Zentangle

Recently we started doing some Zentangle art. Zentangle art is art that is mostly black and white, Zentangle art is really detailed with loads of patterns.
In our Inquiry we are learning about endangered animals. Our aim is to Create a Zentangle Animal art by the end of the term.

Here are some Zentangle Animal Designs:

Thinking Keys!!

Recently we have been working on some thinking keys.

Thinking keys are loads of fun activities that you do about your Topic.

This term our topic was light and our question was How does light impact on our life?

1. The picture: We get given a picture and we have to make as many pictures as we can out of the starting picture.

2. The Alphabet: We created a alphabet about light.

3. The different use for the sun: Come up with 10 different uses for the sun.

4. The commonality: Write the commonality between sunglasses and a drink bottle.

5. The Bar: Bigger, add or replace Rainbow.

6. The prediction: How will light bulbs be shaped in 100 years.

7. The Variations: How many ways can you use a candle.

8.The Inventions: Design a machine for getting to the toilet in the dark.

That was only some of the keys. I had a lot of fun doing them.

Gymnastics

30/7/15
Today we started our first Gymnastics lessons.
My first station was with the ladders. In this activity we had to run up and down the lay down ladders in all of different ways.
My second station was with hula hoops. In this activity we needed to see how many parts of our body we could hula hoop with, we also tried to hula hoop with as many hula hoops we could.

Math

WALT: Work out problems by using your known X

This week we were doing Rounding and Compensating and our known Facts. Firstly we did twelve questions on the first day:

On the second day we did another 10 more questions:

May look the same though, but there all different questions.

Maths Games

Fun4TheBrain
There's lots of fun games for your Brain

Matific
You have to have a account to play

IXL
If you want to play for a long time you need to have a account

MathplayGround
Play around with your math

Writing:

Language Features:

First we learnt about

,

 we watched a video explaining Alliteration. Eg: Cute Cats Can Crawl, Climb and Clamber over Creepy Cars. Adorable Animals Are Amazing At Alliteration And the Alphabet.

Secondly we learned about

 and once again watched a video. After we made our

one Personification. Eg: The cat to screamed to Awaken the kitten.

Finally the next day we did

,

 once again we created our own and watched

a video. My Repetition was : I licked and licked and licked at my tasty berry Ice cream.

Reading, Prior Knowledge

This week in Reading we have been learning about animals

We made a relations ship sheet between words related to animals:

Next we went on the Auckland Zoo Website and found out some info about the Mammals they have.

After that we started reading a book called Zoo's back in Nature, we found out some History of Zoo's.

Kite Making

On Friday room 1&2 set out making kites.

The reson we made these kites were because of Matariki, kites connect the sky and the Earth in the Matariki ways.

Once we had found our groups of 2,3 or 4, maby even just by yourself we made a plan.

There were prizes for the Best Plan, the Most Traditional, Most Unique and there was also a peoples choice award.

Our group made sure that we hade most of the materials we thought we needed ( it didn't have to go to plan ).  

Next we started putting our kite together with the materials we brought from home or some from school.

We had to make our kites in 3 and a half hours ( that was if we needed that much time ). Once our time was over we had to stop what we were doing. We got given a number and that was our name for voting, our number was 5.

  Well we were away we had some people come in to vote.

After it was all of the voting was done we got told the winners.

Most Traditional was not us

Most Unique was not us

Peoples Choice award sadly was not us

Best plan was us, yippy yippy yay!!

Auckland Zoo Mammals

Mammals:

NZ Mammals:

• NZ Fur Seal

• NZ Short tail

Exotic Mammals:

• African crested Porcupine
• African Lion
• Agouti
• Asian Elephant
• Asian small clawed otter
• Bornean Orangutan
• Californian Sea lion
• Capybara
• Cheetah
• Cotton-top tamarin
• Giraffe
• Golden lion tamarin
• Hamadryas Baboon
• Hippopotamus
• Kunekune pig
• Little red flying fox
• Meerkat
• Parma Wallaby
• Pygmy marmoset
• Red Panda
• Red necked wallaby
• Ring-tailed lemur
• Serval
• Siamang Gibbon
• Southern white Rinoursous
• Spider Monkey
• Springbok
• Squirrel monkey
• Subantarctic fur seal
• Smartain Tiger
• Tasmanian Devil
• Zebra