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.
I chose to create a flying plane-car to sub out for Santa's sleigh.
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 create something to help bear to find mushrooms.
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 respecting others.
I chose to make a evil vegetable.
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 a monster and make a rating at well.
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 because all of the other animals sabotage.
I chose to make a way to catch a wombat without hurting it.
Here is my work.
In Week 8 of Term 3. 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: How Maui Slowed The Sun.
It was about Maui slowing the sun.
😀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 make some for the Badger to get over the mud and for writing I wrote an apology letter.
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 : make myself a octopus man like Davy Jones off The Pirates of the Caribbean.
Here is my work.
This was our first week in Lockdown Level 4 for 2021. All of our reading this week related to Insects. We did lots of different activities. Here is one page of my work. I also made a word find.
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.
During our second Lock-down I created a LEGO Bee because we were working on insects before we went into Level 4. Here is my creation.
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 way across the bog for the dog.
We are learning to advertise ourselves positively online by sharing on our blog. Fo qr this task we had to create a poster about ourselves and the different things that are most important to us.
Today we wrote a piece of writing about the weather. We got to chose whatever type we wanted. I chose write about a lightning cloud.
Here is my work.
In Week 8, our reading activities were based on Matariki.
We had to write some notes about it. Here is my work:
In Week 7, we went outside and looked at the old wooden playground to see if we could think how to write about it using personification. We tried to think about the old playground as if it were an old person. We wondered what the old playground might look like or do that was like an old person. Here is my work:
On 22 June 2021, I got to go on a two day trip to Auckland to take part in the Grip Leadership Conference. Mrs Edwards, Mrs B and Shiah’s mum, Nardea were our drivers. We had a great time and the conference was really interesting.
We made some batik art about our wairua (special place). My wairua is my lounge. First we sketched on paper and then traced on some fabric with pencil. After that I used PVA glue and use it to go over the pencil. While I waited to dry and stick I created this poem about my wairua (the second picture) to go with the art. Once the art dried I painted my art. 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 Zavier.
I made goodbye letter to Mrs C. 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 a kid over working his crayons or not using them at all, so they got a day off. At the end of the book he created a big picture using all the crayons
I chose to create a yellow sun emoji for the yellow crayon and a way to make white stand out.
In week 6 we did play make create. The teacher reads us a story and we do some activities about the book. The book this week was Twig. We had some options. I chose to design something to make Heidi stand out also movie poster. here is my work I hope you enjoy.
In Week 4, we learned how to write a Diamante poem. We could base it on any topic we wanted. I chose to base mine on two New Zealand native birds. 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. 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 create a comic strip and a movie poster as if it's going to become a movie. Here is my work.
This week we created a Project Island Song (the project tries to reduce the amount of pest and plants and trees) D.I.O, Shiah and I made a wanted poster for a gang of pests.
Here is my work.
This week we had to write a Repetition poem about what we didn’t do in the holidays. Here is my work:
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:
This week we went on a hunt in the playground to see if we could find some seeds and then we came back to class and wrote about them using our senses of sight and touch to describe them. Here is my work:
This week we continued reading about saving our endangered birds following our trip with the Project Island Song people. We are also learning how to recognise the noun and verb parts of sentences. Here is my work:
This week we are reading about saving our endangered birds in order to get ready for our trip to Project Island Song. We are also learning how to recognise the noun and verb parts of sentences. Here is my work:
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On the first week of Term 2 2021 all of Team Moana did a Play, Mate, Create (Where you design something about a book that the whole class reads for fun). We had 4 options for the Play, Mate, Create, design a piece of artwork to celebrate who are, build something to make people smile, create something for someone you care about or make a good luck charm for someone. I chose option 2 and used Lego to create a smiley face. Here is my work.
This is my basic facts blog for the beginning of 2021. We had to write our level on maths. My level is stage 7. I also had to write what I am good at and need to work on. Here it is.
Here is my handwriting sample.
I think that I am good at neat handwriting.
I need to work on developing slope.
On Week 11 Monday, the Blake Foundation came to our school and brought some VR headsets along with them. They taught us why we shouldn't litter because it's bad for the ocean and the land. Using the headsets, We went under water to marine reserves like Goat Island. We also went to unprotected places where the rocks were covered in kina and they had eaten all the Seaweed. And our teacher made us a task about our experience. Here is my work.
For Term 1 2021 for swimming we had some lessons from the Swim Safe people about water safety. Here are me and my friends doing a huddle.
wKia ora,
During Week 10 we had a class reading task to create a Charlotte's Web book cover.
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.
Kia ora
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.
