Cape reinga lighthouse

1. What NZ identity features did we include?
we have done Cape Reinga Lighthouse, the Rimu tree, and the hectors dolphin which was very fun to make and we were going to make the three birds kakapo , Kōtuku , and pūkeko

2. What did I learn about Aotearoa during this project?

we learnt that there are lots of native birds and trees in NZ like rimu tree, kiwi, pūkeko, tūī etc.

3.What digital skills did I use?

we used MINECRAFT to make it then to research we used the internet and we went on websites like Wikipedia and google.

4.What would I do differently next time?

I would make the lighthouse bigger and I would make the kiwi and all the birds like pūkeko.

Violets scarf

This morning while I was carrying the buckets of water I heard someone call my name “ George come we are getting parsecs ” I dropped my buckets watching them leak I raced to the parcels getting handed out “ George ” he threw my parcel and I jumped to catch it and caught a hold of it. I went off to open it and took a deep breath before ripping a tiny hole in it I saw a bit of blue transitioning into brown then I smelt something familiar but I couldn’t quite put my tongue on it, i untied the red string as fast as I could, then rapidly ripped through the brown paper off till I got it out, it was a warm cozy scarf with a little blue stripe on each end, I rubbed my head against the warm scarf, then quickly got up to check who it was from ( to random soldier from Violet ) I realised it was the smell from home mums baking the farm, I took the scarf everywhere I went, it was my treasure. 2 years later I caught a glimpse of the boat while waiting I yelled out to everyone “where going home, where going home! ” then everyone rushed to the boat, and got on. When we got home I ran over to Violet and gave her a big hug “your wearing my scarf” she said excitedly, when I got home I put it in my shed. A few years later my shed burned down with the scarf in it but the tag luckily survived.

Week 1:

this week me and my team planed a game on minecraft

This is my teams planing paper we made a roler coster were you take a trip through nature and answer questions about the things the signs tell you.

Week 2-3

What is Canva

This week I made a Canva ad for my game

First I made the rules and then I wrote what we are doing

Then I showed the map

What I liked about Canva

I liked that we could make our own slide

Week 4-5

Building my world

 When I made the world I started by making a place to get the carts and first you go down a water slide then you grab a cart and ride through the roller coster and you go past fishies then into a hole that takes you though a tunnel then up a quiz if you get the wrong questions you die.

Week 6

What shows kaitiakitanga In my game

we have fish and water through our roller coster and there are questions along the way to beat the game.

That’s the question for the people that play

if you pick the wrong answer you die and restart.

Beach is fun

                                              each person in a family gets ice cream

                                                   all the people at the beach love ice cream

                           call your mum for ice cream

                 hooks are in the ocean

what is a acrostic poem

A poem that spells out a word and each letter describes the word your talking about

                          Beach

Fun , relaxing

Swimming , surfing, sinking

Swimming in the ocean

Wet

what is a cinquain poem

it’s a poem that has 5 rows the first word is the title the second row is two adjective words then the third row I ing words and the fourth row is a sentence

then fith row is one word

This week in week 4 I did a life cycle of a turtle and realised that there were lots of stages like first egg, then hatchling, next juvenile, then young adult, then finally adult and we lernened facts like the sea turtle lives in coastal water, and sand temperatures are very important.

In week three for STEAM we researched the different life cycle patterns observed in marine animals. We found that there are four main categories.

I learned there are different zones of repudiation the oviparous ,lay eggs viviparous, give birth to young  ones ovoviviparous, hatch from eggs and look like it’s parent, metamorphosis has 2 or more stages.

This week I learnt that the parts of the oceans have different names, the names are sunlight zone, twilight zone, midnight zone, abyss zone, and the bottom. We also learned that there are lots of different species in the different parts of the ocean some are in like squids are in twilight zone, and midnight zone. We made an ocean zone chart showing the different zones.

In week one I did a KWL chart and I know that 5% of the ocean has been seen ,there is several seas, the ocean has different parts, jelly fish have no bones, 95% of the ocean has not been seen, blob fish have big nose.

I want to know what is in the 95% of the ocean, what else is in the ocean, how do they catch fish without killing them.