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:
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 Snake because I like Snakes and they are amazing creatures.
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: The Day the Plants Fought Back.
It was about respecting others.
I chose to Create (Draw) a Good corn. for my create task.
I chose for my my writing task to do 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: That’s Not the Monster We Ordered.
It was about being grateful for what you have.
I chose to Make a Smurf Monster out of Lego...
Here is my work:
Here is my work:
We have been learning about abstract art. It’s all about creating works of art that don’t actually look like anything. We focused on the American artist Frank Stella, who liked to make pictures using shapes like circles, triangles and rectangles.
Here is my work:
This week for play make create we read a book called I am peace it was a book about emotions.
We had to write 3 paragraphs about a time we felt anxious, nervous or out of control. For my create task I made: A tree.
Here is my work.
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... draw a variety of creepy crawlies on paper.
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 do something that Maui didn't think of.Here is my work:
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 Design something clever to pick up leaves.
Another thing we have been learning in maths is how to solve word problems involving combinations of things. You had to be able to write addition equations showing as many different combinations as we could.
Some people found it was useful to do your figuring out using a table. But not the kind of table you eat off-a mathematical table.
Here is my work:
Yet another thing we did for writing this week was to imagine that we had undergone metamorphosis.
We had to pretend we had woken up one morning and discovered we had changed. It would be like going to sleep as a caterpillar and waking up as a butterfly. We had to write about what our new body was like and what we could do. I chose to : write about me to Metamorphosis into an evil giant scorpion.
Here is my work:
The evil scorpion human.
One thundery day I was doing an experiment in my lab with a scorpion cause I am a scientist. I put the wrong thing in it by accident and it blew up. I got blasted all the way across the lab and was knocked unconscious. A few hours later I woke up feeling weird. As I walked into the bathroom I caught sight of myself in the mirror. I was a horrifying sight! I was part scorpion and part human. I thought about it for a second and said to myself, ” Hey, this is really cool because now I can paralyze people with my scorpion tail and I couldn't do that before!”.
I went to try it on my worst enemy Jada, another scientist who had been trying to destroy my science lab for three years. I paralyzed her with my poisonous tail and I was so happy as I locked her in her basement.
The next day I went to the mayor of my town and paralyzed him too and locked him in his basement along with all of his guards who had tried to fight me. Then on the town speaker I proclaimed, “I am the new mayor of this town and whoever disobeys me will be locked up in my basement. Whoever tries to leave will be locked up too unless you leave in the next 24 hours!”
7 years later…
I wanted more space in my basement because it was too small so I hired some builders to build me another basement. They built me a nice, big one. I was so happy about it that I let them move away to another town only if they told no one about this town. They agreed quickly.
I loved ruling the town but I still wanted more so I got builders to build me my very own tower. Year after year though, I got more and more lonely so I ordered some new scorpions. In one week, they had arrived at my house in jars and I started eating them. I thought they were so yummy.
The next day, I was bored so I put 30 of them in the basement with the people that had disobeyed me. Then I sat back and listened. In no time at all I heard loud screaming. I laughed evilly. “ I am the most evilest scorpion person ever to walk this Earth!” I said to myself.
The end
By:Parani Cowles
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 make something to give to the kindest person you know...I made a alien friend for Sienna G.
We are learning to advertise ourselves positively online by sharing on our blog. For this task we will be creating a poster about ourselves and the different things that are most important to us. Here is my Poster:
In Week 8, Term 2 our school librarian, Mrs C, retired. On her last day, we put on a Book Character Parade. We dressed up in costumes like book characters and then we went on a parade through the Daycare Centre next to the school, past the shops in the village, along Hobson St and back up Tennyson St to the school.
I chose to dress up as Maleficent.
In Week 4, we wrote a recount about a fun event we took part in recently. This could have been at school, at home or at sports/ on a trip etc. Here is my recount.
In Week 7, we were learning how to write using personification. We looked at lots of poems that had personification in them and then we had to write our own. We could choose any topic. I chose to base mine on…..
Here is my work….
In Week 8, Miss Fletcher gave us a science lesson about Matariki.
We had to write some notes about it. Here is my work:
In Week 7, we went outside and looked at the old wooden playground to see if we could think how to write about it using personification. We tried to think about the old playground as if it were an old person. We wondered what the old playground might look like or do that was like an old person. Here is my work:
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 needing a break and them wanting to be used for different things.
I chose to use yellow and make a yellow sun into a sun emoji and I chose for my second task to write a letter from one of my toys.
We have been learning how to ask questions in Te Reo. The question was :
E aha tenei? This means: What is this?
Then we had to be able to answer that question several times using different Te Reo words that had something to do with things in the classroom.
Here is my work.
In Term 2 Week Six 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 use Lego to build a home for bugs.
This week we went on a hunt in the playground to see if we could find some seeds and then we came back to class and wrote about them using our senses of sight and touch to describe them. Here is my work:
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:
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 my mum a Mother's Day surprise.
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.
Chocolate
Firstly out of all the chocolate I chose the dark chocolate cause it's my favorite
chocolate of all.The chocolate looks as dark as the night sky.The dark chocolate
tastes like a delicious brownie. The dark chocolate smells like a really rich chocolate.
The dark chocolate felt as if it were going to melt in my fingers.
Secondly I ate the white chocolate. The white chocolate is my second favorite
chocolate. The white chocolate looked like a snowy milk.
The white chocolate tasted like vanilla flavored milk. The white chocolate
felt like a small hard rock.
Finally I ate the ordinary chocolate that everyone has probably tasted before.
The ordinary chocolate is my last favorite. The normal chocolate looks like pure
dirt. The normal chocolate tasted like melting deelishis chocolate.
This week for reading we had to complete a cloze activity after we read a story about chocolate.
Here is my work:
Emerald Week 10 Term 1 2021 SJ 2.3.1998 A Cup of Koko.
Complete the cloze activity below which describes what a drink of
koko smells and tastes like :
Use the following words to fill in the spaces: (If you need help, look
on pages 39 and 40 for clues).
When cocoa beans are being roasted they get darker and darker and the delicious, chocolatey smell gets stronger. A mug of thick, creamy, hot koko is just what Annie needs.
We have been learning how to use the correct structure and language for narrative writing.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xeRnFVhxFHelNs6fjSg-17VDZzfxhfmP9ZKInyHmFkA/edit
The goal of this writing activity was to tell the step-by-step life cycle of a cicada. We had to remember to use sequencing adverbs at the beginning of each step/paragraph.
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:
💛 This week for reading we had to focus on being able to find adjectives in a story. Here is my work.❤
Kia ora
Here is my first group reading task for this year. Mrs B was very pleased with my work.
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Mrs Gardiner is in charge of computers at our school and she came to class to talk about the Kawa of care rules we have to follow when working on our Chromebooks. We had to make something to prove we have read the rules and understand and agree to them. Here is my document:
