Aotearoa

Our class all had to make a slideshow or a drawing and write down three fun facts about New Zealand from a very helpful tourism website. We have just started the Summer Learning Journey and this is our first task. This is my drawing about Aotearoa!

Ghost Town

For camp Room 5 went to an abandoned gold town called Waiuta. All of us had lots of fun and this slideshow is about what we did in Waiuta using lots of photographs. Solly and I tried to make it funny so don't try to hide your laughter. Here is Solly's and my slideshow about Waiuta!

Reading Profile Term 4

This term Room 5 had to make a Reading Profile. We had to choose a book to write about. My book I have been reading is an amazing book called, Tracy Lacy for Classy Captain! Here is my Reading Profile.

Pet Day 2018

At Awahono school we had Pet Day and it was really fun. We had to make a slideshow with the three pieces of writing that we put in our pet projects. I brought a dog called Lucy to Pet Day and Tahlia brought dog called Quilla too. There were lots of pets at Pet Day like birds, rabbits, cats, guinea pigs, dogs, lambs, horses and fish.  My favourite animals at Pet Day was the dogs because they were all so fluffy and cute. I did a slideshow with Tahlia and we both made an even amount of things on the slideshow. Here is Tahlia's and my slideshow about Pet Day.

Chair Decoration

Last week Mrs Ealam showed us a video about how to make a so last year chair into an so this year chair, using Modpodge glue that is non-toxic. They used the glue to put the  colours and pictures from magazines on the chair. We used a different glue called P V A glue to stick the pictures and colours on and we used Modpodge glue to make sure nothing is going to fall off and if there is anything sticking out we can make sure it is flat again. First we had to put ourselves in groups of four so that we all work well together and some of us were just friends in one group. Then we had five minutes to figure out what our theme was going to be and ours was farming animals but then we couldn't find any cows in the magazines but we founds lots of hunting things so we decided that we were going to do hunting so we got guns and deer and other hunting things. We had to patch up the bottom, the back and the front of the chair but not the legs because there was nothing wrong with them and we had to make sure there was no brown wood showing and I think we did a pretty good job of that. At the end if you looked at the bottom it would look a bit messy but we couldn't help it because Mrs Elam said we only had about five minutes to finish and we hadn't even started the bottom of the chair. When we had to make sure everything was glued down we had to use the Modpodge glue to make sure that all of it was dry and not going to flick up but we could not put heaps of glue otherwise when it dried it would look like a snow wonderland. The next thing we could do better is to pick a theme so that when people would look at the chair straight away they would know the theme and maybe plan it out more before we stick things on. The one thing I really liked when I did it was that we were using teamwork and it was good that we all liked the same thing. Here is Zoe's, Haylee's, Tahlia's and my chair.

Character's Feeling Sentence

In the Spring holidays Awahono School had the descriptive sentence challenge.  We had to find a sentence in our book that describes the character's feeling. I got a sentence from the book called Out Of My Mind by Sharon.M. Draper. It is about a girl who can't walk or talk and she finally get a chance to talk but not everyone is ready to hear her.

Collage

We were learning about plastic and how it kills the sea environment. We made a collage with ripped up pieces from OLD magazines! We drew our animals and then we had a choice of  painting or using some pastels to colour our animals. I found that sticking the animals on our collage was hard and also starting off on putting the ripped magazines on.

On our collage we have stuck on a humpback whale, a tropical basking fish, a crayfish, a dolphin and two penguins.  The colours that we used for the humpback whale were blue and black, the colour we used for the crayfish was orange,the colours we used for the tropical basking fish were yellow, orange, black, red, blue and green. The colours for the dolphin were light blue, dark blue and also black.                                                

Our contents were the beach, the ocean and the sky. We also had an island, a cliff with a water, a sun and mountains. I think it was not hard but took a big period of time to get it finished. I liked making the collage and thought it was fun and also I liked how we had to collaborate in groups.