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.
Tuesday, 28 December 2021
Monday, 20 December 2021
Thursday, 16 December 2021
Magic Maths Tricks
Today for a summer learning journey task I had to test out some maths magic tasks. Here is my work.
Friday, 10 December 2021
Christmas Activities.
This week we have been working on Christmas activities. Look at my Christmas Slide and Art and Maths
Wednesday, 8 December 2021
Kapa Haka
I was part of the Kapa Haka group this year. Here is our final performance. We performed outside because of covid- 19.
Tuesday, 7 December 2021
Art colouring
For summer learning Journey today we had to recolour a NASA earth pitcher And here is a fact.The first person to propose the idea of using a rocket to launch a human into space was Scottish astronomer William Leitch in 1861. Here is my work.
Monday, 6 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 betting my time.
Friday, 26 November 2021
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 Bailey, Bella and Nerali. I enjoyed making the movie. I think what I created will be useful for showing people to be nice to animals.
Wednesday, 24 November 2021
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 learning about scratch. Now I want to add more characters.
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 caving and glow worms.
I worked with Bella, Nerali and Bailey
The best part was learning fact about the caves and glow worms
I hope you enjoy.
Glow worm poster
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.
The best part was learning about the life cycle.
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.
Vaseline Saucer
Saturday, 20 November 2021
Pet Day - Virtual Calf Entry 2021
Here is my virtual calf entry. I got first place for this. I also got the LIC Champion Calf/Large animal prize. The judge said that I was good at leading and covered all the things we were asked to on the entry form. I hope you enjoy.
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, 29 October 2021
Attributing images
I have learning to not use images that are not okay to use. I give credit to anyone whose images I use in my work. This is called Attributing images. Here is my work.
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.
Friday, 1 October 2021
T-Shaped Literacy Create Task
For T-Shaped literacy we got to learn about Conservation. Here is a create task I made. It is a endangered Animals slide. 1 thing I enjoyed was telling people messages. 1 thing I learned was to protect Animals.
Thursday, 30 September 2021
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Handwriting Term 3
Here is my handwriting sample for Term 3.
I am good at making my writing neat and tidy.
I need to work on forming my letters correctly.
Te reo shapes Nga ahau
We have been learning to describe and name shapes in Maths using their Te reo names and asking questions in Te reo Māori. Here is some of my work.
Tuesday, 28 September 2021
Scratch Meet Etiquette
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 Feathers first and lost in the bush for my chart.
Friday, 24 September 2021
Wild thing outdoor classroom day.
In Lockdown we had an outdoor classroom day. It was a wet and wild day. Here is a recount I wrote about it.
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.
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 ...
This week we have focused on the story "Where the Wild Things Are". Here is some writing I did this week.
Prototec Maths.
Friday, 3 September 2021
lockdown reading and writing
Here is my Reading and Writing that I did in lockdown. For the reading we had to make notes to help us in writing.
For Writing we had to make a animal report by using the information we found in our reading. Here is our writing.Lockdown Maths
Today we are still in lock down. Here is some maths from Monday 30th of August. It was all about the times tables
Wednesday, 1 September 2021
Egg Candling
Tuesday, 31 August 2021
Monday, 30 August 2021
Friday, 27 August 2021
Monday Maths.( lock down)
Today is lock down so my class did maths at home. This is about sheep and chickens. Here is my work.
Thursday, 26 August 2021
Tuesday, 24 August 2021
Monday, 23 August 2021
Friday, 20 August 2021
Thursday, 19 August 2021
Wednesday, 18 August 2021
Awa News - Wednesday 18th August
Today is lockdown and I decided to do an Awa News. I had to write script, practice and then record. Here is my First episode Wednesday 18th August.
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.
Monday, 26 July 2021
Cyber Smart
Today Matua Jacob came to my class to help us learn about being Cyber Smart. Here is a video I made of what we were learning about.
Friday, 9 July 2021
Matariki T- Shaped Literacy
I worked with Bailey, Bella, Nerali and Max. We made a movie about Matariki. Here is our Movie.
For our Matariki T-Shaped Literacy we have been learning about Matariki and language features. We also got to retell a Matariki story. Here is my work.
It was easy to say my lines because it was in front of me
It was hard to act the puppets.
I liked making the movie because we did lots of easy fun things
Thursday, 8 July 2021
Movie (Hut making)
On outdoor classroom day we went out the back to make movies about hut making.
We learned about taking different video shots like Establishing shots.
It was easy to recording small bits.
It was hard to put it all together on the movie and edit it..
I liked it because it was fun to work with my friends.
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 pop art because it popped out very well.
I like my kiwi texture because it had cool texture.
I learnt how to use textures and to use bright colours better.
Tuesday, 6 July 2021
Hut Movie Making
In Team Awa we had an outdoor 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.
Wednesday, 23 June 2021
Autumn leaf.
We found a leaf outside. We drew it and wrote juicy words to help us write a descriptive piece of writing.
Wednesday, 2 June 2021
Fantastic Mr Fox
My reading my group has been reading Mr fox. Here are google draws that will tell you about the characters.
Friday, 28 May 2021
Sunday, 23 May 2021
Musical Performance
Today I got to perform for the whole school at our assembly. We set the piano up in the corner and had a little practice before the bell rang for the assembly. Me and Waiahi got super nervise. I played fire fly. I like playing fire fly.
Friday, 21 May 2021
Tuesday, 11 May 2021
Monday, 10 May 2021
Sunday, 9 May 2021
Friday, 16 April 2021
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 some of our work.
Wednesday, 14 April 2021
Friday, 9 April 2021
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.