The native NZ giant bush dragonfly

We have been learning about 'Minibeast' in class as part of science. We have been creating information reports  of our choice. The Minibeast we chose  had to live in Aotearoa/NZ. Here is my writing. I worked with Jordyn.  

Animation term 3

Today we were learning to do an animation on google slides. We had to use free to use images and we had to change some of the code to make it work. We had to make the animation loop by changing the word false to true inside to code. In the code I also changed the moving part to make it go faster. Enjoy my work 

weta Report - term 3

This is a piece of writing that we did for mini beast topic when we were learning about weta. We had to write an informant report on this insect 


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Amazing weta of Aotearoa 

What is weta?

Weta are a native insect to NZ/Aotearoa.

Weta are invertebrates and they and have an exoskeleton. An invertebrates is
an animal that has its skeleton on the outside which is called an exoskeleton.
They have six legs. They have two antennae.  They have a thorax and
abdomen. They have ears on their legs.

Where do weta live?

Weta live in many different places.

Ground weta live in the ground. Ground weta live in burrows sometimes .
They  climb trees for food. Tree weta live in rotten trees and tree weta l
ive with other weta. Giant weta are only found in nature reserves. Giant
weta are  too big to jump. Weta may not look pretty but they are important
to Aotearoa. 

What do weta eat? 

Weta eat at night and Weta climb trees for food. Weta  eat plants, seeds,
little insects,snails,worms fruit,flowers,leaves but there are lots of animals
that eat weta.

Where weta live?

Tree weta lives in rotten trees, underwood and even in peoples wood
piles. Giant weta live on islands. Their too big to jump. Cave weta live in
caves on the west coast. Weta  also live hollow tree trunks.

Where do weta breed?

In spring/summer the weta mate. Tree weta males may have a group of
females sharing a hole. The male has to fight off other males with his
jaws and spiked legs. Weta breed in autumn the female weta lays
about 6-10eggs at a time. 

Social behaviour

Tree weta live with other Tree weta but other  types of weta live on their own.

Threats

Their biggest threats are rats,cats, moreporks,tuatara and humans.
Before  humans came the only threats to weta were here tuatara and birds.
The main way to protect weta is to protect their habitat.   

By Ayah  

Area and Perimeter DLO Term 3 2019

To Build a Bot and Emotional Robots

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 This term we have been learning about emotional robots -A.I and about kids building robots. We did this in our reading. 

Transformaion DLO

Quick Write - Abandoned Places

Abandoned Places - writing

Our learning goals are to:

-write a description, using powerful words and phrases

-include some Te Reo Māori

-carefully check that our sentences make sense and have correct punctuation and spelling.

The Creepy Castle 

I'm on a secret mission off to go into an abandoned
castle. I went into the castle and  it was creepy .

 The ponio was playing and the fire was still going but
it was cold. But then I heard footsteps. I looked
behind me, there was a shadow and it looked like a
person. The shadow jumped from wall to wall. I was
scared so I tried to hide. There was a person and
she was hiding from the shadow. 

I think the castle was made thousands of years ago. Then there was a BIG ThUMP. I opened the door and got out. I skated across the floor  and went up the stairs. I peeked around the corner. Then I found a knife which was (whero red). The knife was ancient . It looked like it was expensive.  All of a sudden slimy, gooey, toxic slime fell from the ceiling. The walls were black. There was kiore (rats) everywhere. It was disgusting.

Suddenly an alien emerged out of the slime on the wall and he had a laser gun . I dashed out and the alien followed me. There was a wall. It was made out of concrete. Some was falling off and then the alien found me...