Things We Learnt How to Keep Our Drive Clean

 In Te Ngahere we had to fill out a google slide it was about how to keep our drive clean. We had to make sure  that all of our google docs and google drawings are all filed and in a folder. On the google slide we had some games that we had to figured out, they were about what folder does each doc and google drawing go in.  We had to put circles around the ones  that didn't say where they go or if they have no title. 

After that we had to go to our drive and file all of the docs that were not filled or we could make a new folder and put them in there. Once we did that we had to take a picture of our drive and put it on the slide. Have you ever cleaned your drive before?

Mind Blowing Things About The Tui

 In Te Ngahere we have been learning about the native bush and the critters that live in the bush. We had to find research about any animal in the native bush. We went for a walk to see if we can see the animals we did our research about. There were a lot of producers and a little bit of consumers. Producers are trees and consumers are the birds. I picked the tui before I began my research I already knew a few facts about the tui such as, what they eat, what they look like and that they have little pom poms on their neck that help them sing. Through my research, which I mostly used google for I found out what the tuis  scientific name was, it is  Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae and that there are actually two subspecies of tui, there is the New Zealand Tui and the Chatham Island tui. Tui can be very territorial and aggressive if they are feeding from a tree they may get very vocal and chase away others including other tui. 

After doing my research I now know that they're actually are two kinds of tui and tui’s may get really aggressive when it comes to feeding or territorial.

Have you ever heard a tui sing before ?

The Challenging Teamwork Challenge

 In Te Ngahere we have been learning about teamwork and collaboration. We did a challenge to help us collaborate with our learning group and work as a team. The teacher drew somethings things on a piece of paper and stuck it on the window outside.

There were two runners and one drawer. One of the runners ran outside to see the drawing, then came back inside and described the drawing without touching or pointing at the paper.

On the first round I was away but the second time I was here. It was challenging because I was a runner and it was frustrating because the drawer didn’t know what I was talking about and I couldn't touch the piece of paper to point were the drawing went. The thing that worked out was River went side to side and if I said yes, that was were the drawing goes. Have you done a teamwork challenge?

Wonderful Interesting Facts About Mutualism

 In Te Ngahere we have been learning about mutualism. Mutualism is when two organisms help each other like the tree and the bird.

Birds are the primary pollinators and seed dispensers in New Zealand native bush. Some trees are all pollinated by birds. Some  birds are attracted to the flowers of  trees and carry pollen from flower to flower. Trees help birds because they have shelter for their nest and food  because of the berries and some insects on and in the tree .

If there were no trees the birds would have nowhere to go.There would not be that much oxygen for us to breath and so birds that only eat berries off trees will  die. Did you know tree is a producer and a bird is a consumer and the decomposer  is bacteria?

The Scary Quick Tsunami Evacuation

 

In the Bay of Islands there was a tsunami evacuation.  There were tsunami sirens going off.

We had to go to higher ground. I was with my nana. My nana quickly

got us to go into the car we went

to the shops and got food and water. We went up to my nana’s brothers farm.

Then we went up this bumpy long  hill we  went around and around,

the hill was super bumpy because it was a gravel road and it was a bunch

of hard pointy sharp rocks. We had to stay up on the hill until we got a message

that the tsunami was gone.

I was so anxious and scared I wanted to see but I was scared.

I was super scared and worried about my mum.

Up on the hill it was boring but I had my uncles to play with.

Onces the tsunami was over I felt so relieved and happy.

How scared would you be if there was a tsunami about to happen?