Toroa (Southern Royal Albatross) Fact File

We are doing a fact file on NZ animals.
I chose the Toroa (Southern Royal Albatross) because I went to Dunedin I went to a Albatross sighting place.
I found it hard to make the fact file from scratch.
I found it easy to find an Albatross picture.

Room 1 July Student Reflection Newsletter

We are reflecting on what happened in July.
It is great to reflect because we are thinking back on what we have done.
I found it hard to find a cybersmart background for the selfie.
I found it easy to write about what I am reading.

My David Walliams Drawing

One of our tasks for Slime was to draw David Walliams.
I really enjoyed this task because I absolutely LOVE drawing.
I found it hard to get his face shape right.
I found it easy to think of all the books to put on my drawing.

Canva Collage

Today we learnt how to make a photo collage with canva.
The photos I chose was from Shrove Tuesday. You can see that post here. I found it easy to put in the photos because it cropped it for you.
I found it hard to download it because I didn't realise I had use a premium image.

R.E. Faith

This week Miss Steele gave us a challenge to make a poster about our term value.
This term our value is faith (whakapono).
Our success criteria.

• Digital or hard copy
• synonyms
• bible quote
• let your imagination run wild!
• A picture of how faith feels, sounds, or looks like

I did mine on paper. 
I found it hard to do a picture.
I found it easy to find a synonym.

David Walliams Fact File

We are reading slime by David Walliams.
This is my fact file about him.
I found it hard to fit in all the books.
I found it easy to find fact about him.

Report Writing

This week for writing we are unpacking reports (observing the content).
We got a Level 3 Lion Report and cut to bits (literally).
We tried to put them back in the right order, with paragraphs, sticking to one topic per paragraph.
Then we used our pink highlighter to highlight the spelling mistakes.
Their success criteria was to:

• Adjectives, for description
• Subject specific vocab, words relating to the topic

I found it hard to glue all the pieces in the right place.
I found it easy to highlight the mistakes.

New Piano Song - Fur Elise

I learnt a new song on the piano called Fur Elise. My friend (and great teacher) taught me- Selina!

She said she learnt it from a membership on Simply Piano. You might've heard of it.

Manutukutuku-Perseverence

We are doing a Manutukutuku, (kite) for Matariki.

I found it hard to get the flax in between the bamboo skewers.

I found it easy to take a picture of my kite.

Matariki Breakfast

This morning we had a shared breakfast to celebrate Matariki before the holidays.
It was really fun because I helped cook pancakes.
I really enjoyed making a HUGE pancake with Charlie M.
Here are some photos that Mrs Naden took.

Matariki Star

Thsi week we made a Matariki star.
My DLO shows I can take a video of my star and put it on my blog.
I found it easy to colour each star.
I found it hard to glue them together.
Next time I would colour them more.