My Speech

How Logging was affected by Lock down

Hi, today I wish to talk about how COVID-19 has affected many industries around New Zealand. Now I can't go into them all but I have chosen logging as an example. Logging was affected because other countries were in lock down and they stopped buying our logs.  This caused many people to lose their incomes.

At the moment prices on logs per ton is the highest they have ever been on record; $193 per ton for pruned logs. The price is lower on logs that haven't been pruned because of the knots in it, this is because knots in the wood make the wood weaker. Per ton for a log that isn't pruned it is worth at the moment $158. These record prices are because China badly wants our logs and the countries they normally buy them off are now in lock down.

China went into lock down before everyone else and that is where New Zealand sends our logs. Up our road for example, there was a forest being cut down. Approximately 18 men had to stop work this meant they never received wages, That meant their families had no money coming into their homes. The communities in the far north have been giving out food parcels to families who are struggling with money and not been able to afford food.

This was during level four lock down. As soon as level three started the men were allowed to start working again, this was made possible because they all work separately in big 40 ton machines which gives them good physical distancing meaning they could stay healthy and avoid the virus.  

 

China could only stay shut down for so long before they were desperate for logs again. And when they were, there was a massive demand of four logs and suddenly there was a shortage of trucks and truck drivers. When there is high demand for something and not much of the product, the price goes up. 

Long story short we are now at level one and normal working conditions apply to the men in the logging industry. They are now working very hard as our Logs can now be exported out of our country. We hope this continues for a long time as they have had a pretty tough time.

Hopefully I have explained to you how the corona virus had a massive impact on the logging industry and our communities. If  the lock down had gone much longer, the welfare of our people would have suffered  more, due to the workers having no income and families not being able to pay their bills and buy food. The logs would have stayed stockpiled and been worth nothing. Thanks for listening to my speech

17 / 5 / 2020

17 / 5 / 20

This Morning when i got up I milked the cow, moved the cows and gave them a new salt block. Kyra was coming back today from Auckland late. So I went and moved her guinea pigs. After morning tea I went on the digger and started to flatten the piles of sand out in the arena. When I was finished i realised that I needed a lot more sand. I got dad to come and do some flattening with the blade of the digger 4 me and I got a ride in the bucket. When we were finished we went over to a blocked culvert and dug it out with the digger. There was surprisingly a lot of water in the drain. When we were finished we walked along it and we found a leek in the pipe. 

I went over to feed kyras cats and move the guinea pigs again and Millan came with me and we found a guinea pig almost dead. It had no Hair on its back like it had x-mar. We put it in some wool to keep it warm and we put it inside their house so that the cats couldn't get at it.

Then Taz and Cooper came over on their motorbikes to ride with Millan. I went and put the cover on the storm and went for a quick ride on toot with a haulter that was two small so it was a bit hard but she did alright. I went to chuck on the guinea pig and it was sadly dead…  Mum came back and we had a lamb roast for dinner and roast potatoes and kumara.

Pastel Art work

W.A.L.T... Blending and shading using oil pastel media.

This week we did pastel art and our Teacher Mr. Packard sent us what we needed to do on Hapara, there was videos and links to show us how to do it. The whole class did the same work. 

We had to blend the pastel colours together to make it look more realistic we also had to draw a moon. After that we had to draw a silhouette. Some people did red or orange for the background but instead I decided to do blue.

Next time I do blending pastel art I will use real oil pastel not just normal pastel, so it makes the blending easier. 
How do you think that I could improve my work?

This google form is to get a idea of what food we are going to sell at our market day. please do the google form. the money that we make is going towards our end of year trip.... please do the form bellow.

Is it FAKE or REAL?

W.A.L.T... tell the difference between fake and real emails IE fishing.

I worked on a fake or real slide on Thursday in a cyber smart lesson with Donna Yates a teacher that works for the Manaiakalani program. Our work this Thursday was reading emails and seeing if they are fake or real.

We had to get into partners so my partner was Hinewai. On the slide show we worked on we did one slide each. We had to chose if the emails was fake or real then we had to write a description whether it was fake or real. After that we submitted it onto Hapara so that the teacher can look at it and mark it.

I thought that this activity was better than the one that we did in some of the other activity's we do on the other weeks. If I did this again I would make the descriptions a bit more interesting and maybe add some pictures.

Are you participating in the Manaiakalani program? If you do please comment and tell me what you are learning.
 

Tessellations

W.A.L.T... Do a Tessellation that is effective.

We were creating a piece of art that is tessellation I copied this pattern of a video. The video told us hoe to do a tessellation.

1. get a A5 piece of paper.
2. Scissors
3. Tape 
4. Pencil
5. Cut out a shape on the long side of the rectangle and tape it exactly on the side parallel to where you cut out the shape.
6. Do the same thing to the short side
7. Trace the shape that you did onto a piece of paper
8. then you are done

I enjoyed doing this because I new what to do. I did this in year 6 so it was easy for me to do.

Next time I think that I will make the patterns more consistent. and a little bit more bolder patterns

if you have ever done tessellations please comment

Maths Angles Types. Line. Point

W.A.L.T... Angle types calculate on a straight line and point.

I enjoyed doing this learning because I learnt what the names of all of the angles are. I also learned what degrees the angle are.

Next time I will explain all of the slides with the same amount of in not one with a lot and some with not much.

If you have done angles on a point or angles on a line?
please comment...