joan wiffen

Joan wiffen

Joan wiffen Born on the 4th of Feb 1922. Joan wiffen died in 2009.

She was famous because she was the first one that found the first  dinosaur fossils,people thought there were no dinosaurs in NZ but joan wiffen said there were dinosaurs in NZ.

Joan wiffen discover on the 1975,Joan wiffen found a small theropod tailbone at Mangahouanga stream and she found more fossils at the Mangahouanga stream, it is called wing bone, tail bone, foot bone, the wing bone is from the pterosaurs but the tail bone is from the sauropod but the foot bone is from the theropod

Mary Born on 21 of may 1799, Mary died on 9 of march 1847. Mary Anning was famous because she was a fossil hunter because she went with her brother joseph went to the cliffs and they found a fossil. Mary Anning discover because she found it and she found shells. 

Matariki Art

Talofa lava , welcome to rm 7's Matariki art.

what to do for our Matariki art 

list

-we get the paper and rippa a mountain shape

-then you put the mountain paper where the black paper is 

-we use pastels and we use any colour for our aurora borealis lights

-then we use white paint to do the Matariki stars.

-then we use our thumb to flick the paint to make little stars.

matariki description

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matariki is the maui name for the cluster

Of stars also known as the pleiades. It rises in mid- winter and for many moari, it heralds the stars of a new year. 

fossil

Fosil are the remains or traces of ancient

Life that have been preserved by natural processes, from spectacular skeletons to tiny sea shells. Lmprints , become fossilised, like dinosaur footprints or worm burrows. These are called trace fosil