Magnificent Learning About Te Reo

 In Te Ngahere we have been doing Te Reo. We had to make a DLO and record yourself on EP (Education Perfect) saying the alphabet, greetings and place names in Maori. We were learning how to say them properly. I learnt that Otautahi means Christchurch and Tamaki-Makau-Rau means Auckland. I think I did well with saying the alphabet and greetings because it was pretty easy to learn and in Kapahaka we learn our vowels so it made it easier. For place names some of them were hard but some of them were also easy because I knew some of them like Rotorua and Kaitaia. I need to practice on getting better at saying the place names. I’m going to practice on getting better at saying them and pronouncing them correctly. 

Have you used EP before?

Smart Surfing

 In Te Ngahere we have been doing something called Smart Surfing. I learnt that instead of saying the whole sentence you want to ask google, just say the keywords. For example, If I want to ask google a question like: What do spiders eat?, you would just write the keywords. For this example the keywords would be spiders and eat. Obviously if you type up on google “spiders eat“ it wouldn’t make sense, so you would change the word eat to diet and then it would say “spiders diet?” and you would get your answer. It is better to write just the keywords then the whole sentence because I learnt that when you type something up on google like “what spiders eat”, google will give you every page that has the word what in it and any other word that you write in google. I really liked doing smart surfing because I now know that when I search up something on google I will only write the keywords. 

What does your classroom do for cybersmart?

Incredible Facts I Learnt About Coastal Seas

In Te Ngahere we have been learning about Coastal Seas. First we had to

watch the video on Netflix. The channel was called Our Planet. While we

were watching the episode we were getting facts about Coastal Seas too. The

facts that I learnt were phenomenal. When we finished our facts we had to

make a DLO with about 10 facts about coastal seas.

Here are some facts:

Did you know that 90% of fish live in coastal waters?

Some sharks prefer to hunt in the dark because they can see better at night

Stingrays like to hide in seagrass when they hunt for their prey

Females lay their eggs on the sea grass and the male help fertilize so they can

grow and become a fish

White tip sharks can fit into thin coral places to get the fishes that like to hide there

Have you watched Our Planet before?