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Thursday, September 12, 2019

Andy Warhol


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Andy Warhol was born on the 6th of august  1928 in Pennsylvania. He became famous because he was an Commercial illustrator Art at the carnegie institute of technology. His #1st successful art she liked was the Marilyn Diptych that was made in 1962. He lived openly as a gay man and he died on the  22nd february 1987.

Monday, September 2, 2019

Michel Mulipola

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                     About Michel


  • Loves comics ever since he was 5
  • Samoan
  • Wrestler
  • Onehunga
  • Works in a comic book store in onehunga
  • Draws
  • Dream Marvel DC
  • Successful - Published a comic

  • About Comic
  • Write the story down - Dialogue / Unforgettable characters / Mess up / Change / Fun / Familiar and relatable
  • Layout - Quick sketch before the annual comic and angles/ Shots in your frame
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  • Speech - Make sure it fits on the page / Lettering and voice punctuation

Saturday, August 10, 2019

New words from animal kingdom reading



New words from animal kingdom reading

Monday’s reading
Organism - a living thing Vertebrate - has a spine Invertebrate - has no spine Taxonomy - a way to group things
Diverse - a big range Amphibians - organisms that live in water and on land Heterotrophic - means they must find and eat food Autotrophic - an organism that can make its own food Primates (apes, monkeys)
Rodents (rats, squirrels) Cetaceans (dolphins, whales) Marsupials (kangaroos, koalas) Monotremes (egg laying mammals like the platypus) Autotrophic - make their own food by photosynthesis Photosynthesis - how plants make their own food Vascular - uses roots to absorb water Nonvascular - uses the whole plant to absorb water Decompose, decomposition - to break down
Non-flowering - no flowers Thermophiles - (root word is thermo which is about temperature) Big ideas from the reading All living things are called organisms. They are organised into 6 groups called kingdoms. Each group has certain characteristics that each organism must have.
Animals Can move on their own Are heterotrophic (can’t make their own food) Must eat to survive
Vertebrates and invertebrates Plants They are Autotrophic (they make their own food) Some are vascular and nonvascular. If a plant has seeds or fruit, it is a flowering plant. Eubacteria Are made up of just one cell. They are everywhere. Some bacteria are good and some are bad. Bacteria called decomposers break down dead plants and bacteria. Archaebacteria Can survive where no other organism can live.Thermophiles, methanogens and halophiles Fungi Say it fun guy Mushrooms are a fungi They are heterotrophic (can’a make their own food) Use enzymes to break down food Protista
Are related to either plants, animals or fungi (one of them, not related to all of them at the same time)







Friday, August 9, 2019

Fossils

Fossils are dead animals or plants. They are usually skeletons found embedded in rock. Sometimes fossils are footprints or poo. Small animals or insects get stuck in tree sap which hardens and traps them forever. Large animals can get trapped in ice, or their carcass gets trapped in larger of rock. Over thousands of years, pressure builds up and the skeleton is dissolved by water under the ground. Next the mould left is filled with minerals that form rock. This rock shape is fossil an exact replica of the dinosaur. This process takes 10,000 years. Palaeontologists find fossils when the top layer of dirt or rock washes away.

Palaeontologists - People who study dinosaurs.

Inheritance - something you get from your ancestors.

Adaptation - Change.

Evolution - Change over time.

Trait - Something that belongs to a person

Fossilised

Fossilising

Fossils

Thursday, July 18, 2019

Storytime


Once Upon a time when I was in Christchurch Me and my brother and my sister in law (Jessa) where eating and having dinner. When we were having dinner I was fool so I went and lead down on the bean bag. There were no movies on Sky so I went and watched a little kid movie, My brother says “ Maria put on a movie on netflix for you and your Jessa to watch” so I said “ I don’t know how to put it on” so he says “ Just press the home button and there” so I pressed it. Then Jessa came along and said “ here I will do it ” so I gave it to her and she put it on Netflix, “ I want to watch the movie Lion king the new one” says Jessa so we couldn’t find so we saw another movie that looked interesting and we played it. The intro took forever because they had to say the names and my brother said “ It’s good when they tell you the intro because you need to learn what they are going to talk about and all that” so me and Jessa said “ we don’t care about the intro we just want to get to the point”. So I skipped the intro and stopped it where the movie first starts. So we all lay down on the couch and the bean bags to sit and watch the movie. Then the movie was finished but during the movie Jessa had to run and make sure the baby (Alaina) was sleeping because during the movie she started crying. So that was the End of our Movie Hope you enjoyed my story Thanks.

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Joan Wiffen

Brainstorm and plan. 

Joan Wiffen
Structure
Topic 
Words and ideas to use
Introduction 


Paragraph 2
Early life 
Born in ??
Lived where??
Married to…?? KIds??
What was her job??

First fossil she ever had was given an Ammonite (fossil of an ancient squid) that made her interested in finding fossils.
Paragraph 3
Discovering fossils 
First in NZ. 1975. Mangahouanga Stream in Hawke’s Bay. dinosaur tailbone from a theropod.  From six different species. Joan and family and friends. 

Fossils were in rocks, used some special tools to split the rocks open, carried it to her car. 
Paragraph 4
Changing ideas about fossils
An Australian paleontologist Dr Ralph Molnar confirmed it was a dinosaur bone in 1980. 

Other people started looking for fossils and found some - page 24.
Paragraph 5
Later life
Honorary doctorate in 1994. 
Died in ??

She is remembered - her fossils are kept safe. Some are at the University of Auckland, some are at National Paleontological collections at GNS Science in Lower hutt. The first one she found is on display at Te Papa. 
Conclusion 




                                     


Joan Wiffen is an explorer and she is from New Zealand. She is the first person who found a fossil in New Zealand.


                                     
Joan Wiffen was born on the 4th February 1922 and lived in New Zealand. She was married to Pont Wiffen and had 2 kids. Her job was to be a paleontologist and she worked at the university so she could study about fossils. First fossil she ever had was given an Ammonite (fossil of an ancient squid) that made her interested in finding fossils.
                                                       
                                     
She was the first in New Zealand and the first person in NZ to find a dinosaur tailbone. She found it in Mangahouanga Stream in Hawkes bay. The dinosaur tailbone was from a theropod and from six different species. Joan her family and friends went with her to go and open the rock with a hammer and this other sharp thing that looks like a hammer but it is not. They opened it and they found a Skull; Rib bones; Forepaws; feet; teeth; tail bone and a backbone. Then they took it warped it in a little bag then shoved it into their bag and went to search for more bones.
                                            
In Australia there was a paleontologist called Dr Ralph Molnar. He confirmed to Joan Wiffen that it was a bone in 1980. There was 4 famous people that found fossil and there names are Joan Wiffen and her friends and family; Brendan Hayes; Dr Greg Browne and Dr Jeffry Stilwell. These are the people who also went and found fossils. Around New Zealand.
                                            

                                                                     
Joan Wiffen died on the 30th of June 2009. She was remembered by other people because she was the first person who found a fossil bone. Her fossils are kept safe in the University of Auckland and some are *Paleontological collections ( someone who keeps stuff safe). Science was a lower hutt The first bone she found is displayed at Te Papa. Te Papa is a museum where they keep your things safe inside and they tell you who made it who found it and why they wanted to do that.


                                                               Conclusion      
We all remember her because we write stories about her and read information about why she was a paleontologist. She was the first ever person who found the tailbone of a therpod with her family and friends.

Monday, July 1, 2019

Room 7 Dinosaur Knowledge

Room 7
Dinosaur knowledge
Prior Knowledge
In 2 weeks, we learnt that...
  • Animal
  • Predator
  • Dino is the root word
  • ‘Saurs’ means something
  • Species 
  • Extinct 
  • Huge
  • Large bones
  • Long necks
  • Eggs 
  • Sharp teeth
  • Long tails
  • Eat people
  • Different kinds
  • Spikes
  • Horns
  • Mammals
  • 4 legs
  • Bipedal means 2 feet and quadruped means 4 feet. Some dinosaurs are bipedal and some are quadrupeds. Some can change between the two stances. They are sturdy.
  • Theropod is a 3 clawed dinosaurs
  • Dinosaurs are warm-blooded, which means their blood temperature is always the same
  • Carnivore means a meat eater
  • Herbivore means a plant eater
  • Omnivore means it can eat plants and meat
  • Some dinosaurs are huge and some are small. Typically, huge dinosaurs were sluggish (slow). 
  • Dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago. They started existed 230 million years. 
  • They died because of an extinction event, most people think this was because a meteor hit the Earth. 
  • Dinosaurs legs go out the bottom of their hip bones, whereas reptiles bones go to the side of their hips. Reptiles do not have an extra hole in their skull, but dinosaurs do. 
  • Mary Anning found lots of fossils on a cliffside in England in the 19th century. She was born in 1799 and died in 1847. She survived a lightning strike as a baby. In 1824 she found the first fossil.
  • Non-avian dinosaurs are dinosaurs that are not birds. Avian means birds.
  • Metabolism means how fast or slow your body converts food into energy
  • Diverse means a big range
  • Modifications means changes. Dinosaurs have modifications such as spikes, armour, horns or crests. 
  • Clade means family.
  • Lineage means ancestors/descendants 
  • Paleontologists are scientists that study ancient things including dinosaurs
  • There are 4 main groups of dinosaurs; theropods, sauropods, ankylosaurus and pterosaurs.
  • Titanoboa was top of the food chain after the dinosaurs died. It killed people by constricting people. It spent most of its time in the water because it was super heavy. It was 13m long, as big as a bus. 
  • Hominins existed when 7-6 million years ago, the first humans to walk on 2 feet. 
  • People did not exist when dinosaurs existed.

  • Adaptation is something that changes over time. 
  • Ecology - how animals relate to each other
  • Fossils are made when dinosaurs die and their bones get trapped in rock or mud. The bones break down over time but leave a mould, which is filled with rock. This becomes the fossil. 
  • Dinosaurs sometimes eat each other. 
  • There were 3 periods of time that have dinosaurs. This is called the ‘age of dinosaurs’ also known as the ‘Mesozoic Era’; Triassic period, Jurassic period, and Cretasous period. 
  • Then there were 3 more periods in time, “Age of mammals”, also known as ‘Cenozoic Era’; Paleogene Period, Neogene period and  Quaternary period.
  • Dinosaur fossils have been found on every continent, including Antarctica.
  • Joan Wiffen found the first dinosaur fossil (a theropods tailbone) in NZ in 1975, in Hawkes Bay. She died in 2009. 
  • Dinosaurs laid eggs and they lived in family groups. 

  • Thursday, June 27, 2019

    Matariki Description



    Matariki is the Maori new year. There are seven stars and there names are Waipunarangi; Ururangi; Tupu-a-rangi; Waita; Waiti; Tupu-a-nuku and Matariki is in the middle. Matariki is the Maori name of cluster of stars it rises in midwater. It announces the start of a new year. Matariki means the 'eyes of god'

    (matar-ariki) or 'little eyes' (mata-riki

    Wednesday, June 26, 2019

    Oceans of the World

    Matariki Art

    Hello and Welcome this is what my class Room 7 did as a Matariki art. We made 7 stars that are really white as you can see and then we tapped our paint brush so there could be a lot of stars around it. Everyone in our class did one and we had different types of mountains and different types of colors. Some of us copied our teachers one and some of us did rainbow colors.

    My Groups Reading Task

    Friday, May 17, 2019

    Museum Trip





    We went to the Museum to learn about what happened in the past. And to learn about the history of world war 1 and 2. The first room we went to was the volcano room. When me and my group walked in we saw a bright shiny orange lava on the volcano. When I went in I saw another two rocks that you could use something to drum it with. Everybody knew that there was a volcano room that will shake so everyone ran inside the room well me and my group waited outside because we wanted to go together as a group. Everyone came out and we went in wait for about 5 minutes and it started. The video finished Me Lily,Ana,Wesley and Michael said that it was boring because it didn’t even shake.

    Here is a photo of me and my friends in the volcano room.






    Here was our class room when we first got to the museum we took a photo so we can write about it. When we come to school. Some of us pulled up fingers and some of us didn’t these 3 mens helped us and lead us where to go. When we got inside everybody said “ woowowow” then we got into our groups and went around.







    Here is Michael and Dyzon next to a Humongous Torpedo. A torpedo is a large sort of bullet or bomb that can explode if you shot it at a boat it will sink. Another thing about torpedo is that torpedos goes 230 mph but in New Zealand it is 370 kph. Torpedos can either stay underneath a boat or on the top of a boat.






    This boat is called a wakaama. At the background you can see glass. If you walk pass the glass it will say Tonga and Samoa and different types of countries.It will tell you about that country and what they do. This boat is on the Moana movie.








    Here are the weapons that the Europeans use back then in the past. This girl is called Rona and Rona is reading the information about the weapons and where it was from. These Weapons were old.