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.