Mood and atmosphere Tree House

We have been learning how to use adjectives to describe a mood or atmosphere. Here is a drawing of our tree house that my group made and the adjectives to describe the mood.

Can you guess the mood and atmosphere?

  

Missing the ski trip.

 Last week when my class went to Mt Ruapehu. I went down a class for the week. I stayed back because it was too cold for me. What I did was be the library monitor, be a cameraman, be a boomstick operator and I just did normal school work .  

Head Measuring maths

This week for maths we have been learning about measurements. Yesterday's measurement task we measured our groups heads and put the measurements on a graph in a slide. First we estimated how big our head's were. Most people used a piece of string to measure their heads but I couldn't find any string so I used the palm of my hand, then we found out the actual measurement by using a ruler. Here is my slide 

 

Coastal Moa Report

Last term Team Moana were placed into groups of five or four to create a bird report together. My group that had Joe, Joel, Shiah and Taylor. Our group had to write the bird report about the Coastal Moa. This term we continued our work on the report.
 Here is our Coastal Moa report slide.

The Peco Incident Animation

The past weeks the class has been be reading a book called The Peco Incident by Des Hunt. We had to do activities to do with the book. One of them was creating an animation. Me and my friends had made the animation below. It is still a work in progress.

Setting graphic organiser

Today I made a setting graphic organiser for reading. We are doing this because my teacher was cheeking our animations and fond that we don't set seens and made our reading about setting the seans.
Here is my work.

My Daily Routine

Today I made a draw about my daily lock down routine. I made a grid and drew what I did at that time.
Here is my grid.

DNA bracelet

Hello my name is shiah and I will be telling you about DNA. DNA is the coding of your body. It codes you to be who you are, for example DNA gives you blond hair.
I made a bracelet to represent my DNA.

Here is my bracelet.

 

Making Fake Whitebait Fritters

This term for our novel study, Mrs A read us Whitebait Fritters which is a novel written by a Kiwi author Kingi McKinnon.  My favourite part in Whitebait Fritters was when they made the fritters.

To wind up our learning we decided to make some fake whitebait fritters because we can’t afford to buy real whitebait. We used grated potato to take the place of whitebait and mixed it with eggs and onions. They were really tasty. Then we had to write out the recipe, put it on a Google Drawing and add some images. You can see my work below.

Maths: Geometry Safari

This term for maths we have been learning about 2D and 3D geometry.  Andrew and I were in a team. We went on a Geometry Safari around the school grounds to see how many 2D  and 3D shapes we could find. Then we had to write what we had found into a table. You can see ours below.

Science: Me and my DNA.

This term for science we are learning all about how the human body works and how special we all are. We are also trying to learn how to think and act more like a scientist. So, Miss Fletcher asked us to look at our faces in the mirror and write down notes about what we look like. The information had to be precise and clear so that when someone read it, it would help them find the person it described quickly. It was a bit like being a detective. You had to look and notice things carefully.

Miss Fletcher said that what we look like depends on our mother and father. Making a new human is a bit like making a cake.  You get some ingredients from your mum and some from your dad. The ingredients are called DNA. Everybody’s cake is different to everyone else’s. 

Miss Fletcher said the person with the most efficient description was Andrew J as he wrote: My hair is 1cm long all over. He is the only student in Team Moana with a haircut like that so he was able to be identified very easily. You can read my description below. The sentences highlighted in blue are the ones that Miss Fletcher said were not precise and clear enough. Fifteen people said they could recognise me from my description. 

Local superhero strip

This week we have been doing activities about local superheroes. I have created a comic strip about someone who gets kidnapped and then saved by a local superhero.
What I enjoyed about the activity was how short it was.
What I did not like was you cannot copy the character.
Here is my comic strip.

White Bait Fritter's activaty

This term we were reading a book called White Bait Fritters.The author is Kingi McKinnon.
The task I did was an animation about catching white bait.
What I enjoyed was how easy it was to create the truck.
What I found hard was keeping track of all the chapters.
The learning behind the task was to retell the story White Bait Fritters.

Here is my slide.

White Bait Fritter's Cover page.

This term our story book is called White Bait Fritters. White Bait Fritter's is a story about a kid who goes white baiting with his dad. An activity our teacher gave us was to make a cover page for White Bait Fritters.
What I found hard was creating the human and the tree bit by bit.
What I found easy was the land the sky and the water.
Here is my cover page