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: How Stink o saurus savs Christmas
It was about how people can help others out.
I chose to trace a airplane that Santa can use.
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 trace a lawn mower
We have been learning about using apps on our Chromebook to create images that look like mosaics or stained glass windows. We used Google Draw to make some and some people also used Sumopaint. Here is the image I made using /Google Draw. I chose a skull because they are cool.
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 write a poem
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 a super plant
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 Review a Monster
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 Make My own Monster
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:
We have been learning about feelings and how to manage them. we write and peace of writing and a creation. Here is my work
Thanks to Covid we could only have
Ohaeawai kids in our cross country this year. I came 4 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….
I chose to Make a Trap
In Week 7 of Term 3, we got back to school!!! 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: How Maui slowed down the sun. It was about how Maui slow the sun down.
I chose to make something with white teeth
In Week 7 of Term 3, we got back to school!!! 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: Tidy
It was about a badger that was too tidy.
I chose to Write a sorry letter and design something to keep Pete busy
We are learning to advertise ourselves positively online by sharing on our blog. For this task we will be creating a poster about ourselves and different things that are most important to us
Today we wrote a piece of writing about the weather. We got to choose whatever types we wanted. I chose to write about lightning. Here is my work.
On Friday it was Matariki day. The whole school was doing activities. We did two activities. I did star shape shortbread and Garage Band. Here is a photo of me.
In Week 8, Miss Fletcher gave us a science lesson about Matariki.
We had to write some notes about it. Here is my work:
IN week 8 Miss C left our school and retired all of us wrote a by letter to her here is my by letter.
In week 9 we did a recount about what we did in the weekend and we had to write a recount using personification different sentence starters and similes here is my recount.
In Week 7, 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 some about flax and stars.
For Te Reo Maori we have been learning to ask and answer questions about classroom objects. I have created a google draw to share some.
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 how the
crayons all wanted to quit.I chose to show how the white crayon can stand out and also I used garage band to create
a summer beat.
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.”
This is a book about a Twig who struggles to find friends until they mad her a scarf to standout.
We have been learning about Whare tapawha and how we need to look after our four wall of our whare to be the best that we can be. Here is my work about my special place or wairua. I hope you enjoy reading my acrostic poem about my special place in the spa pool.
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 all about me. Here is my work.
This week we had to write a recount about going on the Project Island Song trip or, (if we didn’t go on the trip) anything else. I chose to write about….. 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:
Term 2 Week 1-Environmental Writing-Seeds
Task: Write to record ideas generated by our seed hunt in the school grounds and our examination of the seeds we collected.
I chose to write a couplet poemLarge seed, Small seed in my garden
Large seed, Small seeds at my house
Large seed, Small seeds in my backyard
Large seed, Small seeds in my green house
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 lego house to make someone smile.
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 writing my letters on the line.
I need to work on neater handwriting all the time.
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.
A couple of weeks ago went to go see the Church and we did descriptive writing about the church here is my writing example.
This week we have been learning about cicadas and we read a story called Cicada lays eggs and we had to find the verbs and write down them in the story and we had to write 4 facts about the story.
We have been revisiting our Kawa of Care because people weren't doing the right thing when they were on their Chromebooks. Here is my work to remind me of how to be a smart, responsible digital learner.
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 favourite games. The Y axis is How many like this game, and the X axis is Name of game, using the spreadsheet was very boring for me. I always use a title for my graph but I always forget to label my Y axis and my X axis. Why use a graph
Te Rehutai
This week we were excited to be learning a bit about
Te Rehutai, the Team New Zealand AC 75 that has been sailing in the Waitemata Harbour. Here is my information.
We have used opposite adjectives to write a Couplet poem and used words that rhyme at the end. Here is my poem. Can you find my opposite adjectives?
