Maraia - What Plants and What Leaves?

 What Plants?

Learn - I can identify trees by looking at the bark

Learn - I can identify native New Zealand trees by their leaves

Today in TWP we learnt more about plants and how to identify plants and trees, by their leaves and barks. Our teachers gave us a paper of what the leaves of some New Zealand native trees look like, we had find the name of the trees online. Then after we finished that we were given another piece of paper that has picture of what the bark on the tree looks like then we had to find the name of the tree. We had finished it all but there was one tree left but it was blurred so we couldn't find the name of what is looked like so we asked the teachers and they just told us the answer because it was blurred for them to and then they told us it was a fern tree.

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Maraia - Our Amazing Plants Video

 Our Amazing Plants Video

WALT - Find the meaning to these words in the video

Video

Organisms - Organisms are a  individual animal, plant,

or single-celled life form 

Nutrients -  Nutrients are a substance that provides

nourishment essential for the maintenance of life and for

growth.

Photosynthesis - Photosynthesis is a process of a

plant or a flower  using a  beam of the sun and producing

it into energy,  then use that energy transforms it into water ,

then they get Carbon Dioxide, then they put that together and

get sugar and fresh air.

Cell walls - Cell walls are like a structure but for plants because without cell wall plants, flowers and trees wouldn’t be able to stand up.

Chlorophyll - Chlorophyll is what makes all the plants green, did you  that Chlorophyll is also used for medicine.

Maraia - Te Arapū Māori, the Māori alphabet

 Te Arapū Māori, the Māori alphabet

Today in TWP4 we did a extra for experts activity.

We learnt about the Māori alphabet (arapū) is made up of eight consonants, five vowels and two digraphs. Digraphs are two letters that combine to form one sound.

 Oropūare and Orokati means Vowels and Consonants.

Something I found out is that when a letter has a hat or a macron you have to drag it.

Maraia - Oropūare and Orokati, Vowels and Consonants​

 Oropūare and Orokati, Vowels and Consonants​

Today for Maori we refreshed our memories about the Maori alphabet by learning all of the letters again and by a song.

The Maori Alphabet ( Arapu ) is made up of eight consonants​, five vowels and two digraphs. Digraphs are two letters that combine to form one sound.

I really liked doing this activity plus it was really easy to do because we already knew part of it. we had to know the difference between long vowels and short. 

Hope you enjoyed - Ko te tumanako i pai koe

 

 Maraia - Sauropods - what are they and how big?

Today in class I did an activity about Sauropods  what are they and how big are they.

This activity took a while because I got distracted by some friends and I totally forgot about my work.

Something I found easy was doing the scale thing.

Something I found hard was doing both of the writing part.

Check out my work below!

Maraia - How Maui Slowed The Sun

 How Maui Slowed The Sun

Today on the 14th of April, we were supposed to play Ki O Rahi but, when we had gotten there it started to rain very hard so then they people who hosted it said they will moved the tournament to next term, so then we went back to class and we watched a video about How Maui Slowed The Sun.

After we watched the video we had to  weave a piece of paper then our teacher would give us a section of the video and then we had to draw that onto our piece of paper, after we finished our drawing we had to go over it with a black vivid. Then on a strip of paper we had to write our part out, my part was "Long ago,Te Ra the Sun began to move quickly across the sky".

Maui slowed the sun by plating a long piece of flax into a rope with his brother's then they we to his pit where he rose from and then threw the ropes on him and made him go across the sky slower.

Maui want to so down the sun so they can finish things in one days

Maui's friends laughed at him when he wanted to slow down the sun so he can finish things in one day.

Maui wanted to approach the sun at night so that the sun wouldn't see them.

I think that this story is a myth.

I think it was fair that Maui was forcing the sun to slow down . 

How Maui Slowed The Sun

 

 Maraia - Sauropod DLO

Today in science I did a DLO about Sauropod's.

Sauropods are dinosaur's who are herbivores. A herbivore is an animal that gets its energy from eating plants, and only plants. Sauropods have long necks small heads and it is very big. I could not think of some words so I looked at Sione's Blog.

Something was easy was colouring all the words and putting the picture there.

Something that was hard was thinking of words to put on.

 

Maraia - Joan Wiffen and her Fossils

 Joan Wiffen and her Fossils

 

Today on the 7th of April in TWP 4 we learnt about Joan Wiffen and her early life and what fossils she found. Joan Wiffen is a paleontologist. A paleontologist is a person who study's bone's. (Click the title to see some things about her).

 
 

Maraia - Who is Tupaia - Part 4,Land of the voyagers

Who is Tupaia

Today I did an activity and I had to choose one part of 5 parts to write about and I choose part 4 Who is Tupaia. I had to make a map and then write down who is Billy. T James, and watch a video to learn about Tupaia.

Check out this video to learn some things about Tupaia and how he navigates the world - Link 

  

 Pablo Picasso Art - Cubism Final Drawing

Last month we began our our cubism portraits based on Pablo Picasso's cubism art. In cubism you can play around with lots of different shapes and sizes.  The facial like your eye's mouth, face and nose and they can be in different shapes sizes and in place's. 
We did two practice drawing before completing our final product. (You can read my blog about my first drawing - LINK).
Something I found easy was outlining my drawing in black and something difficult was drawing my photo because I had never done this type of art so I didn't know what to do.
This is Pablo Picasso's drawing of the Weeping Woman using cubism.  

This is my drawing using cubism

Maraia - 4th International Women's Day Activity

4th International Women's Day Activity

Today on the 29th of March I did my 4th International Women's Day Activity I choose a Writing Task Card I thought it wasn't going to take long but it took like 2 hours because I kept on getting distracted.

For the activity I had to brainstorm types of gender stereotypes that I have noticed, and choose one that is important to me.  Then I had to create my own comic that has a scenario where a someone overcomes a gender stereotype.

Question : What is the most weirdest gender stereotype you have ever heard. 

Here is my Story Board ( Click on my activity to go to Story Board That )

  

Maraia - The Maori Gods

 The Maori Gods

Today at school did our reading activity's for our group my group had to learn about the Maori Gods like Tanemahuta,Ruaumoko. we had to learn about their history and what they can do or control.

Have you ever seen Tanemahuta.  

Maraia - Cybersmart Challenge - 6

Cyber Smart Challenge - 6 

Today in Cyber smart I did the 6th cyber smart Challenge we had to clean our drive and then we did another activity but we had to organise someone else drive then we had to take a photo of our clean drive. 

 

Maraia - Living Word Unit - Prehistoric Life Dinosaurs

 Living Word Unit 1 - Prehistoric Life Dinosaurs 

Today in TWP 4 we did inquiry and it was about the periods of time but dinosaurs.

We did the Cretaceous period the Jurassic period and the Triassic period.

We had to find what animals lived in the Triassic time the Jurassic time and the Cretaceous time.

When we did the activity our teacher had linked up a site to get what we need to know for this activity

There is also a video about what happened to the Dinosaurs  - LINK

And there is also a video about dinosaurs of the Jurassic period - LINK

Fun Fact Dino in Latin means terrible and saurus means  Lizard  so its basically called  terrible lizard 

  

Maraia - The Land of the voyagers and kiwis can Fly

 

The Land of the voyagers and kiwis can Fly

Today on the 16th of March we my group and I did finished the first part of "The Land of the Voyagers and kiwis can fly".

For this activity we were split into groups I was with Mele, Solomon and Jonah. We did part 2 "How did Kupe know"I did the Introduction  then we split our self into a group within our group.
Me and Solomon did the "Kupe Explanation"  while Mele and Jonah were doing the  Follow the Birds &  Moon Shot activity the Me and Mele did the things to do as the last activity.
 

Maraia - Gender GROUND RULES

 International Women’s Day 

Activity 2 : Thinking Task Card

Today on the 15th of March my class and I did some work on International Women's day.

First we had to read a comic strip called "Comic Gender Rules" and then we had to choose an activity and complete it. I choose the 2nd activity. 

First we had to write down the writer's main message then we had to List three achievements of the remarkable women
who are mentioned then we had to write down what stereotypes we noticed in the comic strip then we had to write what problems do we think might arise if Monique continues to believe gender stereotypes.

   

Maraia - Cyber - Smart Challenge 5

 Cyber - Smart Challenge #5

 Today on the 11th of March I did the 5th Cyber smart Challenge. 
It was called Chromebook webcam. For the activity we had to take a photo of something we made and then we had to upload it to our blog.

  

Maraia - Proper Nouns

 Proper Nouns Activity 

Today In literacy we did the next  Proper Nouns Activity. 

Nouns Name places people and Objects Proper nouns are the name of people

The Things that I found the easiest is  The every month activity and the City chains And the hardest thing i found doing this is the around New Zealand=d activity and thats it 

Maraia - Cyber Smart activity 4

 Cyber Smart activity 4

Today at home during our Distance learning class we did the 4th cyber smart activity and it was about bookmarks how easy they make getting to your sites and how they are helpful to us. 

Maraia - Monster bookmarks

 Today in class we made some monster bookmarks mine was puking out the rainbow.

Click this link for the instructions - Instructions 

scroll to the bottom to see some ideas