My blog Wordle

Today in extension Mrs Burt taught us how to use" Wordle".  She taught us this so when visitors come to our page they can get an idea of the kinds of things I write about and also they will keep on coming to my blog to see what's new.  The biggest words are the ones we used most in our whole blog.  Enjoy.   

Cinderella Dialogue

The conference with Hamish Campbell

In the morning the whole extension class had a video conference with a famous Geologist named Hamish Campbell. We were talking to him about the earthquake that happened in Fiordland this year. To prepare for our conference with Hamish Campbell, we made Seismometer.

He told us that it happened at 9pm and it was the 16th of July. On the north island the Pacific plate was going underneath the Australian plate , but on the south island the Australian plate was heading underneath the Pacific Plate. It lasted 30 seconds and no one was killed, but it was measured by a Seismometer and it was measured 7.6 magnitude , the biggest earthquake worldwide in 80 years.

Speaking of earthquakes i am going to tell you about an earthquake that happened in China in the city of Tangshan in the year of 1976. It lasted 15 seconds and it killed 242,000 and around 50, 000 people were injured. It was recorded as 7.8 magnitude. The reason that so many people die in earthquakes because are really because are really dangerous because they happen so fast and they do not have warnings like for e.g Volcanoes , Tornadoes and all kinds of disasters have warnings.

The facts that I mostly like is when Hamish Campbell told us that in the earthquake was felt in New Plymouth. Another that I want you to know about is that the Plates that are covering New Zealand are not in a circle shape they are in any different shape.

Last term we were learning about Dinosaurs and Joan Wiffen was part of our important project but just today Hamish just told us that she past away. She past away on Tuesday at the Hastings Hospital.

Thank you to Diana Grace and the Te Papa Museum. Huge thanks to Hamish Campbell.

To find out more try clicking on any of these links:

Hamish Campbell

Fiordland

Joan Wiffen

Seismometers

Te Papa Museum

Glossary:

Seismometer: A Seismometer is a instrument that records the intensity of an earthquake.

The Mighty Megalosaurus report

Megalosaurus

(Great Lizard)

Megalosaurus was a Lizard hipped dinosaur.  It was a 

therapod and a teturan.  Megalosaurus was a large 

meat - eating dinosaur that lived in the Jurassic

period about 181-169 million years ago.  Megalosaurus

was the first dinosaur fossil discovered  in England 

in 1616.  It was also the first dinosaur in Europe

and given a scientific name by William Buckland in 1842.  

The Megalosaurus was 9 feet( 30 metres) and weighed 

  about 1 ton.  It had two strong legs.  It was a Scavenger. 

 

Nutrition

A Megalosaurus was a large Meat- eating predator.  

It's jaws were packed with sharp , serrated teeth 

which curved backwards into it's mouth.  They

were ideal for cutting through meat.  It's jaws

were very sharp.  It's teeth were as big as a small 

mammals whole jaw.  The teeth were deep in 

so it will be a struggle to take the teeth out.

Habitat

We know that it lived lived 170 million years ago

at a time when the earths weather was mild.  

The worlds plants were large and plentiful

as in a rain forest today.  There were forest

trees such as Conifers,Cycads,Ginkgoes

,Ferns and Horsetails grew on the ground.

This scene would have been home to a Megalosaurus.

Extinction

There are lot's of theories why dinosaurs died out but 

the most popular theorie was that a meterorite hit 

earth and a dust of cloud flew over the whole world 

and it covered the sun and the dinosaurs could not adapt

to the weather so the died.  

Fast Facts

Name:Megalosaurus

Description:A bipedal Carnivore

Name Means:Great Lizard

Period:Middle Jurassic( 70 Million years ago)

Location:Europe

Length:9 Metres (30 feet)

Weight:1 Tonne 

The End 

This report was written by :

Selena Hafoka

All about my family.

KIA Ora

My name is Selena and today I am going to talk about my family.

First I am going to talk about my Mum. Her name is Flora. I love my Mum because when I am sad she always cheers me up. I respect her because she had to move from house to house so she could have enough rooms for all of her children. She has five children and she had to look after them. The thing I love about her the most is that she is hard working . She works 3 or 4 hours a day.

Second I am going to talk about my one and only sister. Her name is Patrice Fa'ulua. I love my sister because whenever I have girl business she is always there for me to talk too. I also like her because she let me name her baby. Her baby's name is Dereon Phoenix Joseph Thomas. My sister's most great talent is cooking.

My nephew Dereon is cute and chubby. I love him because he smiles at me and talks to me in baby language.

Now I am going to talk about my youngest brother. His name is Leka Fa'ulua. I sometimes feel sorry for my little brother when he is crying because someone made him cry I sometimes go angry but sometimes I just stay with him. I think he looks cute when he is sad.

Now is my second oldest brother. His name is Samuel Fa'ulua. He is my closest brother. We kind of like the same stuff. We both like sports and we both like to play rugby in the afternoon. But that is a family sport. I like him because whenever he goes in to town he takes me with him.

Now my last brother is the second oldest out of all of the children in my family. His name is Mone Fa'ulua. He is silent just like me. He doesn't talk that much only to family members. I love him because whenever I am hurt he comes up to me he says:" Lena are you alright '' and I say ''Yeah I am alright ''.

Now it is is my nana's turn. My nana does a lot of stuff to help people. She doesn't do it for

money, she does it for free. She tries to make medicine to help people to get better, and she massages

people and helps them get better.

Last but not least is my papa's turn. I love my papa because he tries to speak English everyday

and whenever he comes back from church he sings a tune from a church song.

Well that is all of my family I am going to talk about today.

Well bye for now.

Angela My best friend EVER.

Today we are going to talk about my best friend Angela. The thing I like about Angela is that she makes me laugh all the time. She is so cool because on tuesday 26th of may she spent all her time looking for the dinosaur I was doing a project on. Whenever she is lonely on the couch she asks me if I can go on with her. She is good at lots of things like:Swimming and throwing and also at being a clown to me. The first thing I am going to talk about is how she swims. She is a fantastic swimmer. Even though I am not good at swimming Angela still cheers me on because she has faith in me. I definetly know Angela is a good thrower. In athletics We entered Softball & Shotput. In both you guessed it I didn't come in any place,But Angela came 2nd in softball and 2nd equal in shotput. Don't you think that is amazing?Last but not least is her personality. I like her personality because she is kind, funny and interesting.She makes me laugh all the time I am feeling sad.Even though sometimes she is mean to me she will always be my bestest friend ever.

THE END

Thanks to the class photos in room 15.

Thank you to Miss Squires for taking this photo for me.

The surprising Immersion Assembly.

On the first day of term 2 i was so excited about the immersion assembly. The bell rang so I rushed to the door at class getting ready to go to the hall for the immersion assembly.The class walked silently to the hall. We got into the hall and I looked at the projector and saw the title Dino-might.Mr Jacobson said we had to wait for Mr Burt to come, Suddenly we heard someone laughing quite strangely.The man came into the hall and to my surprise it was Mr Burt dressed in an outfit that looked like a caveman outfit.He said he was looking for his lunch and he said he was looking for some sort of dinosaur named hipsolophodon.He picked two people to be hipsolophodons and they were Feki & Tyler .R. He had a big weapon called a bombyknocker. Later on Team 1 took the stage. They had a made a movie about the whole team in the prehistoric times. Then they came up and held up 5 pieces of paper saying"We are not extinct(yet).

Next it was team 2's turn.They did a rap about all the dinosaurs.They were dressed in rapping clothes.Their rap had a cool beat it was really catchy.
It was team 3's turn. and they were searching for bones like they were paleontologists.Our team, team four made a movie and the movie showed all the teachers in the library researching about dinosaurs but they fell asleep and they went back 60 million years ago back into the jungle and they saw lot's of dinosaurs and took photo's of them and they were scared. The soundtrack was awesome.Finally it was the e-learning teams turn.Mrs Burt was a paleontologist and she showed us her items that she was holding.They were massive!! Mrs Tele'a did a rap.The rap was about herbivore and carnivore dinosaurs.

My most favourite part of that day was hearing Mrs Tele'a rap. That was so cool and the beat was the pussycat dolls song called don't you wish your girlfriend was hot like me.

THE END.