Krystal - Amazing Plants Presentation

Last week on Friday, the whole of Te Wairua Pakiki (TWP) Whanau did a made a presentation about plants. Dr. Jannie Van Hees came to watch us. We were all split up into different groups of trees. Some of us were presenting about the Native Trees in New Zealand, and some of us were presenting about the Pacific Plants. We all could choose what we wanted to do. My group chose to do a movie. First the Native Tree people had to present. In my group it was Sione, Dereon, Arvay & David. Our presentation was about the Rimu Tree. The other native trees were the Kauri Tree, Ti Kouka, Puriri Tree, Kawakawa Tree, Manuka and Kanuka, Totara & Rimu. The Pacific plants that were presented were the Heilala, Ngatae, Hiapo, Kava & Coconut. Dr. Jannie was gifted a Heilala Garland, by Ana in the Heilala group.

My favourite native tree presentation was the Totara Tree, because I liked their rap.

My favourite pacific tree presentation was the Ngatae Tree, because they had a cool rap.

Here are some photos!

Krystal - Current Events Eusocial Plants Term 2 2021

WALT: analyse media with an open but critical eye to inform our own opinions

Today we did read a story about, researchers from New Zealand going to Lord Howe Island and exploring it. I had to answer some questions and many other stuff. I also had to do an activity about the story. The second activity was to see if you read the story properly. For the first activity I had to do a glossary. A glossary is like a list of words that you don't know, then you find the meaning to it. Here are my activities!

Monday 5th July 2021 Eusocial Plants 

In this news article, the main people are the researchers from New Zealand University. The key event from this news article, was about plants and animals. It was also about the researchers from New Zealand University, finding a lot of other interest things. This event took place in Lord Howe Island, which is in Australia. This event took place on the 17th of June 2021.

A ‘colony’ of Staghorn ferns growing on a cedar tree (Ian Hutton)

Krystal - Medicinal Plants

 Today I have done another activity on plants. This activity is a different one from the others. This one is about medicine plants and how they can fix your problem, if you are sick. Say for example I have a cold, so I take the Kowhai plant. Here is my activity!

Krystal, Monique & Vince - Deeper Thinking Rata Tree

Today I finished off my activity of my plant. My group (Monique, Vince and I) has a Rata tree. We had to find what food it has, what habitats, threats and many more. Here is my activity!

Krystal - I am a New Zealand Native Tree

Today we (TWP) were doing the 100 words challenge. We had to write about a plant that we choose in our group, we had to write 100 words. We also had to try and make you guys try to guess what our plant is. Monique and I wrote about a plant. We had to give hints and other stuff. Here are my activities!

Krystal, Monique and Vince - Rātā Tree

Today in TWP (Te Wairua Pakiki), we are learning about New Zealand native trees. This is important because, the trees are the tagata whenua which connects to Tāne Mahuta. In this activity we had to match ourselves up with another person. It was the year 5's together with the year 8's, then the year 6's and 7's together. We were put into 18 groups of three or two, it was Monique, Vince and I. We had to discuss what our group name was going to be. We decided to learn more about the rātā tree. We had to look up on google of what the Rātā leaves look like, the rātā flowers look like, the fruit/seeds look like and what the bark looks like. Here is our activity below!

Krystal - Whats Plants? & Leaves

Today we (TWP Whanau) had to figure out some names of the leaves that are from a tree. We had to find a partner in our whanau group to work with. I chose Maraia. In the first activity we had to figure the names of the plant. We had to find out the native trees here in New Zealand. We had to search up most of the plants to see if it was right. In the second activity we had to figure the names of the trees by looking at the type of bark on the tree. One photo of the trees were blurry. After we did that in our paper we had to do it all on our Chromebook. Here are our activities!

    

Krystal - Plants in Different Environment

WALT: Research plants/trees in our environment and then create a diorama.

During the week our whanau groups had to make a diorama of plants. We had to pick what environment we should do based on our Tahuna Torea trip. My group choose the bush environment. We had to make many trees such as, the harakeke (flax) bush kind of thing and then we made some trees. Yesterday Friday the 21st of May, we all presented our diorama's. Here is my groups diorama!

Krystal - Tahuna Torea

Today in Te Wairua Pakiki (TWP), we went to Tahuna Torea with Glen Innes Primary (Year 7's & 8's). We both took buses to the place. When we arrived there , we met a lot of teachers and other people. We met Dr. Jannie and Dr Theirry. We were split into 6 groups with Glen Innes. There was Group A, Group B, Group C, Group D, Group E and Group F. I was in Group C with Glen Innes' Group C. We went with Ms. Nees-Kairua and Dr Thierry. We went to the sand dunes. Then after 20 minutes we went to the mangroves with Hevaha and Dr. Jannie. Lastly we went to the bush with Mrs. Tui. If you want to know what we did in these places, read below!

 

Krystal - Amazing Plants

Today I watched a video of what plants are. I found out that light energy is used to transform into carbon dioxide, and water into chemical energy. After I watched the video I wrote down some words I didn't know like a glossary. Then I had to find out the meaning of it. There were four words I didn't know the meaning to. Here is my activity! 

Krystal Amazing Plants Inquiry Term 2 

What is a plant? 

Photosynthesis - Photosynthesis is the process of which the green plants and some other organisms use sunlight. Plants can turn and grow towards the light if the spot they are in is dark. 

Germanize - To germinate or grow. 

Meristems - Plants have a localized growth called meristems also known as the bud. These are territories of cell division and plant growth. The buds are the the stem of a plant. If you cut it in the right place it will grow many more leaves. 

Light Energy - Light Energy is used to transform into carbon dioxide, and water into chemical energy.

Sugars - The sugars are used for the plants to grow, to fight insects pests or drought stress. Extra sugars can be put in the storage organs for later use of the plants.