Author visit

Today we had an author visit. The author that visited us was Raymond Huber. The reason he visited us was because he is taking part in the Storylines book tour. He has written lots of books including Flight of the Honey Bee, Sting, Wings, Gecko and Peace Warriors. I have read a few of his books. He talked to us about his books and he also talked to us about how he writes his books. It was really fun and I can wait for the next author visit.

My Feather

Today we decorated a paper feather each. We put them together so it would make a korowai, which is a cloak made out of feathers. We did it because this week is Social Justice Week.  I coloured mine blue and purple.  The two colours mixed really well because I used pencil not felt. We also had to write a word about social justice on our feather I wrote different because everyone is different.  It looked really cool when we put it together. Here is a picture of the korowai.

Maths pattern

Today in maths we got given a sheet with a grid. We had to colour every square. You could do a pattern or you could colour random squares random coulors. Since there was 100 squares you picked a colour, counted how many there were in the pattern and wrote it as how many out of 100, as a decimal and as a percentage. For instance if you had 7 pink squares you would write, 7/100, 0.07, 17%. It was a fun way to learn about fractions. Here is a picture.

Marine Iguanas

In class we have been learning about reptiles. Everyone picked a reptile and wrote about it. I chose marine iguanas.  This is my slideshow about marine iguanas. I chose marine iguanas because I didn't know much about them, so it was great to learn more about them.

My Game

In maths we are learning about fractions. Maggie and I made a board game relating to what we are learning. When you land on a fraction you have twenty seconds to name as many equivalent fractions as you can. However many equivalent fractions are named you get to move forward that many spaces. Here is a picture of my game.

My favourite word

Yesterday we each chose a word that relates to 'promise'. I chose love because it is so big and endless. Also it means a lot to me because I love so many people. This is a picture of my word.

Wordsearch

Today I made a word search with all my spelling words. First I drew up a grid. Then I wrote my words in. Next I filled in the gaps with extra letters. Now my word search was complete, all I needed was someone to find the words. Anna and Frankie did my word search which took them about ten minutes. Here is a picture of my word search.