Current Events

 Kia ora ! today I had a reading task to complete. This reading task was for me to read an article and answer the question.  The article I chose was heavy floods happening in NSW Australia. Here is my answers towards the task    

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol was born on the 6th August 1928 in Pennsylvania. He became famous because he was an commercial illustrator in New York. He made pop art and modern art. His most successful art work was the shot Marilyn and Marilyn diptych. Andy passed away at 22 February 1987 everyone will remember him and his art work. 

Room 7 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.  Hominins 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 Cretaceous 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.

Mt Erebus Plane Crash

How Maui brang fire to the world

One night Maui wondered how to make fire.So he went and lit all the fire out .
The next morning everyone woke up and complained and said
“How are we going to keep warm at night”. “How am i going to cook food for my
children” shouted the villagers. They were so mad at Maui so they told him  
“you must go to the volcano and get more fire” yelled the villagers. So then
Maui started his voyage to go and find mahuika. Along the way he came pass
a pukeko and a kiwi bird who wanted to go with him and he said yes.They
walked and they found the volcano just before Maui walked in he had a karkia
and then took a deep breath in and with his confidence he walked in and saw
Mahuika. So then Maui asked can “I please have some fire” so then Mahuika
gave maui 1 finger nail and Maui said thank you,So Maui walked out and went
and threw it in the river so then he walked back and said sorry  Mahuika I had
tripped and it fell into the river. Maui keep walking back and forth telling different
types of excuses so then Mahuika only had one more fire ball left and she
knew that Maui was telling lies, So then Mahuika got angry and light up the
floor. Then Maui ran as fast as he could to go outside because how the fire
was burning the floor, He got outside and he quickly turned into an eagle and
flew up so Mahuika got so mad she frew her last ball at Maui and it had miss
and it Hit the tree Maui ran as fast as he could back home and taught the
people how to make fire with branches.

Friday's reading task

Sarawak chamber is the largest known cave chamber
in the world,By area and the second largest by volume
after the Miao Room in China. It is in Gua Nasib Bagus,
which is located in Gunung Mulu National Park, in the
Malaysian state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo.
It looks really cool I wish to go visit it some time.

Thursday reading task

The longest cave in New Zealand is the Bulmer Cavern in
Mount Owen, south-west Nelson, which is 39.9 kilometres
(24.8 miles), 400 metres of which are unsurveyed. John
Patterson discovered the cave on New Year's Day 1984,
by dropping a rock down and counting the seconds until
it reached the bottom.

Monday's reading task

Some New words i learnt

Stalactites-When I was reading a book about caves there was
Stalactite top of the cave

Chambers-Is large underground spaces

Flow stone formations- sheet-like rock formations,formed
where water flows down the walls or along the floors of a cave

speleological-Study of the biological

Technical- relating to a particular subject, art, or craft, or its
techniques.

New words that I have noticed today in my reading

Hauling

groaned

Hot and sweaty

Would rather be doing

beamed at

stomped

yanked

dropped open

Haere Mai