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Today we did day two of the summer learning journey.

pet day 2019

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

Greats & Grands Day 2019

Last Friday we had our Greats and Grands Day. My Grandma & Grandpa came along. We did performances and dancing. We had a delicious morning tea and played games.

Here is my poem I wrote for my grandparents.

garden to table

Today I helped plant some plants in the garden
and I planted some strawberries in a little fence
thing leaning on a post.

Then we had a picnic on the field and ate some yummy food.

Musical Intruments

We made musical Instruments using recycled materials. I made a drum using two cups some string and some tape. and my Instrument was a hand drum and a hand drum is a drum that you hit with your hands.

balloon writing

balloon writing

balloon writing

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.The materials I used for my Moon rover is paper, cups, straws and cellotape.

What I like best about my Moon rover is that the moon rover lands on it's feet.

What I needed to modify on my Moon lander rover was putting a parashoot on the top of the moon rover.

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!

Maori

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

Art Auction

Handwriting sample term 2

This is my term 2 sample.
I  am good at forming my letters the right way.
I need to work on making sure tall letters touch both lines.

Space Writing

Here is a piece of my space writing. I wrote a What Am I? poem. Can you guess what it is?

Alien

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

Alien

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

We learnt some facts about the sun.

Alien

We learnt to make aliens to put on our blog. we made our aliens on google sheets.

Poem

Today we wrote poems about living things. We had to use adjectives, nouns and verbs. Here is my 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 change unknown really easy!

Colour poem

We had to write a poem about our house colour. I 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.

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 lips.

I need to work on my hair.