A Successful Task

 A Successful Task

In Te Ngahere we’ve been doing something in our groups called taskmaster and the task we were doing was called copy the picture. where there is 1 drawer and 2 runners we’ve done this twice since we did this taskmaster activity(taskmaster is a show people are on to do specific tasks). Here are the rules 1. The drawer can not move from their seat, 2. You can switch runners but only 1 person can be running at a time, 3. All team members not drawing must run at least once, 4. Runners can not touch the paper. In my group Angus, me and Charlize. I was the drawer while Charlize and angus were the runners they had to walk outside and try memorize what was on the teachers paper  and come tell me where it was exactly without pointing or touching the paper. What was hard the first time I did this was trying to tell Angus where the picture went because that time I was a runner. What I think worked well was how we collaborated well and also it was really challenging not running inside. But the second time was easier because we got more done than the last time and it also changed a little bit because we had another person in our group that wasn’t here last time just the hard thing about the second time was I got yelled at a lot.

Have you seen the programme taskmaster?

Here is a photo of the picture I drew and the picture my team member drew----->

 My Food Web

In Te Ngahere we’ve been learning about food webs. A food web is a diagram that shows you how the predators get their energy. First we had to learn what the arrows mean and we learnt that the way the arrows blunt side is facing is the organism being eaten so that means the organism/predator with the point facing to it is the thing eating the other creature, here’s another way to put it, the energy from the animal which they ate is transferred to the predator of that animal. Also we had to find which birds ate the berries and I found out rats eat everything on the web except the kowhai berries. Here are some reasons why my food web is different to Whaea Becks one example 1 she has the coloured coded arrows, example 2 mine is very messy    example 3 she’s finished unlike me. This was really hard just trying to figure out which animal ate what, but the easy thing was figuring out which way the arrow pointed.

Did this help you in any way? Here’s a photo of my teachers food web and mine--->

The Water Surge

Last friday my family went to Oromahoe because there was a surge in the water that everyone thought was a Tsunami. When the Tsunami sirens went off we just got to school so my Mum let us come home with her. We picked up my Dad, his dog and my grandmother. As we rushed to Oromahoe my Dad stopped at the R&S Auto Service Repair shop just out of Haruru to get my cousin. When we got to Oromahoe we were safe, but we were just as scared thinking about what could have happened that day. So then for the rest of that day we stayed in Oromahoe playing video games, tag and running around for no exact reason. when we went back home we realised that there was no damage to the house or not even a Tsunami.

What would you do if there was a Tsunami near you?

 Amazing Things About Mutualism.

In Te Ngahere we’ve been learning about mutualism and how birds and trees have a  mutualistic relationship. Birds and trees both benefit from their relationship and I’m going to tell you how. The birds help the trees by eating the fruit off the tree but also spreading the pollen through the flowers so they can bloom and make berries, when the birds eat the fruit they eat the seeds too and as their flying away from that tree the bird poops the seed out, also the tree grows and the birds poop helps fertilize the tree so it can grow faster, what I found hardest during this lesson to me was learning what the word mutualism means, but what I found easy was finding the facts in the text I was reading. Here are some of those facts about mutualism.

Did this teach you anything  about mutualism? Here is a photo of my synthesizing writing---->