Christmas decorations

LI:To decorate the office Christmas tree.

Today we challenge was to create a set of Christmas/Holiday decorations that represented our school and the people in it. We were given a design brief from Mr Johnston and a delivery date. To celebrate the end of this challenge LS2 delivered their completed decorations to Mr Johnston, then hung them on the tree in our school office.

Art Colouring Book

 LI: To use TEEL paragraphs to explain our colour choice.

   

Today we were completed the Step it Up art challenge from the Summer Learning Journey activities. The purpose of this task was to explain our colour choice using the language and vocabulary we learnt from watching the video and getting more information in the video.

Te Whanau Raukura Performance

Today we went to the Assembly for a kakpa haka performance from the Te Whanau Raukura and how they used taiaha, poi and te rakau,by telling us how to use them.Then they us about the poi the taiaha and the te rakau and they told us how the moves go for the poi they say the poi swing around and around then one of the kakpa haka girl called Bekah she tells us to play the pukana. what I find more interesting about the weapons in maori. because it helps me to learn about how to do the poi.

Weighty Challenge 1(The Adding Addicts)

LI: To create a DLO to explain how we solved the problem. 

This week for maths we were learning measurments. In this subject we were talking about weight. The unit for measurement for weight are - grams, kilograms, tonnes etc. In groups we solved 3 problem challenges. For these challenges we wrote down answers in on pieces of paper. After we solved these challenges we created a DLO explaining our strategy and how we got our answer. For our strategy we used Place Value and a calculator because the numbers were too big for us to solve. In my group was Liletina, Hosea, Jayden, Leroy and Diana. 

rocket science

L.I:To figure out how to make a straw rocket 

Toady we made a rocket it is made of plastic and strew we had a challenge to see if it can go far and high we did some prates doing it. we blow though the strew to  get to the dient we want it be . So we went  one by one to see the mentertents that we got . The people that first Juel and the second place, 3rd pace 4.

Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot

L.L:To write a summary of the story behind the Gunpower Plot in your own words.

toady we were celebrate Guy Fawkes each year LS2 buddied up with room five .recorded all the important words from the story Mrs Anderson shared with us. We then chose the 20 most important words and from those words chose 6 words to help us write our summary to understanding what is about the Guy Fawkes.

Why is it important to use our PBS CARE values?

 To write an explanation using TEEL paragraphs

 

 

This week we have been revising explanation writing. Next week is our assessment week so we did this collaborative challenge to remind ourselves what is needed when we write explanations. We found it interesting the way the paragraphs all connected at the end and you could see the links between the ideas.

 

The screencastify link of us reading our explanation can be found here: Video