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, 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 - Trees Talk To Each Other

Today I read an aticle about how "Trees Talk To Each Other" Suzanne Simard was interviewed and was asked how trees talk to each other. Suzanne says "Trees talk through to each other in many ways" Suzanne grew up in Canadian forests as a descendant of loggers before becoming a forestry ecologist. I also did a glossary. A glossary are words you don't know the meaning to. If you know what else I did read below! 

Trees Talk To Each Other Friday 7th May 

What is this article about? 

Trees are “social creatures that communicate with each other in many ways. Suzanne Simard says. Suzanne grew up in many Canadian forests. Trees are linked to nearby trees, by an underground network of fungi. Suzanne watched as a Douglas fir that had been hurt by insects. The ponderosa pine tree produced enzymes to protect the pine tree from the insects. "This was a breakthrough," Suzanne says. The trees were sharing "information that actually is important to the health of the whole forest." Suzanne says the trees know when the to share nutrients at hard times to keep each other healthy. Trees in the forest are usually linked through each other by a “mother” or a “hub”. While Suzanne was studying about the trees later on she found out she had breast cancer. 

Glossary: 

Enzymes - Enzymes are substances that produce, by a living organism which acts as a catalyst. 

Ecology - Ecology is the meaning of the branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surround. 

Facilitate - Facilitate means is when you make a move or an action. 

 Fungi - A group of spore-producing organisms.