Where would you find the Matariki

On the 4th activity for our Matariki work, it was about locations of the matariki sister stars.

Matariki 3rd activity

This is my 3rd activity about the maraliki traditional food festival.  

Matariki activity 2

In this weeks our class have been doing activities towards matariki day, this is my second activity.

My Matariki Activity

In this pass few weeks activity me and T3 have been working our matariki activity, and we did 5 of them.

Heres my first one.

My kiwi report.

Kiwi report

Kiwis are flightless and extraordinary birds which are native to New Zealand only.  They are known for their adaptations which are like mammals. This makes them outstanding creatures.  Its main adaptations are behaviour and structures. 

Kiwis have two main behavioural adaptations which they developed long before humans came to their land.  They became flightless and  nocturnal creatures.

Kiwis are nocturnal birds which means they come out at night. They are also flightless and live on the ground because their main predators many years ago were only hunting birds who also flew..

A kiwi has developed some structural adaptations to suit their habitats  too.

They have whiskers at the base of their beaks  to help them get around in the dark. They also have nostrils at the end of their beaks to help them to find food. 

The brown feathers of a kiwi helps them blend themselves from danger in the forest from predators.  Kiwi have small feets but have extraordinarily strong legs and long beaks to get food. 

Many kiwis adaptations have no longer been effective  on other creatures, due to the arrival of humans in Aotearoa. A long time ago kiwis used to have wings, birds and other animals used to strive to get food, by competing against each other to get food, but there weren't any so kiwis started to live on land knowing that there weren’t any predators, but when humans arrived so did predators.   Rats, stoats and weasels came with humans.  They are also nocturnal and live on the ground so they hunt kiwi and also eat their eggs.

I think kiwis are one of the most extraordinary creatures I've seen yet.  Kiwis have made their choices to live on land a long time ago, but when their predators came, they still stood up and fought to survive.  We should look after our kiwis because they are native to our cultures and to Aotearoa/ New Zealand, if we dont look after them they might go extinct.

Scientific sketching

This week me and my class were focusing  on scientific Sketching of plants,I did this plant,which I still have no idea the name for this plant. But luckily just a look and I've already got lots amazing facts. 

This plants stem, is stronger from the bottom but lighter as it goes up. On the stem it grows white small hair, used to reflect sun to keep the plant cool. The colour of the leaves are green on the top but the bottom is mixed with white and green. It is about 0 cm  to 26 cm for the height in reality.  

The wonderful of oz

                                 120 anniversary 

This morning me and my class were doing some quizzes, and we came across a quiz for this show. I used to love this show of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, so Mrs Prendergast suggested that we could do a blog post of any of the new things we learned this morning.  This is what I learnt...

 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a movie loved by children, it was released in August 25, 1939. It is based on a book that was first published on May 17 1900 so it is is the 120th anniversary of the wonderful wizard of oz!  It was written by L Frank Baum.