Christmas Create

 This week we have been completing a Christmas Create choice board. Here are the activities I completed. I made a Christmas slide with Travis.

Christmas Create

 This week we have been completing a Christmas Create choice board. Here are the activities I completed. I made a poem with Travis.

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 passing Stage 4.

Sprite Parallax

 We are really good at creating sprites using google draw.  For the past 2 weeks we have been learning how to make our sprites eyes or facial features move separate to their bodies.  This is called a parallax.  Here is an example I have made and the code that makes it work.  The bit I liked most was doing the background. Now I want to do another one.

Pet Day - Learn Create Share.

Last week we had Pet Day at school.  As part of our reading and writing we got to get creative to show  what we know about looking after animals. Here is the work I created.  I worked with Ben.  I enjoyed tracing.  I think what I created will be useful for kids because it will help them learn how to look after pets.

Glow worm and caving

 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 Ollie. The best part was the cave we made for our animation.

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 Glow worm life cycle.

I worked with Ollie. The best part was doing the life cycle

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 & 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.

T-Shaped Literacy Create Task

For T-Shaped literacy we got to learn about Conservation.  Here is a create task I made.  It is an animation.  1 thing I enjoyed was creating the trees.  1 thing I learned was you can't survive without trees.

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.

Basic facts Term Three

 

Handwriting Term 3

• Here is my handwriting sample for Term 3. I am good at forming my letters correctly. I need to work on sitting the letters on the line.

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Google meets

We made a Google meet project to help us learn about coding. The hard part about it was catching up.

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 Weta went walking 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 things are. Here is some writing l 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.

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.

T-Shaped Literacy - Matariki

  We have been learning about language features. We compared 2 stories. Here is my work.

Language features puppet show

 I worked with Ben. We made a puppet show about language features like Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs. Here is our work.

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 pop art because of the poppy.

I like my kiwi texture because I can search for different coloured texture.

I learnt how to use texture to make a better picture.

    

Bling Bling Toi Marama

 

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. Have is some examples of what l learned.

Transformations

 We have been learning about transformations. We learnt how to show reflection, rotation and translation.

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.

Kiwi Bug Statistics

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

Dan Autumn Leaves

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

Cyber Challenger No 12

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

Cyber Challenge

 We did Cyber challenge 10. We were learning about our blogs

CD and the Window Pain

Here is my reading activity from the book we have been reading, CD and the Window Pain.  I hope you like it.

A sad day

Anzac Day

 We wrote stories to tell people about what we think of when we think of Anzac day.

Happy Mothers Day

 Here is a card l made for Mothers day.

ANZAC DAY

Here is some information about Anzac day that I found out at reading time. 

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 my work.

  

ANZAC Symbols

There are many symbols/items that represent ANZAC day, such as the poppy, wreath, ANZAC biscuits, Last Post.

Choose 4 items, draw them and write why they are an important symbol of ANZAC day. Here is my Anzac symbols work.

Anzac poem

We wrote an Anzac poem. Here is my poem.

Pepeha

 As part of our TeReo learning this term we have been making a Drawing to help us learn and share our Pepeha.  Here is my Pepeha Learning.

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Make a Campass

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. 

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. 

Awa Sphero Cup Learning

 On Friday we had fun racing our sphero's. Here is some of our learning.

Number as Shapes

 We have been having fun with the problem Numbers as shapes.Here are some of my findings.

Map Making

 We have been learning about maps and the language we use to describe a location?

Can you find the vine?

Can you find the coordinates for the sun?

Kawa of care

We have been learning about the Kawa of care - how to look after our chromebook. I made a poster to show some of the elements. 

Sort the Street

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.

Trading Post 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.