Christmas Decoration

This week we have been working on Christmas activities. I made some Art, a slides and a card. Here is my work.

Kapa Haka

I was part of the Kapa Haka group this year. Here is our final performance. We performance outside because of Covid l9. 

Summer learning journals

 This is the star of the Summer learning journals for me. I am going to tall you a fact about Rockets. The Rockets Hector go server fast to get throw the earth atmosphere. Here is my colouring.

  

Te Whare Tapa Wha

 This year we have been learning about Te Whare Tapa Wha and how it helps us. We made a slide to show the things we do to help us for each part. We need to keep all parts of our whare strong to be happy, healthy and safe.

Term 4 Basic Facts

 We enjoy practising our basic facts each day using Prototec.  We also try and beat the clock on paper throughout the year.  Here is my Term 4 results.  I am proud of how much work I have done.

Pet Day - Learn Create Share.

 Last week we had Pet Day at school.  As part of our reading and writing  we got to get creative to show  what we know about looking after animals.  Here is the work I created.  I worked with Jemima.  I enjoyed when the German shepherds had a fight and  a person stop the fights.  I think what I created will be useful for how to teach people how care of dog because so if I do get another dog I won't let it die.

Caving and Glow worms work

 We learned lots when we were on our camp and wanted to share these with Team Maunga before they go on their trip.  For reading and writing we have been busy creating things to help Team Maunga.  Here is my work on caving.  

I worked with Jemima

The best part was the Facts and having fun.

I hope you enjoy.

Thank you Letter

 A few weeks ago, instead of our camp to Coopers Beach, we went on a day trip to KawaKawa and had a sleepover at school. Our awesome parent helpers came along to supervise us. Here is a letter I wrote to say thank you.

Vaseline Saucer

 For pet day 2021 we created Vaseline Saucers.  We made a design and thought about symmetry and patterns.  Then on Pet day we used our designs to help us with creating our work.  Here is my DLO for my Vaseline Saucer.

Multiplication and Division

 This week we have been working on showing our thinking for multiplication and division sums. 

Here is my work.

Life Education

 Last week we visited the Life Education Caravan.  We were learning about Te Whare Tapa Wha and Resilience.  Here is a google draw we made up to help us think and remember what resilience is.

Using a Writing Rubric.

This week in writing we have been looking at recounts and how we can improve our writing.  We started looking at our writing rubrics and understanding how to find what level pieces of writing are

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Handwriting Term 3

 I am good at making my writing neat and tidy. I need to work on making my letters the correct height.

Here is my handwriting sample for Term 3.

Nga Ahua - shapes

We have been learning to describe and name shapes in Maths using their Te reo names and asking questions in Te reo Māori. Here is some of my work.

Scratch meet google meet

We have bane doing a scratch project on the Google meet with Matua Jacob in the meet. I enjoyed that I learnt how to put a scratch project on my blog.

Here is my scratch project.

Reading Comparison Chart

 In T-Shaped literacy we have been reading stories and comparing ideas we read about.  Here is my comparison chart.  I read Weta went waking and zoos baby.

for my chart.

What am I? Wētā

  We are learning about conservation at the moment and this week we have done lots of reading and writing about Wētā.  Here is some writing I want to share.

Outdoor Classroom Day

 In lockdown we had Outdoor Classroom Day. It was wet and wild day. Here is a recount I wrote about it.

  

Maori god

 Here is my Maori god I made for Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori. 

Kei te Pehea Koe?

 This week is Te Reo Wiki o te Reo Maori. We made a google draw to show our feelings. Kei te pehea koe? 

Prototec maths

 Over lockdown one of our maths tasks each day was to practise Prototec,just like we do every day at school. Here is my best work.

Jaguar Writing

 I did some writing about Jaguars on Tuesday .Here is my work.

Blogging

 In lockdown we did Reading, writing and maths.Here is my work.

Mini Olympics Recount

 In team Awa we have been learning about the Olympic Games and using this in our maths.  In class we had our own mini olympics games to help us explore measurement.   Here is a recount I wrote about this.

Outdoor Classroom Day - Movie

 On outdoor classroom day we went out the back to make movies about hut making.  

We learned about how to do divert shorts like close-up, Medium, wide, Establishing

It was easy It was easy to making the movie

It was hard it was hard to get the camera in the right place.

I liked it because I got play around the back to make my movie.

Photo Challenge

Photo Challenge

I have been learning about taking photos on an iPad.  We were learning about the rule of thirds.  The rule of thirds is the photo to the side so you can see what is hanging in the back.  We also got to look at different photos and see how different angles create different stories for the same subject (what we are taking a picture of).

I liked taking pictures of the nature and taking photos from different angles. The picture I liked best is the close up because you can see the nice glow on the leaf.

 

Matariki T-Shaped literacy

 I made a movie about language features like Nouns,Verbs,Adjectives,Adverbs.  Here is my movie.

Digital Artwork

 This term we have been learning some new techniques for creating digital art pieces. Here is my artwork from this term. 

I like my pop art because I like my detailed things.

I like my kiwi texture because I like the texture of the colours.

I learnt how to use texture for different colours.

Bling Bling Toi Marama

 

Hut Movie Making

In team Awa we had an outdoor learning day. We got to go outside and make huts around the back. We were learning about how movie making is like writing a story and that we needed to take different types of movie shots. Here is some examples of what I learned.

Transformations

We have been learning about transformations. We learnt how to show reflection, rotation and translation. 

 

Autumn Leaves writing

 We found a leaf outside.We drew it and wrote juicy words to help us write a descriptive piece.

Kiwi Bug Statistics

 This is my maths statistics work. How many bugs did Kiwi find

Cyber Challenge #13

 Our Cyber Challenge was to think about our digital footprint. Our digit footprint is about the trails of information we leave behind when we are online.

 

Cyber challenge 10

 We did cyber challenge 10.  We were learning about our blogs.

Cyber Challenge 12

 Our challenge today was to think about Public and Private information.

Kaitiaki of the Stream

This week for my reading activity I did a Kaitiaki of the Stream.  We were reading a story about Kaitiaki.  A Kaitiaki is a guardian. Here is my work.

Outdoor Classroom Day

 We had a fun Outdoor Classroom Day last week. Here is a recount I wrote about the day.

Musical Performance

 Today I got to perform for the whole school at our assembly.We set the piano up in the corner and had a little practice before the bell rang for the assembly.Me and Nakita got super nervous. I played  Skipping and Ode to Joy.

Maths Money Learning

 This week we have been learning about maths money.This is my example.

  

ANZAC Day

 Here is an ANZAC day activity.

ANZAC day activity.

ANZAC Day

 We wrote stories to tell people about what we think of when we think of ANZAC day.

Happy Mother's Day

 Here is a card I made for Mother's Day.

Blake VR

 This week we had Alice and Anika from the Blake Foundation come to teach us about healthy and unhealthy marine environments. Here is some of our work.

 

ANZAC slide

 We have been learning about ANZAC for reading activities. Here is my slide of questions I would ask an ANZAC soldier.

ANZAC Diamante Poem

 We wrote an ANZAC poem. Here is my poem.

Pepeha

As part of our TeReo learning this term we have been making a Drawing to help us learn and share our Pepeha.  Here is my Pepeha Learning.

 

Compass

As part of t-shaped literacy this week we read a journal article called Make a Compass. We followed the instructions and recorded the steps

 

T-shaped Reading

 We have been learning about sailing in class. Here is my reading follow up.

Questions America's Cup

We have been learning the difference between statements and questions. We wrote our own questions based on the America’s Cup. Here is my Questions America's Cup slides. 

Sphero Racing

 Here is my Sphero Racing Writing.

Sphero Racing

 On Friday we had fun racing our Sphero's.  Here is some of our learning.

Number as Shapes

 We have been having fun with the problem Number as Shapes. Here are some of my findings.

   

Map Making

We have been learning about maps and the language we use to describe a location. 

Kawa of Care

 We have been learning about Kawa of Care. Here is my Kawa of Care slide 

Sort the Street

 

Writing

We have been learning to add hooks into our writing to make our stories interesting.  We can use a hook to start our paragraphs which hooks in our reader.

 

Maths

We have been learning to different find ways to solve problems.  This problem was tricky as we needed to work it out in two parts.