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.

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.

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.