The Amazing Life Of Food Webs

 The Amazing Life Of Food Webs

In Te Ngahere we have been learning about food webs. The food webs are the ecosystem but tells what eats what and what the predator is for that animal or producer. We got animals on the google drawing, we had to copy it. There were photos of animals from New Zealand on the google drawing. 

The animals we had were the kiwi, kereru, tui, possum, rats, stoats and invertebrates. We also had producers like the Kowhai tree and fruit. We had to point arrows to the animals that eats the fruit or animal. The stoat was the top of the food web because it eats the birds possums and rats. It keeps on hunting because it gets energy. The stoat gets energy by eating all of the animals and kept getting energy transferred to it. The stoat gets energy by the Kereru and possums. The possums and the Kereru eat the fruit and producers which both have energy. The Kereru and the possum gets energy transferred to them. They get energy by the plants because after they pollinate the get energy from the sun and water minerals underground. The arrows point to the animals because that’s the predator of the food. The stoat ate most things it eats the birds, rats, and possums. The arrows are different because the one down the bottom has colored lines to know what animal eats the food. My one has skinny arrows instead of thick ones. The one down the bottom is more confusing and has more lines going across.

Do you know anything about food webs?      

The Tsunami Evacuation

The Tsunami Evacuation

There was a Tsunami in Paihia so we had to evacuate to the closest but highest ground. The tallest place was the mountain right next to our school. The mountain was tall but it was pretty easy to get to the top. When we got to the top we could see most of the ocean. A few moments later we started to see some lines leading into the ocean. The whole school was up at the top and some parents came to pick up their children. There were more and more lines going into the ocean. It was kind of getting scary when there were heaps I thought that it was going to be big because the lines looked like it was sucking in the water to make a big tsunami/ wave. We were waiting for our bags and then there were some people that brought some hotdogs. We were so happy that we had food. Our bags came a few minutes after we had the hotdogs then we had lunch. After lunch we got bored and then Whaea Gina found a quiz. We did 2 quizzes. The first one was about Harry Potter. In every quiz we had to make a funny sound to answer. The second theme was about Prior Knowledge. It was only our class doing it because the other classes were above us. Around the middle of the second quiz I felt like going to sleep. The tsunami reminded me of the movie kind of like Jaws. I kept on getting excited because I couldn’t hear the siren but it was just the class being noisy, or should I say the school was. A few moments later we got the okay sign by the scientists so we could go down.  There were only around 30 people left at school. We got to play outside for a little bit and as soon as I heard ice cream from my friends I ran to find my friend. My friend that I was looking for was Mikaira. My other friends were running back to class.  A few moments later I heard a shout from them saying to come back then we found my friend in the classroom. After we had our ice cream we went back home.     

Have you ever been in a tsunami evacuation?