Our challenge was to create a Google Draw that shows clearly labelled examples of each fossil type.
Something that I found interesting was, that trace fossils could be dinosaur feces, and that you could tell what a dinosaur preyed on just by the teeth on another fossil.
Our challenge was to become a paleontoligist who uncovered a rare dinosaur egg fossil. We used Adobe Express to reimagine what a real find might look like. After a quick research challenge about habitat we used that information to create our image.
My partner and I found the skeleton of a Brachiosaurus, and we found out that it has a big heart so it can pump blood up to its brain!
This task was fun because at the begining we got to put a random dinosaur into a clay sort of mold, and then we cracked it open.
For this weeks reading task we made a DLO about a provacation, we gave a question to answer and looked at both sides of it, we checked which one we thought had a better reason to the question, the question was “Should the government have apologised for the dawn raids that happened yesterday (1970s) ?”
We thought yes because the people that felt hurt to this and the family’s broken in this event still needed a apology otherwise the hatred for the government would still be there.
We still checked the other answers for no and the reason behind it, overall we thought yes was the reasonable answer.
This task was fun and I liked how I could tell my own opininons.
Before we take part in our own dinosaur dig LS2 were challenged to capture the story behind Mary Anning, a pioneering fossil hunter and paleontologist during the early 19th century. Mary Anning did discover the first almost complete skeleton of a plesiosaur, a marine reptile, in 1823. She also nearly completed the ichthyosaur skeleton another marine reptile. Who was also knowned as on of the first paleontologist.
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.