Te Reo Moari.

In Te Ngahere someone named Wheaea Lisa came to our class to teach us to say things around the classroom in Te Reo Māori. Most of them we already knew but there was some new ones too. Then after we learnt all of them we played a little game of bingo or in Te Reo called Whare Whare.

Ukulele Lessons.

In Paihia School we have been taking ukulele lessons. We will be going to these lessons every Wednesday until week five in the whare, and hopefully by week five we can rock on with the ukulele. We learnt how to make the ukulele sound change on the same string and we all it a little strum with the strings all together and it sounded amazing. The thing I did good at was doing it in sequence, the thing I could of done better was pay more attention to to the rhythm she told us to do. I can’t wait until next Wednesday.

Maramaku Sports Day.

A group good of people got chosen to go to Maramaku sports day.
We could play rugby or net ball, I chose rugby. We won all of them except 1.
They were hard, it seemed like they have been practising a lot.
The score was 6-7, and that was the only game I scored a try.
We could of made it into the finles but we just needed 1 more point.
Even though we didn’t get into the finals we all still had fun.

Here is some photos.

Animation

In Te Ngahere we have been learning about food chains. The first food chain we learnt about was a marine one. That marine one is, Kelp uses sunlight to get energy, Kina eat kelp to get energy, Crayfish eat Kina, Carpet Sharks eat Crayfish, and other Sharks eat carpet Sharks. So even if you are the toughest shark in the world, you would still need kelp to help you get energy.

After that I got to pick my own food chain and made a animation about it. Making the animation was hard it took me about two weeks to make it.

The thing I did well was getting the food chain right because, with some people they didn't get a food chain, they got a life cycle. That happened to me the first time I tried to get a food chain. It was a life cycle. The thing I enjoyed was doing the impression for my main character. The thing I could of done better is doing it quicker because I finished on the last day.

Hope you enjoyed it.

Bay Bush Action

Last week in Te Ngahere we had visitors called Stella and Brad from the Bay of Island Bay Bush Action group. They came to our class to talk about saving the Ngahere, native birds and animals. They showed us a kiwi that was killed by a dog, but it did not look like it was killed by a dog, it looked fine. Stella and Brad also let us pet a stuffed possum and see a stuffed hedgehog. They also gave us some traps so we could set them around our school, to make our school the first pests free school in Northland.

Here is a photo.

Descriptive Writing

In Te Ngahere  (our class) we have been learning about te Ngahere (the bush).  We had to write a piece of descriptive writing called a moment in time. We had to describe a picture of te Ngahere. My writing is only a draft so I will blog post the final copy in the future. The thing I think I did well was putting all of the descriptive language in. The thing I could do better next time is finish it more quickly.


Here is my writing.

A moment in time.

Ferns waving in the wind, and an old Rimu tree taking its last breath. The wind echoing through the mountains. Fantails hoping to each tree branch like a frog trying to catch a fly. Kiwis clocking in their burrows waiting for the night sky to awaken.

Explanation

In Te Ngahere we have been learning to write a explanation about a healthy ecosystems. In our writing we had to explain what a producer, consumer and decomposer, dose is and eat’s. We also said what the balance of an ecosystem was and what would happen if it became unbalanced.



Here is my explanation.

What Makes A Healthy Ecosystem?

An ecosystem is made up of organic and in-organic matter (living and non-living things), a healthy ecosystem needs producers, decomposers and consumers. If an ecosystem gets tampered with it will break and there will be a consequence.

A Producer is a plant, a Producer gets the energy from the sunlight, and when the consumer eats them they get the energy. Producers make their own food by air water and sunlight, that cycle is called photosynthesis.

A Consumer eats the producers which is plants like kelp, trees and sometimes they eat other consumers to survive. A consumer's role in the ecosystem is to eat producers so they don’t get out of control.

A Decomposer is a scavengers that break down dead plants and animals. Decomposers are also bacteria.

An ecosystem is really fragile, so if one ecosystem is unbalanced like we take all the food there will be a consequence. If we eat all the kina the crayfish will die, then the carpet sharks will die, then other sharks will die, and there will be too much kelp in the ocean. So thats what will happen if an ecosystem becomes unbalanced.