Friday 6 April 2018

Rocky Shore Recount


Learning Intentions for Science
  • We are learning to understand that all living creatures have a life cycle.

  • We are learning that living creatures have bodies that are designed to help them to live and survive.  

  • We are learning that all living things are designed to live in a particular environment.

  • We are learning to understand how food webs work.

  • We are learning that in an ecosystem all living things and their environment are interconnected.

  • We are learning to understand about the Rocky Shore and the impact, both positive and negative, we can have on this environment.
Literacy

As part of our rocky shore unit we will also use our literacy skills to read and learn about the rocky shore and to write an information report on a rocky shore creature.

Writing
We are learning to write an information report about an animal.
We are learning to use our writing skills across the curriculum.


14 Miles of Awesomeness
On Monday morning Don and Lauren from DOC
(Department of Conservation)
came and had a very long talk with the class about the rocky shore because we were learning about the rocky shore and going on a trip that day. In his (Don) talk he told as about how the gravitational pull of the sun and moon pulls the water towards themselves and that is how you  get tides. We also got to look at a dolphin and seal skull.

Then we got in our car groups and went down to Fourteen Mile Beach. In my car group there was Tim (Dakota’s dad) ,Dakota,Daniel,Rhys,Milan and me. When we got there, we walked to the rocky shore part of the beach, then we sat down and had lunch. During lunch I found a whelk shell and Dakota found a crab shell,although  I don’t know what type it was.

When we had finished eating we got into our work groups.  In my group was me, Sasha, Nevey and our adult was Mrs Maclean. It took us a while to find the rock pool that we wanted to use because we were being very picky. After we had finally found our rock pool, I had to go back  to the shore because we had forgotten the container which we had to use if we found any creatures so we could look at them closer. We also had to use it for the work our teacher gave us. Our group found a lot of animals and plants such as erect coralline Algae, clingfish, limpets, camouflage anemones, periwinkles, pink paint seaweed  and a pill box crab.

After we had done our work, we got to explore around the rock pools. I helped Nevey find the animal that she was researching: which is the cushion starfish and I found one for her. Then we filled up an ice cream container with water and looked around for more cushion starfish. I didn’t look for the creature that I was researching because I had already seen a reef star heaps of times before. In the end we had found four cushion stars.  Lincoln killed one by dropping it.

After that we put the starfish back and buried the dead one because it was time to pack up and go. We had a wee talk to discuss  our trip, then got in our car groups and went back to school.

I found this trip very interesting because I learnt about a lot of new animals
and plants.
           

2 comments:

  1. Hi Brighid
    Nice work. I can see that you have learnt a lot of specialist vocabulary about the rocky shore, and spelled the words correctly - ka pai. I really like your title - I think it is catchy and fits your purpose well. Thank you for using your knowledge from your school field trip to take Dad, Fionn & I out to 14 Mile at Easter. It is a great spot. I liked learning about the rocky shore from you, and the geology of the rocks from Dad.

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  2. Hi Brighid

    Well done for writing a recount about our trip. I'm not sure why the writing has gone so big across the page! It is great to see that you are getting better and better at using punctuation and checking that your sentences make sense. I liked how you told us about the creatures you saw and about how you were picky about finding a rock pool to study! Keep up the good work you are doing in writing.

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