Basic fact goals

 This year I have been learning the factors from 1 to 100 and the prime numbers from 66 to 100

How to conduct an experiment.

 In class, we were learning how fertilizer is bad for our estuaries and if water is better to use or if fertilizer is better to use and our story that we are writing is an explanation.

Explanation Writing Assessment Term 2 2021 Snapshot

Name: Taitokerau I have shared this back to Whaea Lana? Yes 

Write to explain one of the following: How plants excrete, how gardeners are like scientists, how farmers deal with effluent, or how something works (like a battery circuit) 

How to conduct an experiment

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Introduction

Today I am going to explain to you how to conduct an experiment and what we did to figure out how fertilizer will affect our entries and what it will do to our water creatures and to our water.

Environment

The stuff that we need is a bottle that has nothing in it. We need a knife, some sand, some rocks, some duckweed, and lastly some fertilizer and water to go in when you finish putting everything in place.

fertilizer affects our estuaries

Firstly, year 7&8 students studied how fertilizer will affect our entries and what will happen if there is too much fertilizer in our entries. When our class figured out how fertilizer will affect our entries we decided that we would do an experiment about it and how runoff is a bad thing for our environment.

 fertilizer or water

Secondly, we had made a plan of what we are going to use and what we are going to do for our experiment to see which is better fertilizer or water.

`Which one do you reckon is better to use?

So we had done an experiment to see which one is better to use water or fertilizer and we figured out that water is better to use because it keeps the plant healthy and fertilizer makes the plant not as healthy as the plant that has water in it and it does not look alive like the one that has water in it6 and it looks alive.

Summary

In summary, I have enjoyed learning about fertilizer and how it affected our estuaries and what will happen if fertilizer is in our estuaries.

 

Problem solving

 So in maths, we are trying to find out how to find the area of the shaded part of the triangle and we are going to give you the steps to do it and it is a 3 step problem.

The first step is we have to find the area of the triangle.

the second step is you have to divide the base by 2

Then after that, you have to times the number from the previous step by the height.

Then you subtract the area of the triangle from the area of the rectangle.

This is the formula of how to find the area of a rectangle is to time the length to the base and it will give you the answer of the rectangle.

How to make a ukutangi

 This is my explanation of how to make a traditional Maori ukutangi. In class, we made one and we are going to give our ukutangi to someone special in our life.

Name: Tai

Planning:   

Introduction/classification (hook and tell what it is)

The process (three paragraphs)

1. Working with the clay

2. Make two bowls

3. Making a sound

Summary (link back to main ideas or intro)

Introduction

Taonga puoro is a traditional Maori instrument; they also are taonga. This term the tamariki in year 7&8s learned how to make a ukutangi with whaea Raechel. Tonga pouro can be used for ceremonial purposes. Today I am going to explain how to make a putangitangi and how to blow a ukutangi. Psalm 87:7 Then those who sing as well as those who play the flute shall say, All my springs of joy are in You.

Equipment that you need 

The equipment that you need is some clay, a toothpick so you can scratch the top of the two bowls that you make and the main thing you need so your clay doesn't dry is a little bowl of water.

How to make a ukutangi

Firstly you get some clay and split it into two pieces that are roughly the same then you get one half and you imprint your thumb finger in and get you two fingers and push the sides lightly then you get the other one and you do the same as you did with the first part of your ukutangi. Then once you finish both of them you get a toothpick and scratch the tops smoothly so you don’t bust it. Then when you're done scratching the lines on top you put them together and then you smooth it and when you're finished you drill your pinky on the top of the ukutangi and then you see if it works.                          

Summary 

In summary, I enjoyed making a mess everywhere, and making them was cool. Lastly, to see if the ukutangi works you have to make sure that it has a flat top and that it works. You blow half your breath in and then you leave some space for half of your breath to go around and then come out so it can make a sound.

How the estuaries are affected by fertilizer

 This term in science we have learnt how the estuaries are affected by fertilizer.

learning about Matariki

This term for the Matariki celebration we are going to do some art in the class with everyone.

The wonderful night sky

 We are going to the planetarium tonight so we can learn more about the solar system.