Elephant reading comprehension

 

Compare and Contrast RL

 

Room 8 - Summarize It!

 

Pike River 29

Benny

 

What is an aquifer?

 

Microscope

 Microscope ($2000)

Specimens.

Slides

Slices

Objectives - Red=4x, Yellow=10x, Blue=40x, white 100x

Stage -> Clipper.

Navigate

Focus knob

Coarse focus knob - moves stages up and down

Fine “” - “”

Eyepieces Magnify - Yellow 100x , Blue 400x 

Start on 4x course

Then 10x course

Then 40x Fine.

Dial light (brightest setting)

Eh htoo 

I saw a very cool thing under the microscope like a fly leg. It has so much hair on it and it has two claws that are very pointy and sharp. It was also fun and scary at the same time.

 

Havea

 My experience with the microscope was amazing. I saw a bee stinger and it looked hairy af, had a sharp pointer. And I thought it looked amazing from my perspective.

joseph, Isabel and Mahmoud

 Joseph:

Joseph is a refugee boy who lived in Germany, who wanted to leave to go to Cuba. he is jewish born in 1926, who has a friend called Klaus, sisters named Ruth, mom named Rachel and a dad named Auron. His dad was sent to a concentration camp. When his dad got let go from the camp he returned skinny and very spooked,they took a train to berlin to hamburg and shipped to Cuba. while they were in the boat  dad jumped out and got sent to prison(Cuba) and during that ship an old man died at the sea  and made a burial in the ocean. “Flashback” when he was still back in Cuba Joseph had a bar mitzvah which means that he turned 13 and he is a man now that can take care of his sister. When they got to Cuba they had to stay in the boat for weeks because they were not sure if they were allowed in. At the end Joseph sacrificed himself for her 4 year old sister and they were sent to concentration.

Isabel:

Isabel is one of the characters in refuge her dad tried to escape from Cuba and go to Florida because Syria had a civil war so they wanted to get away. They lived in a pink cinder block house, their money is called pesos. Then the dad tried before with him and other people, when they tried to escape the grandma drowned. The neighbour Ivan was Isabel's friend. Ivan’s dad was building a boat so they wanted to join them and help them. Isabel had a trumpet and a cat, Isabel went to buy some gas but she had no money so she traded her trumpet and her cat for some gas. On the boat was Lito, her grandpa, her mum who was pregnant, Ivan, luis he is a cop, luis’s girlfriend and seora castillo. But then he got caught by the police so the police shot at them, when they shot it hit the boat and it made holes so they covered it up with their sock. There were some problems like a hurricane and a cargo ship came and made a big wave and pushed them back. They landed at the wrong place and the tourist saw that the mum was pregnant and threw chips,water and pills. So they went off again on the way there Ivan and Isabel was pedalling and then a shark ate Ivan and Isabel jumped back in the boat and Luis shot the shark then more sharks came because of the blood. But then the sharks just left so they carried on then when they got there a coast guard saw them but if the coast guard catches them they will get sent back but if they make it they got to stay, that is called wet foot and dry foot but the coast guard was going to catch them but then Lito sacrificed himself by jumping out the boat and getting caught by the coast guard so they can make before they got to the land the baby was born and they named it after the grandma that drowned.

Mahmoud:

Mahmoud is a 12 year old boy who lived in a small destroyed city in Aleppo, a small town in Syria. Mamoud was Muslim boy and and prayed five times a day he also lived in a apartment with his family. One day his apartment got hit by a missile and they wanted to move into a new house that was far away from all the war and destruction, so they decided that they wanted to go to Germany. Mamoud’s friend got killed from a falling bomb from the sky, which left Mahmoud sad and it was made clear that Mamoud’s teacher didn’t like him. One day him and his family packed up to go to Germany but during their travels they were arrested. Mamoud and his family were put into jail in Austria for illegally crossing the border but were released roughly after a year. When the family were released then carried on in their travels eventually landing in Germany. Based on the story Mamoud and his family were living with an old elderly lady.

All about cell

 For the cell work that I learned was very important it tells me about the different organizers that are inside of animals and plant cells, the most inportent organizer. In a plants and animals, Cell like nucleus the most important part of a cell it is the brain of the cell, vacuole, mitochondria, ribosomes, endoplasmic reticulum but in the animals and plant may have the same cell but it is a little different.

INSIDE CELLS

 

Cause and Effect Task Cards

 

wind chimes part 2

 Text download here

Define these words

• Chinking- making noise

• Upriver- it means going toward to the source of the river

• Ponga- ponga is a type of tree.

• Sentry- something like a guard

• Pouwhenua- the statue that was carved

• Fatigues and masks - a jumpsuit but a uniform

• Staffs - its a type of stick

• Bivouacs - a tnt made of sticks

• Solar lights- it a light powered by the sun

• Glow worms - it is a worm that glows

• “Home in on us”- Home in on us means focusing on something.

• Searing blow.- a painful hit

• Remote- remote is isolated from something far away.

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• What was mum's old job? Mum's old job was a teacher.

• Why is the camp called ‘camp radicals’? The camp is called camp radical because the people that are out there are living in the woods.

 

• What is the tikanga about carving pou? Learn all about the tools so you can use It.

• On page 42, why did Tre smile to himself?  He saw his dad's carvings.  

• What was the purpose of the pouwhenua? One is a camera and one is a marking point.

• How could you describe where Tre put his bag down?  Big marae style

 

• What were the people in the village doing BEFORE Tre and Muse’ arrival? And now? Some kids are reading. Kids are making cups and cooking/ carving.

• Who carved the pou?  Dad.

• Why did Tre only murmur “nice one” to Phyn? (Rather than hugging him/celebrating/etc). 

• Why was Muse leaving in the middle of the night? Because they were in trouble because muse had a tracker .

• What was on Muse’s arm? A tracker.

• Who is Phyn in relation to the other characters? Tre’s brother.

• Why did Phyn hit Tre and with what? Because he knew they were gonna get caught and so he hit them with a stick.

• Who will now follow in dad's footsteps? Phyn and hopefully tre.

• Was it the Phyn was silent written in italics like that? Because he was angry

• What was their plan after leaving the camp?

Wait until the tacker dies.

• If you were Tre, what would you do in this situation?

Go wih muse to put a stop in the tracker

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Davlyn and eh htoo and Kordell Inference RL

 

Camp

 Intro ‘wake up’ my mom said it is time to go to camp I woke up got all my staff ready for five days and four night of camp after while I got all my stuff in my mum car the we drove of to the school and put all my stuff in the camp buse I and lot os od childrens are heading to raglan beach I was very excited.

Monday 

We are here. We went in our caben I was in the caber with Havea , Railey, Isi and two more children. We put all our staff on our beds. I was excited to start my days. First We had a chat in the whole then went down to the beach it was very fun we went in the wave and most of us got very wet but some lisited to the rules and stayed to the sand i went in the water but i did not go in the water to far and i did not get in trouble at the end of the day I talked to my mum for a few days.

Tuesday day

In the morning a lot of people woke up, had a walk down and up in the morning light at the beach but it was very cold and I had some fun but the most boring thing was we had to go back up the mountain. It was very tiring. But then when we got to the cabins it was breakfast time when we finished eating. We all were split in three groups. I was in group 2 and group 1 wes went first for kayaking. After a while it was my group to go kayaking. It was a short drive and started right away. Me and a friend I don’t know was on a kayak was me.           

Camp explanation

 School camp is a great place for children to learn a lot of things like kayaking, Swimming, bodyboarding and a lot more. Your children will have great food, they will have breakfast, Lunch, and dinner so you don’t have to worry about your children when they go to camp. 

Your kids will learn a lot of new things and they will also make new friends. Most of the time they will have a group and play different games that they can play. They will do orienteering, Sports games, Water games. Sometimes they will have free times where they can do what they want. 

Food they will be fed very well and I mean very well the teacher will encourage the children to eat some vegetables like a nice salad and they can also get sources with the food they get. Your kids will be feed breakfast, lunch, dinner, all the times

Play a lot. The kids will play a lot. They may go down the beach and play in the sand some might go in the water but only up to their knees. If the camp has a pool they may go in the pool once every two days. Sometimes the camp has a big gum for games like basketball or volleyball maby soccer. Sometimes in the meeting please the teacher may play with the kids like musical chairs, tach, and borde games.  

Sleep the camp have bunk bed so you and your friend will choose which bed they went to sleep if the camp has sheeps or cows in the night the poo from the animals will smell really bad if you go outside at night and breath it will smell like the sewers but it is from the poo from the animals.

At camp your children will do activities that they have not done before like shooting targets, The guns can be airsoft, Paintball, air rifles they may also do Archery. There are lot more activities that they will do like abseiling of like a 8 meter wall sometimes the camp may have a water slide to come down but also watch of of the poo if there is animals. The best part is that it was only partially funded by the parents ($70), and the rest was subsidized by the school. 

At night there will be somes games like night walks. time you may find glow worm and more animals. Some time for a treat they will do a Marshmallow roast on the stickers that you can get outside. I washed my stick before I roasted my Marshmallow.

And that is why it is a good place for your children to go to camp. It makes them learn a lot of things.

Wind chimes part 1

  -Wind chimes

Define these words from the text

• Yielding- something not hard or rigid

• Wilderness- is the wild

• Batons- stick 

• Wood splintering 

• Hauled- forced to be pulled

• Settlement- when they set up their house or something

• Scarcely- able to breathe 

• Droned- a low humming sound

• Stifling-very hot room causing difficulties to breathe 

• Unsteady - something that's not ready to use 

• Disobedience- Disobedience means failure or refusal to obey rules or someone.

• Barely- don't really know them

• Clarity- being coherent and intelligible.

• Ridge long, narrow hilltop, mountain range, or watershed.

• Porch- a covered protecting in the front entrance.

• Upstream opposite direction  

Explain what a ‘muse’ is.

• Where was Tre the day the voids turned up? How do you know? He was in class because you can see 

the teacher reading a book.

• What is the author implying by saying “as if they had done it a thousand times before?” (page 4)in the town it looked like that the voids have destroyed that town before.

• Where are Tre’s mum and dad? Why do you think this? At the hidden place

• What language feature is “as white as a hospital sheet”. it is white metaphor

• Who/what was the “one exception”. What does that mean?Muse

• How many regions are there? How do you know? What might be in the other regions? G region

• Where did the other kids at the new school come from? How long had they been there? How do you know? 

• from the other region 

• What happens on page 8 that gives you a hint to something that might happen later in the story? The “run sign”

• Who said “Do Something, Tell me I’m not alone” on page 9. Tre said it .

• Do you think Muse spelt out RUN just for Tre, or do you think it's always there on her table? Why?spelt out RUN just for Tre because she knew that tre went to get out because he was different.

• How far away was the new school from Tre’s old house? How do you know this?very far away 2-3 days because it said the voids have been quiet for a few days.

• Does hushed mean killed? How do you know? If not, what else could it mean?no it means get hurt

• What is “the pen” (page 11)’ prison

• What was dad trying to tell Tre? Why couldn’t he just tell him where his/mum were? Because guards were listening.

• On page 14, what happens to tre when “his voice catches”? He catched a feeling 

• Why is Muse the one who rows the boat? Cause tre know where to go

• What language feature is “The harakeke closes in, swallowing them up”.the harakeke is coming closer

why is important to learn how to swim

  It is important to learn to swim because I live in New Zealand and we have a lot of Beaches and a lot of death on our beaches and that is why we need to learn how to swim.

Some people don’t laren

The Tree Of Life

 

Our initial thoughts

• The wolf is connected to the 

• A water lily is connected to an orchid and a sunflower

• This is the evolution of sea creatures

• Its about animals and insects

• Its like a timeline and family tree

• Its what they use to stay alive

• Its what they eat

• The green thing is what they eat

• It's about where they live

• It's about animals

• There’s heaps of animals

• It's about how the animals and stuff evolved

• Its a tree of nature

• Different categories of animals

• Different food chains

What we learnt

• 3.6 billion years ago - first living things started to exist (origin of life)

• All the organisms on the purple branch live in the ocean. 

• The blue branch turns into insects and crabs. 

• The green branch is the plant kingdom. 

• 42 million years ago wolf,lion,Bear and kekeno in car nvores.

•  Lion is in the animal kingdom.

•  The last flower was a sunflower.

•  It started 3.6 million years ago.

•  The first organism archaea.

•  Bear is in the animal kingdom. 

• There are more in the animal kingdom.

•  The first plant was a sea lettuce.

•  There are 5 kingdom.  

•  The second to last plant is a carrot.

•  They is 6 colour

• There are less 

• The second organism is a spirochaete.

• Litia- Kingsnakes are medium size nonvenomous snakes that kill by constriction.    

• A crocodile is related to the dinosaurs and birds - Kymani 

• A flamingo is related to a T-REX. 

• The Sunflower is the last flower to be born.

• Litia- Kingsnake  colored in repeating patterns of Red, White and black

• Railey:a flatworm is a kind of worm that's from the lophotrochozoans family.

• Wesley:A platypus is the only animal that gives birth

• Mariah - Platypus is in the kingdom of animals. And a platypus is in the color Red. It is in the family of tetrapods. It existed 170 million years ago.

• chimpanzees are closely related to humans.

• EH Htoo Butterfly are beautiful bugs; they have an extraordinary life, the first kind involved in about 160 mya. 

• Michael: Hippo is inside the animal kingdom.

• isi - 

• Hope - A Carrot Daucus is in the dicots family

• Maria -  The clown fish is in the vertebrate family  

• Stanley - A Aardvark is connected to a pekapeka, an aardvark is also family with the Elephant. 

PB4L Expectations while at the pools : Behaviour at the pools!

 

Zebrafish

Eh Htoo - we are learning about zebrafish. They are transparent and live in India's Freshwater lakes or rivers. Scientists study them because they are transparent and reproduce fast, scientists breed hundreds and thousands of zebrafish to study them.Then Scientists kill the fish in chemicals and cut it up. If they cut it in different shapes like coronal, cutting in half vertically, separating the front and the back, transverse cutting in half horizontally, cutting the head off the body Sagittal cutting in half vertically, cutting the left side away from the right side. When they cut it it will show different parts.Scientists kill way too much of the zebrafish.







These fishes are a year old and and they are cut Transverse you can see a lot of meat.

ZEBRA_FISH

 

Zebrafish - Wednesday

 

How animals evolved from water to live on land

 How animals evolved from water to live on land

EH HTOO

The first organisms to venture onto land (apart from plants) was around 30 million years Ago. A fish called coelacanth was one of the first to venture onto land - into a shallow marine environment. Scientists think it was either looking for food, avoiding predators or laying eggs in the shallow waters. It had to develop a stronger rib cage in order to support its body weight out of water (as in water all things are more buoyant). Over time, they also evolved lungs so they could breathe, and their fins became more boney and became strong legs which helped them move.  Years after the first amphibian like animals came along the first one had fins and years after it had half fins and legs after a lot more years it has all legs.

Early fish started to go close to land then after a long time the fish. Involved to go on land for a short time their limbs got stronger then the fish involved  to have lunges then the first amphibian like animals come about after years of evolution it was the rain of the.    

•  First had to evolve stronger rib cage, shoulders and limbs to hold up its own body weight