oliviah

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Hi guys i am Olivia and I am 11 years old! I live with my mum,dad,my brother and my two cats. i love horses and if i could be anywhere in the world it would be Paris!

21/07/10 here is my mihi!!

Kia Ora Koutou (Hello All) Ko **Olivia** toku ingoa (My name is **Olivia**) No **Otautahi** Ahau (I am from Christchurch) Ko **Tania** raua ko **Garfield** oku Matua (**Tania** and **Garfield** are my parents) Ko **Maddie** raua ko **anna** raua ko **Abby** oku hoa (**Maddie** and **Anna** and Abby are my friends) I te tahi o toku whaea (On my mothers side) Ko **Margret** toku kuia (**Magret** is my grand mother) Ko **Gary** toku koroua (**Gary** is my grand father) I te tahi o toku matua (On my fathers side) Ko **Elizabeth** toku kuia (**Elizabeth** is my grand mother) Ko Duddly toku koroua ( Duddly is my grand father) Ko **Pukehiki** toku Maunga (**Pukehiki** is my Mountain) Ko **Owheo** toku Awa (**Leith** is my River) Ko **Otakou aka** toku Moana (**Otakou harbour** is my Sea) No Reira, tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa (That is all, greetings, greetings, greetings to you all)

21/07/10 this is stuff about some subjects!!!

writing - what i am enjoying about writing is activities we are doing!!! reading-i think the hatchet is about a plane crash and a boy called brian survied and he has to find a way to survive!! inquiry-two facts about space are the sun is a star and the moons maori name is marama!! here is some key understandings: space influences our times and tides the sun gives and sustains life for all living things the night sky helped humanity spread out across earth technology in space helps us communicate and understand our world production-the theme i would like is bling bling land because it is different and it will be enjoyable for all types of age groups.

monday 20th september 2010





First Dinosaur Fossil Discoveries [|Go to a printable version of this page]
 * The first 3 dinosaur fossils led to the recognition of a new group of animals, the dinosaurs.**
 * The first nearly-complete dinosaur skeleton in New Jersey spurs modern paleontology.**

People have been finding dinosaur fossils for hundreds of years, probably even thousands of years. The Greeks and Romans may have found fossils, giving rise to their many ogre and griffin legends. There are references to "dragon" bones found in Wucheng, Sichuan, China (written by Chang Qu) over 2,000 years ago; these were probably dinosaur fossils.

Much later, in 1676, a huge thigh bone (femur) was found in England by Reverend Plot. It was thought that the bone belonged to a "giant," but was probably from a dinosaur. A report of this find was published by R. Brookes in 1763.

The First Dinosaur Fossil Scientifically Described The first dinosaur to be described scientifically was [|Megalosaurus]. This genus was named in 1824, by William Buckland; [|Gideon Mantell] (not Ferdinand August von Ritgen) assigned the scientific type species name, //Megalosaurus bucklandii//. Buckland (1784-1856) was a British [|fossil hunter] and clergyman who discovered collected fossils. (Note: the first dinosaur found was [|Iguanodon], but it was named and described later than Megalodon.) It was the first dinosaur ever described scientifically and first [|theropod] dinosaur discovered (this is all in hindsight, because the dinosaurs had not yet been recognized as a separate taxonomic group - the word dinosaur hadn't even been invented yet). The first dinosaur models (life size and made of concrete) were made by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins of England in 1854. The first dinosaur used for amusement was a life-size model of an Iguanodon (made by Hawkins) that was used to house a dinner party for scientists (including Richard Owen) at a major exhibition. The invitations to the party were sent on fake pterodactyl wings. The party took place in London, England, in 1854

Other Early Dinosaur Finds
 * [[image:http://www.enchantedlearning.com/igifs/Iguanodon.GIF width="63" height="34" link="http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/dinos/Iguanodon.shtml"]]


 * [|IGUANODON]** || Gideon A. Mantell (1790-1852) was another early British [|fossil hunter]. He described and named [|Iguanodon], a duck-billed plant-eater (1825); Iguanodon's teeth and a few bones were found in 1822, perhaps by his wife, Mrs. Mary Mantell in Sussex, (southern) England. Gideon Mantell also named [|Hylaeosaurus], an armored plant-eater (1833), and others. || [[image:http://www.enchantedlearning.com/sgifs/Sauropelta.GIF width="98" height="39" link="http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/dinos/Hylaeosaurus.shtml"]]


 * [|HYLAEOSAURUS]** ||

The Name "Dinosauria" Sir [|Richard Owen] (1804-1892) was a pioneering British comparative anatomist who coined the term dinosauria (from the Greek "deinos" meaning fearfully great, and "sauros" meaning lizard), recognizing them as a suborder of large, extinct reptiles in 1841. He had noticed that a group of fossils (which included remains of [|Megalosaurus], [|Iguanodon], and [|Hylaeosaurus]) had certain characteristics in common, including: Owen presented dinosaurs as a separate taxonomic group in order to bolster his arguments against the newly proposed theory of evolution (although Darwin's "Origin of the Species" wasn't published until 1859, the basic ideas of evolution were known, but its mechanisms, including natural selection, were not). Ironically, his work actually helped support the evolutionists arguments. This new taxonomic name, Dinosauria, and new group of reptiles was only the beginning of a great scientific exploration. Since Owen's time, about 330 dinosaur genera have been described. Every few months (sometimes every few weeks), a new species is unearthed (for recent finds, see [|Dino News]). Paleontologists have varying estimates of how many dinosaur genera existed during the [|Mesozoic Era]; estimates range from about 1,000 to over 10,000. Whatever this number really is, there are a lot of new dinosaurs left to discover! The First Nearly-Complete Dinosaur Skeleton and First American Dinosaur The first dinosaur fossil found in the US was a thigh bone found by Dr. Caspar Wistar, in Gloucester County, New Jersey, in 1787 (it has since been lost, but more fossils were later found in the area). A Hadrosaur footprint. || In 1800 in Massachusetts, USA, Pliny Moody found 1-foot (31 cm) long fossilized footprints at his farm that were thought by Harvard and Yale scholars to be from "Noah's Raven." Many other dinosaur footprints were been found in New England stone quarries in the early 1800's, but they were thought to be unimportant and were blown up in the quarrying process. Other fragmentary dinosaur bones and tracks were unearthed at this time in Connecticut Valley, Massachusetts. The first nearly-complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered by William Parker Foulke. Foulke had heard of a discovery made by workmen in a [|Cretaceous] marl (a crumbly type of soil) pit on the [|John E. Hopkins farm in Haddonfield, New Jersey] beginning in 1838. Foulke heard of the discovery and recognized its importance in 1858. Unfortunately, some of the bones had already been removed by workmen. The skull-less dinosaur was excavated and named by [|US anatomist] Joseph Leidy who named it [|Hadrosaurus fouki] (meaning "Foulke's big lizard"). It was a [|duck-billed dinosaur] (but it is now a doubtful genus because there is so little fossil information about it). The "Haddonfield Hadrosaurus" is on display at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. Leidy's analysis of this Hadrosaur skeleton was thorough; from its anatomy, he wrote imaginitively about the dinosaur's way of life and its death. Leidy wrote, "Hadrosaurus was most probably amphibious; and though its remains were obtained from a marine deposit, the rarity of them in the latter leads us to suppose that those in our possession had been carried down the current of a river, upon whose banks the animals lived." (Quoted from J. Leidy, Account of the Remains of a Fossil Reptile Recently Discovered at Haddonfield, New Jersey. Proceedings Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Dec. 14, 1858 pp.1-16.)
 * Column-like legs [[image:http://www.enchantedlearning.com/lgifs/Legsdino.GIF width="43" height="37"]] (instead of the sprawling legs [[image:http://www.enchantedlearning.com/lgifs/Legsreptile.GIF width="63" height="26"]] that other reptiles have)
 * Five fused vertebrae fused to the pelvic girdle.
 * [[image:http://www.enchantedlearning.com/hgifs/Hadrosaurfootprint.GIF width="153" height="118"]]

tuesday 21st september 2010

last week on thursday we had a special gueast speaker for our inquriy topic,fossils. his name is prof david jones. it was a really good experience for what we are learning about and he gave us alot of good useful information and we got some of our wonderings answered as well. my favourite part was when he shared some of his fossils with us and told us how he got interested in them. i really enjoyed having him as our gueast speaker.

one thing that i have learnt this week about fossils is:

once something dies it gets covered and becomes harder and harder and it will stay there underneath the ground until somebody finds it and when it gets covered it protectes it from getting damaged any further.

11-10-10 monday

in my holidays i had my youngest cousin come over from Auckland. I WAS REALLY EXCITED because i don't get to see her and my aunty only once every 1 or 2 years.i had a great time and i really enjoyed it and the rest of my holiday.14-10-10hey guys the reason i think our classroom should be an ICT classroom is because it is a fun,edicational way to learn and it would be very helpful to other classes as well. and it would also be good for information about topics and inqury.thats why i think our classroom should become a ict classroom. 4-11-10 ﻿mystery writing"What should you do Kyle?"my teacher asked as his dark brow eyes glared into mine. "Well are you going to answer me?" I was just about to open my mouth when the bell rang. Finally the bell actually saved my life!! As I walk out of the classroom I start shaking like the trees in an earthquake. I already knew I had better things to worry about. I keep hearing these weird, funny noises, and not in a good way. It always happens when I have to split from my friends. When I'm walking home from school I feel like I'm being followed.I split from my friends and and my heart starts pounding. I am confused, anxious, scared and i am just a 13 year old boy. There it is that noise,that heavy breathing noise. Then it does something it's never done before. It starts whispering my name like Kyle,Kyle,Kyle Kyle Kyle,Kyle,Kyle Kyle Kyle. "WHO'S THERE!" I scream as I look behind me. Nobody's there. I can't take it. I start running and then I hear footsteps. I look around and see a dark,tall shadow running behind me. What do I do?. I look around again and see the shadow reach out towards me, to grab me with it's long, skinny arm!!But then it stops and runs to the side and waves towards my direction. I look up and see my house is just up ahead and my mother is opening the door. "Was that one of your friends running with you"she asks. "What...what are you talking about mum?" I say looking confused. "The person running behind you" she replied. " Oh yeah course" I said not willing to say anything else. I run up our dark narrow staicase next to the blood red walls when I hear that noise again. I freeze not knowing what was going to happen next. If they caught me they could kill me, kidnap me and feed me a worm and a glass of water, or even worse do something to my mum!! It's so easy to find my mother with her high heel shoes, her platinum blonde, gold hair and her bright pink outfit. That is why i never let my mother drive me to school. You can see her through the windows and they are tinted windows!! if anyone saw me with her they would burst out with laughter, no affence to my mother.But I have to leave to go on this trip because I promised my mum i would ever i since was little.11-11-10Recently room one have just visited a worm farm because our new topic (related to our 'what our garden needs'topic) is worms and wormerys. It was a really good experience for us because it gave us a good chance to gather information. We looked at a can-o-worm wormery which was a small wormery, then we had a look at another wormery which was a bit bigger. We learnt some of the parts of the can-o-worm and what they do with there castings and the worm juice. I really enjoyed it and i had never seen a can-o-worm before.18th-11-10Last friday we had our year six market day. we raised 636 dollars.i really enjoyed market day i was on coin toss with hannah. we only had 2 or three people at first but the we had a great big line od people. which was really good i loved it.during our inquiry and drama session i learnt these interesting things: in drama we learnt about hunger and diferent facial expressions, and in inquiry we learnt about making a wormery and put our plans into action!media type="custom" key="7692013"1-12-10On the 23 of november we went to camp at Wainakarua. We did all these cool activitys here are some photos...

m monday 13 december

hey guys i am so excited about Christmas holidays but also really sad because we only have three days left of school, and then we don't come back cause we go off to our intermediate. i am going to Columba Collage which is really nerve racking but really exciting. they are one of the top ten schools in Dunedin which is so kool. Not only is it an intermident it is also a high school and a primary school on the other side of the road. i am really sad about leaving gbs.

bye guys!!!!!!

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