Polynesian Migration

Polynesian Migration

The two theories I have chosen to compare are South America and Asia. Some people believe they come from Asia and others believe they come from South America.

A theorist named Thor Heyerdahl believes that Polynesians come from South America because one part of evidence is that He noticed that the wind and Ocean currents from the east may have pushed travellers to the pacific. Another part of evidence is that He discovered huge statues of some of the ancient civilisations of South America.  He also constructed a boat called the kon-tiki he sailed on the raft  for 101 days to test his theory, and it washed up on raroia, an island in Eastern Polynesian. The last part of evidence is that the kumara found in New Zealand was also found in South America.

The next theory about Polynesians being originated in Asia was believed by many theorists because there was found to be a lot of different types of evidence such as the first part of evidence is Language, A lot of the Asian language is similar throughout the pacific. We belong to the Austronesian family of languages, e.g.. When counting from 1 - 10. Another piece of evidence is Food Most common food like taro, yams and banana come from Asia. The next piece of evidence is Pottery, Lapita pottery can be found at various sites from the Philippines, through Melanesian, to Samoa and Tonga. The last piece of evidence is Religious Beliefs, On every island from Samoa to Easter island, from Hawaiki to New Zealand there are traditionals.

These theories do not have any similarities but to me the Asia one is much more believable because the language part is such as the counting being similar is better evidence than all  the South American theory evidence.

This weeks Maths

Today we are reflecting on what we have learnt in maths this week using the letters of the word LAND. Here is what I learnt this week

L  -  I learnt about BEDMAS and how it works.
Learn

A - People helped me learn by not distracting me and reminding  Actions      me to focus on my work.

N - Next I want to learn about integers and how they work.
Next

D - Things I would like to do differently is the way we learn 
Differently       things, like I think it would be better if we had a more                         fun and exciting way to learn like games.

Food Tech: Coloured muffins

Today at cooking class we made multi coloured muffins and we chose to make yellow ones.
Here are the steps of making multi coloured muffins .

Dry Ingredients:

1. 1-½ cups of S.R.F
2. ⅓ cups of sugar.   

Wet Ingredients:

1. 1 cup milk
2. ¼ cups of oil
3. 1 lid of vanilla essence
4. 3 drops of any colour of food colouring.  

Step 1 Turn your oven on to 180° for 15 mins.

Step 2 Wisk both dry and wet ingredients together.

Step 3  Scoop 1 dessert spoon each muffin and top up the rest of the mixture.

Here is the result of our muffins.