COOPER's beach

Last Week we cooper's beach we so mach fun. MY favourite thing was fishing was my favourite thing

                                                                                                                 

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 DAY 2          Activity 1

Basic facts Term 4

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 37 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. 

Pets Day

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

Great's and Grand's Day 2019

Last Friday we had our Great's and Grand's Day. MY Nana and Papa came along. We did performances and dancing. We had a delicious morning tea and played games.  Here is my poem I wrote for my grandparent.

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 like about my handwriting is my letters are on the line.
What I could do better is form my capital letters.

Here is a photo of my handwriting sample.

Garden to Table

Today I was in the garden weeding.  Here is a photo of me pulling out a very big weed.

When we had finished in the garden, we put our gloves away and washed our hands.  Then we joined the rest of Team Awa on the field to have a picnic.  I really liked the food. We had a fruit kebab and a some fritters and quiche.  Here is a photo of our yummy picnic.

Science fair

yesterday we had our school science fair. My science investigation was about volcanoes.

Musical instrumants

Team Awa made instruments using recycled materials.   I made a maraca using a plastic bottle and popcorn seeds.

I think my maraca makes a cool sound when I shake it.

Here is a photo of my instrument.

koru art

We made koru art with Whaea Rose by drawing  a koru then we put it on foam and cut it out and used ink to stamp it onto white paper.
My koru represents nature. 
I really like the colours I used to stamp my korus onto my piece of art.     
Here is a photo of me and my colourful koru art.

     

Science Writing - Hovercraft

                                                                                          

Scientific Experiment Writing

How does a hovercraft hover
 HYPOTHESIS

I predict that it is going io do not wook.

Bottle lid, a balloon and a disc Step 1:Using a hot glue gun glue the battle c
Cap over the CD hole.

Step 2:Blow up a balloonn. When it is fully inflated twist the end so no air come out.

Step 3:Stretch the balloon over 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.

It spinning around                                                                                                                                     THE air from the balloon creates a cushion of moving air between the disc and the CD and reduces the friction across the surface. 

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 were Frank, Zavier, Kaye-Lani and Stella. We used an Egg Carton and some cardboard to build our bridge.

Here is a photo of our Beam bridge.  What I like best about our bridge is that it can hold the weight of me when I sit on our beam bridge.

Maths - Volume and Capacity

This week we used popcorn to learn about Volume and Capacity.

Speech

We have been learning how to write speeches. I wrote my speech about Police.

Did you know that bad guys are in jail because of police? Police are important to our communities. They can help people, they arrest people and they can put people in jail and they save people’s lives. I believe that the police is an important job.

Firstly, the police take their job seriously. They do a good job as there are a lot of criminals around New Zealand stealing money.    

Next, Police can arrest people if they commit a crime. The person can get charged by the police and may have to go to court. 

Finally, the police give people a ticket for speeding. If people speed they might crash and hurt themselves or hurt others.

I believe the police deserve to have a break, they help save New Zealand. Being a police officer is an important job.

Moon Lander

Title:  Moon Rover Lander    Label: Science

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 plsikbag and paparn and capn and tapn.

What I like best about my Moon rover is

What I needed to modify on my Moon lander rover was  ….

One thing  I learned about landing on the Moon was

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

ART AUCTION

 

we have been learning to talk to each other in maori here  is a converstify we recorded on Screencastify.

   

Handwriting

Here is my handwriting sample for term 2.  I am good at my letters on the line. I need to work on my lats name.

Space Writing

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

Reading

We read a book called Fishing off the Wharf. Here is my follow up activity.

Reading

This week we read a book called When the Volcano Erupted. Here is my follow up activity.

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Writing Goals

Here are my writing goals for Term 2.

Basic Facts Term 1

These are my Basic Facts results for the end of Term One.
I am working on Stage 4. I got 20 out of 60.
I need to be on Stage 5 by the end of the year.

Handwriting term one

This is my handwriting Sample for Term One
I am good at good sizing.
I need to work on spelling my last name.

STEAM

We have been doing makerspace. We got to make things.
I have made a spider and a worm and a picture on a hundreds board of a butterfly.

Bug Hotel

We made a Bug Hotel. I have used some bamboo, string and newspaper. We made the hotel to attract good bugs to the garden.

What is behind the door?

Today we wrote a poem about living things. So we had to write what we thought was in the box. 
We had to use an adjective, noun and verb.

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 subtraction problems easy.

Cybersmart

We have been watching Hector's World to learn how to be Cybersmart.

Colour poem

We had to write a poem about our house colour. l am in the red 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.