Using Te Ara 1

Using Te Ara -

The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

1. Waitemata Harbour

L.I. Develop our knowledge of Auckland and the Tamaki River.

Familiarise ourselves with an online NZ encyclopaedia.

Use our skimming and scanning skills.

Use this link to open Te Ara

Enter Waitemata into the search box and use that page to answer these questions.

What sort of landform is the Waitemata harbour?

It is a drowned River Valley. ✓

Why was it chosen to be New Zealand’s capital?  

The harbour’s deep navigable channels and sheltered bays helped to determine Lieutenant-Governor Hobson’s choice of a site for New Zealand's capital in 1840.  ✓

What does Waitemata mean?  Obsidian glass ✓

Tell me one interesting fact about each of these features of the Waitemata:

Auckland’s chief port - Did you know that Auckland’s port on the Waitematā was vital to the progress of the city and region. ✓

Westhaven - Viaduct Basin The Viaduct Basin, site of the old fishing harbour, was redeveloped in the mid-1990s as a site where the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron could host the America’s Cup in 1999 and 2003. ✓

Harbour bridge - The Auckland Harbour Bridge (1,020 m long) was opened in 1959 to link  the Auckland isthmus with the north.  ✓

Greenhithe bridge - The Greenhithe bridge was built in 1975 which will that bridge 38. ✓

Natural features - It was formed by lava flowing from the Three Kings eruption 20,000 years 

ago. ✓

Keyboards Skills

This is my new highscore I got from typing the fastest I could. This would help me get work done faster.

Bodmas

Even though I get questions wrong I still carry on to try and work it out so I will achieve all my answers. I learnt how to use brackets and also to understand what they mean. By learning this maths equation will help me learn and It means that I can use brackets and then answer the question.

Believe, Achieve and Succed.

Being able to comment on a different person make me being able to Believe, Achieve and succed which is why I wrote a comment on a comment is because I can believe that put hard work into it , they             managed to achieve it and now they will Succed.

Waitemata Habour

Using Te Ara -

The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

1. Waitemata Harbour

L.I. Develop our knowledge of Auckland and the Tamaki River.

Familiarise ourselves with an online NZ encyclopaedia.

Use our skimming and scanning skills.

Use this link to open Te Ara

Enter Waitemata into the search box and use that page to answer these questions.

What sort of landform is the Waitemata harbour?

It is a drowned River Valley.

Why was it chosen to be New Zealand’s capital?  

The harbour’s deep navigable channels and sheltered bays helped to determine Lieutenant-Governor Hobson’s choice of a site for New Zealand's capital in 1840.

What does Waitemata mean?

Tell me one interesting fact about each of these features of the Waitemata:

Auckland’s chief port - Did you know that Auckland’s port on the Waitematā was vital to the progress of the city and region.

Westhaven - Viaduct Basin The Viaduct Basin, site of the old fishing harbour, was redeveloped in the mid-1990s as a site where the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron could host the America’s Cup in 1999 and 2003

Harbour bridge - The Auckland Harbour Bridge (1,020 m long) was opened in 1959 to link  the Auckland isthmus with the north.

Greenhithe bridge - The Greenhithe bridge was built in 1975 which will that bridge 38.

Natural features - It was formed by lava flowing from the Three Kings eruption 20,000 years ago.

This is my activity I have done all about the Waitemata Habour. This includes facts about the habour such as the Habour Bridge. I hope you enjoy.

My wonderful Comments.

These are  my comments that  I made about my friends blogs. All of the  wonderful work that I noticed are on there  blog.

There work stoodout which was why I left a comment.

T4 Goal setting

Reflecting and Goal Setting

Term 3-4

Reading: This term I learnt that by reading different types of books will make it easier instead of reading picture books all the time. My reading goal for Term 4 is to read Non-Fiction books which is a thicker book which would have a lot of pages. To achieve my goal I will need to focus a lot harder and go to the library at least twice a week.

Writing: This term I learnt to work on an information My writing goal for Term 4 is to describe and write down what I picture in my head. To achieve my goal I will need to make sure my picture that I describe comes out clearer.

Maths: This term I learnt  how to create a hundreds square and I even made one myself which helped me a lot to learn. My maths goal for Term 4 is to easily calculate numbers and decimals and to remember all of my times tables. To achieve my goal I will need to focus a lot harder and to make sure I take my time to answer math equations.

Personal: My personal goal for Term 4 is  get high grades and to make new friends. To achieve my goal I will need to focus harder than I usually do.