This week we have been completing a Christmas Create choice board. Here are the activities I completed. I made a Christmas slide about Joey and Santa with George and I made a Christmas card for my Mum and Dad. I also made a house using shapes with George. I hope you like it.
Rockets were first used as weapons. I like the Ball getting dropped from the space ship on to mars.
This year we have been learning about Te Whare Tapa Wha and how it helps us. We made a slide to show the things we do to help us for each part. We need to keep all parts of our whare strong to be happy, healthy and safe.
We enjoy practising our basic facts each day using Prototec. We also try and beat the clock on paper throughout the year. Here is my Term 4 results. I am proud of percent.
We have been reading a Rugby league Reads Magazine issue 1 2014. We have been learning about physiotherapists and rugby. Here is my work.
We are really good at creating sprites using google draw. For the past 2 weeks we have been learning how to make our sprites eyes or facial features move separate to their bodies. This is called a parallax. Here is an example I have made and the code that makes it work. The bit I liked most was putting the eyes on the head. Now I want to do it every day.
A few weeks ago, instead of our camp to Coopers Beach, we went on a day trip to KawaKawa and had a sleepover at school. Our awesome parent helpers came along to supervise us. Here is a letter I wrote to say thank you.
We learned lots when we were on our camp and wanted to Share these with Team Maunga before they go on their trip. For reading and writing we have been busy creating things to help Team Maunga. Here is my work on glow worms .
I worked with Dan
The best part was the cave we made
I hope you enjoy
We learned lots when we were on our camp and wanted to Share these with Team Maunga before they go on their trip. For reading and writing we have been busy creating things to help Team Maunga. Here is my work on glow worms .
I worked with Dan
The best part was the cave we made
I hope you enjoy
I worked with Dan
The best part was the cave we made
I hope you enjoy.
For pet day 2021 we created Vaseline Saucers. We made a design and thought about symmetry and patterns. Then on Pet day we used our designs to help us with creating our work. Here is my DLO for my Vaseline Saucer
This week we have been working on showing our thinking for multiplication and division sums.
Last week we visited the Life Education Caravan. We were learning about Te Whare Tapa Wha and Resilience. Here is a google draw we made up to help us think and remember what resilience is.
This week in writing we have been looking at recounts and how we can improve our writing. We started looking at our writing rubrics and understanding how to find what level pieces of writing are.
Today was meant to be Greats and Grands day at our school. This has been cancelled for this year due to COVID-19. We wanted to still share some writing about our amazing grandparents. Here is my work.
We are learning to recall our basic facts quickly in different ways, both on paper and on our chromebook. Our goal is to complete the test in 3 minutes.
For T-Shaped literacy we got to learn about Conservation. Here is a create task I made. It is a animation. 1 thing I enjoyed was including Minecraft and Pokemon. 1 thing I learned was not to cut down trees.
Here is my handwriting sample for Term 3. I am good at sitting the letters on the line. I need to work on making my writing neat and tidy.
Here is a scratch google meet project I did to get better at inserting sound. The hard part is adding your voice. We where on a google meet when we did this. I need to work on getting quicker.
In T-Shaped literacy we have been reading stories and comparing ideas we read about. Here is my comparison chart. I read Feathers first and Trees for the birds for my chart
We are learning about conservation at the moment and this week we have done lots of reading and writing about Wētā. Here is some writing I want to share.
In lockdown we had an outdoor classroom day. It was a wet and wild day. Here is a recount I wrote about it.
This week is Te Reo Wiki o te Reo Maori. We made a google draw to show our feelings. Kei te pehea koe?
This week we have focused on the story where the Wild Things Are. Here is some writing I did this week.
Over lockdown one of our maths tasks each day was to practise Prototec, just like we do every day at school. Here is my best work.
In team Awa we have been learning about the Olympic Games and using this in our maths. In class we had our own mini Olympic games to help us explore measurement. Here is a recount I wrote about this.
We have been learning about language features. We compared 2 stories. Here is my work.
Photo Challenge
I have been learning about taking photos on an iPad. We were learning about the rule of thirds. The rule of thirds is when you line the photo up on the line. We also got to look at different photos and see how different angles create different stories for the same subject (what we are taking a picture of).
I liked taking pictures of My shoe and taking photos from different angles. The picture I liked best is the Top one because it look like is sliding down
This term we have been learning some new techniques for creating digital art pieces. Here is my artwork from this term.
I like my pop art because I like tractors
I like my kiwi texture because I learnt how to use texture.
In Team Awa we had an outdoor learning day. We got to go outside and make huts around the back. We were learning about how movie making is like writing a story and that we needed to take different types of movie shots. Here is some examples of what l learned.
We have been learning about transformations. We learnt how to show reflection, rotation and translation.
Yesterday we said farewell to Mrs C, our librarian. Here is a card I made to say good bye.
This week our cyber challenge was to think about our digital foot print. Our digit foot print is about the trails of information we leave behind when we are online.
We found a leaf outside. We drew it and wrote juicy words to help us write a descriptive piece.
This week we had Alice and Anika from the Blake Foundation came to teach us about healthy and unhealthy marine environments. Here is some of our work.
As part of t-shaped literacy this week we read a journal article called Make a Compass. We followed the instructions and recorded the steps.
This week our focus for reading has been sailing. Here is a reading follow up I completed for the article.
We have been learning the difference between statements and questions. We wrote our own questions based on the America’s Cup.
We have been having fun with the problem Numbers as Shapes. Here are some of my findings.
We have been learning about maps and the language we use to describe a location.
Can you find the coordinates for the Npc?
How can you go from the start (box a,1) to the Npc?
We have been learning to add hooks into our writing to make our stories interesting. We can use a hook to start our paragraphs which hooks in our reader.
