This week we made a fifty word summary about what palaeontology is, what the people do it in it, and why fossils are important.

We used Google drawing to make DLO and a short summary about what it is and explain the meaning of doing palaeontology.

I found learning about the things they find interesting like bones, fossils and ancient life.

Me and my math group made a DLO about what a lowest common mutiple is.

We used examples to explain what is and how it works and put a few questions.

Lowest common mutiples is the lowest numbers that are used to mutiply into the number that is in question, for example the lowest common mutiples of six is two and three because two times three is six.

I enjoyed this task because I created a DLO of hwo to show what im learning in maths, I found this task interesting because it cna always remind me of what a Lowest common mutiple is.

Long long ago, there was a volcano,she was the furious of the furious and  her name was Maungarei and  she had the smallest temperature and got mad regularly, but she soon found out that all the chaos she caused everyday would come back to her, but still she caused and caused more chaos everyday but soon she was enraged by her feelings and would only see red.

As her anger took control she rumbled and exploded causing all the other volcanoes to be scared of her. Once Maungarei was surrounded by a smoke screen of fury everyone knew to run.

Maungarei soon regretted her actions and realized how lonely she has become.”Why are you guys leaving?!” She asked worriedly,”Your scary Maungarei you get angry too much!” The other maunga replied.

Since this has happened she started to cry explosions and lava burning the land and turning everything to ashes. Little later after,  she relaxed herself,  she looked around and saw that nothing was there and knew that this was her doing so she made up her mind to be better.

“I have made up my mind, I have made the descision to sleep forever and to not cause chaos anymore, only if I’m not woken up from my slumber” she stated

After those words everyone agreed and she made a promise to her and her own neighbours that they would not wake her up from her sleep and she would not cause a fit of rage anymore. So she did so, she went to sleep for an extremely long time and is still in her deep rest till this day, this helped  humans build buildings and societies around her. She could not see her brother and sisters anymore because of the tall and big building that surrounded her. People now call her a dormant volcano because she is asleep.

I used Adobe express to create this image with prompts that gave me a variety of pictures to choose, I thought that this image suited the story most because it shows a volcano in flames and you can tell there’s emotions behind the fire.

Last week LS2 was learning about volcanoes and made volcano animations, we used photos to trace for our volcano and we used the animation to show how a volcano erupts. We used the tracing lines to make and create an animation.

I enjoyed this activity because it was my first time making an animaton with google slides, I found this activity interesting because we were showing how volcanoes erupt in a unique way through Google slides.

LI: To retell an event in history through the fictional eyes of someone who was there

We have been looking at the events that took place at ANZAC Cove on 25 April 1915, during WW1. Alot of our NZ soldiers were hurt or killed in action. We looked at videos of life in the trenches, explored the Walking with ANZACs site and read Hami Grace’s diary. Doing this helped us put our own diary entries together.

We used Google Vids to record our diary entries. I enjoyed using this as it allowed me to make a video that could show others what I think Ww1 was like.

Something I found interesting about this was that using Google vids is very fun.

For Literacy we have been using our Inquiry knowledge to help us write questions that we might have asked Reverend Samuel Marsden had we had the chance to meet him and talk to him. This was a fun activity because we took on the roles of Samuel Marsden and the Time Traveller’s Podcast team. It was like we experienced actually meeting him.

We learned that when you are recording a podcast expression is everything! It makes what we have to say more engaging.

LI: To use Google My Maps to show the migratory flight path of the Kuaka.

The Kuaka travels from their  breeding grounds so they can feed on rich mud flats, they migrate to harbours sandy coasts as their habitat, they migrate to the Alaskan tundra to breed as that is their breed grounds.

They refuel at the yellow sea to preserve energy to make the flight.

Fun fact: the kuaka bird is known for their long distanced migration is over 11,000 kilometers.

LI: To draw the lines between the words to show how the connections you
have made.

Our task was to make a dot to dot connection between information about the Kuaka I chose a variety of different words to make connections to and provided information between them.

something our group found interesting was the Kuaka bird preserves energy by standing on one leg. This is because this is a facisinating fact and it cool to know.

LI: To understand the concept of visual storytelling

Our task today was to make a visual story in time sequence, we used photos of our walk to tell people stories of how our walk down the Tamaki awa went. We pictured what Samuel marsden might have seen.

I enjoyed this task because we got to think of what Samuel Marsden might have seen and it was like a walk down through  history. This activity was also fun because it we got to play at the park.

LI: To understand how we can help prevent Kauri Dieback disease and why we need to do this.

One of our challenegs at camp was to walk the Cossey- Massey track at Hunua. Before we entered the bush we had to make sure our shoes were disinfected. This DLO tells why we needed to do this and why we need to help prevent the spread of Kauri Dieback.I think this is an important message to share because Kauri diebacks are important to New Zealand and show a big part of New Zealand.