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.
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:
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.
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:
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.
Thanks to Covid we could only have
Ohaeawai kids in our cross country this year. I came 7th in my year group.
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.
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.
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.
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
Maths
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.
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:
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.
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.
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:
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
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.
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.
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:
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
