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The Summer Learning Journey has challenged me to list what my family does to keep healthy, here (below) is what my family does to keep healthy . . . 

1. Try and get plenty of sleep every night. 

2. Exercise every day - Running, Biking etc.

3. Eating many fruits and vegetables a day from our garden/lifestyle block. 

4. Drink water (not sugary drinks)

5. We make our own meals from the garden and we make homemade jams, syrups, pasta etc (hardly anything comes from the supermarket) 

What does your family/you do to keep healthy??? 

image attribution - https://www.deannaminich.com/colors-of-fruits-and-vegetables/

64 Grams!!!!!

Today my Nan was out in her garden picking summer fruits and strawberries. She was just going along the rows of strawberries when . . . she pulled back a leaf and there lays a MASSIVE strawberry! Nan went into her kitchen and weighed it, in the end it weighed 64 grams it is the biggest strawberry I have ever seen (and the reddest!!!) Have you ever found a strawberry in your garden that big??? Anyway, when my Nan came to show me she told me about about the town of Motu (where we live) and all about the history of Motu's strawberries. And AMAZINGLY they had massive strawberries like the one she found. 

Climate School Strike!

Today the Summer Learning Journey programme challenged me to list 3 facts about climate change, getting the information from a website called school strike 4 climate. Here is the link to check it out -https://www.schoolstrike4climate.com/about


Here are my facts that I learnt from this website . . . 

1. These students from Australia are trying to stop people, the world and large mining company's from mining coal, oil and gas related projects.
2. Helping the planet be 100% renewable energy generation & exports by 2030.
3. Fund a just transition & job creation for all fossil-fuel workers & communities so that the world vehicles are EV's (Electric vehicles). 
Two Bonus Facts 
1. Planting trees can help with climate change making earth have more rain fall and less hot and dry weather. 
2. Polar bears are dying because of climate change. There ice is melting and they are losing land.

Here I have helped the environment by planting more plants in the garden . . . 

What do you do to help the environment in your community????

A Bit Dis-Formed

Our goat Clover had her baby yesterday but, she had it too early and it was a little dis - formed. The baby was white with a big brown patch, it was a beautiful skinned goat but the big problem was it
was . . . . BLIND!!! We just couldn't keep a blind goat because when it was older it would be picked on by the older goats for being weak, it would walk into electric fences, walls and other objects because it couldn't see them. By the 1st to 2nd hour the baby still wasn't walking or standing which is a sign that they are way to weak because normally baby goats will stand with the first couple of minutes after birth. The baby was also really cold and it was shivering! The big reason for this baby being dis - formed was because the mother had a double tit, which means that it has 2 tits on one side and one on the other, so technically her udder is dis-formed making it a high possibility of the baby to be dis-formed. We decided to put it out of it's misery by shooting it with the gun, before it died Mum held out 2 hands she said beans in this hand and tomatoes in this hand, the baby flopped to one side because it was too weak to stand it flopped and it choose the beans hand so after Dad killed it, Mum and I dug a garden bed and buried the baby in the garden and planted the beans on top. We called the goat Bean Patch because it had a big patch on it's skin and we planted beans on top of it in the garden. Each goat has there own plant and garden. It was very sad, but we had put it out of it's misery. (P.S - Pics coming soon)