Biggest Parrot

There has been a recovery of fossils from a bird that was still alive 19 million years ago. Scientists have recognised the parrot fossils and said they belong to the "Heracles inexpectatus" bird itself.

The fossils were found in a place in Otago where all the other fossils of mysterious birds are at.

Kayaking!

Today my class and I, had a great day at Vector Wero Whitewater Park. Same place where we did rafting, but this time we did kayaking.

The instructors gave us guidance about how and what to do while in the water on our kayaks. When they were done we had a chance to experience it for ourselves. We all got suited up and put on our life jackets and helmet then headed out on the water to catch up with our instructors.

During the time we got to get used to moving the paddle. I accidentally tipped the kayak and into the water I went... It was freezing until I arrived at shore and there it became warmer. I was then welcomed with my kayak. I hopped into my kayak and carried on. I had fun and hopefully my classmates had fun too. I do hope we can go back sometime in the future. 

NZ Has Started To Save Yellow - Eyed Penguins

There has been an announcement by the Minister Eugenie Sage at the Yellow - Eyed Penguin annual symposium. The announcement was about how the breeding of the Yellow - Eyed Penguins have not been breeding so well.

Some people are starting to say that it's important to look after and protect these penguins. Reason being, they are the birds on our $5 dollar note making them more significant than others.

Stop Energy Drinks

A Supermarket called Countdown has started to make an age restriction for energy drinks. So that means you have to be a certain age to buy energy drinks. From early September, people will have to be over 16 to buy energy drinks. Reason being is because there is just to much sugar and caffeine inside the drinks. Making kids go crazy.

Energy drinks are surely going to be missed by those who drink them. So if you are younger than 16, enjoy energy drinks while you can.

Lake Tekapo Up For A Name Change

One of the lakes in New Zealand, Lake Tekapo, is currently waiting to have a name change. Reason being, we have been spelling it wrong the whole time! We say and spell it "Lake Tekapo" when it is actually Lake Takapo.

It was confirmed by the mayor that it currently has no meaning or effect, so in that case the community supports a change to the name. The people of the community have said that it's the computer's fault for spelling Lake Takapo without the little maron.

In My Holidays

During the holidays I went to watch a movie in the City Cinemas. The movie we watched was Spiderman - Far From Home. It was a fun movie, I went with Kain and Jaden. It was a cool movie and it had the supervillain, Mysterio.

We were so busy watching the movie that we didn't realise what the time was. When we came out of the movie it was past 10 o'clock. Then we started running towards the train before the trains stopped running.

Then we arrived back at Glen Innes.

Cleaning Up Tamaki Estuary

Yesterday the whole school went on a field trip down to Dunkirk. We went down there because we were cleaning up the rubbish around our area. We found a bunch of rubbish and I was shocked at how much trash there was.

It was all around the field, in between rocks and hiding inside some bushes. Sadly we weren't able to pick it all up, but we managed to pick up all the trash we saw. We went with some guests from the Auckland Zoo and they talked about a lot of things.

Towards the end we had a chance to play on the playground. All the students were playing and it was crowded. Most of the students were rushing towards the slides and swings. I enjoyed cleaning up our area.