Sunshine and swimming togs

My favourite thing to do in summer is going to the beach and swimming around in the water. I like playing in the sand and making sandcastles. I like to play with my friends at the beach and have fun with them. I like to play in the sun and go shopping. I like going for play dates at my friends house. I like the summer holidays because it is so fun and I like it because I can sleep in as long as I want.

Kapa Haka Culturol festival

Kapa Haka have been practising for kaikohekohe cultural festival day. We have been singing Toia mai, Te pou, Taiamai e, Rerenga waira, ka kata nga puririo Taiamai, & Nga puawai o ngapuhi. We had so lovely teachers called Dwayne, Mrs Clarke, & Matua Ken. I feel nervous and excited for the Kapa haka festival. Here is a phote of me by the pou for kapa haka.

Greats and Grands day

On Greats and grands day my Nana's came to our school. Here is me and my Nana.

Huarakau - Te Reo Maori Term 4

We have been learning the names of fruit in Maori. Here are some we have learnt.

Pirate coding

We have been learning how to code like a pirate. We made our own pirate puzzle and tried to code it out. Here is the slide.

Telling the time

We have been learning to tell the time. We made clocks out of cardboard paper. We made a google draw and we had to show the time. Here is my google draw.

Summer Haiku and acrostic poems

We made a haiku about summer or Christmas. Here is something that I made.

We also made acrostic poems. Here are my acrostic poems.

Summer sun

A present

Nice kids

Tiny elves

Always being kind

Snowballs

Naughty kids throwing snowballs

Outside playing snowball fights

White ground

Christmas is fun

Having a great time

Reindeer’s are funny

I love Christmas

Santa is kind

Tiny presents

Merry Christmas

Always having a good day

Santa is nice

Beach party

I love the birthdays

Ready for presents

Today is my birthday

Have a good birthday

Dance party

Always happy

Yeah it’s my birthday

Vaseline Saucers

The day before pet day we made Vaseline Saucers. A Vaseline Saucer is something that has even flowers around it. It is called symmetrical. Symmetrical means that one side is the same as the other side, like a mirror of your reflection of your face. My Vaseline Saucer is very beautiful. I used flower petals. Here is a photo of my Vaseline Saucer.

Christmas tree

We were sketching a Christmas tree. We needed to write some ideas that came to our heads. Then we wrote it down on our chrome book and made a poem and put our sketching tree on the writing.

My Art Term 4

This term we have completed two pieces of art.

One was inspired by an artist named Kadinsky who used coloured circles in his work. We looked at the contrast between warm and cool colours and the black and white of the buildings.

Our second piece was using the Maori words we have learnt and using these to create a visual picture. The words become the shape of the picture.

Some things I did well were trying my hardest on my word and doing it nice.

One thing I could improve on is working a bit faster on my work.

Handwriting term 4

We have been learning to form our letters correctly and to use capital letters in the correct place.

I am good at keeping my letters on the line.

I need to get better at focusing on my work.

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Greats and Grands day

Last week we had our Greats and Grands day. We wrote poems for our grandparents. Here is my poem about why my grandparents are so special.

Here is a photo of us on Greats and Grands Day.

Problem Solving

                                 
                                            Here is my video I made on subtraction problem.

Basic Facts Test Term 3

Here is my Basic Facts Test for Stage 4 for the end of  Term 3. I got 52 out of  60 right. I am good at Tens that add up to 100 & Doubles/Halves to 20. I need to work on doing my take aways faster.

Father's Day

This is my Father's day poem

Kauri tree

We have been learning to use  finger painting  to create  our kauri tree art. First we got a big piece of white paper then made some little white clouds . Second we dyed it with blue dye then we let it dry . We made the trunk with brown, green, gray, white and  purple paint then we let it dry when it was dry we put it onto the piece of paper. We  made the leaves  with green, yellow paper then we ripped them up into little pieces .Then we glued it on to the big blue paper. We made our ground with brown, green, white and yellow paint then we let it dry.  We write slogans  telling people how to look after our Kauri trees then we glue them on to our art.

Thinglink about litter

This is what I know about the rubbish in our environment so far. Here is my Thinglink to show my knowledge.

Hayley's goals Term 3

Team Awa have been their goals so we know what we need to work on for our reading, writing, and maths. Here are my goals.

Kauri peom

This week we have been doing Environmental writing. We had to sketch a kauri tree that we had to write a peom about a kauri tree.

Koru Weaving Art Term 2

Garden to Table Term 2

                I am standing on my knees to see Amy and the delicious food coming to the table. The 
                kitchen people came to the garden to get some vegetables like potatoes spinach and lots                        more. In the garden we planted peas, broccoli and potatoes.

Handwriting Term 2

We have been learning to form our letters correctly and to use capital letters in the correct place.

I am good at everything.

I need to get better at nothing.

Basic Facts Term 2

We have been working on answering basic facts questions quickly and instantly.

I am now at Stage 4.

Multiplication and Division

We have been working on understanding multiplication and division. We are learning to read word problems and answer them by showing our working and the answer we got.

Here is a google draw of some problems I solved.

Hot air balloon

This week we have used a picture as motivation for our writing.

We had a story starter and then we had to carry on the story. What I like about my writing is my picture. I need to improve on getting it done quicker.

We also made a google draw showing the things that we would take with us in on the balloon.

When the green balloon was nearly to the finish line another hot air balloon  was right by him and then I said to the other hot air balloon “ I just want to win! Not you! I should win because you won before!” “well I want to win again!”. When the girl was talking, the finish line was near so I sped up  and then finally I won! I won $1,000,000 to share to poor people and some to go on a trip to Hawaii. Some of the money was to buy a gumball machine too. “Hey! do you want me to share my money with you ” “ yes I would love to”. And so we both share the money?" yes I would love to then every thing was good.

ASB getwise

On Wednesday we had Marlon from ASB Get wise talking to us about saving our money,
spending money on needs not wants and using invisible money ie eftpos.
I have made a google draw to show what I have learnt. I liked learning about money.

Learning golf

We have been learning how to play golf.

I liked making Mr Golf do ten push ups.

I am good at hitting the ball hard.

I need to work on getting it further.

Animal Town

This week we have used another picture as motivation for our writing.
We had a story starter and then we had to carry on the story.

What I like about my writing is my animals.

I need to improve on getting it done quickly.

Here is my writing about Animal Town.

Hi I am a cheetah that lives in Animal Town. Today was a very weird day because a family came to Animal Town and they had a little girl called Heidi. “Calling all animals please came to the king and queen, thank you.” screeched a bird. “Uh oh! Is it something bad king Lion?” I asked. “Yes it is something bad because a new family has come to Animal Town and that means we need to battle.” replied the lion. “But what if they have guns or something that we don’t?” asked the monkey. “Well do you know what we have that they don’t?” King lion said. “No what?” “Sharp teeth and you and your family have speed and sharp teeth then you and your family can go second, okay.”

Writing stem maker spce

This week me and some other people were in room three for maker space with Mrs Craig. We have been learning about Autumn. The activities were leave animals, an autumn paint brush, Lego, and making a shape tree. I made two butterflies, one of them was made out of green leaves and the last one was made out of autumn leaves. The green leave one had flower petals on it and the autumn one had two little flowers on top.

Mother's day writing

This week in Writing we wrote about how special our mums are. Here is my published writing about my wonderful mum. Happy Mother’s Day!

ANZAC Day writing

ANZAC Day writing. Here is a poem I wrote about my Grandad Jack and the war.

Handwriting

We have been learning to form our letters correctly and to use capital letters in the correct place.
I am good at keeping it tidy.I need to get better at keeping it on the line.

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Self portrait art

We have been working on using different art techniques to draw our faces. We have used sketching pencils to sketch our faces, making sure we made our facial features an accurate shape, size and putting them in the correct places.

We learnt about Picasso’s style and made our own funky Picasso portraits.

Swimming

We have been working towards becoming a confident swimmer by learning how to be a safe swimmer. We learnt that we should always swim with an adult and to always wear a life jacket when we are on a boat. At our swimming lessons we have learnt how to float, kick, glide and use rainbow arms and we are still learning to breathe correctly.

Garden to Table

We are setting up the table while the garden people are planting.

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