Facts about Puffins

Today at home we get to choose something we wanted to learn or do. I decided to do one what was were you got to choose an animal you wanted to research about and then put all the stuff you found out into a Dlo. I wanted to learn about some things about Puffins. Here is the Dlo.

Multiple Sentences

In Hur 3 we have been learning about some different sentences. We have learnt about W-Starts, Adverb Starts and Very short sentences. W-Starts is were you start with one of these words, When, Where, while and whilst. Adverb start is where you start with an adverb. The adverb or word has to end with the letters ly. A Very short sentence is just a really small sentence that gives you suspense or drama.

Here are some examples...

Very short...

The boy slowly placed the seed.

The teacher grabbed the seeds.

W-Start...

While the the teacher handed out the seeds, the students grabbed a beaker.

When he put the seed in, he Walked over to the table.

Adverb start...

Carefully, the boy put the beaker down.

Anxiously, the students waited for the seed to grow.

Adverb Start

Today in Hur3 we have been learning about Adverb starts. We first had to practice on our W-starts. I W-start if you don't know is where the first word start with a W. You have to choose out of While, Whilst, Where and When. Then we learnt what a Adverb start was. A adverb is a word that ends with the letters, "ly" Carefully, carelessly and quickly are some of them. We had to do all this with a white board and pen.

Here are 2 examples of W-starts...
While the dog walked, the kid started running after it.
Where did the boy go, no one ever knows.

Here are 2 examples of Adverb starts...
Carefully he placed the picture on the wall.
Quickly the girl ran to school.

Have you done any of these before?

Te Tiriti o Waitangi

In Hur1 we watched a video and we got a sheet we had to fill out. This time it was a different sheet but it was still based of the treaty of Waitangi. Here are 10 question and answers from the sheet. The population of the Maori in the late 1830's was around 70,000 and 80,000. The population was around 100,000. The main reasons was because of war and diseases. The main settlement was called Kororareka or Russell. Why the treaty of Waitangi was neglected by almost being set on fire, burred, Rats munching on it and water damage. 500 Rangatira signed the treaty of Waitangi. Sovereignty means leadership and some other things but the main thing is leadership. Tino Rangatiratanga means having your own authority.

A problem with the treaty was that the translation was messed up. A part in the English version was not the same as the Maori side. For the Maori side it said, "You will still have ownership over your land." But in the English version it said, "The crown will have complete control over the land." and basically control over nearly everything. The thing to help resolve a situation was they made the united tribes of NZ. The British saw the France as an enemy because of War and colonisation.

Different types of sentences

In Hur3 we have been learning about different types of sentences like Very short sentences. We had so make a simple sentence into a complex sentence. That was the start of our paragraph. We had to do one very short sentence and 2 W-starts sentences. The W-start is where you choose a word out of When, Where, Whilst and while. Here is my paragraph... 

This morning he ran away yelling in the forest madly. He ran and ran as fast as he could. Beside the river, beside a lake and into a swamp. The boy sat down to rest as well as eat something. He heard it. He heard something that changed his life. Gun fire! The boy got down and hid from the enemy team. Whilst he got up in a good position to snipe them, he got hit, “Hit!” the boy shouted and put his hand up. While he was walking back to respawn, he knew someone was following him. “Could I just respawn?!” The boy whispered.

Summary of New Zealand History.

Today in we watched a video and it had answers to a sheet we got. We had to answer them while we watched the video. Here are the questions and the answer. Abel Tasman was the first explorer to arrive in Aotearoa and he arrived in 1674. He named it Nova Zealandia. The second explorer was captain James Cook and he arrived in 1769. He also had a chief navigator to help him. The chief navigators name was TuPaia. The Explorers brought over Potatoes, Pigs, Ship rats and disuses. There was also a question that said whats a musket? Well a musket is a type of rifle that uses gunpowder. And there was a big musket war. The musket war ended in the late 1830's. The ratio Maori and Pakeha was 1 Pakeha equals 40 Maori. What do you know about the Maori History?

Simple to Complex Sentences

In Hur3 for writing we have Practising  on our Sentences. This is also a practice for the assessment that is coming up. For the sentences we have been changing some words and adding more detail to them. The example was The cat sat on the mat. Then they added and adjective, when, where and how. Then we had to do the same. But our first sentence was, The dog ate. It was hard to figure out what to do for the adjective. Have you done this before? Here's my work...

Simple to Complex Sentences

The dog ate.

The dog ate wildly.

This afternoon the dog ate wildly.

This afternoon the dog ate wildly while watching cats.

This afternoon the dog ate wildly and stopped to bark at the cats.

Red: Adjective
Orange: When
Green: Where
Blue: How