What We Did This Term

 This term we have been doing lots of stuff like PE, cactus, sculpt gl, google music lab, ukulele, Kahoot, debates, tidy numbers, persuasive writing, and Matariki activities . At the start of term one, we started doing stuff like pe cactus and ukulele.

The first thing we learned was how to do soccer at PE with Naomi we played some games like Simon said. I really enjoyed playing Simon said. The next thing I did was cactus it was fun and hard. Ukulele was the next thing we learned that was fun but I found remembering the keys a bit tricky. Sculpt go was one of my favorites because we got to choose what we made. Google music lab was cool. Kahoot was nice but tricky. The debate practice was enjoyed. Tidy numbers were helpful. Persuasive writing was my favorite. And Matariki was the hardest. 
                                                               How was your term?   

 

                         

Flax Weaving

 On Thursday we did flax weaving because on Friday we are having sausages and we had to weave a boat to put them in instead of a servet. For me the weaving was fun and enjoyable. The first thing that we had to do was grab 13 pieces of flax. Then grab 7 and place them down then grab another and make it go under over under over until you reach the end and do that with the five and then leave the last one. Then grab the middle two on the side with seven and fold them over and then grab one of the ones on the edge and fold it over. Next the last piece of flax and cut it into 3 pieces and tie two of the sides with two pieces and then tie the other two sides together. 

                                            Have you ever done weaving before?        

 

Matariki Art

 At school we have been learning about Matariki and we decided to make some art. This is how we made our art.

What you need:

Newsprint paper

Pencil

Scissors 

Mountain range image 

Black paper

Chalk pastels 

Stick on stars

Glue stick

White mounting Paper

First  you need to get your pencil,  scissors, newsprint, and a device. On your device you need to search up mountain ridge pick one that you like and try to draw it on your newsprint don’t make it too big Then cut out the newsprint. Then place the newsprint on the black paper don’t stick it. Next grab the chalk pastels and put them sideways. Then stroke them up the page. Then use your fingers to blend it. Next grab the hair spray and spray it on the page to make the chalk pastels stay on. Then grab some white mounting paper and stick it on the back of the page.

Tidy Numbers

 This week my maths group has been learning Tidy numbers. You can use tidy numbers when you have maths problems  like  198+56. Tidy numbers helps when you have big numbers that are hard to put together. tidy numbers can help you depending on the type of problem.

                                              Have you learnt about tidy numbers before?

Giant Skateboard

 Today We had three people come to our school to show us a ginormous Skateboard that they had made to promote skateboarding and the New Zealand team in the Olympics. It was way bigger than any of the seniors. I only just had to bend down to fit underneath it. On the bottom there was a really cool pattern. The skateboard was 18 times bigger than a usual skateboard.                                                                                                                                               Have you ever seen a skateboard this big?  

Coast to Coast Fact

This is my fact about the Coast to Coast. We went on the website and looked for facts. I found out that it sold out very quickly and that amazed me. What we had to do was draw a picture write the fact and our name. Have you written about facts before?

 

Tangrams

  Today we were making tangrams we have done it to improve our geometry. I made a arrow we only got the shapes on the arrow.  It was really tricky. I learned to flip shapes. 

                                                    Have you done a Tangram before?

Cricket

  This is a photo of my class playing snowball tag. We had some people come to school to play cricket. We played a small game of cricket. Then we played cat we had to pass the ball to someone in our group we were allowed to be as tricky as we wanted. We had 4 groups of five. In my group there was Zoe Ella Milly Carter and me. They are all my friends.  The game of cat was fun I got out second If you got out you had to do ten star jumps.  

Have you played cricket before?  

MY Onomatopoeia Art

 This is my Onomatopoeia Art. That I made In class first we had to open a google doc. Next we made a onomatopoeia word for every letter of the alphabet.  Then we had to pick one and make a sketch of the one that we chose in our art book. After we chose a colour for the background. Then we got some stencils of letters and traced around them my word was pop. After we cut them out. Then we went to the teacher. So she could cut out the middle of the letters. Next we cut out some newspaper in the shape that we wanted. Then we had to glue it down. After I chose a colour of paint and painted it. Then while we wanted for it to dry. We cut out some shapes to go on the sides. Lastly Mrs Hickford took a photo of us holding our picture.

Have you made something like this before ?    

 

Student led conference

This is a photo that I had to put on the first page of my student led 
conference.

This is the slide that I had to write how good I thought I was at showing
the values. and the value that I was working on.

This the other slide with the values that I got to chose what I thought. When we are finished we have to show our slides to our parents. Our student led conference is something we do to show our parents our goals for the year.  Do 
you do this at your school?

Marching Ants

This is my Marching Ants problem.   We did it for computational  thinking.  It was a classroom challenge.  At first, no one in the class really knew what they were doing. It was really tricky. I thought I had it once but actually, I didn't. When we got a lot further through,  we worked up by starting at one counter and working our way up to five. We also practiced with dots and counters. Have you ever done something like this before? 

OC Chromebook Pet

 This is my Chromebook pet. He is called MR  Meow. We had to get a lot of images to decorate our pet we also inserted an image of ourselves. We also had to use the explore tool. I put in a lot of shapes on  Mr Meow. We did this to show the kawa of care to our Chromebooks. Have you made one before?