How Wolves Saved Yellowstone National Park.

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This week we have been learning about wolves and the impact they had on Yellowstone national park in 1995.  

Here are some facts: 

I made this Yellowstone national park in minecraft using minecraft education edition. Yellowstone national park is placed in the USA it is a lot bigger than this. So I don't think I could make the entire thing in a week. 

As you can see I have a lot of trees,animals and caves.

In Yellowstone National Park, in America, wolves were  eradicated from the environment. This had a  detrimental effect on the land as the elk were taking over, eating the shrubs and damaging the environment. The National Park was becoming barren and exposed. 

In 1995, wolves were reintroduced into the park where they began a trophic cascade. This is where other species benefit from their presence and the environment flourishes and regenerates .

Because of the wolves in the park, the elk weren’t grazing by the rivers as they could be easily hunted. Some of them were killed for food by the wolves and the elk population slowed With less elk, the trees could regenerate, and in some places their growth quintupled . More trees meant more migratory birds arrived, as well as song birds, and more trees meant more beavers and otters. Bears returned to the area as there were berries and carrion to eat. The carrion that the wolves left behind was attracting rodents and hawks. 

The reintroduction of wolves also affected the course of the rivers as the banks became more stable and so they meandered less. Having wolves back in the park had a very positive impact on Yellowstone National Park

Here are so pictures of my world:

Have you heard of the Yellowstone national park? See you next time I post,Byeeee :)

3...2...1... Drop!!

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Today we had lots of fun.We made parachutes and I made mine with two of my best friends Catherine and Brittney.

The challenge was to make a parachute to hold 2 wing nuts, kind of like how spaceships come to a stop. I had a lot of fun making my parachute with my friends.

What we did for our first parachute : For our first parachute we made it with Fabric,Twine,News Paper and Tape. I had a lot of fun make this first one but it didn't work so we made a second one.

 What we did for our second parachute: For our second we made it out of Paper Towels,String,Tape and used our string to put through the wing nuts and used tape to hold them together.We ran out of twine so we had to use blue string.

Here is my final product.Enjoy.

Have you ever made a parachute? Do you like our parachute? See you next time I post. Byeee

 

Whats Our Rule??

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On Tuesday Tayla B and I have been learning how to guess the rules of different equations in math and then we had to make our own.

How to guess the rule

By guessing if you need to add (like x 3 + 8) or to take away. (like - 8) you look at the numbers on both sides and you try to make a rule that works for all the numbers (only if you have multiple numbers, but it is fine if you only have on number.)  

Try to guess what the rule is of this equation and fill in the blank with what you think the rule is.

PS it is. X___ +___  

Try and figure it out. 11___ 38

Comment what you think it is.

I had a lot of fun guessing the rules and then making my own on a slide .

Here is my math.Hope you enjoy.

Do you understand how to guess the rule on questions now? Have you made anything like this before?

See you next time I post. Byeeee.

Southern Lights Artwork

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Today we have been learning about the southern lights, and we decided made some art on them.

The name 'Aurora' comes from the Latin word for sunrise or the Roman goddess of dawn. Auroras are associated with the solar winds that flow past Earth. These winds flow out from the Sun and contain plasma particles (ionized gas) which gets pulled into the Earth's magnetic pole fields.

As they accelerate towards the Earth, collisions occur between these ion particles and nitrogen and oxygen atoms in our atmosphere, releasing energy in the form of amazing aurora lights.

Here are the steps to make the southern lights artwork.

1. Hold your plain A4 paper landscape and rip a mountain like shape across it. This will be used to mask off the hills. Mask this onto the bottom of your black piece of paper with tape.

2.  Then dip your toothbrush into some of the white acrylic paint, and then run your fingers through the bristles of the toothbrush to flick paint over your black piece of paper. This will create the background stars.

3.  While the stars are drying, use your ripped card and colour the top ripped edge of it in with your different coloured pastels. Make sure you change the colour every few centimetres.

4.  When the paint is dry, place the chalked paper onto your black paper. Now run your finger through the chalk upwards towards the stars. This should smudge the coloured chalk from the plain paper onto your picture.

5.  Mix a small amount of yellow and white together. Make sure you use more white than yellow, you want it to only have a tint of yellow in it.  Using your tooth pick or the end of a paint brush dot in the Matariki constellation.

Here is my final product,enjoy.

Have you seen the southern lights?See you next time.Bye.

The Three Little Pigs Fractured Fairy tale

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For the last couple of weeks we have been making fractured fairy tales, I chose to make mine on the three little pigs. If you don't know what a fractured fairy tale is, it is basically where you take an original story like Cinderella and you change something i it like,instead of being a ball it was a disco or instead of dropping her shoe she dropped her phone instead.

I had a lot of fun making my fractured fairy tale although it was a bit challenging because you have to find png pictures for you're book.And if it doesn't have a transparent background you have to go on background remover and have it remove it for you.

This Is my Fractured fairy tale, enjoy. 

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Have you ever heard of a fractured fairy tale? See you next time I post,Bye

  

Advanced Questions On Cicadas

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When reading a book, have you ever been curious about something you were reading, and wanted to find out more to help you understand what you were reading better?  We have been learning about how important this is this week in Literacy.

When we read The Magic School Bus inside the human body’ I formed some advanced questions using ‘how’ and ‘why’.  I made sure they were open ended questions that would help me understand the book more.  An example of one of my questions was “Why are intestines coiled up?’ and I then researched and found out that an adults intestine is 7.5m long, so it needs to coil up so that it fits in the body.

Next we got to chose our own book to read out of our virtual library and we had to form 3 advanced questions about it.  Our create task this week was to share these in a creative way.  I chose to do it with Biteable and it was about a book called Cicadas.

Here are my questions the I made,enjoy.

Advanced Questions On Cicadas on Biteable.

I really enjoyed this task as it made me realize how important it is to do this when reading to understand the text better.

Do you ever do further research when you are reading a book to deepen your understanding?See you next time I post.Bye

Matariki Puppet Show

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For inquiry the last couple of weeks we have been making things revolving Matariki we got to choose what we did so Catherine, Brittney, Tayla and I chose to make a puppet show. Catherine was Ninja, Brittney was Miss Sock Puppet, I was Miss Birdy Sparkle and Tayla was the camera person.We had so much fun making this, and we hope you enjoy.

       

Have you ever made a puppet show? See you next time I post, Byeeee