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Monday, 13 December 2021

Summer learning jorney

 Kia ora my name is Riah and I have just joined Summer learning jorney so that I can keep my stages up to where they should be. Heres some colouring that I've done from the colouring book.




Friday, 3 December 2021

Play, Make, Create Week 7

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: Make a gift box with my best friend for her mum. 








Friday, 26 November 2021

Play, Make, Create Week 6

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 do friend ship necklaces with my best friend.  Here's my work:






 

Friday, 19 November 2021

Pet Day Vaseline Saucer

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: 


Thursday, 18 November 2021

Art Week 5

 We have been learning about using apps on our Chromebook to create images that look like mosaics or stained glass windows. We used Google Draw to make some and some people also used Sumopaint.I chose a  Butterfly because Its on of my favorite insects.



Friday, 12 November 2021

Play, Make, Create Week 4

 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 The Plants Fought Back

  It was about plants coming to life and battling little boys.

 I chose to make live cactuses with powers.


Here's My work:


Friday, 5 November 2021

Monster Review

 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 Create a monster with my friend. Here is my work:



Friday, 29 October 2021

Frank Stella Art

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:



 

Friday, 22 October 2021

I am peace Week 1 Term 4

 This week for Play Make Create Mrs B read us a book called I am Peace So I chose to: Make a wonder tree





Friday, 1 October 2021

Maths 3D Clock Week 10 Term 3

 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.

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Cross Country Week 10 Term 3

Thanks to Covid we could only have

Ohaeawai kids in our cross country this year.  I came 6th to last in my year group.

 


Handwriting Week 10 Term 3

We had to do a handwriting sample this week. My handwriting is not that good but it’s way better than the start of the year.



Friday, 17 September 2021

Play, Make, Create Week 8 Term 3 2021

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 a Cinquain poem.

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: Maui and the sun. It was about the Maori myth which explains how/why the sun moves across the sky.I chose to draw the sun.

 






Friday, 13 August 2021

PMC Week 3 Term 3 2021

  In Week 3 of Term 3, 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 smartest Giant in Town by Julia Donaldson.

  It was about being kind.

 I chose to write about how kind the giant is.






Thursday, 8 July 2021

Writing Week 7 Term 2 2021 Environmental Writing: The Old Playground


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:


Personification Poem

 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 a Tree

Here is my work:


Tree poem

 The tree sways his branches in the air.


The tree has the longest arms ever.


The tree has some amazing dancing moves.


The tree is flipping it’s hair around.


Matariki Song

Last week me and my friend made a document abouut the song Matariki. I hope you like it.  Here is my work:


 

Wednesday, 7 July 2021

Weather

 Today we wrote a piece of writing about the weather. We got to choose what ever type we wanted. 

I chose to write about the weather. Here's my work:


Monday, 5 July 2021

Writing Week 7 Term 2 2021 Writing from an image

In Week 7, we looked at an example of a piece of writing that was inspired by a picture. The writing had lots of personification in it. Then we had to look at 6 different pictures and choose one that we thought might inspire some personification ideas.   I chose to use this picture…..

Here is my writing….







 


Wednesday, 30 June 2021

Writing Week 8 Term 2 2021 Science Experiment Writing

In Week 8,  Miss Fletcher gave us a science lesson about Matariki.

We had to write some notes about it.  Here is my work:



Monday, 28 June 2021

Pixel Art



I made a love heart on Pixel art and Mrs Craig is going to make a magnet with my heart.
 

Wednesday, 23 June 2021

Fractions

 This week we have been learning about fractions in our maths time, like splitting things in half. 

Here is what I know:


Flax Star

 This week Wheae Shayne was helping us make stars with flax for Matariki.

Here is my work:


Personification Matariki Sentences Week 8

This week we are learning about Matariki and the 9 stars in the cluster. I wrote 5 Personification Sentences about the stars.


  

Monday, 14 June 2021

Asking questions in Te Reo.

 We have been learning how to ask questions in Te Reo. The question was :

He aha tenei ? This means: What is this?

Then we had to be able to answer that question several times using different Te Reo words for things in the classroom.

Here is my work.



Friday, 11 June 2021

Play Make Create

 In Term 2 Week Six 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 a book called Twig. I chose to make a poster.


Thursday, 10 June 2021

Writing Week 4 Term 2 2021 Diamante Poem

In Week 4, we learned how to write a Diamante poem. We could base it on any topic we wanted.   I chose to base mine on the moon. Here is my work:



Moon

Gray, ball

Spinning, shining, glowing

Craters, dust, circle, mountains   

Holey, bouncy,lighting

Shady, huge

Rocks


Friday, 28 May 2021

Play Make Create Week 4

  In Term 2 Week Four 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 Paper, Scissors, Rock. It was about friendship and learning about your strengths and weaknesses. Here is my comic strip.

Friday, 21 May 2021

I Didn't Poem

 This week we had to write a Repetition poem about what we didn’t do in the holidays. Here is my work:


Reading Week 1 Term 2 2021

 This week we are reading about saving our endangered birds in order to get ready for our trip to Project Island Song. We are also learning how to recognise the noun and verb parts of sentences. Here is my work:

Project Island Song

 We went on a trip to Otehei Bay on Urupukapuka Island. We went to make pest traps and plant trees but my favourite part was on the front of the boat. Me and my best friends made a pest free poster. Here's my work:


 

Friday, 7 May 2021

Play Make Create


  In Term 2 Week One 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. I chose to write a poem and make a bracelet.


Thursday, 15 April 2021

Reading Week 11 Term 1 2021 Charlottes Web

 Our teachers have been reading us the story “Charlotte’s Web’. We had to create something about the characters, setting or plot of the story. I decided to create a tittle page of Charlotte's web.

Here is my work:






Wednesday, 14 April 2021

Handwriting Term 1 2021

 Here is my handwriting sample.

I think that I am good at tidy writing. 

I need to work on making my upper case letters the correct height most of the time.




Tuesday, 13 April 2021

Asking questions in Te Reo

We have been learning how to ask questions in Te Reo. The question was :

 E aha ana koe? This means: What are you doing?

Then we had to be able to answer that question several times using different Te Reo verbs.


Here is my work:





 

Chocolate

 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.


Monday, 12 April 2021

Reading Week 10 Term 1 2021

This week for reading we had to complete a cloze activity after we read a story about chocolate..


Here is my work:


Emerald Week 10 Term 1 2021 SJ 2.3.1998 A Cup of Koko.

Complete the cloze activity below which describes what a drink of koko smells and tastes like : 

Use the following words to fill in the spaces:(If you need help, look on pages 39 and 40 for clues).

When cocoa beans are being roasted they get darker and darker and the delicious, chocolatey smell gets stronger.  A mug of thick, creamy, hot koko is just what Annie needs.


 

Thursday, 1 April 2021

The Old Church

In Week 7, our class went to look at the outside of the old church building which is next to our school. We had to write using lots of adjectives, adverbs, specific nouns and vivid verbs so that we described it well. We tried to remember to use ideas from our senses and to write about not just what we thought the old church looked like but also how it made us feel.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F4V9lBlEcVU9L2D7ESLi_5_TovRBvG-MjhpQf2Crk6w/edit

Wednesday, 31 March 2021

Cicada Life cycle

 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.


Friday, 26 March 2021

Reading Week 7 Term 1 2021 Emerald Group

This week for reading we had to focus on being able to find adverbs in a story and the verbs, adjectives and other adverbs which they describe. Here is my work.


 

Thursday, 25 March 2021

Reading Week 8 Term 1 2021

 This week for reading we had to focus on being able to find adverbs in a story and sort them into the right groups.

Here is my work:





Wednesday, 24 March 2021

Reading Week 6 Term 1 2021 Emerald Group

 This week for reading we had to focus on being able to find adjectives in a story and match them with the nouns they described. Here is my work.


Tuesday, 23 March 2021

Whanau art





 

Wednesday, 17 March 2021

Reading Week 5 Term 1 2021 Emerald Group

 This week for reading we had to focus on being able to find ordinary adjectives in a story and match them with a comparative or superlative adjective. Here is my work.


Thursday, 25 February 2021

Writing Week 4 Term 1 2021

Mrs Gardiner is in charge of computers at our school and she came to class to talk about the Kawa of care rules we have to follow when working on our Chromebooks. We had to make something to prove we have read the rules and understand and agree to them. Here is my document:


 

Thursday, 18 February 2021

Writing Wk 3 Term 1 2021

 Kia ora.

We are learning that Basic Punctuation means that you have a capital letter at the start of a sentence, and a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark at the end of every sentence when you do a piece of writing. I decided to do some writing about one of our school values.