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Tena koutou Formal greeting to three or more people  Ko Tararuas te maunga My mountain is the tararuas  Ko Waiohine te awa My river is waiohine  Ko Pakeha te iwi My tribe is Pakeha  Ko Jasmine Yoi ahau My name is Jasmine Yoi  Tena Koutou Acknowledging the people who have passed on <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Tena Koutou <span style="font-size: 130%; color: rgb(78,8,170); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Acknowledging the people present <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Tena Koutou Katoa <span style="font-size: 130%; color: rgb(113,10,189); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Acknowledging the people to come

<span style="font-size: 130%; color: rgb(113,10,189); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> This term I was participating in the dance performance group.Our syndicate has created a production. In the production we have a group of dance, music and drama plus there are a few slideshow presentations in it as well! We have been practising for weeks! The dance I took part in was about Ranginui and Papatuanuku the sky father and earth mother. <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> I think that it will be really cool doing it because we each get a glow stick and it is on a candle lit stage. There will be torches with celophane as well!

Wow that was so cool performing in front of everybody. There was a competition for the best bag that shows how to help our waterways, George won and he got a box of Favourites and I think some books to do with our topics! Mr Field was at teh preformance and he exclaimed, "Woah I was just blown away about that". We got glow stocks on a candle lit syage and I got a blue one. My friend wasn't there and she was my partner at the front so I had to pull one of my tricks of a box!!!! On the 2nd of March 2009 Room 9 went up in a bus to Mount Holdsworth to do some stream testing and other activities about nature. Mount Holdsworth stream was is excellent with trees around the edge to strengthen banks and lots of aquatic animals in the stream. But at Papawai stream the river was polluted by cows pooing in the streams up ahead and all of the sediment! Mr Field had an expensive gadget to measure how polluted the water ways were. Mt Holdsworth was beautiful and clean but Papawai it was the complete opposite it went way above the number on the machine that it could not be read because the stream was too dirty and polluted!

This is a report on Mayfly’s. The main focuses in this report are: The looks of the Mayfly and the movement in the life cycle. Plus a whole bunch of facts you may never of known before you read this amazing report.

The Description and features The adult Mayfly’s have large triangular front wings with many cross veins held together over the thorax. The mayfly species have either cloudy(smokey), clear or patterned wings. Hind wings are much smaller than the front wings and may even be absent in a few (mostly small) species. The thorax and the abdomen of mayflies are bare and often shiny. Legs vary in size, with the front legs the longest and held forward when at rest. Body color varies with species, including yellow, green, white and black. Immature mayflies (naiads) have long legs and plate-like gills on the sides of the abdomen, they usually have three long thin tail projections (cerci) but a few species only have two. They have short antennae. Their body color may be green or brown but may vary by the food that is eaten. Flattened forms attach themselves to rocks or other substrates in streams.

Where does it live? Mayflies require clean, unpolluted water that generally has lots of oxygen. They are one of the first aquatic species to disappear when water pollution occurs. Mayflies live in flowing or still water.

The movement in the life cycle 1. Egg matures into a nymph. 2. The nymph lives on the bottom growing in stages called instars* until it matures. 3. The mature nymph (emerger) swims to the surface. 4. It floats along the surface until it's wings are dry enough to take flight. 5. The mayfly flies into the bushes, or trees along the river bank, where it sheds it's skin becoming an adult, (spinner), (imago). 6. The spinner leaves the trees, or bushes to begin the mating swarm. 7. The female spinner dips her eggs on the waters surface, and they fall to the streams bottom. After mating both male, and female spinners fall to the waters surface, and die.
 * Mayflies demonstrate an incomplete life cycle, because they don't undergo metamorphosis.

Males appear first beginning the mating ritual high above the water. They flutter and dance in an effort to attract a female. Soon females appear, diving into the swarm to pick out a mate. As mating progresses the swarm falls closer, and closer to the waters surface. Fluttering through the air males hold females in place with their claspers. With the mating process complete females, leave the males, and begin depositing their eggs on the water. Exhausted, males begin falling into the water. They struggle to stay alive for a time, holding their wings upright, but soon fall flat on surface. After depositing their eggs females soon follow. numerous times these periods of growth are called instars.
 * As invertebrates grow they shed their exoskeleton
 * Mayflies demonstrate an incomplete life cycle, because they don't undergo metamorphosis.

HUMAN ACTIVITY How has human activity affected the mauri of the stream and your animal? The sewerage of the humans has gone into the stream and disrupted the Mayflies which has made them leave their habitat!

What can we do as kaitiaiki to help your animal? Taking the sewerage pipes out of the streams and rivers( putting them else). So the Mayfly’s won’t leave their habitat!

CONCLUSION. So when you think of it Mayflies are pretty cool animals and next time you see one just look at the distinguishing features of it!