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Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Wordless Wednesday

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There aren’t many rules for this blog – mostly the usual ones: Every Wednesday, post a photo that speaks for itself (and you are the one to make that judgment!).
Post only photos that you have authority to use.
Include a link to this blog in your post - http://wordlesswednesdayagain.blogspot.com.
Leave the link to your Wordless Wednesday post below on Mr. Linky.
Visit other blogs that are posted, being sure to leave a comment.
Enjoy!

http://tinaspicstory.blogspot.de/2013/01/tinas-wordless-wednesday-70.html

Monday, July 8, 2013

My World/outdoor: muddy flats at Point Chevalier

I picked these shells in the muddy flats at Point Chevalier

beach. I didn't have a bag or container so I put them in my

pocket. Things I do for my students.

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http://asoutherndaydreamer.blogspot.com

Sunday, July 7, 2013

Sunday stills, Bugs

This looks like a New Zealand cockroach which is a protected insect.

http://sundaystills.wordpress.com/

The Next Challenge: Going Buggy

Saturday, July 6, 2013

New Zealand Endemic birds, Kea and Kakapo.

Typica Gardener

Last Friday, I was with a new entrance class, and Penny the teacher read a book about the Kea. , They once flew to the lowland and

dug chunks of meat on sheep's bacck. The farmers shot

them. Now they are protected birds and they are the only

mountain parrots. It is attracted by shiny things and keys.

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New Zealand is home to several highly peculiar endemic parrots, with three similar-looking species being of particular interest: the Kakapo Strigops habroptila, KeaNestor notabilis, and Kaka N. meridionalis.

The kakapo is the rarest parrot in the world. It’s flightless, it’s the world’s heaviest parrot, it's possibly the oldest living bird and it has a subsonic mating boom that can travel several kilometres.

By the middle of the 20th century the kakapo was a lost species, Because of Polynesian and European colonisation and the introduction of predators such as cats, rats, and stoats,the Kakapo was almost wiped out. The Kakapo is critically endangered; as of February 2010, there are 122 of them.

Hello,
VERY exciting news...we are just one of 2 schools in Auckland who have been invited to take part in the DOC Words on a Wing event.
2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity.
Last Thursday 5th August a giant Kakapo arrived at our school and will live in the school office for 2 weeks.
During that time we want as many children and parents and members of our school community to write a small message about Biodiversity onto a feather and attach it to the bird.
Our Year 5+ 6 children have done tons of learning around Biodiversity last term and for the other classes it can be a simple message along the lines of...

* I have a waste free lunch
* I walk/bike/scooter to school
* I recycle my paper
* I turn off the light when I leave the room
* I turn off the tap when I brush my teeth
Words on a Wing enables young people throughout New Zealand to write messages about biodiversity and attach them to a giant kākāpō, and is an opportunity to tell world leaders why biodiversity matters to them, what they want leaders to do about its loss, and what they are doing to enhance biodiversity.”

Friday, July 5, 2013

My books in librairies

One of the happiest thing for a writer is not when he/she

writes her book, or sells her first book. It is having it

available for everyone to borrow it from the library.

Praise God that my two books will be in circulation in Borneo

where I was Born and In New Zealand where I now live. It's

like I am not a bonafide writer.

"Diary of a Bereaved Mother " Non fiction, self help, bereavement, infancy death, Christian faith.

http://annkitsuetchin.blogspot.co.nz/2011/02/who-is-ann-kit-suet-chin.html
Third Edition, June 2012, 306 pages, NZ$35,