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: Stink o Saurus saves christmas.
It was about stink o saurus saving christmas.
For Maori we have been learning to say what the weather is like. here is my Google draw:
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 these boys wrecking the yard
I chose to make a pick axe from lego to clean the garden
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 my own moster with a house with fun stuff in it.Here is my work:
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:
This week for play, make, create we read a book called I am Peace it was a book about emotions. For our writing task we had to write 3 paragrahs about a time we felt anxious, nervous or out of control.
For my create I made a poster that has my baby brother on it and it says happiness.
Here is my work:
Thanks to covid we could only have Ohaeawai kids in our cross country this year.
I came 2 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: Wombat Stew. It was about a dingo who caught a wombat and tried to make wombat stew. But, it didn’t work. Dingo was poisoned.And it tasted disgusting.
I chose to make a song and we had to make a procedure writing.
describe your song this song is about wombats
This week we carried on with our ‘insect’ topic for reading, writing, handwriting and art. For maths we practised basic facts and worked on writing a variety of equations which would have a certain number for the answer. We also practised solving problems using place value or known facts knowledge. Here is a selection of my work:
Another thing we did for writing this week was a mini beast observation. First, you had to go out into your backyard and find a mini beast, then you had to bring it inside and describe it. I chose to describe: a Slater.
Here is my work.
This week one thing we have been learning in maths is how to write expanded numbers. Another way of saying this is ‘expanded form’ or ‘expanded notation’. They all mean the same thing. It’s like you have to break the numbers up into their place value parts and then put + symbols in between them. Example:
7239 =7000+200+30+9.
Here is my work.
Because we were using ‘Insects’ as a topic this week for reading and writing we created some works of art based on insects also. We had to make them out of any materials we could find at home. I chose to use: a craft box.
Here is a photo of my creation:
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 create something to give to someone kind. Here is my work:
Today for Play,Make,Create Mrs Craig read the silly goats gruff.I chose to made a unexpected place for the troll and I made a wanted poster.Here is my work:
We are learning to advertise ourselves positively online by sharing on are blog. For this task we will be creating a poster about ourselves and the different thing that are most important to us. Here is my work:
On Tuesday 22 June, the Young Leaders went on our trip to Auckland. We stayed in nice cabins at Orewa Beach Holiday Park. After we got settled, we went to Lone Star to eat dinner. After we ate dinner, we went to ten pin bowling. The next day we got up and got ready to go to the conference. The conference was a lot of fun. Here is our slideshow about the trip.:
On Friday we did Matariki activities for most of the day. When we finished we did whole school singing. Here are some photos of my activities. I made kawakawa shortbread and played Maori Games.
In Week 8, Term 2 our school librarian, Mrs C, retired. On her last day, we put on a Book Character Parade. We dressed up in costumes like book characters and then we went on a parade through the Daycare Centre next to the school, past the shops in the village, along Hobson St and back upTennyson St to the school.
I chose to dress up as a whitch. Here is my work:
In Week 7, we went outside and looked at the old wooden playground to see if we could think how to write about it using personification. We tried to think about the old playground as if it were an old person. We wondered what the old playground might look like or do that was like an old person. Here is my work:
Today we did play,make,create we made a house for bugs and we did a movie poster. Here is my work:
This week for play,make,create we listened to a story ''Give me some space''. I choose to Design a new spacesuit for the astronaut Build a rocket that could go to space create a menu to use in space make.Here is my work:
This week we had to write a Repetition poem about what we didn’t do in the holidays. Here is my work:
This week we went on a hunt in the playground to see if we could find some seeds and then we came back to class and wrote about them using our senses of sight and touch to describe them. Here is my work:
This week we had to write a recount about going on the Project Island Song trip. Here is my work:
In Term 2 Week two 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 create something to my friend. Here is my work.
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 box and a lucky charm. Here is my work.
We have coded our own unplugged program of the five stages of the cicada life-cycle. We have included some obstacles too. The goal is to be able to have someone follow our codes to navigate our life cycle by getting from stage 1 to stage 5 and avoiding the obstacles. Here are some examples of our coded life cycles.
Here is my handwriting sample.
I think that I am good at I am good at keeping the letters on the line
I need to work on making my letters consistent sizes.
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.
This week for reading we had to focus on being able to find out about cicadas in a story and recognise what kind of cicadas they are.
Here is my work:
The goal of this writing activity was to retell what our cicada hunt around the school was like. We had to remember to use sequencing adverbs at the beginning of our paragraphs.Here is my work.
Kia ora
Last week as part of our Whare Tapa Wha learning we sketched important people in our families. We then used water colours to paint our pictures.
What I like about my art is that my family is in my art
Next time I make them a bit skinnier in my art
Thank you for looking at my blog.
We have been learning some te Reo. The question we are learning is “E aha ana koe?” Which means “What are you doing?” We have been learning lots of verbs to use in these sentences.
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:
This week for reading we had to focus on being able to find adjectives in a story and sort them into the right groups.
Here is my work:
This week for reading we had to focus on being able to find verbs in a story and sort them into the right groups.
Here is my work:
