Christmas Wish List

 This week we have working on Christmas activities, look at my Christmas wish list.

Christmas Day Problem

 Maggie and I have been working on a Christmas story.  We hope that you enjoy it.

Kapa Haka

I was part of the Kapa Haka group this year. Here is our final performance. We performed outside because of Covid-19.

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 my stage 4

 

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.

 

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 glow worms.  

I worked with Maggie. The best part was seeing the glow worms.

I hope you enjoy.

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.

Kapa Haka Performance

 On the 23 of September Ohaeawai School participated in the Te Ohonga o Ngapuhi online facebook Live event.  Here is a link to our performance.

Blue penguins - Create

For T-Shaped literacy we got to learn about Conservation.  Here is a create task I made.  It is a poster about penguins. 1 thing I enjoyed was making the penguins.  1 thing I learned was blue penguins are endangered.

 

Basic Facts Term 3

 

Handwriting Term 3

I am good at setting my work out correctly.I need to work on making my letters the correct height.

Here is my handwriting sample for Term 3. 

Scratch Google Meet

Over the last week i have been working on a scratch project that helps audience understand how to use google meet effectively when in a class call. We had to add our voice to the scratch  project so that when you pres the icon it told the person what it did.

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.

 

Conservation

 In T-Shaped literacy we have been reading stories and comparing ideas we read about.  Here is my comparison chart.  I read Zoo Babies and Lost in the Bush 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.
 

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? 

 

When I,m wild I....

This week we have focused on the story 'Where the Wild Thing Are .' Here is some writing I did this week.
 

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.
 

Matariki

Here is my reading follow-up for The Seven Fishes.

 

Pop Art

 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's cool

I learnt how to do the background.

Bling Bling

 

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.

Goodbye Mrs C

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

Kiwi Bugs Statistics

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

Autumn leaf.

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

Cyber Challenge #10.

We did Cyber Challenge 10. We were learning about our blog's.

Cybersmart challenge 12

 Our challenge today was to think about public and private information.

Outdoor Classroom Day

 

Outdoor Classroom Day

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

Anzac Ted

 Here is my Anzac reading.

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 Diamante Poem

 We wrote an Anzac poem. Here is my poem.

Make a 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. 

Reading.

This week our focus for Reading has been sailing. Here is a reading follow-up I completed for the story Staying Afloat.

 

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. 

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 descibe a location

How will you get to the hart?

Can you find the sun?

Kawa of Care

 We have been learning about the Kawa of Care. Here is my google Draw.

Self portrait art

 

Sort the street

 

Chromebook rollout

 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.