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: Stinkosaurus Saves Christmas
It was about how even the most unlikely people can turn out to be a hero. I chose to build something that has a chute. Maybe you could send Christmas presents down it?
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: One for you and two for me.
It was about the importance of friendship and sharing thing fairly.
I chose to Design a gadget or tool to help people share things fairly
We have Pet Day at Ohaeawai School every year and one of the activities we do is to create a symmetrical design on a saucer using flower petals. You put Vaseline on the saucer first to make the flowers stick. That’s why they are called Vaseline Saucers. Here is a pic of me with mine:
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: The day plants fought back.
It was about respecting your mum's, aunties, and nana's gardens. But if you didn't you might get attacked.
I chose to Create something for Patrick and Wayne to keep them amused and out of trouble. I made a golf course.
For writing we have been writing from a picture. I tried to use adverbs, adjectives and verbs. Here is my writing of A Gorilla.
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: That’s Not the Monster We Ordered.
It was about being grateful for what you have.
I chose to do Build something that could entertain the monster.
We have been learning about abstract art. It’s all about creating works of art that don’t actually look like anything. We focused on the American artist Frank Stella, who liked to make pictures using shapes like circles, triangles and rectangles.
Here is my work:
This week For play make create. We read a book called I am Peace it was a book about emotions. For our writing task we had to write 3 paragraphs about time we felt anxious, Nervous or out of control.
For my creative cast I made an anchor. My anchor is rugby.
Here is my work
Thanks to Covid we could only have
Ohaeawai kids in our cross country this year. I came 1st in my year group.
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 design trap or gadget to catch a wombat (safely without hurting it).
In Week 8 of Term 3, 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.
I chose to Design a plan to capture or slow down the sun that Maui didn't think of.
We have been learning how to write different styles of poetry. Here is my Cinquain poem.
In Week 7 of Term 3, we got back to school!!! 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: Tidy
It was about a badger that was too tidy.
I chose to Imagine you are Pete the badger. Write an apology letter to the forest and its animals and Design something to keep Pete busy so he forgets about tidying up.
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: Reading, writing and maths
We are learning how to conduct proper science experiments and then record what we did and what we noticed. We could investigate any area of science we wanted
I chose to do density
Here is my work about density
Another thing we did for writing this week was a mini beast observation. First, you had to go out into your backyard and find a mini beast, then you had to bring it inside and describe it. I chose to describe a cheeky cat.
Here is my work.
Because we were using ‘Insects’ as a topic this week for reading and writing we created some
works of art based on insects also. We had to make them out of any materials we could find at
home. I chose to use: Paper, pipe cleaners, cats crackers and metals things.
Here is a photo of my creation: Ant
