Month: February 2021

Daniel and Gabriella have made Arctic dioramas. Daniel built a vehicle that will work in the Arctic, to go into his diorama.  Daniel took the photos of the dioramas.

Here is a picture from our kitchen wall. I don’t know what they are eating. Do you know? thank you

I’ve re-written the paragraph about Arctic Animals and how climate change is affecting them.

Many different living animals or plants respond differently to climate change. Some animals react quickly and change things such as behaviour. Others change things they do slowly to cope with the changes. Animals that live in the Arctic have already got to cope with difficult weather so climate change problems make it extra difficult for them. Climate change is making different animals move to areas of the arctic they wouldn’t usually live. This affects the animals that are already living there as they aren’t used to sharing their home with those animals.

The amount of birds in the Arctic is getting less each day because of climate change. Birds go to the Arctic to nest because there aren’t many predators. However now that the ice is melting and there’s more green land the number of predators is going up and birds are having their eggs stolen more often. Birds are migrating to the Arctic earlier because of temperature change.

The change in temperature is making icy layers in the snow which makes it hard for reindeer to feed. This means they will starve and more will die.

You can only find polar bears in the Arctic. This means climate change can make them go extinct. Every part of a polar bear’s life has been affected. They hunt on the sea ice for seals and this is melting, making polar bears go hungry. Changes in the snow changes how they can breed. Polar bears are at the biggest risk from all these changes.

Hi Everybody,

Today I have read the word document about Barnacle Geese,

here are my quiz answers:

1.  They spend the summer in Svalbard.
2. 1,800miles
3.  300 birds.
4.  2kg
5.  Branta leucopsis.
6.  Bear island.
7. 36 hours.
8.  Before climate change geese laid there eggs on the ground on islands now they lay there eggs on cliffs so polar bears don’t get them.
9. 4 Months.
10. By putting coloured darvic rings on some individuals to show how far they fly each year.

By Joe 🦆😀

 

I have been doing  epic and I got the quiz all right.It was about horses.

Holywood   vs   Ny Alesund!!!!!!

We are back and we are doing an IDL arctic project on what is different between Holywood and Ny Alesund.

Holywood and Ny Aselund both have a post office but the only thing that doesn’t look similure is the way it looked and the way it looks now, the difference between Holywood and Ny Aselund is that the houses are made out of wood and the walls here at Holywood are sometimes made out of wood but mainly made out of stone or brick. Another difference  is that they have an arctic research station. If the arctic was here would we have an arctic research station?  the climate here is usually -1 but here but the climate there in February and march is normally -9 to -16, April is -6 to -13, may is 0 to -5. At Ny Aselund, in summer the sun never sets and in winter the sun never rises. When you are looking at some of the pictures they look fabulous and the landscape they have is stunning, the view, looking out a window into the mountains is amazing. Holywood landscape is in the middle for me and the view in some places, not really good some other may be amazing you might take a picture. Which place do you prefer? Which place would you stay?

by Oliver

 

Hi all, Caspian here!

Today I did some facts about woodpeckers and a business card for the play Julius Caesar. I also highlighted in my book how I would like t change the story. I decided to make Julius listen to his wife and not go out to get murdered. Also I did some woodpecker facts and here they are!

1. They have strong bills for pecking out nests in trees.
2. They have very long tongues.
3. Their brain is small to avoid brain damage from pecking.
4. Woodpecker skulls inspired bike helmets.
5. They can peck 30 times per second.
6. They close their eyes when pecking to avoid debris.
7. Their nose is specially designed to avoid debris getting in it.
8. They cannot be found in Australia.
9. The imperial woodpecker is extinct.
10. 32 woodpecker species are found in India.
11. I saw a red crested woodpecker in the woods.

I also have some more god facts for you!

1. Apollo was the god of music, light and healing.
2. Aurora was the goddess of the dawn.
3. Bellona was the goddess of war.
4. Cupid was the god of love.
5. Vulcan was the god of fire and blacksmiths.

Rom-Halan! (Vulcan for goodbye) I am running out of aliens to translate. This is very bad.