I was part of the Kapa Haka group this year. Here is our final preformance. We preformed outside because of COVID-19
I am a Year 3-4 student in Team Awa at Ohaeawai School in Northland, New Zealand. My teachers are Mrs Gardiner and Mrs Clarke.
Wednesday, 8 December 2021
Tuesday, 7 December 2021
NASA picture
Last week we signed up to the Summer Learning Journey. Did you know a rocket has to go really fast to escape earths atmesthare. Here is my picture.
Friday, 3 December 2021
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.
Thursday, 2 December 2021
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 progress throughout my maths.
Monday, 22 November 2021
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 facts about glow worms. I worked with Nobody
The best part was having fun all the way through the facts as I entered them in.
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.
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.
I worked with Neva and Violet
The best part was taking part
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.
Thursday, 18 November 2021
Multiplication and Division
This week we have been working on showing our thinking for multiplication and division sums.
Here is my work.
Friday, 12 November 2021
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.
Friday, 29 October 2021
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.
Friday, 22 October 2021
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.
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Handwriting Term 3
Here is my handwriting sample for Term 3.
I am good at forming my letters correctly.
I need to work on making my writing neat and tidy.
Tuesday, 28 September 2021
Ivy Meet Etiquette remix
Monday, 27 September 2021
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 Zoo babies and Weta Went Walking for my chart.
Friday, 24 September 2021
Wētā Writing
Wild thing Outdoor Cassroom Day
In lockdown we had an outdoor classroom day. It was a wet and wild day. Here is a recount I wrote about it.
Friday, 17 September 2021
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?
Friday, 10 September 2021
When I'm Wild I...
This week we have been focused on the story Where the Wild Things Are.
Here is some writing I did this week.
Prototec Maths
Over lockdown one of our maths tasks was to practice Prototec, just like we do at school.
Here is my best work.
Friday, 3 September 2021
News Update
Here is the Video of one of my News reports i did this week. I am getting better at making contact with the camera and learning to slow down when i am talking.
Awa news report notes
Tigers Reading.
I read about tigers and answered questions about the text here is my work. I enjoyed this because a Tiger is a member of the cat family and i like cats.
Candling Chicken Eggs
Here is my candling chicken egg guide. It really was cool to be able to see the baby chicks starting to develop, i had not seen it before and my Mum had not either so we both learnt lots.
Maths
Here is my maths for Lockdown home learning 100% on stage 4 now WOHOO! I am getting faster soon i will be under the 3.00 target. I am getting faster at working out the Patterns in the maths problems
Friday, 27 August 2021
Math Problems and number 25
For maths we did some Prototec, Maths problems and all about number 25. Here is what i did for my Maths on Monday
The Cat Cow
As one of our extra create tasks for Reading we were asked to make up a animal and habitat for the animal I did a made up animal called a Cat Cow. Here is the Cat Cow and information about it.
persuasive writing
I did a persuasive piece of writing about why i think Living in a zoo would be better than living in the wild here is what I wrote.
manatee (sea cow) report
For writing we had to research and find out about a animal and write a report about it I did my writing on Manatees.
Monday, 16 August 2021
Mini Olympics Recount
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.
Wednesday, 7 July 2021
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 kiwi texture because my kiwi has rainbow wings.
I learnt how to use texture to make drawings more interesting.
I like my pop art because there are chocolate fish on it.
Tuesday, 6 July 2021
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.
Thursday, 1 July 2021
Transformations
We have been learning about transformations. We learnt how to show reflection, rotation and translation.
Monday, 21 June 2021
Cyber Challenge #13
This week our cyber challenge was to think about our digital footprint, our digit footprint is about the trails of information we leave behind when we are online.
Friday, 28 May 2021
Friday, 21 May 2021
Musical Performance
We have been learning ukulele, also the parts of the ukulele. Here is our video.
Friday, 14 May 2021
Monday, 10 May 2021
Sunday, 9 May 2021
Friday, 16 April 2021
ANZAC Questions
I have been learning about Anzac day and how to ask good questions. Here is a presentation of my work.
Thursday, 15 April 2021
Blake VR
This week we had Alice and Anika from the Blake Foundation come to teach us about healthy and unhealthy ocean environments. Here is some of our work.
Tuesday, 13 April 2021
Friday, 26 March 2021
Reading - Sailing
This week our focus for Reading has been sailing. Here is a Reading follow-up I completed for the article/story Journey on the sea.
Wednesday, 24 March 2021
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.
Tuesday, 23 March 2021
Thursday, 18 March 2021
Friday, 26 February 2021
Tuesday, 23 February 2021
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.