Miro Trees

For the past few weeks in Te Ngahere we have been learning about native, endemic and introduced birds, plants and animals in te ngahere. For my presentation my partner and I decided to pick the Miro tree.  I think I did well by presenting what Miro trees do in te ngahere. They are really interesting. Did you know miro trees leaves keep the ngaheres floor wet and moist. I really enjoyed learning about all the facts that I found .

Moment In Time

In Te Ngahere we have been learning to write descriptively about Te Ngahere which is a forest. We looked at some pictures then we described about them. We added what the forest looks like, smells like and what it feels like. I think I did really well with my descriptive writing. Also I did well by getting bad words and making them into better words. I enjoyed pretty much everything because I like describing things. I think I could have done better by including 3 or 4 paragraphs because I only used two. Here is my writing hope you like it.

Moment in time

The white, blue sky peeks through the trees hitting the ground , the patch of clouds start rising. If you listen closely you can hear birds tweeting and chirping. The wind and leaves swishing.  The leaf feels like a tough piece of paper. Vines swinging, across the bright forest. Trees feel like a rough brick that stands tall. Taking step by step the ground felt damped.

As you walk you can feel the wind slamming you fearless back and can see colourful flowers bursting up into the fresh air. As you get deeper into the forest it gets darker and darker. As the day went by trees past away clouds swished, and birds flew to a better environment.

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.