Christmas 2021

 We had a lot of fun making Reindeer Cookies and Christmas decorations this week.

We used arrowroot biscuits, nutella, M&Ms and pretzels to make our delicious reindeer cookies. It was a lovely treat!

Our Christmas decorations had a 'Xmas Tree' theme. We made a finger print xmas tree card, a glittery xmas tree with a candy cane and then a xmas tree ornament for our trees. What a great way to end the year.

Merry Xmas and Happy New Year!

Term 4 EOTC Activities

Last week we did EOTC activities like the forest, Lake Ngatu, Waiari and the fun day at school and it was so much fun.

Poetry

 WALT respond to different types of poems. We are going to use different poems to help us practice our reading strategies.

What we learned in poetry was we did rhyming words like tea and sea. They both rhyme because they both sound the same at the end of the word.

We learnt about alliteration too. Alliteration is when words start with the same sound like broken baseball bat, burst balloon, a busted boat, I bet up a bowler hat,I wasn't being brainy,bright or brilliant,but you see my brain was.

Music with Matua Jade

WALT explore different musical instruments and we are Learning to give types of music a go. 

One Mondays we always go into the whare and when it was the the first day we got to have a play with the instruments and it was so fun. I played with the electric guitar, piano and drums, then when it was the next week we had to sing and it was so scary to sing but we could per up and I sang when Jackson.R was finish singing.When Jackson.R was finish me and my group went up and it was Hunter and Elena and we sang shotgun and it was scary and I got use to it at the first go so I had a second go but I only two turns and then we went to lunch.

Simple Circuits

We are learning about electricity and how to build a simple circuit.

On Friday we learnt about simple circuits and Electricity. What we did we got a pice of playdoh and broke it into two pieces. Then we rolled it in to a ball then we got two wires and a battery. We put the two wires inside of the play dough then we connected the two wires to the battery. We put the LED light in the dough and the LED lit up.

Asttle Writing - Narrative - I heard a whisper but no one was there.....

Teacher Note - ‘UNASSISTED’ ASTTLE WRITING
The children write for a total of 40 minutes. Within that timeframe they have to plan their writing (a brainstorm) write, edit and re-craft their work. They are not allowed to use dictionaries or word cards. The students completed their writing on paper but have typed it out for their blogs.

Once upon a time there was a far far away castle.There lived two children and a king they lived happy together and Amy the oldest she was a princess and she was kind and smart and her little brother was silly and playful , on the other hand there lived and evil scary nasty witch she was horrible and she made things go bad. The witch had an evil plan, so it was night and Amy and Jack ha dinner then went to bed ,but they heard whispers ,but they could not see the person who was whispering .Next morning they were very tried cause of the whispers,they went to the king but he was shocked and there was silent's,but then jack said what happened then the king said MY KING CHAIR IS GONE AND NOW WHAT AM I GOING TO SIT ON.So they looked on the cameras and saw an evil witch but then she disappeared ,so they went over to the witch and barked at the witch.The witch was very mad she was coming up with an evil plan but then the king said it YOU ARE BANNED FROM THIS LAND. So she packed her things and left.

   

Science - Water

As I was at home because mum kept me home,me mum and my sister karanui tried one of the water science projects. Firstly I clicked on the link that whaea Deb sent me then I read mum the instructions, 'we need half a glass of water and a piece of cardboard big enough to cover the top of the glass.

Then you place the cardboard over the top of the glass and hold it in place then tip the glass upside down holding the cardboard in place.

Now here is the tricky part when you think you can, take your hand off the cardboard and watch as the water in the glass holds the cardboard in place. My mum said we could video my project and we did then at the end she said we can take the cardboard off and the water will stay in but you will have to watch the video if you dont believe me.