Kapa Haka

I was part of the Kapa Haka group this year. Here is our final performance. We performed outside because of Covid-19.

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.

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You Can Make a Happy Cake

 Here is my work about Happy cake its a level 22 book.

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

 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.

 

Using a Writing Rubric.

 This week in writing we have been looking at 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 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.

create task

 For T-Shaped literacy we got to learn about Conservation.  Here is a create task I made an animation.  1 thing I enjoyed was working with other kids.  1 thing I learned was lots of animals are endangered.

Kapa Haka Performance

 On the 23 of September Ohaeawai School participated in the Te Ohonga o Ngapuhi online facebook Live event.

term 3 basic facts

 

Handwriting Term 3

Here is my Handwriting . 

I am good at forming my letters correctly.

I need to work on sitting the letters on the line.

Ngā āhua - Shapes

 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.

Scratch Meet Google Meet

 Over the last week I have been working on a scratch project that helps my audience understand how to use google meet effectively when in a class call. We had to add our voice to the scratch project so that when someone click the icon. My voice will be there when you click the icon.

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 and zoo baby's for my chart. 

Wild Thing Outdoor Classroom Day

 In lockdown we had an outdoor classroom day. It was a wet and wild day. Here is a rwecount I wrote about it.

Weta 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.

Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori

 Here is a Maori God I made for Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori.

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 Ares .Here is some writing I did this week.

Prototec Maths

 Over lock down one of our maths tassels  each day was to practise protect just like we do every day at school.  Here is my best work.

  

How to catch a Wild Thing- Outdoor Classroom Day

 

Today is outdoor classroom day at home, but it is raining! I designed a trap to catch a wild thing outside, but I had to adapt my plan because of the weather so here is me catching my 'wild thing' with my trap. Also the dog ate my food in my first trap design.

Monday Reading

 On Monday reading I read about leopards and it was cool in look down

here is my work.

Monday Maths lookdown

On Monday Maths I Made 20 legs with a chicken and a sheep in look down

Here is my work.

 

 

Monday Writing in Lockdown

On Monday I wrote about the life cycle of a chicken and about incubating an egg.

Here is my 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.

Hut movie making

On outdoor classroom day we went out the back to make movies about hut making.  

We learned about not touching the iPad when it's recording.

It was easy to do the movie.

It was hard to line up the iPad.

I liked it because it was fun to make the movie.

Photo Challenge

Photo Challenge

I have been learning about taking photos on an iPad.  We were learning about the rule of thirds.  The rule of thirds is when you take a photo is on the side and the bottom. The photo is more interesting because so that there is more background showing.  We also got to look at different photos and see how different angles create different stories for the same subject (what we are taking a picture of).

I liked taking pictures of looking up and down and taking photos from different angles.  The picture I liked best is the one with the tree because it's so cool. It looks like there's lots of branches right by the rock.

 

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 is so light and cool.

I like my kiwi texture because the tree are so bright.

I learnt how to use texture and using bright colours for Popart.

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.

Transformation

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

Autumn leaf writing

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

 

Cybersmart Challenge 12

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

Cyber challenge #10.

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

Outdoor Classroom day

 We had a fun Outdoor Classroom Day last week. Here is a recount I wrote about the day.

Monty takes the price

I read a story about Monty Monty Takes the Prize.  Have is my  follow-up. I liked making the characters.

Maths Money

This week we have been learning about maths money. This is my example.

 

ANZAC Ted

 Have is my reading work I did about Anzac Ted.

   

Anzac day

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

 

Happy Mother's Day

Here is a card I made for Mother"s day.

Anzac Diamante Poem

 We wrote an ANZAC poem. Here is my poem. 

Compass

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. 

 

Staying afloat

This week our focus for Reading has been sailing. Here is a reading follow-up I completed for the article/story_

 

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.

Sphero racing

 On Friday we had fun racing our spheros. Here is some of our learning.

Number as Shapes.

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

Maps

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

Can you find the coordinate for the key? 

Where will the person end up if they go 1 step North, 6 steps west,  1 step North

Kawa of Care

 We here been learning about the Kawa of Care, how to look after our Chromebook.

 I make a  poster to show the nine elements. 

Self Portrait Art

 

Sort the Street

 

Max Chromebook recount.

 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.

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.