On Friday, we did Play Make Create. This is where the teacher reads you a story and you discuss the message in the story. Then you create something based on the message and also do a piece of writing. You can use materials or make a digital creation. This week Mrs Craig Read the book: One for you and two for me.
It was about the importance of friendship and sharing thing fairly.
I chose to design a gadget or a tool to help people share things fairly
We have Pet Day at Ohaeawai School every year and one of the activities we do is to create a symmetrical design on a saucer using flower petals. You put Vaseline on the saucer first to make the flowers stick. That’s why they are called Vaseline Saucers. Here is a pic of me with mine:
On Friday, we did Play Make Create. This is where the teacher reads you a story and you discuss the message in the story. Then you create something based on the message and also do a piece of writing. You can use materials or make a digital creation. This week Mrs Craig Read the book: The Day the Plants Fought Back.
It was about respecting others.
I chose to Make somethink that the ook can see
On Friday, we did Play Make Create. This is where the teacher reads you a story and you discuss the message in the story. Then you create something based on the message and also do a piece of writing. You can use materials or make a digital creation. This week Mrs Craig Read the book: That’s Not the Monster We Ordered.
It was about being grateful for what you have.
I chose to Create a monster out of carboard, tape, a plastic spoon and googly eyes.
We have been learning about abstract art. It’s all about creating works of art that don’t actually look like anything. We focused on the American artist Frank Stella, who liked to make pictures using shapes like circles, triangles and rectangles.
Here is my work:
On Friday, we did Play Make Create. This is where the teacher reads you a story and you discuss the message in the story. Then you create something based on the message and also do a piece of writing. You can use materials or make a digital creation. This week Mrs B Read the book: I am Peace . It was about a trees an think to go and tried to makea Tree. It did work
I chose to do Design
Alone, on a small boat without an anchor, I felt like I was riding a wave of happiness
I am in my bedroom calm, my breathing is relaxed,am waching a movies.
Yesterday, for maths we had to read a step by step procedure for making a 3D clock. It was very tricky. We had to measure in centimetres to make equilateral triangles, measure the angles with a protractor to check they were 60 degrees, make a clock face and arrows and tie it all together with string. I was glad when I finished. The clock hands were the hardest part. Here is a picture of my clock.
We had to do a handwriting sample this week. My handwriting is not that good but it’s way better than the start of the year.
Thanks to Covid we could only have
Ohaeawai kids in our cross country this year. I came 7th
in my year group.
On Friday, we did Play Make Create. This is where the teacher reads you a story and you discuss the message in the story. Then you create something based on the message and also do a piece of writing. You can use materials or make a digital creation. This week Mrs Craig Read the book: Maui and the sun.
It was about the Maori myth which explains how/why the sun moves across the sky.
I chose to draw the sun before Maui trapped him. We also had to publish a piece of poetry from our writing work this week. Here is my blackout poem.
In Week 3 of Term 3, we did Play Make Create. This is where the teacher reads you a story and you discuss the message in the story. Then you create something based on the message and also do a piece of writing. You can use materials or make a digital creation. This week Mrs Craig Read the book: the smartest Giant in Town by Julia Donaldson.
It was about being kind.
I chose to make something for somebody I love
In Week 9, Term 2 , we had a day of activities based on Matariki. We got sorted into groups and did rotations. Most of us got to do 2 different activities but some only did one activity if it took a long time. I chose to take part in: Paper Plate Stars
In Week 8, we were learning how to write using personification. We looked at lots of poems that had personification in them and then we had to write our own.Here is mine about stars
In Week Seven of Term 2, we did Play Make Create. This is where the teacher reads you a story and you discuss the message in the story. Then you create something based on the message and also do a piece of writing. You can use materials or make a digital creation. This week Mrs Craig Read the book: The Day the Crayons Quit. It was about a box of crayons who were not happy. I chose to make a slo-mo video about water-which has no colour. Also made a Chatterbox movie about a green whiteboard marker.
In Term 2 Week six we did Play Make Create. This is where the teacher reads you a story and you discuss the message in the story. Then you create something based on the message and also do a piece of writing. You can use materials or make a digital creation. This week Mrs Craig Read the book ‘Twig.”
In Week 5, we learned how to write a Simile poem. This kind of poem needs a simile in almost every line. We could base it on any topic we wanted. I chose to base mine on snowlakes and feet,
Here is my work….
I n Term 2 Week Four we did Play Make Create. This is where the teacher reads you a story and you discuss the message in the story. Then you create something based on the message and also do a piece of writing. You can use materials or make a digital creation. This week Mrs Craig Read the book paper, Scissors, Rock. It was about friendship and learning about your strengths and weaknesses. I chose to a comic strip.
This week we went on a hunt in the playground to see if we could find some feathers. We didn’t find any but luckily our teachers had collected some so then we came back to class and wrote about them using our senses of sight and touch to describe them. Here is my work:
last week team 2 we did a writing about what we did not do on the holidays poem and if wourld like to see my writing you can .
In Term 2 Week One we did Play Make Create. This is where the teacher reads you a story and you discuss the message in the story. Then you create something based on the message and also do a piece of writing. You can use materials or make a digital creation. I chose to make a surprise for Mother's Day.
Here is my handwriting sample.
I think that I am good at I form my letter correctly.
I need to work on slope.
Tena koutou
We all understand the importance of being safe in and around the water. This term we have been lucky to swim most days.
In Week 7, our class went to look at the outside of the old church building which is next to our school a church. We had to write using lots of adjectives, adverbs, specific nouns and vivid verbs so that we described it well. We tried to remember to use ideas from our senses and to write about not just what we thought the old church looked like but also how it made us feel.
This week for reading we had to focus on being able to find adverbs in a story and recognise what kind of adverb they were.
Here is my work:
We have been learning about using good words and rhyming when we write a poem. Here is my whale poem.
This week for reading we had to focus on being able to find adverbs in a story and the verbs, adjectives and other adverbs which they describe.Here is my work.
We have been learning that statistics is the maths of data. Data is information/facts. We collected data using tally charts and then we made bar graphs and dot plot graphs using pen and paper. Then, we used our computers to make graphs. Here is my graph about
This week for reading we had to focus on being able to find adjectives in a story and match them with the nouns they described. Mrs B helped me. Here is my work.
This week for reading we had to focus on finding comparative adjectives in a story to maths with ordinary and superlative adjectives. Matua Ken and Mrs B helped me a lot.Here is my work.
Kia ora.
We are learning that Basic Punctuation means that you have a capital letter at the start of a sentence, and a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark at the end of every sentence when you do a piece of writing. I wrote about the life cycle of a butterfly.
Kia ora
We have been learning about the Treaty of Waitangi. Something new I learned is that Tamaiti Waka Nene was a friend to both Maori and Pakeha.
Here's my Treaty of Waitangi drawing.
