Play, Make, Create Week 6

 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 build something to help Bear when he is foraging in the forest.

Here is my work 

Pet Day Vaseline Saucer

 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:

Play, Make, Create Week 4

 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 plants fought back. 

  It was about two very destructive kids messing up his mums garden and the plants,fruit and vegetables fought back.

 I chose to design a new plant with super powers and write 3 personification sentences about plants or tools.

Frank and stella art

 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:

Maths 3D Clock Week 10 Term 3

 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.

Cross Country Week 10 Term 3

 Thanks to Covid we could only have

Ohaeawai kids in our cross country this year.  I came 7th in my year group.

Handwriting Week 10 Term 3

 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.

Poetry Week 8 Term 3 2021

 For the last two weeks we have been learning about different kinds of poetry for reading and writing. I decided to publish this poem. It is an opposites poem.

Play, Make, Create Week 8 Term 3 2021

 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 Design a plan to capture or slow down the sun that Maui didn’t think of.

My Activities Week 6 Term 3 2021

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:

writing

Title: Honey bee report

Intro / Opening Statement In this report I am going to tell you about bees.For example their appearance, their diet and their threats are.

Appearance Like most other insects they have an exoskeleton, two compound eyes,6 jointed legs, 2 antennae,a thorax, an abdomen and a head.They also have a stinger at the end of the abdomen, wings on the back of the thorax and a special straw like tongue.Bees have different colors but the honey bees have a black and yellow stripes on them.Z

Diet Bee’s diet consists of pollen,nectar and honey. While bees are still larvae the worker bees feed them a type of jelly called royal jelly for the first three days from when they are hatched another type of bee who eats royal jelly is the bee queen.

Habitat They live in a thing called a hive.The hive was built by worker bees by chewing wax until it becomes soft, then cominding large amounts of wax until they become hexagon shaped cells of honeycomb. They use the hexagons to hold things like eggs, larvae and honey.

Threats Bees have many threats such as wasps and this disease called american foulbrood.They also have threats like climate change and pesticides.

Reproduction The queen lays her eggs using an organised pattern,placing each egg next to others within a cell of honeycomb. The queen lays the eggs in the middle of the cell so workers can put food on the edges.

Conclusion / Closing Statement In conclusion this  report has taught you about the habitat of a bee, the appearance of a bee etc.

Maths

Reading

Writing Week 5 Term 3 2021 Mini beasts

 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 dscribe it. I chose to describe an ant.

Here is my work.

Insect Art

 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 frozen pizza box,

Here is a photo of my creation:  

Maths Week 5 Term 3 2021 Expanded numerals

 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.

PMC Week 3 Term 3 2021

 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 a build a way for dog to cross the squelchy bog that the giant hadn’t thought of with my friend Zavier.

Here is our work.

Matariki Reading Term 2 2021

 In Week 8,  our reading activities were based on Matariki.

We had to read and then complete some activities about it.  Here is my work:

Reading Week 8 2021

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. We also made a letter to Mrs c.

 I chose to dress up as a backwords guy

Here is my work

Weather

 Today we wrote a piece of writing about the weather. We got to chose whatever type we wanted. I chose write about an acrostic about thunder.

Here is my work.

Young Leaders 2021 Term 2 2021

 On 22 June 2021, I got to go on a two day trip to Auckland to take part in the Grip Leadership Conference. Mrs Edwards, Mrs B and my mum, Nardea were our drivers. We had a great time and the conference was really interesting.

Writing Week 7 Term 2 2021 Environmental Writing: The Old Playground

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:

 

Writing Week 7 Term 2 2021 Writing from an image

 In Week 7, we looked at an example of a piece of writing that was inspired by a picture. The writing had lots of personification in it. Then we had to look at 6 different pictures and choose one that we thought might inspire some personification ideas.   I chose to use this picture

Here is my writing

The shooting stars were racing across the vast sky.

The night sky laid a dark blanket over the world.

The fence slept under the crisp night sky.

The clouds slowly strolled with the night breeze.

The sheep played hurdles with the fence

Play Make Create Week 7

  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 these crayons who went on strike

 I chose to make an sun and turn it into an emoji and create something to make white crayons stand out.

Here is my work

Writing Week 4 Term 2 2021 Environmental Poem-Autumn Leaves

In Week 4,  we went on a hunt in the playground to see if we could find some autumn leaves. We looked for them on trees and on the ground. Then we came back to class and wrote about them using as many of our senses as we could.

Here is my work:

Asking questions in Te Reo.

 We have been learning how to ask questions in Te Reo. The question was :

 E aha tenei? This means: What is this?

Then we had to be able to answer that question several times using different Te Reo words.

Here is my work.

Play Make Create Week 6

  In Term 2 Week Five  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 story about a twig called Hedi that never gets noticted because she blends in with the other twigs.

 I chose to weave something with Levi,Andrew J and Zavier

Here is our work

play Make Create Week 4

  In 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. Here is my comic strip

Play Make Create Week 4

 In 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 make a movie poster.

Writing Week 1 Term 2 2021

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:

Reading Week 2 Term 2 2021

This week we continued reading about saving our endangered birds following our trip with the Project Island Song people.  We are also learning how to recognise the noun and verb parts of sentences. Here is my work:

Writing Week 1 Term 2 2021

 This week we had to write a Repetition poem about what we didn’t do in the holidays.

Here is my work:

Writing Week 2 Term 2 2021

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:

Project Island Song wanted poster

 This week,we created a document to show some learning from our visit to Urupukapuka Island with the  Project Island Song people. This is a project dedicated to protecting native birds and trees. Zavier and I decided to make a wanted poster for a gang of pests. 

Here is our work:

Play make create writing Term 2 Week 2

  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. This is my the writing I did for sticks and stones.

Play Make Create Term 2 Week 2

 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 build some thing unexpected from rocks and sticks.

 

Reading Week 1 Term 2 2021

 This week we are reading about saving our endangered birds in order to get ready for our trip to Project Island Song. We are also learning how to recognise the noun and verb parts of sentences. Here is my work:

Play Make Create Term 2 Week 1

 In Term 2 Week One we did Play Make Create. For our first activity, we had a choice; we could  design a piece of artwork to celebrate who are, build something that would make people smile, create something for someone you care about, or make someone a good luck charm. I chose to build something that would make people smile.

Handwriting Term 1 2021

 Here is my handwriting sample.

I think that I am good at making my upper case letters the correct height.

I need to work on making my lower case letters slightly bigger.

Blake Virtual Reality

 In week 11 we got to learn about the sea using virtual reality. We looked at polluted waters and protected waters like goat island.We had to do an activity to show what we have learned by sorting texts and writing ways to stop pollution.Here is my work

Coding of Cicada Lifecycle

 We have coded our own unplugged program of the five stages of the cicada lifecycle. We have included some obstacles too.  The goal is to be able to have someone follow our codes to navigate our lifecycle by getting from stage 1 to stage 5 and avoiding the obstacles.I worked with Zavier to make our code. Here are some examples of our coded lifecycles.

Chocolate

This writing task was about a language experience. Our teachers brought different kinds of chocolate to school and we got to eat it! We tried white chocolate, milk chocolate, dark chocolate, caramel chocolate and pink chocolate. We could write about it in any way we liked but our teachers hoped we would use lots of describing language and our senses.

Here is my work.

Reading Week 10 Term 1 2021 Sapphire and Ruby

 This week for reading we read an extract from Charlie and the chocolate factory. It described Willie Wonka. Then we had to answer some questions and find the language that described his clothes. Here is my work.

Cicada Life cycle

 The goal of this writing activity was to tell the step-by-step life cycle of a cicada. We had to remember to use sequencing adverbs at the beginning of each step/paragraph. Here is my work.

Numbers as shapes

 We are learning how to look at numbers, how they work and how you can group them. We did an activity called Numbers as shapes. It’s a bit like algebra thinking. Here is my work:

Reading Week 8 Term 1 2021 Sapphire Group

 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.

Whanau art

 

Reading Week 7 Term 1 2021 Sapphire Group

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. 

Reading Week 6 Term 1 2021 Sapphire Group

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.

Here is my work.

Reading Week 5 Term 1 2021 Sapphire Group

This week for reading we had to focus on being able to find ordinary adjectives in a story and match them with compound adjectives. Here is my work.

Couplet Poem

 We are learning how to write a couplet poem. We looked at an example on page 32  of SJ 1.4 1992. Then we had to choose our own noun, two opposite adjectives to describe it, think of rhyming words for the end of each line and finish the last line with a onomatopoeia word repeated 3 times. Here is my work.

Reading Week 5 Term 1 2021

 Here is my second group reading comprehension for this year. We had to find adjectives and compound adjectives in the story.

Shiah's Breadfruit chips adjectives task

Reading Week 3 Term 1 2021

Here is my first group reading comprehension for this year. It was easier to think and answer the questions when you got to share your ideas with other people.

Shiah's copy of Beyond Recovery

Kawa of Care 2021

 Kia ora 

Today we have been learning about our Kawa of Care 2021. The Kawa of Care are the 9 rules that we need to follow to keep our Chromebooks and ourselves safe.  We have to sign the Kawa of Care before we can take our Chromebooks home.

This is what I wrote for the Kawa of Care.

 

Statistics learning

Over the last three weeks we have been learning about statistics in maths.

Here is a example of a chart

A graph or a chart is easier to read than data in a table.

I know that a graph needs a title,x and y axis labelled.

I know how to write a statement about my graph.