My amazing museum reflection

Yesterday we went to a building that hold and exhibit historical, scientific, artistic or cultural interests. The thing I found most interesting was the weird and wonderful. Because there were a lot of information about insects and other animals. They also had a cool computer that lets you scan tiles for a heap load of information.Something I learnt was that there were so many rocks with weird names and different types of volcano eruptions. Also that when a volcano erupts and a air plane is in the air, the ash can destroy the plane because its hot. I can apply all the information I know about volcanoes to my inquiry learning by researching about the biggest volcano eruption in the world.

Hangarau Technologies

On Fridays our class go to tamaki college to learn digital technologies. Hangarau is the maori word for technoloy. When we are in class, we have to use the kiore and the papa patuhi to log into the rorohiko. On the rorohiko we have to use the ipurangi to log into the pae tukutuku for digital technologies. Every week we access the maramataka to know what tasks we will do. Sometimes our teacher will send us messages on our imera. Sometimes our teacher will give us dojo points on her waea pukoro, or she might also use her waea pukoro to take photos of us working. At school and home some of us use pur rorohiko ponaho to do our work.

www.maoridictionary.co.nz

Nga kupu hou-New Words

Rorohiko-Computer

Rorohiko ponaho-Laptop/Netbook

Kiore-Mouse

Waea Pukoro-Cellphone

Ipurangi-Internet

Imera-Email

Maramataka-Calendar

Papa Patuhi-Keyboard

Pae Tukutuku-Site

Resizing Images

Today I learnt about resizing images. Resizing images is important because it might look extra stretched and very very hideous. So people please learn to resize images properly.

Rocky shore recount

On Monday 26 May the year 8 ,7 and 6 visited Long Bay Regional Park again to learn about animals of the sea. In  the morning, cold and windy, we were separated into our year groups. Then we set off for Longbay. During our bus ride to Longbay we played games like yellow car , I dare you etc. We also sang songs and had very loud conversations.

Once we got to Longbay the bus driver got confused about where to drop us off. She finally figured out where to drop us off. We then met with Sarah at the hut. She then assigned each year group to a specific ranger. The year 6 were assigned to Maureen , the year 7 were assigned to James and the year 8 , adventurous and inspired, were assigned to Sarah.

Sarah gave us booklets with information about what we would find at the sea shores and in the sea. She also gave us trays so we could fill it with amazing things we found. When we got to the sea shore we found alot of things like kina, sea stars, sea snails, sea slugs, crabs (dead and alive) , fish ect.  We also found sea anemone that felt slimy and jello like. After that activity we went back to the hut had a break and ate some food.

Later on we moved onto our second activity which was finding biodiversity species at the

high tide. Before we got to the because Sarah gave us a bucket each so that we can fill it with things that we found. While we walked along the beach we found a dead jellyfish, amazing and daunting, covered in sand. We tried to put it into the bucket but we were

afraid that it still might have stinging cells so we moved on. We found beautiful shells (some that are still alive), sponges, seaweed ect. We found another jellyfish, smart and invisible, that was still alive. We took pictures and we also could see it breathing. We also discovered sand hoppers, large and alive, jumping everywhere.

When we walked back to the hut we tipped out our bucket and identified all the things we found. We identified types of sponges, crustacean, echinoderms, mollusc ect. We also had to form our bodies into a starfish, Uni-valves and bi-valves. After that we had our toilet break lined up and said thank you to the rangers for teaching us so many skills and how to identify sea creatures. We hopped onto our bus and drove back to school. During our bus ride back to school we played impersonations. You have to dare someone to impersonate someone. When we got back to school everyone was tired so we all went home. I have learnt alot from experiencing this trip. To me it was an amazing adventure at the beach.

Fishing quota's reading task

1. How are commercial quota's different from recreational quota's? Commercial fishers are owned only by New Zealand companies and when they fish they sell it to fish shops ect. Recreational fishers are not allowed to sell anything they catch, food for their family’s or they just fish for fun.
   
   

In New Zealand we have quota’s for the number of fish people can catch. These are a positive thing because:

• People won’t chase away the fish
• There would be more fish and they won’t become exstinct`
• Sea animals won’t become extinct

♡ Basket ball ♡

For the past few weeks we have had a fantastic time learning how to play basket ball and the rules. I learnt that you have to dribble the ball while running to shoot the hoop. I also learnt that when you start the game it’s a jump ball. The rules are simple don’t make a travel ( running with the ball and not dribbling), no contact and many other rules (that I don’t remember :P ). I recon the most difficult thing to learn was to spin the ball on you’r finger. The I liked the most ( actually loved :x ) was at the end how we played a actual basket ball game.

Maths:- Unit measurements

WALT:- use body parts as a unit of measurement

When I measured my maths books the length was 2 fingers and the width was 3 fingers.