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: Stinkosaurus Saves Christmas
It was about how even the most unlikely people can turn out to be a hero. I chose to make little cup cakes and a lollipop.
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 make a way of sharing things fairly.
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 the plants fought back. It was about two little boys fighting the garden.
I chose to make vegetables with my friend.
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 two little boys fighting the garden.
I chose to make vegetables with my friend.
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 design a 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:
This week Mrs B read us a book called I am hope and we wrote a story and did a picture.Here is my work
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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.
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 4th place with Stella 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 wright a procedural of the yuck stew.
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 another way to get the Wombat.Here is my work.
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 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 draw Maui and the sun.
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 a black out 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 make an other way for Maui to catch the sun .Here it is.
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 a shape poem.
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
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
Yet another thing we did for writing this week was to imagine that we had undergone
metamorphosisWe had to pretend we had woken up one morning and discovered we had changed. It
would be like going to sleep as a caterpillar and waking up as a butterfly. We had to
write about what our new body was like and what we could do. I chose to turn into a bird.
Here is my work.
Last night I turned into a bird
Last night I turned into a bird. I think an alien ship came down and zapped me with a laser gun. I was asleep and then I felt a shock on my arm. It felt like an electric fence touched it. It was sore so I woke up in fright and pain. I opened my eyes and looked out of the window and I saw ...NOTHING! It was so weird, was I dreaming?
When I looked out of the window I turned around and found myself face to face with a big bird “Ahhhhhh!”I shrieked as the bird copied me I waved at the bird then I realized it was a mirror “silly me!”I laughed but the bird in the mirror was...ME!
I looked like a big, bad hawk WITH A SCAR ON MY FACE!!! I had wings (much longer than my old arms) and I had black and white spots on me and 2 sharp talons and a curved beak. But people just think about it, I'm a bird AND BIRDS CAN FLY! I've always wanted to fly before. I could fly to the highest tree top in New Zealand.Like Tane Mahuta “Wowww!”I said “this is going to be so cool!”and I could also glide to that's the life of a hawk bro.
“Let’s do this baby!”I shouted and I flew out of my window and glided to a big tall gum tree. How did I see? It was because the moon was shining hard tonight. When I landed I saw lots of nests and eggs and mother and father birds sitting on the eggs. “I've never been this close to birds before. Usually they just fly away and donk into windows!”I said “Shh!”said a mother bird, “sorry”I whispered.
As I flew into my room I saw another hawk and he said “I’m sorry” and I said “sorry for what?” “i’m sorry for biting you and turning you into a hawk”he said in a gloomy voice “ohh so your the one who bit me, I thought it was a laser gun” “wait so your NOT mad at me” of course not, I’ve always wanted to fly before and it came true”I said back “so do you want to be friends now?”said the hawk “of course!” I shouted
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 the dog in the bog. but instead of making him go over the giant's belt I made him go over a tree branch.I hope you like it.
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, 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 up Tennyson St to the school. I chose to
dress up as Marigold the unicorn.
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 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
all of Duncan's crayons quitting. I chose to do the naked peach crayon that hides in the crayon box and also a Google Drawing that shows all colours are unique.
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:
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 card for my friend.
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. Here are some examples of our coded lifecycles.
Our teachers have been reading us the story “Charlotte’s Web’. We had to create something about the characters, setting or plot of the story. I decided to make a title page off the book.
Here is my work:
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.
Chocolate
Chocolate is so delicious. The white chocolate looks like a small block of bird poop!; it smells like milk. And the brown chocolate looks like a little baby poo and it smells like coffee.
When I bite into the scrumptious brown chocolate it melts in my mouth like a big streaming chocolate waterfall going down my throat and it melts down my fingers.
My favourite chocolate is white chocolate. It is like a white ice cube. Chocolate feels like solid milk. It is hard to break.
The goal of this writing activity was to retell what we did during Easter. We had to remember to use sequencing adverbs at the beginning of our paragraphs.
My Easter holiday
Yay! I can't wait until we get to Aunty Bee's house. We are going to have an egg hunt. It is going to be so FUN!
Firstly Where here finally! I opened the door and ran to the door until I saw Levi “hi Levi”I said happily I saw someone that I haven't seen before. Then I went to the grape bush. I was going to pick one but it had a wasp in it there. There were wasps everywhere so I just went inside.
Secondly I saw Levi and his friend on the deck and I thought how did they get there so fast? They were eating POPCORN!! I love popcorn (especially sweet & salty) . I grabbed a handful and I bit it. It was so delicious then I realised that it was sweet & salty.
Finally my mum and the others went to kayak while Aunty Tammy looked after us.”OK get your shoes on it's time to go Easter egg hunting now” “yay!” we all shouted I ran out the door without putting my shoes on but I didn't care so I just walked to the hill because my feet hurt. I should have put my shoes on actually but everyone was going so I finally made a decision. Quinn (my sister) and Donne and Jerako went on the quad with Aunty Tammy. Me Levi and that other boy who I finally found out his name went down to the river Levi found four I found tow and the other boy went home with his parents.
Here is my handwriting sample.I think that I am good at copying the letters correctly. I need to work on keeping my lower case letters a consistent height and size.
This week for reading we had to complete a cloze activity after we read a story about chocolate.
Here is my work:
Emerald Week 10 Term 1 2021 SJ 2.3.1998 A Cup of Koko.
Complete the cloze activity below which describes what a drink of
koko smells and tastes like :
Use the following words to fill in the spaces: (If you need help, look
on pages 39 and 40 for clues).
When cocoa beans are being roasted they get darker and darker and
the delicious, chocolatey smell gets stronger. A mug of thick creamy, hot koko is just what Annie needs.
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.✌
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.✌
This week for reading we had to focus on being able to find adjectives in a story. Here is my work.
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 movies. Instead of using spreadsheets I made a graph on The Maths is Fun website.
We are learning that Basic Punctuation means that you have a capital letter at the start of a sentence, and a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark at the end of every sentence when you do a piece of writing. Here is my acrostic poem about butterflies.
