How to make a woven star

WALT: write instructions for others to follow.

1. Carefully cut around the outline of the circle, using scissors.
2. Snip small slits around the outside of the circle, on each of the lines.
3. Decide which side of the circle will be the front and which side will be the back.
4. Get a piece of wool. Thread one end of the wool through one of the cut slits in the circle, so that the tail of the wool is sitting at the back of the circle. Put a finger over the loose end of the wool to hold it tight.
4.  Wrap the piece of wool across the circle, and thread it through a different slit. Make sure that the wool is pulled tight each time. Keep doing this until you have made a pattern.
5. Tie the two ends of the wool together.
6. Repeat with a different coloured piece of wool.
7. Get a coloured piece of card. Cut out the circle outline.
8. Put glue on the back of the card with the woven star and stick it to the cut out coloured circle.


 

Matariki

WALT: Matariki is a significant celebration

Digital Footprint

WALT: share content that our whanau will be proud of. What we put online will be there forever.


Reflection:
We learnt that a digital footprints mean that what we put online will be there forever.
We had to decide what was OK to put online and what was not.
We decided that it was OK to share what our favourite food is, what we are learning about and our what are interests are.
We decided that it was not OK to share where we live, our birthdays and our phone numbers.
We learnt to share what we are proud of.

WOW words!

WALT: We can use WOW words and add detail to make our writing sound interesting.

Heath:

Liam:

Tiare:

Reflection:

WALT: we can add WOW words to make our sentences interesting.

We wrote a boring sentence.

We have a new playground at school. 

We made this boring sentence interesting by adding WOW words.

- We have a fantastic new playground (Kingston S.K).
- We have a super-super-duper new playground (Rangitamoe).
- We have an enormous new playground (Oasis).
- We have an exciting new playground (Breeze).
-We have a scary new playground (Moss).
- We have a humongous new playground (Attalia).
- We have a high new playground (Kyle).
- We have an awesome new playground (Tiare).

Reflection:
We learnt about how we can put WOW words in sentences.
It was hard to think of a word that was interesting. We found it hard thinking about what words to use. Sometimes it was hard to spell the words we want to use. We tried looking around the room and sounding out our words.
We liked how our sentences sounded when we put WOW words in them. They sounded cooler.

Our stories

WALT: Publish our stories using Explain Everything


Kyle: The Bombfire Moss: The Walking Bus Liam: The Beach

Reflection:

Moss: It was easy using Explain Everything because I had done it before.
Kyle: It was really hard because I had to cut out all my people and draw the pictures.
Liam: It was easy to draw because you could use the ink pot to colour it in.
Breeze: I really love making my story because I like trying new things.

We are great writers

WALT: great writers use a success criteria to check that they have written a great piece of writing.

Success Criteria:

Have I written a great piece of writing?

Does my writing have all of these things?

B

Heath’s piece of writing:

A long, long time ago I went fishing with my friend Memphis at the really old wharf. I caught a big shark with huge teeth. It was very big. My black and blue rod got tangled up. Luckily, I could wind my rod in so it could get untangled.

Reflection:

Heath had a really cool picture that he used to plan his writing.

Heath sounded out the word fishing by being a robot.

Heath looked around the room to help him write the word my.

Heath had finger spaces between every word.

Heath used a full stop at the end of every sentence.

Heath proof read his work.

Heath used these wow words: really old, a long, long time ago, big, huge.

Heath used capital letters at the start of a sentence and to name his friend Memphis.