Olivia

WOW ANCIENT FOOTPRINTS!!! Do you think this is a human or a monkey foot prints? Well British Geologist Matthew Kennet thinks it’s a foot print of a human. Matthew and his colleagues found a series of foot prints in Kenya. These foot prints were from over 1.5 million years ago. Guess what? They walked like we do. The oldest human foot prints are in a Sedimentary rock near a town of Lleret in northland Kenya. There were two trails of footprints one smaller than the other, researchers believe that one of the footprints might be a child. Scientists estimated that the adults might be 5 feet 9 inches tall. Several four legged animals have been discovered around a watering hole scientists believe.These prints are Hominid Homo Ergaster or Homo erectus and are one of the most recent discoveries of evolution of a modern human. A laser scan confirmed these were human feet. They show how they ran shifting the weight from the ball of his foot to the heel and then the big toe. This shows that humans over 2 million years ago could run and hunt upright. The oldest foot prints are from over 3.75 million years ago. But these have been more of ape-like footprints, because of the shallower of their feet and more apes-like

HI my name is Olivia I am 11 on the 19 September. I go to Kiwitea school and have lots of friends. Here are some of my hobbies I like doing: Favourite Sports: Rugby, Hockey and Soccer Favourite Color: Blue Favourite Subject In School: Writing and Grammar. This is what we are doing in this term Term 3 This term we have been learning how to take notes from articles make them into storys by the notes. Above there is a story 'Wow Ancient Foot Prints' that is one of my articles for my newspaper. We got the articles from WWW.dogonews.co.nz. This term we also have folk dancing when we dress up as something and go to school on the second to last day of the term and do lots of dances, here are some room three are doing (my class.) Oh Susanna Gay Gordan Padacake Polker Lady goes around the lady and the gent goes around the gent.