Today we have been looking at the events that took place at ANZAC Cove on 25 April 1915, during WW1. Many of our NZ soldiers were wounded or killed in action. We looked at videos of life in the trenches, explored the Walking with ANZACs site and read Hami Grace’s diary. Doing this helped us put our own diary entries together.
We used Google Vids to record our diary entries. I enjoyed using this as it allowed me to learn more things.
Something I found interesting about this task was we could add music in the background.
Last week, we got to make a Dot to Dot connection if you do not know what Dot to Dot connection is it is when you put 7 dots anywhere on a google drawing and put words that mean about something and you put a line and connect it to another dot that has a word under it and you got to write something on the line with both words in the text here is an example. What I got to do here is do a Dot to Dot connections with special words that have a meaning to the Marathon bird which is Bar Tailed – Godwit the M
Today our teachers gave us a challenge to make a DLO about the Kuaka bird which has another name for it which is called the Bar Tailed Godwit. This big bird is probably unknown to people, but this is a marathon bird what I mean by this, is that this bird flys really far non-stop which gives them the world record to fly from New Zealand to Alaska non-stop. How there body system works is they eat so much food until they bulk up until they grow big and then they are ready to fly but they have to wait for the other Kuaka birds to finish up eating so they can fly but how they search for there food is quite simple. They fly in circles around in the air to scan or navigate for there food like molluscs, worms and even aquatic insects that are in the shallow water. After they have had there feast they lift there wings in the sky and start scanning where there location is which is another word for navigation, while they fly they burn the food in there stomach and it makes them stronger so that makes them fly longer, when they get tired, there is a phenomenon where Kuakas do this, it is called a unihemispheric sleep which is where the Kuaka bird goes half its brain turns off and the other one stays on and they switch over and repeat the process until they arrive in Alaska and they just do the same thing again and migrate back to New Zealand with 11,000 to 13,000km under a week.
This task is about the kuaka. They travel far because they bulk up and train for the migration. There breeding grounds/Habitat mostly look like muddy beaches. During their migration, they stop at various locations to refuel and prepare for the next part of their journey. The Kuaka fly approximately 11,000 to 13,000 kilometers non-stop from Alaska to New Zealand for there migration.
On Wednesday, we got to see the autor Sally Sutton in our hall at Panmure Bridge school she greeted us and started talking about all of her books and she also read us one which was called the cat from the muzzle. Cat from the muzzle is a book that talks about a cat that sally sutton knows and his name is dwayne so she made a story about where he used to be but he ggot tooken and flew to a house but he didn’t like so he escaped the house and travel all the way back to the farm where used to live in. Next after that we asked her some questions and I asked what is the hardest about writing a book and she replied the hardest part about writing is that you got to hope that your books do not get rejected and hope it turns into a real book. Then she said her favourite figurative language was onomatopoeia what that is, is that it is a text in like comic like pow! boom! sloop! and more. Finally, if you want to know about her here it is, Sally Sutton has been writing picture books, children’s novels and plays for two decades. She is celebrated for her witty word play and musical language, which make reading her stories aloud a magical moment between parent and child.
