bee.” As Well as that it is the only insect that produces food eaten by man. Honey. Do you know how bees make honey or anything about bees? We didn’t until we learnt this.

All of the honey begins in a field, where worker honey bees extract nectar from the flowers.They store the honey in their honey sacs, then they returned to bee headquarters.The other worker bees chew the honey, breaking down the honeys complex sugars. The two sugars are called glucose and fructose. They deposit the nectar into the cells of the wax honey comb they’ve built. They fan it with their wings until most of the watery contents evaporates, in the warm air of the beehive. All that remains is thick and gooey honey.

If bees are taken by a jolt they will sting. The way a beekeeper overcomes this, is by spraying the hive with smoke from piping-hot burning pine needles. It’s a scented warning, to the bees, that foreigners are about to enter their colony. Inside, side by side, there are hanging frames each holding a honey comb. The beekeeper will now trick the colonies defenders, then replaces the hives cover with something that is called the “bee escape” that smells like cherries. But because this insect doesn’t like this smell most of them go to the bottom. It takes another warning spray then the beekeeper can escape with the honeycombs.

All descendants of the prolific grand of the pooba beedom the queen. 200 eggs, per day, will be laid by the queen bee creating the workforce needed to feed and protect the colony.Hundreds and thousands of bee could be in the hive at once.

inside the factory of honey they put the honey comb frames on what's called an uncapping machine like a razor, It slashes wax caps off the honey filled cells of the combs.They scrape off the leftovers manually.Then they set the frames on another machine called the honey extractor it spins the honey combs until all the honey is forced out of the cells.Afterwards they filter the honey to remove any pieces of waxed capping that slip through.Then the honey ready for bottling

Certain beehives contain shorter frames designed to produce honey that isn’t extracted from the honeycomb. Workers have the frames removed with a heated knife and cut the honeycomb into pieces. They seal the wax and eat it wax and all.The lining of the beeswax can be made into other things like lipsticks, furniture, polish and other products.

Here are some questions we asked Di Rensen for some facts and about her experience with Bees.!

What is the most difficult part of being a beekeeper?

The heavy lifting! When the bees have gathered their honey they put it in the Honey Box (known as a super) and it can weigh up to 25kg... It's very hard work taking honey boxes off.

What is your favourite part of your job?

Being outside in the sun and hanging out with my bees.

How many times have you been stung?

Ooh... Lots and lots!! I don't have much of a reaction to stings..unlike my husband who swells up really badly!

How many bees do you see everyday?

Close to a million.  There is roughly 60000 bees in a good hive.

Do you have a favourite fact about bees? If so what is it?

If the Queen dies, the bees can make a new Queen!

Around how much honey do you get a day?

The 'honey flow' is only about 6 weeks long.. But if it's a strong flow and a strong hive the bees can fill a super in a couple of days!

What about how you collect it?

We just take the honey boxes off the hive, make sure no bees are in them and bring them back to base to either go through the messy process of uncapping frames and spinning honey out or sending boxes away for someone else to do.

So as you see bees are incredible creatures. From worker bees that suck the nectar, to the Queen bee who makes the colony. So just remember that the excess honey that isn't scraped off by a machine is scraped off manually and that bees will sting if taken by surprise. We hope you know more about these creatures from the pooba beedom.

Spelling 23-11-15

Spelling words for this week

Try to spell them:

1. container
2. kangaroo
3. restaurant
4. ceaseless
5. annoyance
6. exhausted
7. marvellous
8. skeleton

How a sea turtle becomes an adult

Contents

Eggs Growing up Dangers in the sea Adults

Published introduction

Over 150 million years ago, along with the dinosaurs, there lived a species of sea turtles.  They have managed to survive longer than many other animals from the Jurassic period.  However, only 10% of sea turtles live to breeding age.  Now that humans have come along, only 1% of all sea turtles survive to breed the new generation of baby sea turtles.

Eggs

Published eggs

The mother sea turtle digs a nesting pit high on the beach and the eggs get carefully placed into the pit by the mother. The eggs are leathery and about the size of ping pong balls. The mother lays about 50-200 eggs. 20% will not hatch.The mother sea turtle lays about 1000 eggs a year.Sea turtles lay over 68,040kgs of eggs in the sand.

Growing up

Published Growing up

Once the eggs are laid and have hatched, they are about the size of a hand. They then have to squirm desperately towards the surf but along the way there are many dangers such as crabs, birds, rubbish and holes. By this point 50% have not survived. In the first few days of life, they will swim underneath a patch of floating seaweed.

Adults

Published Adults

2 sea turtles survive to breeding age without human interference. It takes 2 decades for them to be able to breed. Through the passage of years they become the size of a dinner table. The width that they are when they are adults, they don’t have to worry about getting eaten so much.

Danger in the sea

Published Dangers in the sea

When they are small, their predators will most likely to be fish , dolphins , sharks and seabirds when they come up to breathe. They will also experience challenging weather and rough unfortunate sea currents. When they are adults the predators are bigger, like, sharks as in, great whites and bull sharks. Not likely to happen, but they might get eaten by a killer whale.

Blurb

The sea turtles have been around since the late jurassic, roughly 150 000 000 million years ago and they have an extremely hard life. A sea turtle breed named the archelon is already extinct 1000 eggs a year, 800 hatch, 400 make it to the water, 200 progress toward adulthood, 20 survive to breeding age without human interference, 2 survive to breeding age with human interference.

Glossary

survive - continue to live or exist while in spite of danger of hardship squirm - wiggle or twist from side to side desperately - in a way that shows despair decades - 10 years late jurassic - dinosaur ages

Credits

Written by: Hunter, Archie, Sarah and Charlotte Edited by: Hunter, Archie, Sarah and Charlotte

spelling words 21-9-15

Spelling words

try spell them

1. pyjamas
2. licence
3. license
4. February
5. fibre
6. foreword
7. fulfil
8. government
9. guarantee 
10. hippopotumas