Walk in the Te Ngahere

 On Wednesday we went for a walk through the Ngahere because we are learning about ecosystems and what lives in them. Went for the walk to gather information about all the creatures and plants in the Ngahere. I sore lots of different types of ferns. I did see one creature which was a fantail. There were meter long spiders webs going from one tree to another. There were vines growing on trees (Produser) and even mushrooms that were growing on trees. my favorite thing that I sore was a fantail (consumer) hopping around on the branches. I know that I need to be a bit more quiet when in the Ngahere. What I did well was noticing all the different types of plants.

How many types of ferns can you name?

Task Smashers

 Lately in Te Ngahere we been doing a team building exercise called taskmaster.  

For this challenge we had to draw a picture that we couldn’t see but  the runners (Mikaira and Jayden) could         only see the drawing sadly, I was the drawer and wasn’t allowed to see the drawing. The runners could go outside and look at the picture that our teacher had drawn. The runner would have to tell the drawer what to draw and where to draw it but the runner couldn’t touch the paper. We got to do two attempts. I found being the drawer for the first attempt really hard because I couldn’t see the drawing and I had to trust Mikaira and Jayden. What worked well on the first attempt was our communication we talked really well together. What didn’t work well on the first attempt was  the timer because it put us under stress and I wasn’t able to see the drawing that I was copying. What was challenging was not being able to see the paper. For the second attempt what we did well was talking more and also we weren’t yelling at each other. What didn’t work well on our second attempt was not knowing what I was drawing. What was challenging on the second attempt was still not being able to see the paper and having to draw under the pressure. 

Have you seen the show taskmasters?

Food Webs

 Lately in Te Ngahere we have been learning about food webs. A food web is a web that shows you what animals eat what and where the energy  from each animal comes from and goes to. Here are two of the food webs the first one is mine and the second one is Whaea Becks. 

Here are some differences between ours. My food web is different to Whaea Beck’s because she has color coded hers and I haven’t. Also  she has added more detail by adding more of what animals eat. The last thing that is different between ours is the lay out and how many arrows because she has added more of what all the animals eat. The arrows might look like they are facing the wrong way but they actually aren't they are facing this way because it is the way the energy is transferred. For example the stoat and kiwi the energy is transferred from the kiwi to the stoat. What I could have done better is learn a bit more about these animals and what they eat also I could have color coded it as well. What I think that I have done well is that I tried to not make my food web too messy.

 Can you see anymore differences between the two food webs?

Cooking to the Extreme

 Last week we went to tech at Morewa School. Tech is where you do cooking or you do woodwork for this term, the year 8s did cooking and the year 7s did woodwork. For cooking we have a teacher called Wheae Dot. At the start she introduced herself and told us abit about her life. For that day we were going to be cooking pizza pinwheels. We had to cut a lot of vegetables and we even had to cut some bacon and grate some cheese, we also had to make our own dough. After we had done all that we had to lay tomato paste all over our dough and put all of our veggies and meat on top of the dough. 

The hardest part to me was rolling the dough with everything in it. What I could do better next is to take my time and not rush through the whole thing as fast as I can.

Have you ever cooked pizza pinwheels.

Well blogger out.