Nau mai, haere mai! Welcome to our class blog with Matua Taki. We are a Year 3/4 class at Hamilton East School. We are part of the Tōtara Team. We will be sharing our learnings and adventures with whānau to enjoy!
12 December 2013
26 November 2013
28 October 2013
Our Goal: Grow the biggest pumpkin in the school!
On Thursday we all helped to plant the pumpkin seedling. We discussed what a seedling needs to grow into a large healthy plant.
Chalk Art Techniques with Lynne Sinclair Taylor
We had a fabulous time with Mrs Lynne Sinclair Taylor. She encouraged us all to use our imagination and experiment with different chalk colours and designs.
Place Value Team Work
We had an awesome time learning about place value. We earnt Totara Team money each day and we kept a tally of our total. At the end of three weeks we had to negotiate and work together to buy classroom stationery items. Just look at the team work going on.
25 August 2013
The Big Friendly Giant
One day there was a girl named Sophie and a boy named The
BFG. Sophie couldn’t sleep. The BFG poked his nose in the window to
see if people were sleeping.
Sophie hid under the pillow.
The BFG took Sophie. She
said “who are you?” “I’m the BFG.” Sophie said “you have big ears!” “I’m a giant.” “I can listen to ants talk!" Ailish
The BFG said “hi, what are you doing?" The BFG flew away. Truze
The BFG had big ears and he can hear ants talking and worms
talking. He collects some dreams
with a net. The rocks are blue and
the ground is yellow. and he has hairy yucky hair. His name is
Bloodbottler and he takes people from their houses. Suleman
One night Sophie couldn’t sleep. She was tossing turning all the way until ….midnight! She lept out of bed when she heard a giant thumping noise. Wondering curiously, she crept to the window to see an incredible image, a giant walking image coming towards her neighbourhood. She couldn’t make it out. There was a giant! Isabel
Once upon a time there lived a giant called BFG. He was a nice and friendly giant. One day Sophie was sleeping and then Sophie heard an earthquake and Sophie woke up from the noise. But it wasn’t an earthquake! That was the BFG who catches dreams. Safa
21 June 2013
10 June 2013
Shadow Writing
Last week we were looking for rays of sunshine between the showers to draw our
shadows. We had fun discovering
that the length of our shadow is due to the position of the sun at a particular
time of day.
Today shadows went to the next level. Faster than a bull racing after a red
car! I posed as a tiger with fake
ears. My partner had to trace
around my shadow. The size wasn’t
my size for sure. It was too
stretchy. Soon we are going to
check if our shadows have moved. I
was wondering if it would? At
lunchtime my friend Scania just came down from checking the shadows up top and
my shadow had moved. It was so
exciting. “Wow” I gasped. It was as amazing as a buried treasure
being shared for free. “Woohoo” I
yelled in joy galore spreading the news to the class faster than a
cheetah! Isabel
My shadow is a copycat. It copies what I do. My shadow is dark. It’s fun to play with your shadow. My shadow can be long, short, tall and small. Shahil
I was racing down the road to buy chocolate cake. I was running and a shadow was following me. Maybe he was playing tag with me. I was running really fast. I stopped and the shadow stopped too. I don’t know what happened to the shadow? It was black. I couldn’t catch the shadow. Guru
26 May 2013
A visit from Stu Duval
Stu’s Writing Tips
Stu had some wonderful ideas to help us generate our own
unique story.
1.
Create a personal ideas scrapbook.
2. Use Music to inspire you! Music helps you create
pictures or characters in your mind.
3.
Use the questions: What ?Where? Who? When? Why?
4.
Play the game: Luckily Unluckily….This will help
build tension in your story.
5.
Use random things– e.g. pick an object, colour…e.g.
the cheerleading dog in a pink tutu.
Make a random crazy word list!
6.
Use pictures: draw a piture of something crazy e.g. a deep pit. What three things can you use to get out of the pit?
Stu told us the exciting story he created about Captain Custard and the lovely Lamington Lilly.
We went back to class and created our own story about Wiggle the Hedgehog who ate too many jiggly worms, snails and slugs one night on Middle. He was soooo full he couldn't move when it was daylight! His tummy felt like it would burst. He had to hide under the leaves and hope that Totara kids wouldn't step on him. Poor Wiggle. He said to his mum that it" felt like an earthquake"when the children were running and jumping at playtime.
10 May 2013
Those Yucky Meanies by Joy Cowley
This week we have been responding to our Book of the Week by describing characters. We wrote some descriptions about The Meanies using a mindmap.
Meanies enjoy eating dead flies and they don't like having a bath.
Meanies smell and they are slimy. They love to play in mud! Eeew yuck! Meanies don't know how to behave so we wrote some rules for them.
24 March 2013
Room 15's Monarchs
Just hatched and drying my wings.
The butterfly has four wings but it looks like the Monarch Butterfly only has two wings. When our butterfly came out of the chrysalis it hung down for about 3 hours. Our caterpillars keep getting fatter and fatter. Over the night and day it chews big holes. Nevarah
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