Bay Bush Action

Last week in Te Ngahere we had some Bay Bush Action members (Stella and Brad) come in and talk to us about the Ngahere and how our school can become the first pest free school in New Zealand. We all talked about the pests and threats to our native and endemic birds and they also showed us traps that they make to kill the pests. They gave us ten rat traps to set up all around the school and we have nothing so far. I enjoyed learning about the bush.

Moment in time

Last week in Te Ngahere, we made a piece of descriptive writing about the forest. Our learning intention was to use present tense verbs and have descriptive language, I really enjoyed writing about the forest  because I think I described it really well. Next time I think I should work on getting allot more writing done because I had plenty of time to finish. This is my draft copy.

Moment in time

The bright yellow sun gazing towards the ground as you explore the beautiful interest and discovering new things around the forest. The clouds gathering around as the water starts to drizzle down to the ground. The colorful flowers blooming as the canopy of trees are swaying side to side. The bees buzzing around while the birds are chirping high in the sky. The wind blowing as you feel it tingling your back from how cool it feels. The smell of the autumn breeze blowing through your nostrils. Curiously, you continue to wonder on through the mysterious path of gravel.

Healthy Echosystem

In Te Ngahere we were working on a piece of explanation writing about “What makes a healthy ecosystem”. Our learning intention was to use the correct structure to write and explanation. I think I did really well at how I described the four elements but I think I need to work on completing it more faster.

What Makes A Healthy Ecosystem

A healthy ecosystem is made up of inorganic matter and organic matter. Inorganic matter is something that is non living like water, sun, air, energy, sand and nutrients. Organic matter are living elements like kina, crayfish, seaweed and sea creatures. All ecosystems must have producers, consumers decomposers and inorganic matter in order to keep the ecosystem healthy.

Producers make the food for consumers like for example, kelp. Then the consumers will eat the producers to collect the energy that they get from the kelp.

Next, the decomposers take the nutrients from the dead sea creatures and restart it all from the beginning and give the nutrients back to the producers.

Ecosystems are very fragile and cannot cope with very big change within the weather. For example, if the kina barrens

keep on multiplying. Then the ecosystem will become unbalanced and will mess up the entire food chain.

Rocky shore

Last term Te Ngahere and Nga Motu went down to the beach and looked at the rocky shore life. We found starfish, a huge crab, shrimps, hermit crabs and many more. Te Ngahere had to pair up with someone that was from Nga motu, and my buddy was Jhaylen-Marie. I think that was very fun, and hope we do that
again sometime.