Rakel's writing about ako afternoon

Yesterday afternoon Tamaki primary had a ako afternoon. Ako afternoon is a project event that you have to create a project like room 7 created a diorama project it we did the rainforest, deserts, woodlands, and also the arctic. Other people came to our class to look at our dioramas and I am sure that they learnt a thing or two about that habitats that we did our dioramas. On and my class and the other classes asked a lot of questions then after the classes came to our class we went to other peoples classes and we did lots of stuff. In room 3 we learnt how to plant seeds in a cup we could choose to plant a sunflower, garlic and also a tomato I chose a sunflower and we went outside to the garden to find some soil. Then we put the soil in the cup then we made a hole with our gloves then we put the seed in then buried it in the soil then we watered it then we went back to class and we put it on the window.

dinosaur knowledge

Room 7
Dinosaur knowledge
Prior Knowledge
In 2 weeks, we learnt that...
Animal
Predator
Dino is the root word
‘Saurs’ means something
Species
Extinct
Huge
Large bones
Long necks
Eggs
Sharp teeth
Long tails
Eat people
Different kinds
Spikes
Horns
Mammals
4 legs

Bipedal means 2 feet and quadruped means 4 feet. Some dinosaurs are bipedal and some are quadrupeds. Some can change between the two stances. They are sturdy. 

Theropod is a 3 clawed dinosaurs
Dinosaurs are warm-blooded, which means their blood temperature is always the same
Carnivore means a meat eater
Herbivore means a plant eater
Omnivore means it can eat plants and meat
Some dinosaurs are huge and some are small. Typically, huge dinosaurs were sluggish (slow).
Dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago. They started existed 230 million years.
They died because of an extinction event, most people think this was because a meteor hit the Earth.
Dinosaurs legs go out the bottom of their hip bones, whereas reptiles bones go to the side of their hips. Reptiles do not have an extra hole in their skull, but dinosaurs do.
Mary Anning found lots of fossils on a cliffside in England in the 19th century. She was born in 1799 and died in 1847. She survived a lightning strike as a baby. In 1824 she found the first fossil.
Non-avian dinosaurs are dinosaurs that are not birds. Avian means birds.
Metabolism means how fast or slow your body converts food into energy
Diverse means a big range
Modifications means changes. Dinosaurs have modifications such as spikes, armour, horns or crests.
Clade means family.
Lineage means ancestors/descendants
Paleontologists are scientists that study ancient things including dinosaurs
There are 4 main groups of dinosaurs; theropods, sauropods, ankylosaurus and pterosaurs.
Titanoboa was top of the food chain after the dinosaurs died. It killed people by constricting people. It spent most of its time in the water because it was super heavy. It was 13m long, as big as a bus.
Hominids existed when 7-6 million years ago, the first humans to walk on 2 feet.
People did not exist when dinosaurs existed. 

Adaptation is something that changes over time. 

Ecology - how animals relate to each other 

Fossils are made when dinosaurs die and their bones get trapped in rock or mud. The bones break down over time but leave a mould, which is filled with rock. This becomes the fossil.
Dinosaurs sometimes eat each other.
There were 3 periods of time that have dinosaurs. This is called the ‘age of dinosaurs’ also known as the ‘Mesozoic Era’; Triassic period, Jurassic period, and Cretasous period.
Then there were 3 more periods in time, “Age of mammals”, also known as ‘Cenozoic Era’; Paleogene Period, Neogene period and Quaternary period.
Dinosaur fossils have been found on every continent, including Antarctica.
Joan Wiffen found the first dinosaur fossil (a theropods tailbone) in NZ in 1975, in Hawkes Bay. She died in 2009.
Dinosaurs laid eggs and they lived in family groups.

Rakel and Micheal's writing

Once upon a time there was a Guy/Hunter called Steve Rogers. He was hunting for a Tiger in the Rainforest so he can get a nice dinner for his Family.
He found a Tiger in the meadow, he stalked it until he found that he was being watched by the tiger so he took a shot but he missed. Then the tiger chased him so he pulls out his minigun and starts to blast the tiger with reds. After a little bit he runs out of bullets but luckily it was weak. So he got his knife and stabbed it.
Then he took it home and cook a little bit of it because it was too big for his family to eat so he put some in the fridge for lunch and dinner. Before he went to get the tiger he went to go and get some water so his family can have something to eat.

rakel's narrative writing

Once upon a time there was a Grizzly bear and a Fox and also a Wolf the bear was getting very hungry so the Grizzly bear chased the Fox. Then the Fox’s friend the wolf came out and howled at the Grizzly bear and said “ leave my friend alone or we will both knock you out “. They Challenged the Grizzly bear to a fight in the forest at noon by the little river. They meet up at noon in the river so they started to fight but the wolf and the fox won so he said they won so then he went home and the fox and wolf went home celebrating that they won.

mnemonic

New words from reading
Tuesday 23rd July 2019
Big idea: within each kingdom there are more different groups that classify animals.
Prokaryotes - a name of a kingdom
Etc means etcetera
Interbreed - when two different animals have babies together
Mnemonics help us remember hard things, for example NEVER EAT SOGGY WEETBIX helps us remember North East South West.
This is the mnemonic i learnt to help me remember the order:
Type here keep placing cake orders for good students.
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus

Species

animal kingdoms

New words from animal kingdom reading
Monday’s reading
Organism - a living thing
Vertebrate - has a spine
Invertebrate - has no spine
Taxonomy - a way to group things
Diverse - a big range
Amphibians -
Heterotrophic - means they must find and eat food
Primates (apes, monkeys)
Rodents (rats, squirrels)
Cetaceans (dolphins, whales)
Marsupials (kangaroos, koalas)
Monotremes (egg laying mammals like the platypus)
Autotrophic - make their own food by photosynthesis
Photosynthesis - how plants make their own food
Vascular - uses roots to absorb water
Nonvascular - uses the whole plant to absorb water
Decompose, decomposition - to break down
Non-flowering - no flowers
Thermophiles - (root word is thermo which is about temperature)
Big ideas from the reading
All living things are called organisms.
They are organised into 6 groups called kingdoms. Each group has certain characteristics that each organism must have.
Animals
Can move on their own
Are heterotrophic (can’t make their own food)
Must eat to survive
Vertebrates and invertebrates
Plants
They are Autotrophic (they make their own food)
Some are vascular and nonvascular.
If a plant has seeds or fruit, it is a flowering plant.
Eubacteria
Are made up of just one cell. They are everywhere. Some bacteria are good and some are bad.
Bacteria called decomposers break down dead plants and anacteria.
Archaebacteria
Can survive where no other organism can live.
Thermophiles, methanogens and halophiles
Fungi
Say it fun guy
Mushrooms are a fungi
They are heterotrophic (can’a make their own food)
Use enzymes to break down food 

Protista
Are related to either plants, animals or fungi (one of them, not related to all of them at the same time)

mary anning intro

Brainstorm and plan. 

Structure	Topic	Words and ideas to use
Introduction		She sells sea shells on the sea shoare and also fossil.
Paragraph 2	Early life	May 21, 1799 Lightning Dad Poor - sell stuff
Paragraph 3	Discovering fossils	Curios  Lyme Regis Skull of a crocodile - brother - 12 years old Extinction was a new idea 1812 - ichthyosaur 1824 - plesiosaur Georges Cuvie
Paragraph 4	Later	1847 died of cancer
Conclusion

In 21 may 1799, mary anning was born at lyme regis, united kingdom and when she was a little kid she got struck by lightning but luckily she survived it. She finds fossils and seashells so she can sell them and earn heaps of money. She got interested in fossils because her dad told her stories about them when she was a kid. She sells the fossils and seashells because she lives life poorly.
She was curious about rich people so when she found her first fossil she said “I should start selling them for a business so I can get more money”.she lived on a cliff in lyme Regis and when she went on the side of the cliff she dug into the cliff and she found a skull of a crocodile. Then sadly in 9 march 1847 she died off breast cancer.