Dinosaur Eggs

LI: To understand how scientists know so much about dinosaurs. 

Our challenge was to create a Google Draw that shows clearly labelled examples of each fossil type. Me and my buddys collabarated together to make this egg, the ingredients we used were salt, water, flower and our dinosaur, what was really fun was hatching the egg and the making process of it. Even if we had waited for days .. and days, it was so worth it and i would deffenitely do this again! I had even enojoyed the making process of the AI image, for the image me and my partners had used adobe express to edit up our picture to give it a jurassic kind of vibe!

Palaeontologist

Our challenge was to create a 50 word statement that tells us what paleontology is and what palaontologists do.We found out palaeontologist are types of scientist who studys the history of the past life.

I found this task really challenging because research shows therye are several types of paleontologist so the challenging part was trying to find the right one to research about.

 

Fossils

LI: To understand how scientists know so much about dinosaurs.

Our challenge was to create a Google Draw that shows clearly labelled  examples of each fossil type. We worked together in groups of 3’s or 2’s so that we can learn with and from eachother. we discovered 2 types of fossils “Body fossils” and “Trace fossils” easiest way to remember is by remembering that Trace fossils is footprints, tunnels and coprolites… Body fossils are like fossilized living beings (bones) and so on.Something I found interesting was learning about dinosaur fossils and the different types of fossils there are out in the world!

 

Marry Anning

Before we took part in our own dinosaur dig LS2 were challenged to capture Mary Anning story, a pioneering fossil hunter and paleontologist during the early 19th century. Something I learnt was that Mary Anning was the first to complete the skeleton of a Plesiosaurus and an Ichthyosaurus at the age for 23!.

Cinquain Volcano poem .

LI: To write a multi verse cinquain poem that describes the journey of a sleeping maunga that erupts

For more our learning linking into Inquiry we have been taught what cinquain poems are . What is a conquain poem? A cinquain poem has 5 lines and in these 5 lines each and everyone of them has a different purpose, the first line which is the top line always has to be a noun which is a name or something you can touch. Line 2 needs 2 adjectives and only 2 adjectives that describe the word in the first line which should be a noun. The middle line has to have 3 verbs that most typically end in a ‘ing’ but can also end with a ‘ly’ too, these words are supposed to describe what your noun does and what are there most common actions that they do. Line 4 is a noun phrase which is a group of words (not a sentence) that go together to describe the noun, and last but not least we have Line 5 this line is a synonym, to the first line, synonym is a word with a similar meaning to the noun! This was a cool way to adventure into our topic in a different way, with what is not normal on a regular basis !

Rounding Numbers

Last week for maths group 4 has been learning how to round numbers to tens , tenths , hundreds and thousands , for a better understanding we have this poem to remind us how rounding numbers work! the poem goes like this ,

 Look at your number.. 

4 or less ignore the rest.

5 or more add 1 more.

here is group 4 DLO on how to round! .

Volcano Infographic

This term LS2 has been doing some reasearch about “Earths fiery giants” aka volcanos , for this assignment we worked in pair so we could learn how to learn with and from eachother , this lead us to making posters about the four main types of volcanos. cinder cones, composite volcanoes, shield volcanoes, and lava domes.

Next we picked out a image that has the same type of volcano – eg; mauna loa is a sheild volcano ) so then we would explain about sheild volcano and about mauna loa volcano!.

I enjoyed this task because i get to learn more about volcanoes!

  • Results!

Why Maungarei sleeps..

In the times gone by , there was  a cruel and furious volcano named..Maungarei. She was one of those bad tempered, And brutal middle children who never got the experiance of love She had enough and just wanted to be normal like the others.Maungarei thought about how her cruel family treated her and had enough of this. Suddenly her anger grew bigger and bigger, it was like she couldn’t control her emotions anymore.

Maungarei  started to rumble and groan, The ground started to shake roughly creating an intense earthquake, villagers were screaming, everyone was like cats and dogs running in all directions. Maungarei started to feel stronger and powerful than ever before , taking advantage of the villagers.  Maungarei’s siblings saw a side of Maungarei they had never seen before Maungareis siblings decided it was to make a change. 

“Im sorry , i really didn’t mean it” Statted Maungarei apologetically

Maungarei was grown enough to realise villagers thought she was a very fussy volcano. The villagers and the other Maunga were trembling with fear, families trying to clear their buildings and others just having no clue what was happening Maungarei then felt something she had never felt before.., It was then Maungarei started to regret her choices and regretted She tried really hard to control her raging anger Volcanic ash and fuming rocks started bursting out and onto the villages and towns. Maungarei then started to listen to the chaotic screaming and watch villagers run around in fear in their eyes..

“Where are you all going! , yous only see the bad in me..give me a chance..please!” Maungarei cried.

Maungarei slowly started to calm down, earthquakes started to become lower, And the villages and towns no longer had chaos, Maungarei parents quickly and calmly ran up to her and apologized for causing her to feel that she was the lonely middle child and she could of been payed more attention,her siblings did the same with a very guilty expression on there face, for causing Maungarei trouble and rudely reminding her of her role in a mean way on purpose, Maungarei didn’t really want to forgive them yet for how much cause they gave her, But she did. This had made Maungarei behave and taught her a lesson from now on to learn which sorts of behaviour work well and which don’t, and to improve yourself without regretting your decisions. It was then and now Maungarei had made her choice in order to prove herself to the world and make things better she chose to sleep and never wake up again it was for the best. Maungarei proved to herself she can be better than this , we now know all maungarei ever wanted was to have the feeling of being loved.We should never know when it’s time for her to rise again

 

– For this imgae we generated a AI image for our porquoi frame work  using adobe express.

I enjoyed this assignment because i got to lesrn more about porquoi stories

Tangiwai disaster

LI: Use your smart searching skills to find 3 interesting facts about the Tangiwai disaster.

For reading we learned about the Tangiwai disaster. We watched a video that explained the tangiwai railway bridge disaster. We made notes with vocab (words we don’t know) and questions to know. One of the things we learned about was open and close questions. Open questions are saying the answer but adding more details and closed questions is a simple yes or no. For our document, we read through the story and answered the questions using our own words/comment tool to share our opinions/ideas. Group 2 made a google video, we took turns sharing six facts about what happened in the past (Tragedy disaster). We used our smart searching skills and explained what happened in a short sentence in our own words. An example of this is “The disaster occurred on Christmas Eve, with many passengers travelling home to be with families, adding to the tragedy of the event”. We enjoyed learning about volcanoes.

Diary world war one

LI: To retell an event in history through the fictional eyes of someone who was there.

 

For literacy we have been looking at the events that took place at ANZAC during WW1. We reaserched photos and saw many unsettling things soldiers had to go through in war.

we also watched videos about what life was like in the trenches  we also went through this site called walking with the Anzacs. before we recorded our diary entry framework we of course needed to write our entry and then we used Google vids to recorded our diary, I enjoyed this because it helped me learn about history and what happened in the past.