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 do a rocket ship
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 saucer.
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 Sumopaint/Google Draw. I chose a pig because my friend Frank let me copy his and it was easy.
This week we edited some of our writing that we did in the first three weeks of term. I chose this one because it was easy.
It is an example of personification
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:
It was about the plant monster.
I chose to do a cactus.
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 B read the book: I am peace. It was about learning how to control your feelings. I chose to work with Harlem, Frank and Mrs B and we wrote some ideas about how having lots of different feelings at different times is normal.
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….
I chose to...
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: Maui and the sun.
It was about the Maori myth which explains how/why the sun moves across the sky.
I chose to create an animation.
For the last two weeks we have been learning about different kinds of poetry for reading and writing. I decided to publish this poem. It is a blackout 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 write about how to clean the sea.
I also made a drawing of a truck so the badger could get through the mud.
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 build a bridge to help the giant get over the bog.
We are learning to advertise ourselves positively online by sharing on your blog for this task will be creating a poster about ourselves and about the different things that are most important to us.
today we wrote a piece of writing about the weather we got to choose whatever type of writing me wanted I chose to do an acrostic and lightning
The stars twinkle in the night.
The stars flash in the sky.
The stars dance in the night sky.
The biggest star is the sun.
The stars were smiling at me in the night.
Going To Waipu
On Friday, me and Mum went to drop my nana off in Auckland so she could go to my aunty’s birthday.
Then me and Mum went to Waipu and we had a sleep over at Mike and Katy’s house. They are Mum’s friends.
Katy took us to dinner. For starters, I had salad, prawns and waffles.
Me and Mason, who is Katy and Mike’s son, and my mum played handball. Mum were the best at it.
We had a cool time.
By Saxdyn Tane
The stars twinkle in the night.
The stars flash in the sky.
The stars dance in the night sky.
The biggest star is the sun.
The stars were smiling at me in the night.
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 crayons that weren't happy.
I chose to make a pink monster for the pink crayon and a sun emoji for the yellow crayon.
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….
My Simile Poem.
My eyes are as brown as soil.
My hair is black as night.
My legs are as long as rulers.
I am as fast as a cheetah.
By Saxdyn Tane
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 chose to do it on my Chromebook and created a comic strip about scissors vs rock.
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:
Term 2 Week 2-Environmental Writing-Feathers
Task: Write to record ideas generated by our feather hunt in the school grounds and our examination of the feathers we collected.
Choose whatever type of writing you like using the language and structure appropriate to that kind of writing EXCEPT you are not allowed to write an acrostic poem or a couplet poem.
If appropriate, use a range of different sentence beginnings and start your paragraphs with different time sequencing phrases
Record observations based on your senses of sight and touch eg Ideas about shape, size, colour, texture
Check your spelling and grammar
Use basic punctuation correctly (Capital letter to start sentences and full stop, question mark or exclamation mark at the end of sentences).
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White feathers, black feathers are so fluffy.
White feathers, black feathers are so smooth.
White feathers, black feathers falling down from the sky.
White feathers, black feathers everywhere on the ground.
White feathers, black feathers are very light.
White feathers, black feathers in the tree.
White feathers, black feathers are so soft.
White feathers, black feathers on a bird.
In Term 2 Week One 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. I chose to make something to make someone smile. I made a lego house and I wrote a poem.
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.
This week for reading we had to focus on being able to find adverbs in a story and recognise what kind of adverb they were.
Here is my work:
Here is my handwriting sample.
I think that I am good at putting the words on the line.
I need to work on making my lower case letters a bit bigger.
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.
The goal of this writing activity was to retell what we did during Easter. We had to remember to use sequencing adverbs at the beginning of our paragraphs.
This week for reading we had to focus on being able to find adverbs in a story and recognise what kind of adverb they were.
Here is my work:
We are learning how to look at numbers, how they work and how you can group them. We did an activity called Numbers as shapes. It’s a bit like algebra thinking. Here is my work:
This week for reading we had to focus on being able to find adverbs in a story and sort them into the right groups.
Here is my work:
Me and my class went to the old church and we had a book to write adjectives and adverbs in to describe the church. Then we wrote a story.
This week for reading we had to focus on being able to find ordinary adjectives in a story and match them with the noun they described. Here is my work.
Kia ora
We are learning how to write a couplet poem. We looked at an example on page 32 of SJ 1.4 1992. Then we had to choose our own noun, two opposite adjectives to describe it, think of rhyming words for the end of each line and finish the last line with a onomatopoeia word repeated 3 times. Here is my work.
This week for reading we had to focus on being able to find ordinary adjectives in a story and match them with a comparative or superlative adjective. Here is my work.
Responsible
Responsible is when you look after school property. Responsible is when you don't
touch the teachers properly. If they tell you that you can use it then you can use it and
when you're finished with it you put it back where it belongs. Responsible is also about cleaning up your own mess.
Kia ora.
We are learning that Basic Punctuation means that you have a capital letter at the start of a
sentence, and a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark at the end of every sentence when
you do a piece of writing. One piece of writing I did was a recount about looking at swan plants.
Me and my class went out side We went to the back of the school .
We have been learning about the Treaty of Waitang Day. Something new I learned was that James Busby helped write the New Zealand Declaration of Independence. We made a cool booklet.
