Play Make Create - Camp

This week for play make create we had a keyword instead of a story being read to us. The keyword was Camp. 

For this session I worked with Olivia T and Cullen. For Play Make Create we did the Create part of it by creating a Camp scene. After we had finished the scene we still had lots of time so we decided to make characters of ourselves out of paper, fabric and ice-block sticks.                          

My favourite part was the tent because it was patterned and wasn't just a rectangular piece of cardboard that was folded. I think that it turned out great and that it is a Supernova because we worked hard on it and it wasn't just pieces of cardboard folded to make tents. 

Math Mystery!!

Today we did a Math Mystery called Longthorne Primary School Athletics Day Trophy Thief. First I was working with Abby because year 6's were going to work with a year 5. Then once we were onto the last clue we figured out that it wasn't right and that was when we started working with Tayla & Pippa. It took a while to figure out but we found out that it was Mollie!! Mollie was in Yr 3, had a metal bottle, was size 9 & was in the blue team!  It was a bit confusing at the start when we found out that our answer was wrong but then we figured it out. 

Play Make Create - Giraffes Can't Dance

 This week for Play Make Create our creations were based on the book Giraffes Can't Dance by Giles Andreae. First, we watched the video of the story and then we could start planning what we were going to do. 

I worked with Olivia T and we made Gerald the Giraffe be at the Jungle Dance dancing on the stage. We used Tissue paper for the stage, black and dark navy magazine strips that we cut and then for the grass we used some green paper cut to create a grass shape. 

It took longer than we expected because the magazine strips took up most of our time but we finished in time. It wasn't exactly what we wanted but we did the best we could and I am really happy with how it turned out.                                                  The hardest part was placing the magazine strips because there was lots of glue involved and all of the strips needed to go to the middle. 

Here is our creation

The Bruntalo

Today the teachers introduced us to Play, Make & Create. Our inspiration was The Gruffalo and we had 4 options to choose from - Design, Build Make or Create. I chose design so we had to do a Google Drawing, Scratch and other online things. But I chose to draw it because then you can make it with more detail. It took me a while to decide how I was going to draw it but then I had the idea that I could make a calf called the Bruntalo. The Bruntalo's name is Bunty the Bruntalo, he is a rising 2 year old bull and is a Purebred Friesian. Since calves can act differently depending on the weather I wrote what he would act like.

Here are his reactions:

Lightning and Thunder: Wild 

Sunny: Nice (depends on the temperature though)

Rain and Wind: Scared

Too Stormy: So scared that I really want someone with me

Term 1 Week 5

Monday was our school Swimming Sports. On the day I competed in 3 races. Freestyle 1 Length, Backstroke 1 Length & Breaststroke 1 Length. I tried hard to get into Hauraki Plains but I didn’t. I still have next year to try even harder. 

We had two art sessions this week and the first one we did was finishing off our designs and putting them onto our larger circles for our Landscape art.  In the second session, we spent practising painting with one colour and adding in white and black to create a light Green, Dark Green and a normal Green. What we practised painting on was our mountain shapes and we had to draw a scallop pattern then paint inside the scallop shapes. 

In reading this week we have been reading the Magic Finger by Roald Dahl. We have Book Detective tasks to complete every day and so far we have done Summariser & Predictor roles. 

Part of our maths programme is NumBots and I think I am pretty good at it because I am leveling up fast and on Steel. Numbots is really fun because they make the learning on it fun by making it Cogs, Nuts & Bolts instead of dots or just only addition and subtraction questions.