Comparing Amazing drawings!

In Te Ngahere we have been learning how to work together nicely with our learning groups. So for our activity we had to get a piece of paper and get a few colors then go outside one by one looking at a picture with loads of doodles on. The winner is the group whose most accurate and what made it really hard was how the drawer couldn’t go outside to look at the picture. There was one drawer and 2 people who went outside to look at the paper, and then when they came back in they had to tell the drawer what to draw. 

In our 1st attempt what worked well was how Azure explained it really well to Tyler. What didn’t work well was how the person went outside and couldn’t touch the paper so that made it hard for the drawer to tell what the runner is saing for them to draw and where to draw it.

In our 2nd attempt what we changed was our group and we changed who was the

drawer and who was the person who went outside. What worked well this time was

Dezray did really well being the drawer and me and Azure were better at being the

person who goes outside. What didn’t work well was once again not being able to

touch the paper. 

Comparing amazing food webs!

 In Te Ngahere we have been learning about the New Zealand native bush food web we had to make a google drawing about it so here is my finished task and the teachers finished task. 

 My food web is different to the teachers one  because they have put a lot of arrows meaning that all the animals have at least 1-2 things to eat meaning my one has barely any so that means all the animals have barely anything to eat. Another difference is the colored arrows on theirs meaning I colored them for fun but their one is saying that they have a color per each animal. And the last difference is when the triangle bit at the end of the arrow is pointing to the possum the possum is going to eat the animal at the other end of it and same goes to the rest of the animals/plants. Have you ever made a food web?

  

The Ultra Amazing Ecosystem!

This week in Te Ngahere we have been learning about the ecosystem. For our activity we had to make a google doc and fill out three columns. The first column said what I know (prior knowledge). The second one said what I discovered (new information) And the last one said my new understandings (synthesis). 

I know what a decomposer is and I know what carbon dioxide is carbon dioxide is air and a example of a decomposer is fungi. I discovered that an ecosystem is made up of animals, plants and bacteria as well as the physical and chemical environment they live in. My new understandings about the ecosystem is if there was no decomposer,  consumer or a producer in the ecosystem then it wouldn’t work at all.

The hardest part of the learning was looking through all of the text to find the answers. And it was hard to actually make the ecosystem drawing.

 Have you ever learnt about the ecosystem? 

Sharing My Knowledge On Mutualism!

This week in Te Ngahere we have been learning about Mutualism. Our activity was to create a google drawing showing a mutualism. In my drawing I put in what I learnt about Mutualism and what I know.

I learnt that Mutualism is were birds and trees help each other. Firstly a bird eats of fruit and berrys of the tree then once it has swallowed the seed the seed coat comes of then when it poops out the seed the seed berries itself underground  then after a few weeks/days it grows into a tree, that information is how  birds help trees and trees help birds trees help birds by giving them food to eat. 

There is another way of the trees helping the birds it that birds makes their habitats in trees. It isn’t just birds and trees there is so many more ways like when big fishes open their mouths and all the little fishes come and eat of the bacteria of the big fishes teeth and the reward for the little fish is the food from the teeth.

Stunning Measurement DLO!

This week in Te Ngahere we have been learning about measurement. I learnt how to measure it in the appropriate places which is always keep it on a flat surface so it doesn’t break, always start from the zero or else it will get confusing and last of all make sure it is strate at all times. 

Then I learnt how to convert between mm and cm, 1 cm is 10 times bigger than 1 mm, 1 cm = 10 mm, 

3 cm = 30 , 5 cm = 50 mm and 1 m is 100 times bigger than 1 cm, 1 m = 100 cm

1m + 50 cm = 1.5m. And last of all I learnt how to estimate measuring accurately. 

I know two of my steps are 1 metre but if you stretch your legs out it is a metre two. For example if you were measuring a long mirror lay it down on the ground and then use two steps to measure it. 

The hardest part was to convert between mm and cm. Have you ever measured two of your steps before? I will embed my DLO.

The Worst Situation I've Ever Been In!

Last week in the Bay of Islands there was a Tsunami alert. It was so scary, first our class had to walk  up to higher ground lots of people were crying. After we were on higher ground I started to cry too I felt scared  and anxious because I was thinking that my parents were not safe and I was angry because I didn’t want to spend my whole day on a hill.

A few minutes  later of sitting on the hill I was allowed to call my parents and I asked them if they were safe and they said they  were  safe that made me feel so much better.  A few of my friends were gone because their parents took them to a better place. So that made me super bored and we were there for over 3 hours literally doing nothing all that I was doing was picking leaves of a tree and throwing them on the ground feeling bored. Below us were some rocks in the water and the tide was coming in so fast and eventually it was like the rocks weren't even there! We were doing a little quiz thing with Gina and the rest of Te Ngahere which was fun my parents finally came to pick me up and that made me a little happier. Then my parents took me up to high ground and after an hour or so me and my younger brother and my parents, took me to Kerikeri to pick up my older brother from high school. On the way back from Kerikeri we saw mini Tsunamis in the water then we drove home super fast luckily it wasn’t raining. 

Have you ever been in a Tsunami?