Sea Art

Last week we completed a collage. Our class named the art fish art. I painted bubble wrap blue for background then made sea creatures and seaweed. I stuck the seaweed & the sea creatures on and that was it. Here it is!

Coopers Beach Camp Term 4 2019

Last week we went on our camp at Coopers Beach, there were many activities to choose from like the water slide, obstacle course, beach, rock pools, fishing &  trampoline. Everything was very fun, I can't choose my favourite but if I had to it would be the water slide! Here are some photos!

Maths Problem Solving

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.

Waitangi Digital Learning

On tuesday the year 4's went to Waitangi to do some digital learning using Scratch and Unpluggled activitys. My Favourite activity was the Unplugged activities used with lego!

The Musical Instruments

Team Awa made instruments using recycled rubbish. I made drums using a Milo tin, can lids, cable ties, metal drum sticks, pipe cleaners and vivid. Here are my drums.

Bridge Building

We have been learning about forces and how they help shape the sort of bridges that we build. 

We learned that there are three main types of bridge design; beam, truss and suspension.  

Using this knowledge we designed and built our own bridges.  

Miss Fletcher set the challenge that our bridges had to be 30 cm long and strong enough to hold an object.  

In my group there was Mikayla and Olivia.  

We used egg cartons cardboard ice block sticks paper towels to build our bridge.  Here is a photo of our truss bridge.  

What I like best about our bridge is how we drew the road.  

Volume and Capacity

This week we learnt about Volume and Capacity.

Speeches

For the last two weeks we have been working on writing speeches. 

My topic was on Kauri Dieback.

We had to present them in front of our class. 

I think I need to ad more eye contact

Here is my speech. Why we need to stop Kauri Dieback

Have you ever thought about the impact that Kauri dieback is having on our forests?  Well I have and it is a terrible disease. Kauri dieback is a disease that can spread from tree to tree in only 7 sleeps. I believe we need to stop this terrible disease from spreading and here is why?

Firstly the Kauri dieback disease can spread quickly through Kauri tree forests by the touch of a footprint. This disease kills the trees. People need to stop and clean their shoes and gear before entering walking tracks to stop the disease reaching the trees.

Secondly Kauri dieback can have a huge impact on forests. If Kauri dieback spreads to Tane Mahuta in the Waipoua forest, many other trees could be destroyed because Tane Mahuta’s roots hold up lots of trees. It would be so sad to see this happen to such an important part of New Zealand and Maori History.

Finally we need stop Kauri dieback because Kauri trees are native to New Zealand and native birds live in them. If the disease kills off all our Kauri trees there will be no homes for our wonderful native birds.

Kauris are endangered because of kauri dieback but if everyone helps out I believe we can stop it from spreading. That is why we need to stop Kauri Dieback.

Maths Book

For maths this week we read a book called one is a snail ten is a crab. Then we worked in groups to create our on version. My book is called one is a slug and ten is a caterpillar. Here is my book. I hope you like it!!

Moon Rover Landers

Art

This week we showed our art for the art auction. Here is my art.

Maths Problem

This week we have done a Screencastify of our maths problem. Here is mine.

Maori Conversation

We have been learning how to talk to each other in Maori. Here is a Screencastify. Hope you like it!

Handwriting Term 2

We have done a handwriting sample this term. Here is my writing for term 2.

I am good at forming my whole name in my handwriting. 

I need to work on forming my capital Q and J correctly.

Space Writing

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

Screencastify

This week we did a scratch with Tania. Here is mine.

The Sun

This week in our reading we did a google draw of the sun here is mine.

Alien

At the end of the day we created a alien on google sheets. Here is my one I created on google sheets.

Basic Facts

In class we did our basic facts. I got 100% on stage four. Here is my test that I completed in 3 minutes. I am now working on Stage 5.

Pepeha

In class we wrote down our Pepeha on our chromebooks. We were allowed to add a picture of our self and of our maunga and awa. Here is mine.

MY WRITING GOALS

On Thursday we did our writing goals. Here are my writing goals.

Animal inquiry

This week we have been doing a slide that the teachers made so we can fill in the bits and pieces that the teachers missed. Here is my one I have filled in.

Swimming

In term 1 we have been doing some some swimming. We did some freestyle, backstroke and rainbow arms. Here is my Swimming Self - Assessment.

Pepeha

In class we wrote down our pepeha on our chromebooks then we did decorations. 

Here is mine.

Here s a video of me reading my pepeha. 

STEAM

This week we have been doing maker space in class. On Thursday I did make space. I made 2 little puppets out of googly eyes, paper and pompoms. Also a nature material art made out of leaves and hot glued them on cardboard. A spider out of a cupcake wrapper, bottle cap, googly eyes and pipe cleaner. The whole class learnt how to do a gif. I also did an imovie with Stella and Maia. Here is some photos of maker space.

Bug hotel

We have been separated into even groups, I was separated into the group that is doing the bug hotel, it's like were making a home for them. Here is a slide I made!

Bean plant Explanation Writing

We have been learning about beans and all the steps for them to grow. Here is a slide that I have done.

What is in the box!

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

Hectors World

In our class we have been watching a Cyber Smart video called Hectors World. The characters in Hectors world are called Hector, Tama, Ming, Rejee and Sprat. we had to create one of these characters
 and in text boxes we did somethings we learnt from Hectors World.

Colour Poem

We wrote a poem about our house colour. I am in the yellow house. Here is my poem about my house colour.

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 eyes.

I need to work on my hair.