Last week we went to camp at Cooper's Beach. We went fishing, swimming and we went on the water slide.  I enjoyed fishing the most. I caught five sprats.

Maths,

We have been learning to solve problems with multiplication and division. Here is some problems I solved this week. used screencastify to show my  thinking

on Greats & Grands day 2019

Last Friday we had our Greats&Grands day. My poppa came along. We did performances and dancing. We have a delicious morning tea and played games. 

Here is my poem i wrote for my grandparent.

garden to table

Today in garden to table I did weeding and planting    and pink, orange, white and purple flowers.  We also planted capsicum ,snow peas, basil, carrots and  pumpkin seeds.

When we had finished weeding, we planted some passionfruit plants in the orchard.  At the end of the session, we all had a picnic to eat our yummy fritters, quiche and kebabs on the school field.

Here is a photo of us sharing our morning tea.

Moon Rover

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.

Mine did work after some modifications. I had to take the top off.

Maths Book

For maths this week we read a book called one is a snail ten is a crab. We then worked in groups to create our own version. My book is called 1 is a fish 10 is a Caterpillar.
Here is my book. I hope you like it.

Art term 2

Maths

We have been learning to solve multiplication problems.Here is mine

Maori

We have been learning to talk to each other in Maori.Here is a conversation we recorded on Screencastify.

Handwriting Term 2

Here is my handwriting sample for term 2.
I am good at making my work neat and tidy.
I need to work on making sure my capital letters touch the top line.

This week we have been learning about space.

Celebrations

This week we have read about different celebrations around the world. Here is my slide to show my learning.

Coding,

We have been using Scratch Jnr. with Tania. Here is my Scratch Rocket.

Alien

Today we learnt how to create a mine craft style character in google sheets. We created an Alien. Here is mine.

Reading

We read a book for our reading called Giant Soup. We made a recipe for Giant Soup.

Swimming

We have been learning to swim to keep safe..

Writing goals

Here are my writing goals for term 2

Basic Facts trim 1

These are my Basic Facts results for the end of Term One.
I am working on Stage 4 I got 14/60
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 copying of the board.
I need to work on keeping my words on the line. Make sure tall letters touch both lines.

STEAM

Yesterday we did makerspace about the living world. We made creatures out of metal. I made a spider and spider web.  I also made a calf and a butterfly. Here is what I made.

Bug Hotel

We have been making a bag hotel out of bamboo and wood. Here is a photo of it. We made it so nice bugs can came in and stay safe.

Today we have been learning to make a GIF.

What is in the tree?

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

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 addition problems easy to work out.

Hector’s World

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

colour poem

We have been writing colour poems. I had to write a poem about yellow because I am in the yellow house.

Environemental 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 mouth.