Day in the life of a Kereru By Tanisha

Tanisha

Paragraph 1- Introduction( introducing Ava ( the main character/main bird, its family, and waking up) Paragraph 2- Morning routine. Going hunting for breakfast as a family. Paragraph 3- Joining mum in taking care of chick siblings and lunch. Paragraph 4- siblings new normal routine Paragraph 5- Dinner and bedtime

Tanisha-

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Hi, my name is  Ava and I'm a kereru. Let me introduce myself a little bit more. I am sixteen years old. My species can be found all over New Zealand, mainly in places like forests, parks, reserves, and gardens. I live with my parents and three annoying chick siblings called, holly, Polly and Molly aged 3. WE live in a soft, snug, sheltered,  nest in an Auckland park that I think is called Cornwall park. I almost forgot to mention my twin named Evie, we do everything together. Now let me tell you what I usually get up to on a normal day. 

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I wake up at dawn and fluff up my colourful feathers. I know it’s time to wake when I feel the sun shining on my petite, vivid red eyes. It’s my turn to find today’s meals with Evie.  We take off from the nest and go around the park and nearby trees and plants to find food. We find fresh fruits, berries, and some buds and shoots from nearby flowers. After collecting the food, we head back to the nest. Mum and Dad were really happy with us, they said it’s the best food we’ve had this year since we only get good food in spring and summer. Those are our favourite seasons of the Year.

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After breakfast mum makes me and Evie get some really soft plants to make a small area in the nest to lay her egg.  Oh, whoopsies, I forgot to tell you, my mum is going to lay another egg. I wonder how many chicks she is going to have.  I hope the next baby mum is going to have is a boy, and he or she is the last chick in our family. After going to the boring meeting area, we go back home to have lunch and me and Evie go sit in the leafy branches and relax beside our lazy dad.  No offense to our dad but he is pretty lazy for a bird. I’ve seen you lazy humans through your windows sitting on a couch being really lazy and watch something called a TV. I sometimes wish I had a TV and lived in a luxurious house. It’s finally lunch, I’M starving. For Lunch, we’re pretty much having exactly what we had for breakfast.  

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I am at the moment, extremely unhappy since my mum put me and Evie in charge of feeding the siblings, taking them to the pond to clean them, and putting the triplets to bed. The main reason we put our younger siblings to bed is so that they won’t start whining when you humans come to Cornwall park and start making a whole lot of unwanted noise. And the horrible news for me and Evie is that we are in charge of the afternoon routine from now on since my mum is pregnant and it’s getting hard for her to take care of all of us and the nest. Finally, we reach the pond. 

Oh no, oh no, this is bad, there is a cat standing right there and us 5 have no protection. I yelled out HHHHHHEEELLLLLLLLLLLPPPP!!! Thank goodness my dad wasn’t so lazy for once and came to the rescue. He asked for one of us to help him defend the cat off and one of us to take care of our siblings. Since I am the strongest child in the family, I helped my dad and Evie looked after the chicks. Finally, with all our might, we managed to shoo away our greatest enemy. Mum was so happy that we had got the girls home before you humans got to Cornwall. You’re probably wondering why I said in the afternoon even though some people also come in the day time but mainly people come in the afternoon when the weather is just right.

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It’s time for dinner. YYYYYYYYYEEEEEEESSSSSSS!!!!!!!!! I was starving from all of the trouble and hard work. We’re having the same, fresh fruits, berries, some flower buds and shoots. After dinner, evie and I go out to sit on the trees and feel the afternoon breeze. It's not that cold, that's because we kereru have thick feathers to keep us warm. I’m getting hungry so i go pick a few berries with my mighty crimson coloured beak. Then I see something heading towards us. For a minute I thought it was some kind of dangerous bird, but no, it turned out to be our fellow kereru friend, Mike.  it turned out that he also came to get some dessert and we said that he could join us for dessert and a quick fly before bed. We get back to the nest and go straight to bed. YAWN!!! I’m soooo tired from my extremely tiring but fun and crazy day. Bye and good night, see ya tomorrow dear humans!

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Animal Description

How Diamond Rings are Made?

Tanisha

How are Diamond Rings made? 

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A diamond ring is a type of jewellery that features a diamond. Diamond rings come in many different shapes, sizes, and colours.

Paragraph 2- Different shapes and colours of rings

Some of the colours of diamonds are: siam, ruby, garnet, sun, Indian red, clitrine, peridot, olivine, emerald, sapphire, turquoise, cobalt, amethyst, violet, rose and many more. Shades of rings are, faint, very light, light, fancy light, fancy, fancy intense, fancy vivid and fancy deep. The shapes of different diamonds are round, cushion, princess, asscher, heart, pear, emerald, radiant, oval and marquise. 

Paragraph 3-How is the diamond formed

Diamonds are a mineral of carbon. They are naturally formed in the earth's mantle. Once they are fully formed, they are pushed to the earth’s surface by a volcano. After a volcanic eruption, diamonds of all different shapes are scattered on the ground.

Paragraph 4- How the ring is made 

Firstly, the ring is sketched out in the design that has been chosen. Next, a 3D generated model is made using a printer. It is then sent to a 3D printer for physical printing. Then a waxing machine is used to make a thin wax model, layer after layer. Two different types of waxes are used to make the model, a blue casting wax on the inside and a red support wax on the outside of the blue. It takes 18 hours for a ring model to print. The model is then put in a bath containing a cleaning solution. Then tweezers are used to get rid of the stubborn red wax.  The model is then attached with other ring models onto what is a tree for rings. They are attached so that many rings can be made all at once. The tree is then covered in plaster and is placed in a clome for many hours until the wax burns out. The metal needed to cover the ring is then chosen out and melted with fire. A temperature of 1064.444 degrees celsius is needed to melt gold and the temperature of 1768.333 degrees celsius needs to be reached to melt platinum. After the desired metal has been melted, the metal is poured into the mold and placed in cold water to cool down and harden. Then the casing is removed and each ring is carefully taken off the ring tree. The ring is then sent to be cleaned and get ready to be sold. Files are used to get rid of the sprue that connected the ring to the tree. The support bar is then separated from the ring and the ring is sanded to make sure there are no rough edges. Finally, a hammer is used to make sure the ring is the right size and shape.  After the ring has been shaped properly, it is sent for a pre-polish by a buffer. A green rouge polishing compound is added to help make the metal shiny. The ring is then rinsed in an ultrasonic bath made of mainly water and soap. At the store, the completed ring is received and the stones are picked in the correct size and shape. After that, the diamonds are carefully checked to make sure they are perfect. Once the correct stones are selected, the stones are ready to be placed onto the ring. A shellac wax is used to keep the ring in place. It is heated and shaped around the ring. The diamonds are then hammered into the right spots and are secured with prongs to make sure they stay in place. Lastly, the completed ring is sent for a final polish, making sure it shines like a star. 

Conclusion-

Now you know how a diamond ring is made. I hope that when you get a  diamond ring, you take special care of it because it takes a lot of work to make and costs a lot.

References-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7Sru_TTWGg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew2xiYH3EHM

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