My speech - my three favorite animals

 Hello everyone my name is Zac and I’m going to be speaking to you today about three of my favorite animals. 

First of all my three favorite animals are Alpacas, Axolotls and Tigers. 

Let's start off with Alpacas. If you didn’t know already I have two Alpacas and their names are Bryan and Alfie. Any way Alpacas are kind of like a llama but Alpacas have spear shaped ears, alpacas also weigh around 70kg and produce much finer wool.

On the other hand Llamas have banana shaped ears and Llamas can get as heavy as 180kg! Also Llamas generally do not have as much wool on their head and face as Alpacas do. The scientific name for an Alpaca is a Vicoonia. 

Next up is the Axolotl. The Axolotl is also known as the Mexican walking fish. Axolotls are an amphibian that means it is a cold blooded animal that has gills to breathe underwater and lungs to breathe on land. Axolotls are found exclusively in lake Socheemillkoh. 

Lastly, let me tell you about Tigers. Wild Tigers live in Asia. But there are tigers such as the Siberin tiger that live in different parts of the world. The scientific name for the Tiger is Panthera. Tigers are the largest wild cat in the world Adult Tigers can weigh up to 363Kg. Tigers are good swimmers unlike most members of the cat family, they like water and often cool off in pools or streams. Did you know a Tiger's roar can be heard as far as 3Km away. And my last fact at full speed Tigers can reach up to 65km/h. 

Thank you for listening to my speech. I hope you learnt something about these three animals. This is Zac Gallant over and out. 

flowers

                                                                               flowers

To make flowers grow they need sun,water and air.I will tell you about the facts of flowers like what flowers grow in winter and more.What Flowers Can Grow in winter? Flower that can grow in winter are Snapdragons, Cornflowers, Violas (also known as baby pansy),Pansies and Camellia And many more. How do flowers help the planet? To most humans, flowers are seen as objects to decorate homes, gardens, bodies, and more. However, flowers have a much more important purpose than decorating. Flowers are the part of plants that make seeds which in turn make new plants. In order to make a seed, pollen from one flower has to combine with the eggs from another flower; this is called pollination. Flowers are highly adapted to attract their specific pollinators such as bees, flies, moths, hummingbirds, and bats just to name a few. This is why flowers are brightly colored and highly scented making them the beautiful creations that they are. The facts about flowers are that without them, we would not have food, medicines, dyes. There are so many interesting facts about flowers! Plants may not have feelings but they are indeed alive and have been described as sentient life forms. Plants can sense water, light, and gravity — they can even defend themselves and send signals to other plants to warn that danger is here, or near. And that's what I got folks.

Poetry

Here's my poem without sounds

Yellow feels soft like silk
It sounds like bees buzzing
merrily going about their work in the garden
Yellow is buttered popcorn
Fresh, hot, buttery

Blue makes me sad
and smells like salty sea water
it sounds like water drops fitting the pavement

Then purple takes over
I feel wild
I smell tropical fruit
and hear popping balloons

Pink
I feel so happy
it's so calm and peaceful
bubblegum smells waft in the air

but then I feel green
so lonely
it's quiet
and smells like freshly cut grass

Black arrives
I'm angry and
I don't'' wanna hear it!
Black is ink
strong, sticky chemical
it's sound is like a thunderstorm
lighting up the sky
booming in the distance

my color poem and Typatone

This is my color poem. I used senses to describe color and then put it in Typatone to get sound.

Lockdown artwork #2

Lockdown Highlights

Lockdown Story - Zac Gallant Year 7

We’ve been learning at home since COVID-19 made school close. We live on a farm so we’ve got way more fun things to do than people who live in town. Dad built us a sled that gets towed behind the motorbike so we’ve been riding in it. We have a creek near our house that we’ve been kayaking in with our dog Belle in the kayak. I was flying my kite on a windy day and I got too close to the powerline and it got stuck in it. We had to ring the power people who came and got it out but now it is destroyed so I can’t fly it anymore. We went camping up the back on our farm for a night - we cooked our tea on a campfire. We had sausages and pasta and potatoes and corn cooked in the fire then we had marshmallows squashed between biscuits and hot chocolate for pudding.  I burnt my hand on a hot coal which hurt lots. We slept in tents and our dog Belle slept outside our tent. We’ve been doing school at home - we use our chromebooks to go onto our class work site and our teacher puts work on there for us. We go on meets with our class and we play learning games too. One of the activities we have done is to make a video of a news report - I did a news report about a sighting of a gnome in our area. We shared the videos on our blog. Mum has also been giving us scavenger hunt challenges around the farm. We have to get photos of a list of things and there are prizes for the quickest and best photos.

Family of Facts