The Te Reo Pronouniation

 The Te Reo Pronunciation

In Te Ngahere we have been learning how to pronounce The Te Reo Alphabet, Te Reo greetings and place names in Te reo Maori. We had to create a slide presentation with us recording in Te Reo Maori. I learnt how to pronounce Te Reo Moari place names Like New Zealand, Auckland and Dunedin. It was a little hard because all the noise in the background. It was also hard because the place names had one that was called Otepoti/Dunedin. I think that next time I need to practice how to pronounce place names in Te Reo Maori. 

Do you Know how to pronounce Te Reo Maori correctly?

The Best School Lunch Ever

 The Best School lunch

In Te Ngahere on March the 30th 2021 we went to my friends parents restaurant because they invited us for his birthday lunch. 

We had the best school lunch because of my friends birthday. My friend was called Shivam and his parents own 2 restaurants in Paihia called Greens Thai and Greens Indian. They invited us to Greens Indian. We were happy because there food at the restaurant was delicious it was an indian restaurant. We had butter chicken and the sauce was a sweet tomato sauce with rice and nut bread. it got served in a plastic looking plate. It had walls to make sure the food doesn’t mix together. The whole class got a drink, the drinks were Sprite and Coke. In the middle of our lunch 2 of our classmates got up and gave a card to Shivam full with our names to say thanks to him. When we finished lunch we got Easter eggs by the staff and we got a surprise when we saw how much Easter eggs there where. We all said thanks in politeness then went to the entrance of the restaurant and sung three waiata. We did that to say thanks and apparently they had goosebumps.

If you tried their butter chicken would you like it?

The Fantastic Facts About The Coral Reefs

 The Fantastic Facts About The Coral Reefs

In Te Ngahere we learnt what happens in the Coastal Sea’s. We also watched an episode about Coastal Sea’s. It was on the TV show called Our Planet. We had to write down facts when we were watching it. We had to create Google slides and on each slide we put facts on it.

The facts were about what happens in coral reefs, sea forests and Seagrass. We watched it all and we started to write down facts about Bottle nose dolphins, sea urchins, White Tipped sharks, Grey Reef Sharks, Sea Otters and Sea lions. It says what happens when coral reefs die. We put all of these facts in the presentations we made.

Do you know anything about the Coastal Sea’s?

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?

My Care For The Kawa Of Care

 My Care For The Kawa Of Care

In Te Ngahere we have been learning to take care of a chromebook in class, we call it the Kawa of Care.The Kawa Of Care is the name of the rules we have to follow ,we follow these rules so we don’t break our chromebooks.

We made some animations about it. The teachers said it could be about  how you shouldn’t take care of your chromebook or how you could take care of your chromebook. 

It was hard trying to think about how to make a good animation like what pictures im going

to use on the slides.

Do you use the Kawa Of Care with your devices?

Magnificent facts about Roy Litchenstein

 Magnificent facts about Roy Lichtenstein

In Te Ngahere we have been learning amazing facts about Roy Lichtenstein. We had to use a special technique called The Ben day dots when we were drawing a self portrait of ourselves. Roy Lichtenstein was a Pop art artist he was famous  for his paintings and the comic strips that actually looked like it was from a comic book. He was also famous for his bright and bold paintings in most of his paintings he used  multiple colours. The hardest thing was to try get more than 6 facts so I don’t be a low level.

The easiest thing was tracing the outside of my face using a photo of myself. I predicted that we’re going to use Ben Day Dots for our self portraits.

 Do you know some facts about Roy Lichtenstein???