This week we made mirror art!

Mirror art is a type of drawing where you have half of a semetrical printed picture, (usually a person or animal,) and you have to draw the other side.

We got to choose between a variety of different animals. I wanted to do my cat, Oreo, but it’s nearly impossable to get a semetrical photo of him!

I decided to just do a cat instead. we all got to choose a black and white photo of an animal. Then we needed to cut it in half and stick one side on  A – 3 paper. After that, we had to draw the other side.

It was hard, but really fun! ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ

Here is a picture of my finished art!

What do you think? what animal would you have chosen?

We were writing spooky stories for Halloween!

In writing a few weeks ago, we had to write spooky stories for Halloween.

I decided that I wanted to write a story  from someone else’s perspective. I pretended that the story was like a dairy entry by a made up girl called Beth.

The idea of the story is that Beth and her friend, Lizzie, are going trick or treating, when they see something in the dark. Lizzie doesn’t know that Beth is afraid of seeing things and not knowing what they are.

Here is what I’ve written so far. When I’ve finished the story, I’ll Put the whole thing on another blog post.

I hope you like it. 🙂

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In reading this term, we get to choose to either study different countries or learn about NZ disasters.

Me and my friend, Katie, decided to do the disasters.

After Katie and I did alllthe activities for our disasters, (I did the Tangiwai Rail disaster and Katie did the Pike River Mine,) we both had to do a create task.

My create task was to create a website page based on the Tangiwai Rail disaster. I’m nearly done making it.

Katie’s task was to record a fake radio interview about the Pike River Mine disaster.

She asked me to pretend to interview her!

I said yes, of course. Our teacher said that I needed to make up a fake name. I decided my name would be Kathryn Oreo.* 

Katie wrote a script of what she wanted me to say. Then we recorded! What do you think?

If you were doing the activities, would you make a website or radio interview?                              Bye! 🙂

*Oreo is my cat🐈‍⬛

Every year in term one and four we have a writing test called Easttle.

When we do the Easttle test we all get a topic to write about. At the beginning of the topic is persuasive writing : Sports or Music?

At the start of the year I chose music because it helps you relax, you can play it on headphones and if we didn’t have music, we couldn’t sing or write songs.

Earlier in the week we had to go back and look at our term one Easttle writing, make a copy of it and make it better. I had to change mine a lot! I added paragraphs, explained my ideas better and made it make more sense.

Later this term I’m going to do the test again. I hope I can make it better!

If you were doing the Easttle test what would you choose?

Music or Sport?

In the Holidays my family went to Westport for the weekend!

In the middle weekend of the holidays, my family went to Westport for two nights!

We stayed in a little holiday house called Rock Fish Cottage.We only stayed for two nights but we had a lot of fun 🙂

When we arrived it was late and we went straight to bed. On the first day we visited the seal colony, like on school camp! It was very windy so we didn’t stay long.

After that we went to a playground right around the corner from our holiday house.

That night we went to Carter’s Beach and got ice cream.

The next morning we had a lot to do. We had to clean the house, pack up, turn off the power and make sure we had everything in the car.

Finally, it was time to  go to the pool!

When we got there I went straight to a red pool noodle in the little pool. After a while I decided to jump back and forth from the cold pool to the warm pool to see if they would feel the same tempreture. ( They didn’t🙁.)

After the pool we went to a cafe and got hot chips. Then we began driving home. Our holiday was over.

What’s your favourite thing about Westport?

This is Rockfish cottage.

In maths we have been learning about ratios.

Ratios are really fun! you get to use shapes or pictures a little bit like algebra.

A ratio question could look like this :

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Then you would need to answer by saying what the ratio is. The answer to this one would be 3:2 or 3 to 2.

You can also use different images like this

🌷🌷  🌿🌿🌿🌿 What is the ratio of tulips to leaves ?  The answer is 2 to 5. Or 🙂🍩🍩🍩 What is the ratio of doughnuts to smiley faces ?  The answer would be 3 to 1.

On Friday after learning about ratios all week, we got to make fruit kebabs!

We had to decide what we wanted to put on them. Then we said what the ratio was.

We could chose between grapes, marshmallows, tinned pineapple and banana.

I chose grapes and pineapple.

My ratio is 3 to 2.

This week we did Fun Day Friday again!

This week the knitting group was a lot bigger than usual. We had nine people!

Last time we only had three of  us.

Because some of us could already knit and some couldn’t, we went into pairs and taught our buddies how to knit.

Here is a picture of me and my buddy.

At lunch after Fun Day Friday, my friends and I sat on the seats outside our classroom and worked on our knitting.

One of my friends even said she could show me how to finger knit! I thought it would be really complicated but turns out it’s actually really easy. You don’t even need knitting needles! My finger knitting is super long.

Have you ever knitted anything?

Or would you ever want to learn?

We have been learning about Ancient Egypt.

This week in reading, instead of doing our normal rotations, we have been doing activities around Ancient Egypt.

We pretend that we’re stuck in ancient Egypt and we need to get back to the present date.

Every day we have a new task to complete. There are eight tasks to complete. For every task we complete, we get a gold coin (a paper one, not real money). We need eight coins to get back to the present.

The activities are really fun! I’m on task five.

Today I did task four. It was about Sphinx.

A Sphinx is a statue that has the body of a lion and the head of a pharoh

This is a Sphinx:

Learning about ancient Egypt is really fun and interesting!

Would you want to learn about it too?