What A Healthy Ecosystem Needs?

In Te Ngahere we have been learning about what makes a  healthy ecosystem. I think I did really well because I explained what the difference is between an unhealthy and healthy ecosystem looks like and what happens if the ecosystem becomes unbalanced . I enjoyed showing what I learned and next time I am going to put more information into my writing to make it sound interesting.

What A Healthy Ecosystem Needs?

A Healthy Ecosystem is made up of inorganic matter and organic matter.
Inorganic matter is a non living thing like water, air, rocks, nutrients and sun.
Organic matter is a living thing like kina, crayfish, seaweed and other sea creatures.
Also ecosystems needs producers, consumers and decomposers.

What is a Inorganic Matter?

Inorganic matter is a non living thing, like water, rocks, sun, air, nutrients and
other things. Inorganic matter is a part of the ecosystem. Inorganic matter is part of the
food chain, and that's how food chains start.

What is a organic matter?

Organic matter is a living thing, Organic matter is a compound that has carbon,
chemicals and nitrogen. Organic matter has fish, kina’s, carpetshark and crayfish.

What is a producer?

Producers are living things. Producers produce energy for consumers, like kelp.
Kelp gets energy from the sunlight and when the consumer eats the producer it gets
energy.

What is a consumer?

Consumers are living things. Consumer get energy from producers, like kina.
Here is a example, a consumer eats a producers then another consumer comes and
eats the other consumer so it’s like a food chain.

What is a Decomposer?

Decomposers break down dead sea creatures and releases nutrients such as carbon
and nitrogen that goes back into the environment also, means that nutrients goes back
into the ecosystem so the producers can use the nutrients.

When Ecosystems are fragile?

A healthy ecosystem is fragile, and if it becomes unbalanced the sea creatures will
start dying e.g if people keep catching crayfish then the kina will keep eating the kelp,
which means the other sea creatures will start dying because of people catching crayfish.
So now we know about healthy and unhealthy ecosystems.

Passion Project

In Te Ngahere we have been learning about passion project, we had to create something or learn something you're passionate about. I did well at figuring out how volcanoes erupt. I enjoyed discovering new things about volcanoes, it was fun. I think next time I could of done better by getting more information so it sounds interesting.

Food Chain

The past few weeks we we learning about food chains and it was hard trying to get the animation in place. I did the animation with Tia. The thing that I enjoyed was that me and Tia had a good time making the animation. The thing I could of done better was to add more information about food chains but I am really proud of myself. I hope you like Tia's and my food chain

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My Metaphor Poem

In Te Ngahere we have been learning to write a poem about ourselves using metaphors.I think I did well by using descriptive words to describe myself best in my poem. I think I could do better by adding more detail to my poem about myself. The hard thing was trying to describe myself as something. At first I did not have any ideas but then it started to pop up in my brain. This is my first draft.

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My Pepeha

In Te Ngahere we have been learning our Pepeha and adding our brothers, sisters, mum, dad and grandparents. On my Pepeha I did well by learning new words and saying the words properly. I enjoyed learning with everyone and trying my best at saying the words, also I like learning about my family. I also like sharing my work with other people. Next time I need to learn more about my family so I can put more writing in.

Camp

In Te Maunga we went camping at Coopers Beach on 27th of November. I was so excited when we went to Coopers Beach because there was lots of activities like the water slide, confidence course, slippery hockey and kayaking. Also there was two trampolines they were so bouncy that I could nearly touch the clouds. My favorite thing at camp was doing slippery hockey because I like it when we have to try get a goal and then you slip, that is fun.  I wish we can go back in time and do it over and over again because I love camping. Here is Bella's, Vinnies's and my trailer we made.

Camping!!!!

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Waka Ama

In Te Maunga we have been learning to write a quality recount. We did waka ama every Tuesday. Here is my story about waka ama.

Waka Ama

On the 31st of October 2017 Te Maunga went waka ama down in Waitangi so Constable Rob can teach us how to paddle our waka.

When we were getting set up for waka ama Constable Rob taught us how to put a life jacket on also we helped carry out the waka out into the salty water. I was jumping up and down and running around like a slithery snake.

We were all jumping in the waka so we could have a turn. When we were paddling we were using our hoe of Tu Maia never giving up. When I was paddling my arms felt like a squiggly noodle.

After waka ama we had free time I was skimming the rocks across the bumpy water and the rock did four jumps “yay” I said. After that we found little snappy crabs. We were astonished about how many crabs could fit under a tiny rock. We were screaming.

Next time we do waka ama I am going to try my hardest when I paddle.