Tangram shapes

Sequence challenge

On Monday, Miss Ashley made an awesome game for her classroom room 7 but she also created some rules for the challenge and the rules were no talking only hand gestures, get everyone in sequence. It had to be youngest to oldest, birthday month, last name, and last name.

Some were hard because we were not even allowed to talk or whisper but some of the students in room 7 were actually cheating by whispering loud to two tall nice girls named Maria and Ana. Maria and Ana were the girls that organised the kids in their position in linear sequence. Next to me on the Month challenge was Langiola and Heleinah.

On every single one of them were very horrible because kids keep pushing but they are guiding me. I felt so overjoyed but squished though I was still enjoying it with everyone, I really liked it because everyone tried and because it was very funny how we were told to not talk or whisper but Miss Ashley's students were still whispering just to get in order.

On the last name challenge the last person was Me Junefia Wilco, I don't mind it's just a game and I hope my classroom could do it again sometimes. "What letter does your last name start with?" Maria asked me by whispering to me "it starts with W" I replied to her by using hand gestures. So that is it.

Junefia's blockpost about a book of Frogs

Today Rm 7 were doing reading and their were different types of groups. My groups name is called the "Master Minds", my group had a book named the Frogs,by Paul Mason and illustrations by a famous comic artist named Michel Mulipola. Miss Ashley said that we had to read about the book and then record ourselves reading it so this is what I did...

Andy Warhol

This is Andy Warhol, he was born in the USA  in 1928 in the 6th of August and he is a famous artist. 

He became an artist by collecting pictures of famous people like Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley. He also started drawing, and  listening to the radio.He began using silk screen printmaking to make images. Just like Roy Lichtenstein, he remade an art called pop art. Andy Warhol died in New York in 1987 in the 22nd of February because of an Arrhythmia. 

Andy Warhol was the fourth child of Andrej and Julia Varhola.

This is one of his art that he worked on and the person that is on the art is Marilyn Monroe.

This is Elvis Presley. His art is called pop art.

Roy Lichtenstein

This is a famous artist, his name is Roy Lichtenstein.

He was born in 1923 in New York, 27th of october, Lichtenstein went to Ohio State University, where he was taught as a teacher. He is famous because he uses special materials to make all the amazing incredible stuff that is in his art-

benday dots, long lines and colors. He is also famous because he does pop art. He was inspired by cartoons, comics, benday dots and advertisements. Roy Lichtenstein died in 1997, 29th of September. 

Michel Mulipola

This is Michel Mulipola. He is very famous because he is a fan of comics and he likes to write comics.

About Michel Mulipola:

-Loves comics ever since he was five

-He is Samoa!

-Wrestler

-Lives at Onehunga,go there and you’ll find him.

-Works in a comic book store in Onehunga

-Draws 

-Dreams to be the first samoan to draw for Marvel comics/DC. 

About Comics:

1. Write the story down.
1. Dialogue
2. Familiar and fun
3. Unforgettable characters
1. Mess up
2. Relatable
3. Change over the story
2. Layout
1. Quick sketch before the real comics
2. Angles/Shots in your frame
3. Z formations
4. Speech
1. Make sure it fits on the page
2. Lettering
3. Voice
4. Punctuations

Acrostic poem,haiku poem

Pretty colors on their skin

Ate a lot of bamboo sticks

Nap at nighttime

Don’t attack people 

At China

Runs fast

Ate a lot of carrots

Babies are called kitten

Burrow

It’s so cute

Tall ears

They have special hard shell on their back
Under the sand the eggs get laid
Reptile kingdom
The turtles always goes slow
Lives in the water
Eat small jellyfish and fish

Beautiful colors

Under their body there are six legs

They are always pretty when it is in a group

They always fly around

Eats butterfly food

Repeatedly beating their wings

Finds their own food

Like to eat

Yellow and gold dots

Eats their own accidents

Likes to attack people in cars

Ears big as a tv

Plays with their children

Hunt their predators

A huge trunk

Needs food to survive

Trunk is made out of Ivory

Haiku poem

Fox

Fluffy fur and cute

Finds their predators for food

Always smart and fun

Fur

Dog

Always chases cats 

Goes to play all day and eat

Has a lot of fur

Fat

Cat

Fluffy and noisey

Always eat and sleep all day

They scratches people

Cute

BY:Junefia Wilco.

Animal mnemonic

New words from reading

 Tuesday 23rd July 2019

Big idea: within each kingdom there are more different groups that classify animals. 

• Prokaryotes - a name of a kingdom 
• Etc means etcetera
• Interbreed - when two different animals have babies together

Mnemonics help us remember hard things, for example NEVER EAT SOGGY WEETBIX helps us remember North East South West. 

This is the mnemonic i learnt to help me remember the order:

Keep Ponds Clean or Fish Gets Sick

Kingdom

Phylum

Class

Order 

Family

Genus

Species    

Animal kingdom

New words from animal kingdom reading

Monday’s reading

• Organism - a living thing
• Vertebrate - has a spine
• Invertebrate - has no spine 
• Taxonomy - a way to group things
• Diverse - a big range 
• Amphibians - 
• Heterotrophic - means they must find and eat food
• Primates (apes, monkeys)
• Rodents (rats, squirrels)
• Cetaceans (dolphins, whales)
• Marsupials (kangaroos, koalas)
• Monotremes (egg laying mammals like the platypus)
• Autotrophic - make their own food by photosynthesis
• Photosynthesis - how plants make their own food
• Vascular - uses roots to absorb water
• Nonvascular - uses the whole plant to absorb water
• Decompose, decomposition - to break down
• Non-flowering - no flowers 
• Thermophiles - (root word is thermo which is about temperature) 

Big ideas from the reading 

• All living things are called organisms. 
• They are organised into 6 groups called kingdoms. Each group has certain characteristics that each organism must have. 
• Animals
• Can move on their own
• Are heterotrophic (can’t make their own food)
• Must eat to survive
• Vertebrates and invertebrates 
• Plants 

• They are Autotrophic (they make their own food)
• Some are vascular and nonvascular. 
• If a plant has seeds or fruit, it is a flowering plant.

• Eubacteria

• Are made up of just one cell. They are everywhere. Some bacteria are good and some are bad.
• Bacteria called decomposers break down dead plants and anacteria.

Archaebacteria

• Can survive where no other organism can live.
• Thermophiles, methanogens and halophiles

Fungi 

• Say it fun guy
• Mushrooms are a fungi
• They are heterotrophic (can’a make their own food)
• Use enzymes to break down food

Protista 

• Are related to either plants, animals or fungi (one of them, not related to all of them at the same time)

Joan Wiffen information report

Brainstorm and plan. 

Joan Wiffen

Structure	Topic	Words and ideas to use
Introduction
Paragraph 2	Early life	Born in ?? Lived where?? Married to…?? KIds?? What was her job?? First fossil she ever had was given an Ammonite (fossil of an ancient squid) that made her interested in finding fossils.
Paragraph 3	Discovering fossils	First in NZ. 1975. Mangahouanga Stream in Hawke’s Bay. dinosaur tailbone from a theropod.  From six different species. Joan and family and friends.  Fossils were in rocks, used some special tools to split the rocks open, carried it to her car.
Paragraph 4	Changing ideas about fossils	An Australian paleontologist Dr Ralph Molnar confirmed it was a dinosaur bone in 1980.  Other people started looking for fossils and found some - page 24.
Paragraph 5	Later life	Honorary doctorate in 1994.  Died in ?? She is remembered - her fossils are kept safe. Some are at the University of Auckland, some are at National Paleontological collections at GNS Science in Lower hutt. The first one she found is on display at Te Papa.
Conclusion

Joan Wiffen is a famous New Zealand dinosaur hunter.

Joan Wiffen was born on the 4th of Feb 1922. She was married to a man named Pont Wiffen and they two kids. Her famous job was to be a palaeontologist and she was a person who hunts dinosaurs and she studied ancient thing about animals.

In 1975,Joan Wiffen found the first dinosaur fossil in New Zealand,a small piece of a dinosaurs tailbone from a theropod dinosaur,she found it in a rock at Mangahounga stream in Hawke’s Bay. Joan Wiffen got some special tools to crack the rock open and grab the fossil out of the rock. Joan and her family went to find more dinosaur fossils and people started to do the same thing,she found six dinosaur fossils from different species. 

In 1980, an Australian paleontologist named Dr Ralph Molnar confirmed the bone that Joan had found was indeed a dinosaur fossil.  

Joan Wiffen and her family and her friends found six different kinds of dinosaur bones at Mangahounga stream, inland Hawke’s Bay. Other people started looking for fossils. A man named Brendan Hayes found a very small finger bone of a theropod dinosaur at South of Port Waikato (in the cliffs along the coast). Another man named Dr Greg Browne found a dinosaur footprint at Northwest Nelson,even a another man found several dinosaur bones (sauropod and theropod) at Tioriori, Chatham Island.

Joan Wiffen received an honorary doctorate in 1994. She died on the 30th of June 2009,people remember her by reading books about her amazing journey.