Information for Water Safety Posters

Rāta and the Waka

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Retell the story - writing slideshow

What is Onomatopoeia?

 

E-Ako maths games

 https://e-ako.nzmaths.co.nz/games/games.aspx

Learn about our fascinating wētā

Read this School Journal article to find out some interesting facts about wētā.

Watch this Auckland Zoo video about weta.

Draw your own picture of a wētā and label its parts.

Sea animals

 Sea animals

• Crab: An aquatic animal with a flat round body covered by a shell. It has five pairs of legs with large claws on the front pair.
• Fish: An aquatic creature with gills.
• Seal: Semi-aquatic mammals, which are fin-footed.
• Octopus: Ocean animals with eight arms and bulbous heads.
• Electric Eel: A sea animal that can generate up to 800 volts of electricity.
• Shark: A sea creature made out of cartilage and not bones like fish.
• Seahorse: A type of fish related to pipefishes.
• Walrus: A huge seal-like aquatic animal.
• Starfish: An aquatic animal that has a central disc and usually five arms.
• Whale: A large specie of aquatic mammal that belongs to the order Cetacea.
• Jellyfish: A free-swimming sea animal with umbrella-shaped bells and trailing tentacles.
• Zebra Shark: A very large, distinctive shark that lives in coral reef habitats in tropical waters.
• Squid: A sea animal with an elongated body, large eyes, eight arms, and two tentacles.
• Lobster: A ten-legged aquatic animal closely related to shrimp and crabs.
• Shrimp: A sea creature with an elongated body and a primarily swimming mode of locomotion.
• Oyster: A salt-water bivalve mollusc that live in brackish habitats.
• Clams: Invertebrate animals that do not have a backbone.
• Yellow Tuna: A torpedo-shaped fish with dark metallic blue backs, yellow sides, and a silver belly
• Dolphin: An aquatic animal that breathes air using its lungs.
• Shells: Shells are part of a classification of animals collectively called molluscs.
• Sea Urchin: A spiny marine invertebrate animal.
• Cuttlefish: An intelligent invertebrate related to the octopus and squid.
• Otter: A carnivorous mammal in the subfamily Lutrinae.
• Great White Shark: A sea animal that is one of the most dangerous predatory sharks in the world.
• Sea Anemone: Soft-bodied, primarily sedentary marine animals resembling flowers.
• Sea Turtle: Large, air-breathing reptiles.
• Dugong: Considered to be cousins of manatees, this sea animal share a similar plump appearance but have a dolphin fluke-like tail.
• Sea Lion: An aquatic animal that can bark loudly and walk on land using their large flippers.
• Coral: Small, colonial, plankton-eating invertebrate animals called polyps, which are anemone-like.
• Manatees: Large, mostly herbivorous ocean mammals, sometimes known as sea cows.
• Marine Iguana: A marine reptile that can forage in the sea for algae.
• Atlantic Guitarfish: An aquatic animal with flattened elongated bodies with triangular or shovel-shaped heads.
• Basking Shark: Large shark that feeds exclusively on plankton and swims slowly close to the surface.
• Bat Ray: A sea animal named after its long pectoral fins that resemble bat wings.
• Balloon Fish: A fish that can inflate into a ball shape to evade a predator.

Tupapa - Stories of journeys to Aotearoa

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Learn about journeys to Aotearoa and how to build a waka.