Explain Everything: Taking our Writing to the next level

Today in Cybersmart we used our Explain Everything skills to take our writing to the next level. We took a photo of our writing books and used the crop tool to only show the writing part.

Then we drew a picture using the explain everything tools. It was really fun.

Finally we recorded ourselves reading our own story, so that our writing was taken to the next level!

Explain Everything: More Reading

 Today in Cybersmart we continued to practice our reading. You can see we improved our videos by making sure the background image was larger, and that there was less noise around me.

Explain Everything: Practicing your reading

 Today in Cybersmart we learned to use our iPads in reading!

We can take photos of our reading book into Explain Everything, and then record ourselves practicing our reading. Check out what we did!

Explain Everything Drawing

 In Cybersmart we have been continuing to use Explain Everything to practice our drawing. We use black outlines and colour using the paint bucket. 

Explain Everything: Labelling our hands

Explain Everything Learning

In Cybersmart we have been learning to use Explain Everything. Today we used the lasso tool to cut out pictures of our hands.

Then we used the text box tool to label our fingers.

 

Summer song

 

Naomi, Hope and Annabelle wrote this Summer song. We think we did an amazing job writing and then singing it for you all to enjoy.

Summer song

 

Song composed by Meki, Callen and Preston

Today, the three of us made up a song about Summer. The song is about how much we love the sun. Hope you all enjoy our song.

Acrostic poem

 

Cunning making an escape plan to 

    save Wilbur

Helps Wilbur, so he doesn’t get killed by Mr. Zukerman

A friend to Wilbur

Relaxes on her web

Loves to catch bugs in her web

Outside she lives

Talks to Wilbur a lot

Telling Wilbur to wait patiently

Every day, she has to fix her web

Every day, my class listens to the story called Charlotte's Web. Today I wrote an acrostic poem about the character called Charlotte. She is the spider.

By Callen

The Invasion

 

Takiritia 3 and TWP4 decided to tell the story of how Covid 19 has impacted on our learning from the perspectives of the virus. Hope you enjoy our movie.

View from the window 

 The grass is growing 

and people get older

Mountains are growing

And

 Seasons are changing 

 Birds are bigger

 leaves are dropping 

 A new day is dawning

                                Through the window 

a storm!  

look out 

here it comes over the fence 

over the clouds

Soon the sun is out 

                                      Boys are older 

babies are born 

shops are renewed

 people are coming 

flowers have grown 

rain storms are gone 

Out comes the sun 

Here it comes 

By Preston

 

Poem: View from the window

        View from the window

A long big tree 

Outside the window

I look to see a shiny rainbow 

Flowers are blooming 

And cars are 

zooming

Painting on wood 

And my cat on 

The roof 

Birds are flying in the 

Sky 

My new baby 

Looking so shy 

By Christina

Poem: View from a window

 

View From The Window 

Birds are chirping

Like singing little diddles

Waking people up 

Like Lions roaring 

All through town

While the people 

are sleeping.

Rain is pouring 

Like ice falling from

the sky.

People grow older

As the years go by

Kids get older and get jobs.

 

As people die and 

new are born

As people get hurt 

and get new parts

some get killed.

Babies get older 

and go to school 

they learn, learn, learn

To get smarter every hour

By Callen

Reading still happens during lockdown.

 

Here is Winfred reading to her mum during a lockdown. It is so good to see my learners still enjoying reading with their families.

Responsibility and Priviledge

 

This week,  as part of our RE studies we had to have a discussion with our families about what the words privilege and responsibility means. Nu'utofi and her family came up with these ideas. 

A Panda in our library

 

I listened to a story on Storyline Online called Library Lion. It was about a lion that enjoyed listening to stories. Today, I created a poster about an animal that I would like to have in my school library who I can read to. 

My book review. By Annabelle

 

Book review By Naomi

 

Book review by Hope

 

Different ways to make 20

                                               Here are some of the ways to make the number 20

 This week we have been talking about the water shortage in Auckland. Everyone in Auckland is asked to save 20L of water per day to help get through the problem. As a class, we decided to show how to make/represent the number 20 in different ways.

Shapes everywhere in our classroom

Today I walked around my classroom and looked at how shapes are used to make different things.  I found that our carpet had square shapes, the book had an oblong shape, the light switch also had an oblong shape, the cushion seat near the window had an oblong shape and my pet reading cushion had a triangle shape in its ears. Shapes are everywhere you look.

By Christina