Food Web comparison

 This week in Te Ngahere we have been learning about food webs. Food webs are like a food chain but the food webs cross over each other and point to more than one thing unlike a food chain points to one of it predators and one of it predators only. Arrows that point to the animal from another are the energy that are being transferred to the animal that is eating it. For example the Stoat has red arrow pointing towards it from the Kiwi. So the Kiwi is getting eaten by the Stoat and the Stoat gets energy that has been transferred from the Kiwi. First we had to compare at least three differences between the two food webs. The first difference between our food webs are that the first one has one color per arrow pointing to one thing so for example the Stoat only has one color of arrows pointing to it and then for the rat it is the same then so on. On the second food web it only has some that have one color pointing to it but the rest are a bit random but I was close. The second Difference is that some of the arrows are pointing somewhere else or have more but I have a little less arrows and some of mine are pointing to a different direction. The last difference is that the first one is more complex and hard to understand then the second one is less complex and a bit easier to see. Have you ever made a food web?

Tidying My Drive

 On March 24th we had to clean up our Google Drives for any files or documents that we didn’t need so if we had any files sitting in our Google Drive we had to sort it all out. But first we had to clean up a fake Google Drive that our teachers gave us. There were little pictures that had the slogan of one of the google apps that had a title saying what category it is. So we had to put them into the fake folders that we thought the fake google apps go in. If there was no name we had to do something to it for example let's say we had the title geometry we would have to put a blue circle around it but if it said John’s Geometry we didn’t have to put a circle around it. Then the ones that didn’t have a name at all and it was called untitled document or untitled presentation we had to put a red circle around it. Then when we finished we had to tidy up our drive, my drive only had a few things just lying around so I put them in the correct folders and made some new folders I would use at home. After that we had to take a picture of our tidy drive and put it on a google slide. Have you ever had a messy drive?

The Extreme Taskmaster Collaboration

 In Te Ngahere we have been doing a taskmaster like thing where we had to collaborate and communicate with our group. We had two attempts to try, on the first attempt we had one drawer in each group our drawer was Jaelyn-Marie. The drawers job is to have the two runners describe for them what the picture looks like and then they have to draw it. Then each group had two runners, the runners job is to run out of the class then look at the teacher’s drawing and then memorize bits and pieces to describe to the drawer what they have to draw. The runners couldn’t point at the picture the drawer was drawing. On the first attempt it was kinda easy to to explain to the drawer but Jaelyn-Marie couldn’t catch on to how we were describing the picture to her and we started to get frustrated. The thing that didn’t work well was that it was hard explaining and remembering the colors to tell the drawer and trying to tell them where to put what without pointing on the piece of paper. The thing challenging were trying to tell them where and how to do it. On the second attempt the thing that changed were we had a different drawer, we had better idea of what it would be because it was the same picture. The things that worked well were that I was able to memorize most of them easier and I also thought that Tiana the other drawer could kinda understand me better. The thing that didn’t work so well was that we were getting frustrated because when we were explaining to her. She was stressing out and we were trying to rush it which led to a few mistakes. Then the thing that was challenging on the second attempt was everything, everything was challenging during the taskmaster but the main thing was communication and trying to be specific. Have you ever done something like taskmaster?

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Teacher's

Learning Lichtenstein

 For the first week of school I have been in a new learning environment learning new stuff but this one specific thing was my main challenge. We were learning about Roy Lichtenstein and his art. We had to find facts about Roy Lichtenstein that we thought were important to help us with a self portrait. I learnt that Roy Lichtenstein was best known for his painting style called Ben Day Dots and that he became famous for his bright and bold paintings of comic strip cartoons as well as his paintings of everyday objects. He also became famous for his art that looked like comic books. We did lot of research in my class about Roy Lichtenstein. He was in a group of artists making art in the 1960s who were called pop artists because they made art about 'popular' things such as TV, celebrities, fast food, pop music and cartoons. This is where we got the information from Link 1, Link 2.

Have you ever heard of Roy Lichtenstein? Or Have you seen the Ben Day Dots Pattern?.

The Scary Tsunami Evacuation

Last week the Bay Of Islands and my school had to evacuate up a hill because there was a chance of a Tsunami. When we got to the top of the hill we got told to sit down and not to panic but some of us still started to panic. We felt so scared but then we started to cheer up because we got to ring our parents, for a bit so we felt like we were safer. I started to hangout with my friends then one of our teachers got out her phone and gave us some quizzes about Harry Potter and then a quiz about basic knowledge. After that we were starting to get picked up by our parents luckily I was one of them, my dad picked me and my sister up and then dropped us off at the Golf Course next to my mum. But luckily my Brother lived nearby so I asked my mum if I could walk to there house and she let me. So when I got there we just chilled out watching movies but some of us were eating. Later on when we got the thumbs up that there wasn’t gonna be a tsunami we were kinda happy so my parents and my sister came to pick me up and dropped off some more food. Have you ever evacuated for a tsunami? or Were you one of the people who had to evacuate?.