On Sunday the week before Christmas my family and I went on the boat. Some of us went fishing and diving and we played kubb on the beach as well. When we were on the dinghy we saw some little but fast sting rays in the shallow that's why I didn't go swimming at that beach. Here are some photos of us and our dog Meg.
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 a helicopter with my friend Aumaarire.
Here is my Work.
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:
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 a Google Draw. I chose to do a wolf, because wolves are my favourite animal.
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 why you shouldn't destroy other peoples Property.
I chose to make a plants out of Lego that had super powers its their super powers were that they had lazer eyes and they could fly.
And our writing task was to write three personification sentences about plants or tools you use in the garden.
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: That’s Not the Monster We Ordered.
It was about being grateful for what you have.
I chose to Create my own monster out of Lego.
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 for Play Make Create we read a book called I am peace it was a book about emotions For our writing task we had to write 3 paragraphs about a time we felt anxious, nervous or out of control.
For my my create task Aumaarire and I made a lemon tree out of Lego.
Here is my work.
Thanks to Covid we could only have Ohaeawai kids in our cross country this year. I don't know what I came 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.
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 the dingo was poisoned and ran away to never be seen again.
I chose to make a song it is a song about wombat stew and we had to make a procedure about how to make wombat stew. Here is our song and 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: 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 animation. Here is my work.
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
It was about a badger that was too tidy.
I chose to design a robot to help Pete the Badger to tidy up the leaves and for my writing task I imagined that I was Pete the Badger and wrote an Apology note to the forest.
Here is my work.
Today I chose to build a home for the worm that will protect him for all the dangers that he mite face. Here is my work.
For Play Make Create this week our teacher read to us Diary of a worm he talked about his life and other things in his life and for my writing task I had to add a piece of writing to his diary.
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:
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 wake up as a bee.
Here is my work.
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.
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 do mine on paper and used magazines, paper, pencil and pen for my art.
Here is a photo of my creation:
Today we wrote piece of writing about the weather. We got to chose whatever type we wanted. I chose to write about lightning and thunder. Here is my work.
For writing we got to do free writing. I did mine about personification. Here is my work. My teacher told me that I should be very proud of how well I can use personification to make my writing pop!
In the past two weeks Sienna M, Laylah, cheyne, Aiden, Stella and I made a Movie about Matariki. Here is our Movie.
Last week on Friday we had Matariki Day. We played games, made star shaped short bread and kawakawa cookies and created things. We did a form about what we wanted to do. We had to chose three things then we would get to do two of the thing we chose. I did Maori games with Matua Ken and Matua Tupara. Then I made star shaped short bread with Mrs B. They were delicious. We made little boxes to put them in too.
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 a cow from the book call the cow jumped over the moon.
We had to write a piece of writing about the old playground. We had to use personification in all of our sentences.
We had to write a recount, which included a simile, personification and adjectives about what we did in the past two weeks. Here is my work.
Going to my grandparents new house
BROOM! BROOM! My granny, poppa, cousin and I drove to their new house
where they got to live on Aroha Island. They have the whole island to themselves.
They are the caretakers for a few months because my granny is going to get surgery
in a few weeks so they can’t go on their boat. My cousin and I got to stay there for
the weekend.
CRUMBLE! CRUMBLE! The rock smashed into pieces like an avalanche falling
down a hill while we drove along the rocky road. The rocks jumped around the road
as if they were crazy rabbits. When we got to the building they lived in we jumped out
and ran inside. We ran into a room full of kiwi’s after putting our bag in the room we
were going to sleep in. It had two beds. I chose the bed closest to the door so it
wouldn’t be too dark. We ran down to the beach and started our hunt for crabs.
After a while my cousin yelled out I found a crab! She tried to pick it up with a
shell because she was too scared to pick it up with her bare hands. I picked it
up for her and put it in a little hole in a rock. The crab was as small as a tiny
baby mouse.
After a few minutes we had too many crabs for the hole so we had to move them
into a bigger home. We found a home big enough for them all to hide somewhere
and run around. We started to go back because it was getting dark and my granny
wanted to try to find the only two kiwi’s that live here. People call them Hayden and
Henrietta but they were two old to lay any eggs. We walked out to the garden place
where they like to go and sat down and listened to them calling to each other. We
couldn’t see them but we could hear them. I thought that the one that had the nice
voice was the female but then my poppa told me that it was the male calling.
Then I heard the female calling. It sounded like a dying duck that's
SCREAMING as LOUD as it can, it did not sound friendly.
After about 5 minutes we went back to the house and had dinner. We had spaghetti bolognese
but my cousin didn’t like mixts so she had scrambled eggs with avocados and tomatoes.
I thought it looked disgusting because the avocados they taste horrible. After dinner
we said goodnight to our poppa and granny then jumped into bed but we didn’t
have to go to sleep yet but after a while our granny came in and told us to go to bed
now so I hopped in my bed and fell asleep. The next morning me and my cousin woke up
and straight away started playing cards we play a card game called cheat it's like last card
but different a bit after playing card we had breakfast and play more card games but then
my granny got her tablet and then she had cameras all over the campground and the
road we played a weird game with the cameras and my granny was the bad guy first
he had to hide and watch her on the cameras she came in the house and we could
she her anymore I yelled out to my cousin that she was coming but then for some reason
my cousin came out of her hiding spot and got caught straight away then she told our
granny where I was and then she found me!
After about 2 hours my cousin's family came to pick us up. We said goodbye
and hopped in the car.
I wish I could have stayed there longer. It was fun and I had a good time there
but we might go there in the holidays!
I chose to make a pink picture for the pink crayon and build a rainbow tower and I made a naked crayon animation with Aumaarire.
For play make create this week we read a story call Twig. She wanted to blend in and she wanted people to be her friend because she was lonely. She was always camoflaged into things until her friends made her a scarf to stand out..
A few weeks ago for reading Olivia and I made a DLO about NZ pests. We chose to do ours about stoats. Here is our work. We hope you like it!
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 a marshmallow and a lamb. Here is my work.
In Week 4, we went on a hunt in the playground to see if we could find some autumn leaves. We looked for them on trees and on the ground. Then we came back to class and wrote about them using as many of our senses as we could. Here is my work:
In Term 2 Week Four 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 paper, Scissors, Rock. It was about friendship and learning about your strengths and weaknesses. I chose to make a comic strip about ruler vs paint. Paint won.
This week for Play Make Create we listened to a story "Give me some space" I chose to make a rocket out of lego. Here is my work.
My class and I made a poem about everything that we didn't do on the holidays. Here is my work.
I didn’t go biking
I didn’t go running
I didn’t go camping
I didn’t go hiking.
I didn’t play on the internet
I didn’t play on a device
I didn’t play at the amusement park
I didn’t go to a fancy restaurant.
I didn’t go to another country
I didn’t go swimming in a pool
I didn’t go to my friend's place
I didn’t go on an airplane
I didn’t go on a plane.
This last week my class and I walked around the school to find feathers for our writing. We had to use different sentence starters, adverbs and adjectives to help us write about feathers. Here is my work.
Feathers
Feathers are soft and delicate like a kitten's fur. The feathers can be the colour of a little rainbow. Bird feathers on the wings. The body feathers are fluffy like a fluffy pillow. Feathers can be shaped differently, some can be big and some can be small. Feathers can be colourful, some can have plain colours, only black, white and grey. The feathers of a bird don’t have to be colourful to be pretty. Feathers can be dirty and have little bugs in them like fleas but you can’t see the dirtiness sometimes because the feathers are really pretty and decorative. Feathers from birds are all different colours, some are light and some are dark. All feathers are different. Feathers are light.
Last week and this week me and my class had to write about our Project island song trip. I chose to blog about our Project island song trip. Here is my writing.
Project island song
SPLASH!!!! The waves crashed against the boat. We lined up to get ticked off to go on the explore boat. It was yellow and not as big as the other ones. I got to give some people hand sanitizer because I didn’t get to hold a plant that we were going to plant later. When we were all on the boat we went and saw some Islands on the way.
SPLOSH! SPLASH! The waves were getting bigger and bigger until the boat leaped up into the air! SPLASH!!! We all screamed and laughed as the boat leaped over the huge cold icy waves. The boat stopped and we got to the island. We all jumped off the boat and looked at the snapper swimming all around underneath us. The seagulls dived into the water while trying to get the tiny fish but there were only huge snapper and other fish.
Beeeeeep! We all walked down the bridge and sat down at our own little tables so we could eat our morning tea. Finally we were ready to do some activities. Kyle and Zavier did paper scissor rock. Zavier won and he was in my group so we got to choose the activity we wanted to do first. We all chose trap making. We had to make a rat trap out of wood and wire. After we could take it back to our school.
Bang! Bang! We were racing to be the first one to make their rat trap. I made my rat trap with Sienna M, Stella and Laylah. But Sienna M had to go take photos of everyone else but she still helped make the rat trap. Twist! Twist! We screwed the nails in and we were done! We got to colour it in and I drew a dead rat. The others were making leaves, flowers and birds so I wanted to make a flower next to the dead rat but it looked like a bunny rat because I made the ears a bit too long.
When we were all done we had some lunch and then we had to go on a long walk to plant some trees. We walked down a huge hill and all jumped over two fences and then each group planted a tree. I planted a tree with Sienna G,
Stella and Laylah and Sienna M was taking photos so she couldn’t be in our group. We were going to walk up a giant hill but we went a different way. It was very dangerous so we had to be very careful. When we got back to the cafe we all talked and then we had to go back to school on the explore boat. But we got to feed the fish at the last second!
Finally we arrived back to school and I waited for my mum at Oscar. I had a good time.
In Term 2 Week 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. Today we read a story called Stick and Stone and it was about friendship. I chose to build a little flag to show my friendship to my friends using sticks and stones. Here is my poem about friendship and my creation.
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 build a lego base.
My class and I have been reading Charlotte's web we had to do a reading active about Charlotte's web and I did Wilbur's personality.
We have coded our own unplugged program of the five stages of the cicada life-cycle. We have included some obstacles too. The goal is to be able to have someone follow our codes to navigate our life-cycle by getting from stage 1 to stage 5 and avoiding the obstacles. Here are some examples of our coded life-cycle.
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.
Here is my handwriting sample. I think that I am good at copying the writing correctly. I need to work on doing tidy writing all the time.
