LI: To understand the story behind our flag
For this activity, We learnt about the national New Zealand flags. We got into pairs to get both sides of our prior knowledge of New Zealand, and then we reasearched about the national flags discovering how our flag has been changed overtime. Something I found interesting is that the New Zealand flag we have representing our country was widely chossen to be our national flag since 1869.
LI: To use our smart searching skills to help us explore the Ancient Olympic games.
LI: To work collaboratively in groups as an active participant and contributor.
For Inquiry we have been learning about the Olympics and one of the tasks was to research about the Modern Olympics, we gathered imformation from reasearching, articles, and podcasts this helped our knowledge with challenges and increased it to explain questions in our own words. Me and my group explained our ideas and formed it into one main idea it helped us get more information to write for the questions.
I enjoyed this task because it helped me get a better understandment of some questions.
LI: To use wider variety of vocabulary
Today our Challenge was to rewrite a piece of text without using certain letters. First we started off easy without using one letter, to without using 3 letters, we use word hippo to find lwords that made the same meanings. We had to make it the same meaning but without using some of the letters for example we couldnt use the letters, A, K, L. I thought this task was going to be easy but it was really challenging.
I enjoyed this task because it challenged me into matching the same meanings in stories.
We used our smart searching skills to find facts about the Bengal Swamp Tiger. Once we had found the information we needed we made notes in our own words. We used these notes to help us write our information reports. Information reports give readers information on a chosen topic by providing with facts.
LI: To write an information report that imforms the reader about the Swamp Tiger.
Bengal Swamp Tigers
The endangered Bengal swamp tiger, (Panthera Tigris Tigris), is found on the Asian continent. Their habitat is the mangrove swamps and aquatic landscapes of the Sunderbans. Not many people know these tigers are responsible for the deaths of a number of local fishermen each year.
Swamp tigers have orange fur with black stripes helping them to camouflage in their surroundings. They have muscular bodies (allowing them to boost their grip or pounce onto their prey). Their whiskers help them navigate prey. Their height can be from 2.7 to 3 metres.
These species are carnivores (an animal who mainly eats meat). The food they consume are antelopes, fish (marine life except for pufferfish and poisonous animals), and wild boars. The tiger uses their whiskers to sense where they should take a bite of crabs and fish.
They live in between Bangladesh and India. Not many people know Their habitat is being destroyed from deforestation and if we keep taking over their habitat they will be more
territorial, that is because they won’t be in their natural environment. This can also be caused by pollution. They live in Swamps, Rainforests and Dry lands.
Have you ever wondered why they swim so fast? That is because they use swimming as a hunting advantage. These beasts attack their prey in stealth mode, they disguise themselves in their surroundings. They also are out looking for prey; they are very territorial. They have nocturnal habitats, excellent vision and hearing.
Swamp tigers although fierce predators have become endangered. Going forward we need to think about the effect of city expansion. Do you agree?
This week for cybersmart we done right place right time in school on our laptops.
First we had to make a copy of the slides.
Next we had to take screen shots of what we should be doing when we are at school on our chormebooks.
Lastly we had to why they were important and then we Miss Tele’a take a photo of me doing my work.
I enjoyed doing this task because it was fun to do. I did well at taking the screen shots. I need to imrove on writing why they are important.
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