Tuesday 27 August 2019

Kūtai by Ross Calman

Kūtai by Ross Calman


Walt: make inferences from the information in the text and show or select appropriate supporting
evidence as proof that we understand the author’s purpose for writing.


Kūtai  By Ross Calman

Directions: Read each passage and then respond to the questions.  Each question will ask you to make a
logical inference based on textual details.  Explain your answer by referencing the text.




1.  What is Tangaroa? High tide,  low tide, shallow water, king tide


How do you know this?  
The Atu of the sea. Provide us with many gifts.


2.  What do Maori people who live near the coast eat  : McDonalds, KFC or fish and chips
What in the text supports your description? 
Fish and chips

3.  According to Māori whakapapa, Kūtai are children of Tangaroa? 
Explain what you think this is?
  Kutai and other shellfish have always been an important part of the diet of maori who live near the coast.




 4.  What are the Kūtai shells used for? 


How do you know this?    
To help prepare the harakeke for weaving.
  

5. Kūtai belong to a large group of animals mollusc. What other group are the Kūtai known as and why? 
What in the text supports your evidence?
  Kutai are also known as bivales because they have two hinged shells.



6.  Where do green-lipped mussel grow? 


How do you know this?  
 Are common around rocky coasts, Grow mussels farm.


7.  Why do we only take enough kaimoana? 


What in the text supports your description? 
So we don’t be selfish and we can share the kaimoana. 

 8.  Describe what Kūtai look like?  

Your evidence from the text.
  It is like a country. 


9. How long is the Hururoa? 


What in the text supports your idea?    30 centimetre


10. Why are Kūtai grown in mussel farms now ?  


What in the text supports your idea?
   In the mud of lakes, rivers, and streams.

Wednesday 21 August 2019

Kūtai Fritters by Charlene Mataio

Kūtai Fritters by Charlene Mataio


Walt: make inferences from the information in the text and show or select appropriate supporting
evidence as proof that we understand the author’s purpose for writing.


Kūtai Fritters By Charlene Mataio

Directions: Read each passage and then respond to the questions.  Each question will ask you to make a
logical inference based on textual details.  Explain your answer by referencing the text.




1.  When is the best time to collect Kaimoana? High tide,  low tide, shallow water, king tide


How do you know this?  
   When there is a king tide. Because that’s why, last Saturday, we were always getting collect kutai.      


2.  Describe Koro’s pōtae : black and white, fury and warm, floppy, 
What in the text supports your description? Warm and it was a sun hat.

3.  What relationship do Brianna and Maeva have? Are they, husband and wife or mother and son
or brother and sister.
Why do you feel this way?
 husband and wife, I feel happy for them.


 4.  Why did Max gasp when they got to the beach? 


How do you know this?    
Because when they went to the beach, the tide was so far out! 
  

5.  Why did Koro call out ‘Taihoa wait for the rest of us’? Koro wanted to go swimming, Ko wanted 
to show the kids the crab. 


What in the text supports your description?  
  Because the rest of them wanted to have a rest. They stopped, dancing from one foot to the other.




6.  Why was Kalani scared? 

How do you know this?  
But I was a bit scared of what might be hiding under the rocks. She was clinging tightly to the ledge were biggest.


7.  Why do we only take enough kaimoana? 


What in the text supports your description? 
So we don’t be selfish and we can share the kaimoana. 

 8.  Describe what Kūtai look like?  

Your evidence from the text.
 It is like a country. 


9.  What did Kalani see when he got to the beach? 


What in the text supports your idea?
 He finds the kutai under the rock.

10. Why do you never turn your back on the sea?  

What in the text supports your idea?
   Because it is my life without any sea. It for me swimming and water.

Thursday 15 August 2019

The Zones of the Rocky Shore

The Zones of the Rocky Shore - ReportImage result for The rocky shore
Walt: we are learning to write a report.



Introduction
       Zones of the Rocky Shore
Body 1
Supratidal or Splash zone
Crabs, Sea Gulls, Mussels, Snails
Body 2
Intertidal
- High Tide zone
- Middle Tide Zone
- Low Tide Zone 
High tide: anemones, barnacles, chitons, crabs, isopods, mussels, sea stars, snails.

Middle Tide: snails, sponges, sea stars, barnacles, mussels, sea palms, crabs.

Low zone: Brown seaweed, crabs, hydroids, mussels, sea cucumber, sea lettuce, sea urchins, shrimps, snails, tube worms.


Body 3
Subtidal zone
fish,seastar ,seaweed, isopods, barnacles, limpets.
Conclusion
We are going to the rocky shore this mouth.


Thursday 8 August 2019

Quality Blog Comments

Maths

Maths Task 2

Smart Relationships

I think a smart relationship is like your related to something and when you know everything.


I think I would have a smart relationship with is my friends.


I would want a good and happy person to have a smart relationship with.

The Old Woman's Nose

Trouble On The Bus

Matariki Breakfast

A Pet to the Vet

adverb-intro

Describe adverb 




1. Mrs Tumahai walked quickly
 to her desk.

2. Lesieli ran happily outside.

3. Melemanu walked out of the bus quickly. 

4. Today sienna went shopping desperately.

5. Lesieli and Mele always go very slowly to the hall for assembly.

6. Leonidas jumped happily outside.






Junior Journal 53

Conversion Task

Double Dare

8th May 2019


Today we played Double Dare. Our teacher
brought the packet to school for us to try.
             
When I tasted the Double Dare it was so yum
it looked like it was yellow and when I put it in
mouth it was so yum and it tasted like banana
and banana cake. I loved it it was the best I
ever tasted before it was so yummy you should
taste it and the blue and the red one. The blue
one taste like toothpaste  and the red one taste
like raspberry and cherry I like them I wanted
all three of them.

Latitude and Longitude

Today Miss Szymanik helped us to understand what Latitude and longitude are. We wrote this together as a class.


Latitude is an invisible horizontal line that runs around the Earth from East to West.It begins at the equator where it’s coordinates are 0 degrees.


Longitude is the invisible vertical line that runs around the Earth from North to South. The prime meridian is where its coordinates are 0 degrees.


Latitude and Longitude help us label every place in the world.


My slime game

This is a 3 player game where you have to make your own slime. You have to roll a pot of slime and where it lands you have to add that ingredient to your mixing bowl. There are 9 ingredients to collect to make your own slime. The first person who can mix their slime is the winner.

This is my slime I made.