My calendar art - Term 4 Week 3

                                   Calendar Art!!!!
Not so long ago our class started our calendar art.  My calendar art was a picture of two ghosts and a dead tree.  For the dead tree I painted my hand and some of my arm then I put on the paper.  For the ghosts I put my on the paper upside down because the ghosts face is on the heel bit and then I got a black coloring in pencil and did two black dots for the eyes and one for the mouth. Before I did any of this I dyed the background black.

Here is a photo of me and my calendar art

Here is a photo of my calendar art close up

 

My poem week 10 term 3

WALT entertain the reader with an onomatopoeic poem

Success Criteria:

1. Use a dictionary and our sound/letter knowledge to write words I don’t know.
2. I will make sure the content relates to the title and creates a picture in the reader’s head.
3. I will make sure each word is on a different line.

Cinema

Pop pop

chew chew

rattle rattle

yay yay

laugh laugh

he he he

Goes the cinema, the movie and the popcorn machine

Animal band reader's theater - term 3 week 7

Walt performe to an audiience

Success Criteria:

• speak clearly
• speak loudly
• speak with expression
• speak together as a group

                                                              The animal band! 

  

Today Room 12 had an assembly item called 'The animal band'.  The characters were the donkeys, dogs, cats, roosters, readers, narrators and robbers.  
We started practicing on Tuesday and we performed on Friday.  When we just started we didn't do the best, but when we got used to it we got better and better and by Friday, I thought it was a 10/10.  
I was an actress as a cat, there was one actor in each group.  
When it was Friday I was a bit nervous because there were 600 people watching us. After the show and after assembly Mrs Miller gave us a fruit burst.  Then we got changed back into our uniform.

This is a photo of me and my group in our costumes. 

This is a photo of me in my costume.

Skimming reading strategy - Term 3 week 2

WE ARE LEARNING TO SKIM!!!
Walt skim an unknown text so that we can quickly get an understanding of it

• I can decide if a book has useful information I need,or whether I want to read it for pleasure.

These are the things I can do to skim

1.look at the title

2.look at the blurb

3.look at the chapters

4.read the first sentience to see if you like it

5.look at the pictures

See more and watch the video about skimming!

Matariki - Week 10

This is my reflection.  
Yesterday it was Matariki and we all had a workshop to go to and these are the workshops that you could choose from: Sewing, rakau, mural art, poi making, weaving Matariki stars, gardening, cooking and kite making.  
But if you want to do sewing , mural art and kite making you need to stay there for 2 sessions because they will take longer to make.  I chose sewing and at first it was easy, but when I started to make the proper thing it started to get harder and I pricked myself with a needle when I was pinning.  But after all that drama I was fine.  After sewing we did hand games, they were fun and tricky and my buddy was Emma for the hand games.

This is a photo of Emma and me sewing.

This is me

Emma and I enjoyed using the sewing machine especially the big one

      This is Emma.

Birthdays - Week 5

My pet's birthday!a
On new years day it is my cat's birthday and she will be 5.
In July, it is my kitten's birthday (her name is Milly) and she will be 1.
Spot and cuddles (my rabbits) birthday is in June but I don't know what day.

My families birthdays!
Harlow's birthday(my little sister) is on Boxing Day and she will be 4.
My mum's birthday is on October 28th and she will be 27.
My dad's birthday is on the 30th of December and he will be 32.
My nana's birthday is on the 3rd of October and she will be 54.
My cousin Alyssa's birthday is on April the 10th and she will be 9.
Dianne's birthday is on the 18th of May and she will be 34.

Other people's birthdays that I know.

Ruby.L's is on Christmas Day which would be December the 25th.
Ruby.H's birthday is on September the 14th.
Maiya's birthday is on May the 7th.
Emma's birthday is on November the 12th


AND MY BIRTHDAY IS ON THE 12 OF MARCH!

The Summarising Strategy - Week 4

Keywords help us make big story's short and make boring texts into awesome texts.

You can choose a keyword from a book and you can put it in your writing, but you can't copy all of the story because it is called plagiarism.

Here is an example:

Keywords - Extinct and fossils 

Sentence - Most animals are now EXTINCT because they were killed by people that lived 100 years ago or they were eaten by other birds.

Sentence - Scientists search for FOSSILS to see what sort of bird it is and if it is extinct or not.

And there is an example of keywords!

Thanks for reading! :)


Here is photo of some fossils!

   

     

My buddies from Room 6 & 7

Today our class went to meet new girls and boys that have just started school, we are going to Room 6 and 7.  My two buddies are both girls, one is Victoria and the other is Xanthia. Victoria likes to play in the sand pit and Xanthia likes to play in the family corner in her class.

When we were done we went outside to line up for a photo near the pride wall, then me and my buddies went to the big kids play ground. The whistle blew and we sat on the netball court, then it was time to say good bye.

Here is a photo of my buddies and I.