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: Stink o saurus Saves Christmas.
It was about the importance of helping santa to get presents to kids.
I chose to make a rocket for santa to go give presents to kids faster.
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 nife out of lego to cut the strawberry in half for dessert
We have been learning about using apps on our Chromebook to create images that look like mosaics or stained glass windows. We used Google Draw to make some and some people also used Sumopaint. Here is the image I made using Sumopaint/Google Draw. I chose a it was funny because.
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:
It was about plants in the garden
I chose to make a plant with a power of lighting
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:
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 do a Procedure Writing
For Play Make Create today Mrs Craig read Maui and the sun. Maui and the Sun it was about how Maui and his brothers slowed the sun. I chose to make an animation to retell the story.
It was about a badger that was too tidy.
I chose to make the bager blow the leaves away to tidy.
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:
It was about a smart giant helping animals.
I chose to do a hand holding a dog bringing him to the other side.
Yet another thing we did for writing this week was to imagine that we had undergone
metamorphosis.We 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 ladybug
Here is my work.
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
describe it. I chose to describe a ladybug
Here is my work.
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. We have also been learning how to solve problems that have more than one answer.
On Friday we did Matariki day. I choose to do short bread star shaped cookies with Mrs B and Maori games with Matua Tupara.
In week 9 we write about what we did on the weekend I choose to write about killing my pig it was so fun.
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 upTennyson St to the school.
I chose to dress up as slappy from goosebumps
We have been learning about personification. We had to write Matariki personification about the stars and flax. 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 crayon
I chose to make a emoji out off a sun.
I chose to do a pink monster for the pink crayon.
In Week 5, we learned how to write a Simile poem. This kind of poem needs a simile in almost every line. We could base it on any topic we wanted. I chose to base mine on me. Here is my work...
This is my holiday writing. I went to Rangipoint. It was fun, I hope you like it.
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 do lego.
Tena koutou
We all understand the importance of being safe in and around the water. This term we have been lucky to swim most days plus we had some lessons from the Safe Swim people. They were fun.
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 design a new cover page for the book.
This week for reading we had to focus on being able to
find adverbs in a story and recognise what kind of
adverb they were.
Here is my work:
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.
Here is my handwriting sample.
I think that I am good at making my tall letters the correct height most of the time.
I need to work on tidiness of each letter..
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 face. Here is my work.
Here is my work:
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.
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.
This week for reading we had to focus on being able to find adverbs in a story and recognise what kind of adverb they were.
Here is my work:
We have been learning how to ask questions in Te Reo. The question was :
E aha ana koe? This means: What are you doing?
Then we had to be able to answer that question several times using different Te Reo verbs.
Here is my work.
Me and my class went to the old church and we had a book to write adjectives and adverbs in to discribe into the church. then we wrote a story
Mrs Gardiner is in charge of computers at our school and she came to class to talk about the Kawa of care rules we have to follow when working on our Chromebooks. We had to make something to prove we have read the rules and understand and agree to them. Here is my document:
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:
This week for reading we had to focus on being able to
find adverbs in a story and the nouns which they describe.
Here is my work.
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.
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
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.
Mrs Gardiner is in charge of computers at our school and she came to class to talk about the Kawa of care rules we have to follow when working on our Chromebooks. We had to make something to prove we have read the rules and understand and agree to them. Here is my document:
Kia ora.
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. I wrote about caterpillars.
Eat vegetables
Really caterpillers
Pick caterpillars and throw them away
I hate caterpillers
Lovery caterpillers
Lovery buttterflys
Enough caterpillers
Really beautiful caterpillers
We have been learning about the Treaty of Waitangi. Something new I learned was Tamati Waka Nene was called the Father of the Treaty of Waitangi. We made a cool booklet.
