Garth @ Tamaki Primary School
My name is Garth. I am a year 4 student and I am in Miss Ashley's class.
Tuesday, 23 July 2019
Monday, 22 July 2019
Animal kingdom
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 -
Heterotrophic - means they must find and eat 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 anacteria.
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)
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 -
Heterotrophic - means they must find and eat 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 anacteria.
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)
Monday, 1 July 2019
dinosaurs knowladge
Room 7
Dinosaur knowledge
Prior Knowledge
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In 2 weeks, we learnt that...
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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.
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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 Cretaceous 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.
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Thursday, 27 June 2019
matariki art
we made a matariki picture 1. our teacher gave us a black paper 2. she gave us an mountain in cardboard . 3. we got some pastels and we picked any coulers. 4. we pushed hard and then softley.
matariki is an celebration of the seven sisters and about the maoris celebration when they bring
kai for there family and first when they look up at the stars some people
do a prayer before they look up at the stars also the names of the seven sisters are
waiti,waita,waipunuragni,matariki,tupu a rangi,tupu a nuku,ururagni
matariki is an celebration of the seven sisters and about the maoris celebration when they bring
kai for there family and first when they look up at the stars some people
do a prayer before they look up at the stars also the names of the seven sisters are
waiti,waita,waipunuragni,matariki,tupu a rangi,tupu a nuku,ururagni
Friday, 7 June 2019
talofa lava my name is garth and my friend mathew we writed about captain and Abel Tasman sights nz. Abel Tasman is an explorer also he is a navigator and captain out in sea
and captain cook is an explorer as Abel Tasman also captain cook was
the 2nd first white person to meet new zealand maoris the maoris were there first and when
also when Abel tasman saw new zealand he called nz murders island then he stayed there.
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