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 design a fabulous flying machine. It is a parachute when you drop it the parachute slowed down.
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 Something to remind Bear and Weasel how important friendships are and was had to write a recipe add strawberries in it I did a strawberry milkshake
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 Google Draw. I chose a do a cow and a Panda because we have lots of cows and and pandas are my second favourite animal. 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 design veggies
For writing we have been learning about narrative I have to try to use and verbs adjectives and interesting language .Here is my work.
Last week we had to write about a picture and on that picture there is a giant gorilla and man and his dog. We had to include verbs, adverbs and so on. 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 make something special that fits inside of a box
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 other animals put gross stuff into it to making it poisoned
I chose to a trap or gadget to catch a wombat (safely without hurting it)
We have been learning how to write different styles of poems.Here is my opposite 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
It was about a badger that was too tidy.
I chose to create something to get a cross the mud
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 turn into a hummingbird
Here is my work.
This week one thing we did for writing was a Come to Your Senses Poem. First you had to think of a human emotion, like love. Then you had to say what colour it would be. Then, you had to write 5 more sentences using your 5 senses saying how each would relate to love. The emotion I chose was Sadness
Here is my work.
Another thing we have been learning in maths is how to solve word problems involving combinations of things. You had to be able to write addition equations showing as many different combinations as we could.
Some people found it was useful to do your figuring out using a table. But not the kind of table you eat off-a mathematical table.
Here is my work.
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 write sentences about how kind of the giant is. Here is my work.
Today for play make create we read a book called silly Goats Gruff Laylah and I made a wanted poster for a troll. Here is my work.
We are learning to advertise ourselves positive online by sharing on our blog. For this task we created a poster about ourselves and the different things that are most important about us.
Today we wrote a piece of writing about the weather. We got to choose whatever type we wanted. I chose to write about summer.
On Friday it was Matariki Day. My two activities were Maori games. We played 3 Maori games. We played rakau sticks, maori hand shake and pukana. My second activity was tin can candles. We had to hammer a design into the can and then we painted it. We put a candle into the tin.
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 upTennyson St to the school.
I chose to dress up as piggie
As part of our learning about Whare Tapa Wha we had to think about what our special place is for wairua. Mine is my family farm. Here is my work
For the past week we have been learning about personification. I wrote about Flax & Matariki stars. 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 how Duncan got a letter from his crayons about how they wanted to quit.
I chose to make an outfit for the white crayon so it stands out. I also made a trailer movie of green things wth Laylah. Here is my wock
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
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:
I have done a task to show what I have been doing for the last 24 hours. We had to put logo's onto a google draw. Here is my digital footprint.
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 made a comic strip about chair vs pencil.
This week for play, make, crate we listened to a story '' give me some space''. I made a space menu with Laylah, Sienna M and me. 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:
