sea art

Last week it was camp we found lots of Sea creatures. We made a collage of a sea creatures for art. 

Term 4 last week of school Cooper's Beach

Last week we went to Cooper's Beach camp. We did the most amazing stuff ever. We went to the rock pools, we went on a huge water slide, confidence course and we went fishing off Whangaroa wharf.

Maths Term 4 Basic Facts

We have been working on answering basic facts questions quickly and instantly.
I should be working on Stage 5.

I am at Stage 4. I got 42 out of 60

Maths problems

We have been learning to solve problems with multiplication and division. Here are some problems I solved this week. I used screencastify to show my thinking.

pet day

Today is our school pet day we made vaseline  saucers using flower petals. Here is my saucer.

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Greats and Grands day 2019

Last Friday we had our Greats and Grands day. My Nan cam along. we did performances and dancing. we had  a delicious morning tea and played games.

Here is my poem I wrote for my grandparents.

handwriting

At the end of this term we did our handwriting sample. We had to use our capital and lower case letters and write a sentence about our science fair. What I liked about my handwriting was that I used my capital and lower case letters at the right time. What I could do better is make it neat and tidy.

Garden to table

In garden to table I was in the garden. For garden we did some weeding, planting passion fruit and capsicum, sweet corn, basil, carrot, pumpkin, parsley, tomato, egg plant, and thyme. After that we had a big picnic. We had fritters, kebabs and coleslaw.

science fair

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Yesterday we had our school science fair. My science investigation was about if the type paper affected how far a paper plane flies.

waitangi Digital learning

On Tuesday the year 4,s went to Waitangi to do digital learning using scratch and unplugged activities. My favourite activity was scratch because I liked making stuff.

Scientific Experiment Writing

B E G I N N I N G	TITLE	Balloon Hovercraft
	QUESTION	How does a hovercraft hover?
	HYPOTHESIS	I predict that it will hover all over the table

M I D D L E	EQUIPMENT  AND MATERIALS:	Bottle top lid,CD, a balloon and hot glue gun.
	PROCEDURE:	Step 1:using a hot glue gun glue the bottle cap over the CD hole. Step 2:Blow up  a balloon. When it is fully inflated twist  the end so no air comes out.  Step 3: Stretch the balloon over  the end of the end of the bottle cap. Step 4:open up the cap and place the CD on the surface.   Step 5:untwist balloon and let go.
	OBSERVATIONS/RESULTS:	I found out that hovercraft hovered all over the table and left a track of air.

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CONCLUSION:

The air from the balloon creates a cushion of moving air between the disc and the CD and reduces the friction across the surface.

speech writing

For the last two weeks we have been working on writing speeches. 
My topic was why video games are bad. 
We had to present them in front of our class. 

I think that it was very good

I believe that video games are bad for people, especially kids. Video games are games played on tv and computers such as play station 2, 3 and 4, x box and nintendo.  Video games should be banned and this is 
why.

Firstly video games are bad. Kids can get addicted. It is bad if they get addicted because they will not go to bed they will just keep playing none stop. If they do not sleep they will not be able to focus at school.


Secondly the kids might copy what they see on the game. The kids might choose to do something bad. If is not good if they do something bad because they will get used to doing it.  The parents will get upset with them and they might not trust them any more. 


Finally kids will start stealing stuff like money to play for their game. If they steal and get away with it they might keep doing it. This could get them into big trouble all for wanting to play a game.

Maths Book

For maths this week we read a book called one is a snail 10 is a crab. we then worked in groups to create our one version . My book is called one is a slug 10 is a lobster. Here is my book. I hope you like it. 

Moon rover lander

  For science we made a Moon rover lander using only a paper cup, paper, cellotape and straws.  We were given the task of making our Moon rover land softly onto our Moon landscape so that our marsh-mellow astronauts did not fly out.

The materials I used for my Moon rover is, paper cup, paper, tape glue, materials,  string. 

What I like best about my Moon rover is I like the parachute.

What I needed to modify on my Moon lander rover was put the paper on the bottom.

One thing  I learned about landing on the Moon was putting a soft landing to the moon rover.

Here is a video/picture of my Moon rover landing on our school’s Moon surface.  I hope you like it!

Maths term 2

I am learning to solve multiplication problems using different strategies. Here are some problems I have solved.

 

Art term 2

Maori conversation

We have been learning to talk to each other in Maori.  Here is a conversation Te Marama and I recorded on Screencastify.

Handwriting Term 2

Here is my handwriting sample for term 2. I am good at setting out my work correctly. I need to work on sitting my letters on the line.

Space writing

This week we have been writing about space. Here is a piece of my writing.

Alien

Today we learnt how to create a mine craft style character in google sheets. We created an alien. Here is mine.

ANZAC poem

We listened to the video called ANZAC Poem and then drew a picture to go with it. Here is my picture.

ANZAC button

We have made ANZAC buttons because we read the book of the ANZAC buttons. We had to design our own button based on ANZAC.

reading

writing goals

this is my goals for writing.

Pepeha

This is my Pepeha

swimming

Writing goals

                                                  Here are my writing goals for term 2.

Basic Facts Term One.

These are my Basic Facts results for the end of Term One.
I am working on Stage 4 I got 27 out of 60.

I need to be on Stage 5 by the end of the year.

Handwriting term 1

This is my handwriting Sample for Term One.

I am good at forming my letters correctly.

I need to work on keeping all letters an even size.

steam blog post

We have been doing Makerspace. We made bugs out of nuts and bolts, art and craft, cardboard and a web for a spider.

Here is a picture of my creations

Bug hotel

We made a bug hotel so we can make see the living things in our garden. 

We made signs for the bug hotel this is my sign. 

what is in the cave

Today we wrote a poem about living things. We had to use adjective, noun and verb. Here is my published poem.   

Maths

For maths we have been working in mixed ability groups to solve problems. The focus has been solving word problems using place value. We have to select the correct the correct strategy to solve the problem. I have chosen two problems to show you how I work them out. 

I find...addition easy.

Hector's world.

We have been learning to be safe online, this is my Hector's world.

Colour Poem

We wrote poems about our house colour using descriptive language. This is my poem about yellow because I am in the yellow house.

Environmental writing

We sketched our bean plants that we grew in class. We then wrote words around the outside to describe the bean plant. We had to use these words to write a piece of descriptive writing. We then cut out our picture and glued it on to your writing. Here is my writing. 

 

Self Portrait Art

We have been learning how to sketch our facial features. We needed to put them in the right place on our face. For our background we typed our full name and learned to copy and paste down the page.

I like my hair.

I need to work on the face.