Maths - Addition

Brooke used Explain Everything to show her learning about adding tens and ones together.

Kelly used Explain Everything to show her learning of adding 3 digit numbers. (Please be patient, Kelly's great explanation starts after about 20 seconds)

Explanation Writing

How to make fluffy pikelets

Pikelets are yum fluffy things that you eat.

Have you ever wondered how to make pikelets?

First you need to wash your hands.

Next you need to get the ingredients like 1 cup of flour, 1 tsp baking powder, ¼ tsp salt, 1 egg, ¼ cup sugar and ¾ cup of milk approximately.

Then you sift the dry ingredients into a bowl and beat the egg and the sugar together in another bowl. Add the milk and the egg and sugar together so it is smooth and fluffy.

Finally you heat the pan up, then you put the mixture in the frying pan and wait until they have bubbles on the top. Then flip it over and wait until it is golden and then flip it out and eat it.

By Brooke

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How to make fluffy pikelets

Have you ever wondered how to make fluffy pikelets?

A pikelet is when you combine three or four things like flour into a bowl.

First you wash your hands really well with the soap and water.

Secondly gather all your ingredients together. The ingredients you need are 1 cup of edmonds standard flour, 1tsp edmonds baking powder, ¼ tsp salt, 1 egg, ¼ cup sugar, approximately ⅓ cup milk, and measure them too.

You sift the flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl, in another bowl beat the egg and sugar with a whisk until pale and thick. Add the egg mixture into the dry ingredients with the milk and stir. Pour spoonfuls into a warm pan.

Next wait until bubbles pop on the top and flip it over.

Then flip it onto the plate.    

Finally all of the pikelets are ready to eat.

That's how you make pikelets.

By Kelly

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How to make pikelets

What is a pikelet?  A pikelet is like a pancake but smaller and fatter.

This is how you make them.  

First you have to wash your hands.  Then get your ingredients.  

We put the dry ingredients in a bowl. We put flour, baking powder and salt.

Then you put the egg and the sugar in another bowl and whisk.

Add the eggs mixture to the dry ingredients and the milk.

Put the butter in the pan and you cook small spoonfuls until they look brown. Then you flip them over on a plate.

When you’re finished  They should smell delicious.

By Jack

 

 

Narrative writing

We are learning to write a narrative.

Our picture inspiration:

(Ball. M. (2005).  Footrot Flats: Sports Edition.  pp 129.)

The World Cup

Once there lived two rugby players called Mitchel and

Jack. Jack was the strongest at rugby. Mitchell was the fastest at rugby. They played at Ohaeawai rugby club. Jack was a fat wide man, Mitchell was a skinny tall man.

One day Mitchell and Jack played for the All Blacks. They were playing against England. The All Blacks star Jack ran and bowled England over and scored a try. Next Mitchell stepped England and he scored a try too. Then England got the ball and nearly scored a try but Mitchell and Jack saved the try.

Finally they scored a two man try and they got the World Cup and that was the end of the rugby.

By Mitchel

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Playing Rugby

Once there lived two boys called Cole and Rick who liked to go to the ruby field to play rugby. Cole was skinny and white. Rick was fat and brown. They both wore black gumboots when they played rugby.  

One Sunday morning at the rugby game, the people were cheering for Cole and Rick’s teams. Cole scored five tries and Rick scored seven tries. Cole’s team lost the first half. Rick’s team lost the second half and the score was even.

At the end with a minute to play. Cole kicked the ball into the air. Coles gumboot landed into Rick's face then he landed into a big pile of cow poo. It went slop then Cole said to Rick, “are you alright?”

By Reagan

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Stinky Boys

Once there were two little boy’s, their names were Lukas and Finn. They played at Ohaeawai rugby club. Lukas was fat and as tall as a tree. He was very good at kicking rugby balls. Fin was skinny, they were both very, very stinky. They had a black and white dog, his name was Max. He liked to roll in cow poo.

One day at rugby it started pouring with rain.They did not have any towels. So they got drenched with rain. They like to be stinky but the stinky was gone. They did not like it at all. They ran to the trash and they got as stingy as possible.

All the other people ran away blocking their noses. But Lukas and Fin were so excited and happy.

By Brooke

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Playing rugby

Once two little boy’s were playing rugby in Ohaeawai. They were called Max and Ben. Max was the smart one and Ben was the hairy one. Ben did not know how to play rugby at all so Max trained Ben. “Oh no!”yelled Max. “There is cow poop behind you!” Flop! Ben slipped in the poo.

“I told you!” laughed Max. “Hahaha. You slipped in cow poo!”

“I’m going home.’’ Shouted Ben.

By AnneLise

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Multiplication Problem Solving

We have been learning to show our understanding of multiplication using pictures, materials, repeated addition and counting. We had one expert and one learner working collaboratively.

Volcanoes erupting

We are learning to write about a moment in time. 

We used our language experience of an erupting volcano and you tube videos to help us write about the moment a volcano erupts.

Here are some examples with pictures we created using our volcano vocabulary.

The volcano is spitting on the road and the volcano was brown and black. It was hot and smokey. The lava was rolling on the train track. Bang bang! It crashed down on the road too.

By Anthony

Bang! Crackle! The sun rocks are rolling down the volcano. Sloppy hot goo is slowly bubbling. Sounds like drums rumbling. Sizzle sizzle, here is the bubbles, the red and yellow rocks tumble down. Very, very hot rocks go everywhere.    

By Brooke

BOOM CRASH BANG! The gigantic hot rocks burst out of the volcano. The red fiery hot lava slithers down the volcano like a snake. Everything in the lava’s path turns into ash. The lava stops flowing and turns into hard rock. The rock sizzles for 2 hours before it slowly starts to cool down. It is scary but also amazing.   

By Sam

Writing

We have been learning to add hooks to our writing to capture our readers attention. 

Here are some published pieces we have written. The children are still learning to use the netbooks for typing stories so they are short and sweet. 

Swimming by Isaac

“Yum,” the swimming pool water is super warm.  I float on my back and close my eyes. I swim around and around to make a whirlpool. “It's fun!” I shout. The colour of the pool is blue like the sea. I put my goggles on and put my head under the water and I see leaves on the bottom of the pool. When we hop in the whirlpooI I went on my bodyboard, round and round went my cousin and I.                 

    

Chromebook Assembly by Brooke

“Gotta open this!’’ said Room One as the countdown began. “1 2 3, go!” Said Mrs Craig. “My chromebook!” They yelled with excitement. I couldn’t believe it was a such a mess with boxes and rubbish everywhere, it was fun.

Chromebooks by Sam

“Sam,” whispered Mrs Clarke, “can you be my photographer?’’ “Yes’’ I screamed in my head.

“I can’t wait!” I heard lots of people say in excitement. “Now we are going to do the countdown,” said Mrs Craig. “10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1,” screamed the school. The year 4’s ripped their chromebook box open. “WOW!” screamed everyone. Then the teachers gave out the cases.  Finally the bell rang. “Hooray!” I shouted. “It’s lunch.”

Unboxing Day by Leonor

Yay! It’s unboxing day 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1,0! RIP! RIP! went the boxes as the Year 4’s opened their boxes to reveal the shiny black chromebooks. I didn't like too much of the noise after the countdown so I blocked my ears  just in case it was too bad. The bell rang RING! RING! I’m starving, “is it over?” but it wasn’t. All the excitement made me smile, I was happy.

Chromebooks by Ronan

WOW! I heard screeching! Lots of screeching! I could not stand it my eyes were going to pop out. There was so much EXCITEMENT! I did not know there would be this much EXCITEMENT. How long did this screaming go for I said to my self. I was so EXCITED for the countdown. It was even louder then me. It was as loud as a lion. Then it was morning tea. Then the bell went after the bell went we got our netbooks. I had a black netbook. We learnt how to use them.