Christmas Create

This week we have been completing a Christmas Create choice board. Here are the activities I completed. I made shape work and a slide.

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 versions throughout the year.  Here is my Term 4 results.  I am proud of my time and score.

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 and glow worms.  

I worked with Dime

The best part was the vidieo

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.

Greats and Grands

 Today was meant to be Greats and Grands day at our school.  This has been cancelled for this year due to COVID-19.  We wanted to still share some writing about our amazing grandparents.  Here is my work.

T-Shaped Literacy Create Task

 For T-Shaped literacy we got to learn about Conservation.  Here is a create task I made.  It is a goggle slide about saving the forest.  1 thing I enjoyed was the animation.  1 thing I learned was save the forest.

Basic Facts Term 3

 

Handwriting Term 3

Here is my handwriting sample for Term 3.

I am good at making my letters the correct height.

I need to work on forming my letters correctly.

Ngā āhua - 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.

Zen Meet etiquette remix

 This is my scratch project.  Team Awa and I done the same thing as me.  We saw the instructions in the goggle meet.  We had to add sound to our sprite.

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 Wētā went Walking and Zoo Babies for my chart.

Wētā Writing

 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.

Reading week 8

 Here is my Reading work that I done.

Where the wild things are (my own fortress)

 

Where the wild things are (Minecraft)

 

Zens covid lemon report

 

Thursday reading

 Here is my reading work from a random animal. I learnt about a tiger. I liked this because you can choose a random animal.

Thursday maths

 Here is my maths this week I have been doing maths all week. The maths was a challange, look for the pattern and a quiz.

Lockdown Reading

My reading task on Monday was to read then solve the respond. Here is my reading task.

 

Team Awa Olympic Games.

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

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 It looks cool fashion.

I like my kiwi texture because because it is all only texture.

I learnt how to get explore when I need it.

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 l learned.

Transformations

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

Goodbye Mrs C

 Yesterday we said farewell to Mrs C, our librarian. Here is a card I made to say goodbye.

Cyber Challenge 13

 This week our cyber challenge was to think about our digital footprint. Our digital footprint is about the trails of information we leave behind when we are online.

Maths graph

Last week we done graphs and telemarketers. Here is my example.

Zen Autumn leaves

 This week and last week we have been doing autumn leaves. Here is my example.

Cybersmart Challenge 12

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

Cyber Challenge #10

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

Outdoor Classroom Day

We had a fun outdoor classroom day last week. Here is my recount I wrote about the day.

Maths money

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

Anzac Ted

 This week I made an Anzac Ted and wrote some information about Anzac Ted.

ANZAC Day

 We wrote stories to tell people what we think of Anzac Day.

Happy Mother's day

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

ANZAC day

This week I made a animation about ANZAC day during reading time.

Blake VR

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

 

Anzac poem

 We wrote an Anzac poem. Here is my poem

Compass blog

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.

Sailing the Pacific

 This week our focus for Reading has been sailing. Here is a reading follow-up I completed for the article Sailing the Pacific. 

America's Cup Questions

 We have been learning the difference between statements and questions. We wrote our own questions based on the America’s Cup.

Awa Sphero Cup Learning

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

Numbers as shapes

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

  

Making maps

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

Can you find the coordinates for the castle?

How can you go from the castle to the imposter?

Kawa of care

We had been learning about the Kawa of Care - how to look after our chromebook. Here's a slide I made to show the points.

Self Portrait

 

Sort the Street

 

writing with hooks.

 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.