Tesselating Frogs

Te Reo work in He Kakano

KOWHAIWHAI PATTERN

         MY KOWHAIWHAI ART 

BY DANIEL 

In He Kākano (our senior māori group) we have been
learning about
kowhaiwhai and their meanings. I had to create
a piece of
artwork showing
at least one kowhaiwhai  pattern.
Here is what I created. 

The red koru represents my whanau.
There is mum dad my sister and myself.
The dark green koru represent the nature and the bush.
I put these on because my family
loves going tramping and being in the outdoors.
The light green Design
represents ABUNDANCE.
I chose this design
because the bush is all about growth and ABUNDANCE.  

The yellow design represents Te Rā ( The Sun ) 

The blue design represents the weather
and how it can rapidly
change in Aotearoa.       

CAMP PHOTOS 2018

Multilink Maths

NZ FALCON WRITING

The New Zealand falcon is a bird of prey. They are known as the the bravest bird in New Zealand . THEY ARE A TRUE WARBIRD.

PHYSICAL FEATURES
The New Zealand (NZ) Falcon is a very lean looking bird of prey. They have brown pointed wings and they have a streaked cream breast. They also have a hooked beak and above the beak is golden yellow which is also the colour of their eye ring. It uses its golden talons (claws) for grabbing its prey.

Habitat
They live in the South and the North Islands, however they are rare on Stewart Island. They mostly live in beech forests, tussocklands, roughly grazed hill country and pine forests. However in the Chatham Islands, NZ Falcons are found in bushy areas around mountains.

Feeding Behaviour

They hunt live prey. They can catch prey larger than themselves, such as black shags. The New Zealand Falcon flies really fast and attacks with a strike or grasp to grab the prey with their talons. Once they have their prey they brutally kill it with a quick powerful bite to the neck. They eat a range of animals, including mammals such as rabbits and hares. They also will eat lizards but NZ falcons mainly eat other birds. Juvenile falcons will eat insects.

Reproduction
Falcons do not make nests but make a scrape on the ground, under a rocky outcrop or in an epiphyte (a plant that grows on another plant) in an emergent forest tree into which it lays its eggs. It lays two to four eggs which take about 33 days to hatch. The juveniles are fed by both parents, the male does most of the hunting with the female guarding close to the nest. Fledgling occurs between 31 and 45 days after hatching.

Social Behaviour
NZ Falcons are really aggressive especially when guarding their nest. They can dig their talons into you ( as my dad found out ) and are one of the bravest birds because they can hunt prey bigger than them.

Threats
The main animal threats to falcon include: cats, stoats, ferrets and hedgehogs. Also they can be electrocuted on power poles containing uninsulated transformer boxes. Can you believe that people still shoot falcons, they seem to do this because people that have chickens and racing pigeons think that the falcon are a hassle because sometimes they eat their chickens and racing pigeons.
Sadly falcons are losing their habitat due to logging and pastures being converted. Finally, some falcons even crash into the turbine blades on wind farms, which can kill them.

Conclusion
The New Zealand falcon is a bird of prey. They are known as the the bravest bird in New Zealand . THEY ARE A TRUE

WARBIRD.

BY DAN

Carving- Whakairo

For the past two weeks we have been learning about carving. Here is my DLO I did.

summer learning journey

This summer holidays i will be part of the Summer Learning Journey. Task One   

fact one maui's brothers were mean. 
2 He made a fish hook from a jaw bone.  
3 he fished up the south island. 

Safety Tips

This week we are going to camp. We had to  present our learning about safety tips  in a D.L.O digital learning object.


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Quick Writes Term 4

we have been working on ‘Quick Writes.’  This is where you are given something to write about (a writing prompt) and you only have 10mins to write as much as possible using this writing prompt.For our writing prompts we will use either images or short videos.

1) Fireworks

As I walked into this place I smelt the smell of smoke from the fire.  I  heard the bang, bang, pew, pew of the fireworks. It was beautiful like a daffodil opening on a clear spring day. I felt the warmth comforting me. It was the coolest thing anyone could experience in a lifetime.

2) Spiderman

As  I walked down the road I heard the people shouting out, "Its him, its him!" I could smell the food stands then a UFO comes and squishes him flat  the crowd did not care.

3) Tomato Pulp

Tomato Fight

People in Europe like throwing tomatoes at people. You can smell  the rich hauna [ smell ]  of tomatoes. You can hear the squelch of the tomatoes. You can feel the slimy tomato pulp all over you.

4) A Stormy Day

Bang, crash, bang, crash the whaitiri [thunder] is banging. The lightning is flashing. Then the wind howls down on the little house and it shakes. Next the lightning strikes a tree and I watch it from my little bedroom as it burns down to ash on the forest floor.  Then it smokes for a while, embers glowing like little fireflies lighting the way to paradise.

Day And Night Explanation

For reading we have been learning about space and our solar system.  We learnt about why we have day and night.  Here is my DLO (digital learning object) about why I think we have day and night.