The possums problem

Possums are introduced pests who were shipped to New Zealand in 1837 by the British settlers, they didn't know that possums would cause huge trouble. They shipped  possums to NZ because they wanted the possums fur to create a fur industry.

At night when everyone is asleep, possums would scatter all over the place and WHAT DO THEY DO? THEY EAT, they eat every small new growth leaves on plants and trees, small insects and chicks even the eggs. 

When possums were brought in NZ, British settlers set all the bushy tail creatures free the stared to hunt them down to use the possum's fur to make money and buy clothes, after the fur industry female possums gave birth and the possum population grew bigger and bigger. A few years later in 1920s possums became a big problem: possums were destroying everything like devouring our native creatures and our gigantic nature so they planned to hunt possums by making traps to get rid of them.

By 2050 NZ has pledged to be pest-free. Hopefully with additional controls like traps, hunting and control measures the possum will leave Aotearoa 173 years after its arrival.

There is more then 1 pest. Hedgehog, goat, stoat, rat, ( mice ), possum, wessel, rabbit, cat, Wallaby.

Room 7 drawed their own picture of a pest, this is what I drew (hedgehog)

Introduced pests

My Pepeha

Talofa atu ia outou uma lava, o lou igoa o Junefia Wilco, Na ou fanau i le iva o Ianuari 2010, e tolulima i le tausaga a lou tiga, o lana igoa o Pepesina Kalolo, o le igoa o lau tama o Wilco Samasoni, e tolufa aga tausaga. O a'u o le tenititi matua ma le tenititi e tasi lava. E toatolu ou uso ma o latou igoa o Matota, Samasoni, ma Wein,Georgematota o le ulumatua, o Samasoni o le uii, ae o Wein o le pepe.Georgematota e sefulutasi tausaga, Samasoni e ono tausaga, ma Wein e ono masina.

Na ou sau mai Samoa ae o lenei ua ou nofo i Panmure, Aukilani, o le igoa o lau aʻoga o Tamaki Primary School,O loʻu faiaoga e igoa ia Mrs Tafea.

Tōku Tuakiri / Pepeha

Ko Segatao  Te Waka 

                    Ko Samoa  Tōku iwi (tribe)

Ko Maunga Vaea Te Maunga 

Ko Sava’i  Te Moana 

Ko Loto,Samasoni Te Awa 

                   Ko Moata’a  Tōku kāinga (place you live)

                   

                   Ko Tamaki Primary Te Kura. 

Ko Rm 7  Te Akomanga. 

Ko Mrs Tafea Te pouako.

          Ko Pepesina  Tōku whaea (mother)

                   

                   Ko Wilco  Tōku matua (father)

                   Ko Junefia  Tōku Ingoa 

Nō reira, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā tātou katoa.

Group norms

WALT write down ideas about what we do when we work in groups.This is what I and my group (Joshua,Azalea) have created!

Te reo

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.