See below for what is planned this week. A busy week with lots of exciting things happening. I am really looking forward to waka ama on Wednesday!
Have a great week everyone.
Amy :)
Authorship
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Authorship- The Bomb
Purpose- to entertain
Stimulus- The Bomb- Sacha Cotter
Focus-Structuring ideas & adding detail
For those of you who have ever felt the stinging pain and the burn of peering eyes watching your every move when you have done something humiliating will be able to relate to this memory. It is one of those moments where it is hard to distinguish what hurt more: your burning hot peppered skin from slapping the water like a pancake, or the fact that everyone was watching!
To me when anyone mentions the word ‘belly flop’ my mind flips straight to the Onekawa Olympic pools - my local hang out as a kid. My skin tingles as I remember my bestie standing up on the high diving board (so high up she looked like a toothpick) while all the cool kids were ‘chilling with their homies’ below. As soon as her feet sprung off the board I could tell this was not going to be any award winning dive (not even close). The shriek as she flew through the air is what first caught the crowd's attention. Limbs were pointing like arrows in every direction, kinda like superman, which looked pretty cool for a split second until... a slapping sounds sent chills throughout the crowd of glaring eyes. People covering their faces, cringing as if they could feel the pain. An eerie silence filled the pool as people peered towards the waving water, which had swallowed another victim, all waited to see if she would surface.
Finally two bloodshot eyes hidden within the flaming shade of red which covered the front half of her body appeared on the water's surface. The heat could almost be felt steaming from her glowing body as she dragged herself from the water. Emotions were high. People didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Kate-Lee Mason threw her hands in the air and claps echoed around the pool. Not only had she survived but now she was a legend - my bestie!
Mrs G
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The long-tailed cuckoo (koekoeā) is a summer migrant bird endemic to New Zealand and mainly frequents forest, so is often difficult to observe closely.
Long-tailed cuckoo migrate to the Pacific islands each winter and can be spotted throughout New Zealand when migrating during summer, autumn or spring, according to New Zealand Birds Online.
The species, however, is thought to be in a serious decline linked to a drop in numbers of yellowheads, whose nests the cuckoo uses to breed.
Rotorua Canopy Tours has been doing conservation work and pest control in the reserve for the last seven years, and recently completed its regular pest control monitoring and reset of its trapping network.
Guide and conservation worker Harry Haywood said it was "very rare" to hear the calls of the cuckoo in the reserve until this year.
"I've heard half a dozen in just the past few weeks, which is amazing. We're always stoked when we hear the distinctive raspy, barbed-wire call of the koekoeā."
It was exciting to hear signs of a return, he said.
Tracking data showed a decline in rat numbers to at 16 per cent and possums at an exceptionally low 3 per cent, in the reserve, Haywood said.
Non-treatment sites tracked rats at a 90 per cent average during the past year's "mega-mast" event, and the Department of Conservation guidelines aimed to get possums below 5 per cent.
"Long-tailed cuckoos don't build nests; they use the nests of other birds. That means that predators affect the population of cuckoos by destroying their habitat. Our predator numbers are very low, which is why we're seeing an increase of koekoeā in the forest."
Previous years have seen a very rare striped skink return to the forest, as well as flocks of threatened native bird species such as the New Zealand falcon (karearea), tomtit (miromiro), kākā, and North Island robin (toutouwai) to name a few.
Canopy Tours general manager Paul Button was proud of the conservation efforts the business as it worked to do its part towards the national Predator-Free 2050 goals.
In May last year, NZME reported long-tailed cuckoo had declined in the remote South Island Landsborough valley, in South Westland.
Long-tailed cuckoo migrate to the Pacific islands each winter, and could be affected by conditions there.
Maths- Number Knowledge
setting up maintenance for the week and completing learning goals from pre test. Booking in for teacher times.
Tuesday-
Clinic 1- WALT: identify place value of 3 digit whole numbers numbers
Thursday-
Clinic 1- WALT- Explain the meaning of the digits in decimal numbers with up to 3 decimal places
Clinic 2- WALT: Complete calculations involving adding and subtracting 2 digit whole numbers
Friday-
Clinic 1- WALT: Round numbers to the nearest 10 & 100 & use these to make estimates
Clinic 2- WALT: Complete calculations involving adding and subtracting 2 digit whole numbers and decimals
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