In Art we are learning our cultural roots. Ls2 is drawing a whale Tail representing their culture.
My whale tail has patterns of Maori, Tongan and Irish.
Next I draw my tail on paper with my designs on the inside. I got another piece of paper to trace over from the window.
I got a black vivid to go over my lines I traced then I got some colouring pencils to fill my whale tail. I enjoed creating my whale tail, Im
proud of my cultures and who I am to be.
On Friday Ls2 went to tech we got there we went into our class’s.
First Miss fifita greeted us with a hi5 or fistbump
Next we went into the room got in to a circle we had our karakia then miss fifta showed us a video on plants, we had to look carefully to see life of a flower.
Next we went to our tables and were given a plant or flower to study.
I had a flower to look at in the middle it had little seeds with soft petals.
It smelt like lavender we looked at other flowers which some had no smell. finally miss Fifita gave the class a flower to keep I enjoyed today and I finished off with the Dee fu clap.
I am learning how to solve word problems involving whole numbers.
In maths my group has to work out the equations.
we get different slides that work with numbers.
Some questions can be hard.I try my best to work it out.
In Maths I am learning to Add, subtract, multiply and double with the Number 19.
I do this with my maths group and we have a different number each day.
I like to do maths.
In Art we watched a video to draw a hibiscus flower.
First I got an art paper to trace my flower on the window.
Then I used a pink pastel to color the petals, yellow pastel for the pistil and green pastel for the leaves.
Next I colured the back group in and outline my flower with a black pastel
I enjoyed drawing my Hibisus flower.
In reading I am learning to do reuision.
I read a card then answer some questions on the story.
I used a marker to underline circle my answers.
Then I got the answer card to correct on how Mary I got right.
Ienjoy the reading. I did find it heard to do but I will get better. doing my reading.
For this activity Ls2 went swimming we were in our groups for new lessons on
water skills. I went up to a new group from the beginners and learnt to do backstroke and help signals
when you are in trouble swimming.
I swam in the lane doing paddling and kicking straight behind me and my team was going under the water and diving in the water.
enjoyed learning how to swim in the water.
what do I need to get better at is new skills in the water.
This week Ls2 made Brithday hats for the celebration of Dffy’s 30th.
First we drew our ideas on print paper to design a birthday hat.
Then I got two coloured sheets of paper, scissors, glue stick, and felts.
Next I drew my crown cut it out and put pretty decorations on.
Lastly I put my finishing on my hat with sparkle of glitter.
For this activity the whole school went swimming at Swimarama
First we went on the bus to go to Swimarama we arrived there and got to meet the people
who will teach us how to be safe in the water.
Next the swimming instructor put us into groups 4 to see how confident we are in the water.
I was in group 1 for beginners who was taught how to float, do bubbles on the top of the water,
our instructor gave our group noodles and padle boards to use in the water.
it was fun learning my swimming skills.
finally group had a little free time of swimming before getting out of the pool.
Today we used the ‘2 words 2 minute’ challenge to write a description about the ancient olympics. After talking in pairs about the things we knew about the ancient olympics we created a list of words (vocabulary) that would help us write our description. We chose the words ‘Greece’ and ‘athletes’ to help us think about what we were going to write.
We talked about ideas with a partner, then we had 2 minutes to put those ideas into sentences. After the time was up we had 2 minutes to reread what we had written and make changes if anything didn’t make sense or if we had words and punctuation in the wrong place. When we finished checking we had 2 more minutes to carry on writing our descriptions.
This activity was really fun because we had a challenge for ourselves.