Yesterday, for maths we had to read a step by step procedure for making a 3D clock. It was very tricky. We had to measure in centimetres to make equilateral triangles, measure the angles with a protractor to check they were 60 degrees, make a clock face and arrows and tie it all together with string. I was glad when I finished. The clock hands were the hardest part. Here is a picture of my clock.
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 make a safe way to trap a wombat and we also made a procedure about how to make wombat stew. Here is my work:
For the last two weeks we have been learning about different kinds of poetry for reading and writing. I decided to publish this poem. It is an opposite poem.
This week we carried on with our ‘insect’ topic for reading & writing. For maths we practised basic facts and worked on writing a variety of equations which would have a certain number for the answer. We also practised solving problems using place value or known facts knowledge. Here is a selection of 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 : Be a Skullcrawler and an indomuniss rex.
Here is my work.
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 Droids and trees
Here is my work
Last week which was week nine we did a recount about something we did during the weekend or during week eight. I chose to write about my weekend and did a recount about playing ********* I couldn't blare it out so that's why I did that. Here is my work
Probably my worst Minecraft
experience.
Wow I haven’t done anything exciting except play Minecraft and if you do want to hear about it I'm pretty sure I'm not allowed to write about it but if I am here it is.
Mines
It was Sunday afternoon and my mum loaded up Minecraft. Once we were in the world we started to mine but this time I didn’t get pushed into lava by water. While we were in the mines I found an axolotl and took it up to the surface.
Axolotl
Once we were back on the surface we decided to make a tank in our river. My mum dug up sand and I was fighting monsters and animals for food. But the monsters that attacked us the most were drowns (their zombies that drowned) . They can spawn with tridents and can drop whatever they’re holding.
Building the cage
It took a few days and we used like three stacks of sand for the glass.We had to keep going back for sand and back and forth for glass. Minecraft days are ten minutes which took almost an hour. Once we finished we went to get buckets of fish for food for my axolotl. He's cute when he’s swimming around eating the fish.
Conclusion
We got killed a lot in this process. The drowns with the tridents are one of the most dangerous water creatures.
In Week 8, Miss Fletcher gave us a science lesson about Matariki. If stars twinkle was the experiment. It was easy and fun. I liked it. 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:
This week we made stuff about Matariki and flax stars. We had to cut the flax from the bottom of the bush you'll know why when you read my presentation. It was fun and challenging and I learned something new.
In Week 5, we learned how to write a Simile poem. This kind of poem needs a simile in almost every line. We could base it on any topic we wanted. I chose to base mine on myself Here is my work….
In Week 4, we went on a hunt in the playground to see if we could find some autumn leaves. We looked for them on trees and on the ground. Then we came back to class and wrote about them using as many of our senses as we could. Here is my work:
Awesome
Maple leaves
Are deciduous
That means it falls
During autumn the one
that Everyone hates
So fall to the ground
Lie there till
Someone
picks you
up
The end is to the beat of darkside by Alan Walker
This week we had to write a recount about what we did in the holidays or during our school sports day. Here is my work:
Term 2 Photo Capture Recount
Task: Write a recount about the photo snapshot.
Remember to:
Include an introduction for your audience and a conclusion to wind up your recount.
Organise your recount into paragraphs and make sure you begin each paragraph with a time sequencing adverb or phrase.
Using descriptive language to engage your reader.
Use hooks and a variety of sentence structures and beginnings.
It was either night or morning, I can’t remember. I was watching fantastic marshmello music videos. My cousin don't know what he was up to on his new phone
My other cousin (nicknamed Fatty, don't know why) he was playing gta with their cousin.
We had some mini mint mentos and some multi fizzy pack and yummy sour lollies. It was really fun that's all we did so this is the end. We also had awesome burgers and chips for dinner, now this is the end.
the end
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:
Task: Write to record ideas generated by our feather hunt in the school grounds and our examination of the feathers we collected.
Remember to:
Choose whatever type of writing you like using the language and structure appropriate to that kind of writing EXCEPT you are not allowed to write an acrostic poem or a couplet poem.
If appropriate, use a range of different sentence beginnings and start your paragraphs with different time sequencing phrases
Record observations based on your senses of sight and touch eg Ideas about shape, size, colour, texture
Check your spelling and grammar
Use basic punctuation correctly (Capital letter to start sentences and full stop, question mark or exclamation mark at the end of sentences).
……………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Fluffy feather fall
Lay on the ground
Soft as a pillow it lands
Did someone pluck you?
I hope not because
Give him a hug
Then back tickle
Him with the
feather
This term we made a poem called Term 2 What I didn't do poem and we had to write down things we didn't do In the holidays. Here is my work
Term 2 What I didn’t do in the holidays poem.
Task: Write a repetition poem about what you didn’t do in the holidays.
Remember to:
Start the first and every line of your poem with: I didn’t…
Write at least ten lines
Check your spelling and grammar
Use basic punctuation correctly (Capital letter to start sentences and full stop, question mark or exclamation mark at the end of sentences).
1 I didn't go to bed at 8 o’clock.
2 I didn't play soccer.
3 I didn't play basketball.
4 I didn't eat cake.
5 I didn't go to school.
6 I didn't do homework.
7 I didn't have a hot drink.
8 I didn't see any friends.
9 I didn't eat candy.
10 I didn't get up early
By Brody
Hi, my name's Brody and me and my friend Daniel (check out his blog, it's bad ,trust me), we made something called recoding a cicada's lifecycle. I was the original owner of it but I made Daniel the owner because he did lots of the work. I hope you like it because if you don't, Daniel will cry!
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.
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We are learning how to write a couplet poem. We looked at an example on page 32 of SJ 1.4 1992.
Then we had to choose our own noun, two opposite adjectives to describe it, think of rhyming words
for the end of each line and finish the last line with an onomatopoeia word repeated 3 times. Here is
my work.
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.
One of our writing activities this week was to write about the old church next to our school using lots of adjectives, adverbs and other kinds of descriptive language. First we all went over to the church to look at the outside of it and use our senses to notice all the building’s colours, textures and shapes. Here is my work.
Today we went to the old church next to my school.
I wrote some words about it. Here are my words:
Hole above the door, has a bell, new inside,
Skinny windows, rust, moss, lonely, Deserted,
steeple, probably older than my nana’s husband,
twisted trees, pointy roof. We looked around the back
and front and the sides and looked in the keyholes and
saw stuff. I also sketched a picture.
Here's my sketch
