Listening to the land// Writing

What is Pauline doing to help animals that are endangered?

The Maori Scientist Harris Pauline is working hard to help animals that are endangered, she is simplifying Maori  traditional knowledge with western knowledge. She managed to gather information from the Maori people who live in Alaska and they say that their lakes are melting faster, their lakes usually melt around summer. When she got the information from Alaska she was wondering if something like that is affecting animals in New Zealand. She found out that Mosquitoes are hatching earlier and animals along with insects are growing faster.

How is the Maori knowledge helping her?

She is also checking out areas around New Zealand and to see if anything weird is happening. Many Maori communities have a great understanding of the plants,animals and insects cycle also Harris Pauline is a part of 3 Maori tribes so she probably understands how the plant,animal, and insects cycle go’s so she knows when climate change is affecting the plants,animals and insects. She is also creating a map that combines the Maori knowledge with our knowledge now and seeing what’s the differences between what happened back then and now.

Tuhi Atu//Listening to the land

Listening to the land//Word definetion 2

Today I managed to finish off another word definetion list and on this one it was academic words from the book we read which is "Listening to the land". I got my definetions from the book and my prior knowledge. I enjoyed doing this task I learned more words and I learned what a Gregorian calendar is and who made it. 

Listening to the Land//Word Definition

Today I managed to find every definition of each Maori word in the book that we read. It was hard because some of the words weren't on the Maori dicitionary. But we read the book and we understood what it ment. Seeing what these words ment was pretty cool I learned alot and I really enjoyed reading the book because it's really intresting.

Reading Reflection//Listening to the land

Today for reading we got to have a group discussion on reading. We all read this book called Listening to the land. After reading it we gathered words that geniuses use from sentences in the book and we unpacked the word and sentences. It was really fun because you got to use your prior knowledge. I enjoyed it I learned a lot of words that I could use in sentences in my Writing and improve it.

Listening To The Land//Sentence

This week for Reading we got to read a book called Listening To The Land in the book it tells us info about what Maori Scientist have found. We are looking into what scientist like Pauline has found. Pauline want's to prevent animal endeangerment and also keep them safe from climate change.