I am a Year 3-4 student in Team Awa at Ohaeawai School in Northland, New Zealand. My teachers are Mrs Gardiner and Mrs Clarke.
Wednesday 29 December 2021
Stick figures fun
SLJ figures fun Animation
Friday 17 December 2021
SLJ Family History
I ask my mum some things about herself for the Summer Learning Journey here are my questions and her answers.
Friday 10 December 2021
Christmas Create
This week we have been completing a Christmas Create choice board. Here are the activities I completed. I made a game and a card
Tuesday 7 December 2021
slj art coling
Monday 6 December 2021
Te Whare Tapa Wha
This year we have been learning about Te Whare Tapa Wha and how it helps us. We made a slide to show the things we do to help us for each part. We need to keep all parts of our whare strong to be happy, healthy and safe.
Thursday 2 December 2021
Term 4 Basic Facts
We enjoy practising our basic facts each day using Prototec. We also try and beat the clock on paper throughout the year. Here is my Term 4 results. I am proud of all for my woke
Thursday 18 November 2021
Multiplication and Division
This week we have been working on showing our thinking for multiplication and division sums.
Here is my work.
Friday 29 October 2021
Using a Writing Rubric.
This week in writing we have been looking at recounts and how we can improve our writing. We started looking at our writing rubrics and understanding how to find what level pieces of writing are.
Friday 22 October 2021
Greats and Grands
Today was meant to be Greats and Grands day at our school. This has been cancelled for this year due to COVID-19. We wanted to still share some writing about our amazing grandparents. Here is my work.
Friday 1 October 2021
T-Shaped Literacy Create Task
For T-Shaped literacy we got to learn about Conservation. Here is a create task I made. It is a comic strip about conservation. 1 thing I enjoyed was creating the pictures. 1 thing I learned was that animals habitats are in danger.
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Wednesday 29 September 2021
Handwriting Term 3
Here is my handwriting sample for Term 3.
Nga Ahua - shapes
Scratch what to do on a google meet.
Over the last week I have been working on a scratch project for what to do on a google meet.
Monday 27 September 2021
Friday 24 September 2021
Wētā Writing
We are learning about conservation at the moment and this week we have done lots of reading and writing about Wētā. Here is some writing I want to share.
Friday 17 September 2021
Kei te pehea koe?
This week is Te Reo Wiki o te Reo Maori. We made a google draw to show our feelings. Kei te pehea koe?
Monday 6 September 2021
Line Art
We are learning to explore elements and principles in visual art. This week we learnt about lines and colour. I changed my lines as I coloured too. This is my line picture.
Big 5 Cat Art
For art I drew The Big 5 Cats. I cut them out and stuck them onto a old calendar picture. Here it is.
Sunday 5 September 2021
fathers day Garden to Table takse
This fathers day I did a fathers day slide of Garden to Table, here is it.
Garden To Table Lockdown Week 1
This is my week 1 of Lockdown Garden to Table task slide with all the tasks I did.
My Bunny
Last week for part of my reading create tasks I wrote about my bunny. Here is my slide show of what you need to look after a bunny.
Saturday 4 September 2021
Animal Report on The Big 5 Cats
This week I decided to learn all about The Big 5 Cats. I could not decided what one cat do do my animal report on so I did one on each big cat and added them together to make this report. I hope you enjoy learning all about The Big 5 Cats.
Thursday Animal Report Writing
LI: Choose another animal, research facts and write an animal report on it.
My animal is not just one animal but a group of animals called The big 5 cats. They include a leopard, lion, tiger, cheetah and puma. They are the most dangerous wild cats in the world. They all fit into the Felidae family. They look fierce and majestic when in pictures together, there is no wild pictures of them all together because they live in different parts of the world. Some of them live side by side in South Africa but others like the tiger lives in Asia. They are all in threat of extinction and their numbers are decreasing worldwide because of humans. Humans hunt them for their fur and are also destroying their habitats by building cities where the cats are. A lot of zoos and wildlife parks have the big cats to try and help them not become extinct completely by having breeding programmes. There is also organisations that protect the areas that the cats live in and also to stop poachers to allow them the chance to breed and increasing their numbers.
The Siberian tiger has fur of a Red-brown or rusty yellow with narrow dark brown or black stripes. Their chest and underneath is white. They are the largest of the tiger family with a length of 150-208cm, and weigh 200-300kg. The siberian tiger eats other animals including bears but mainly elks and boars. Siberian tigers live in fairly cold climates in forests, flatlands and low mountain ranges in Russia, North Korea and China. Tigers are not only hunted for fur but also to use in traditional chinese medicine. Bears have also been known to kill them if a tiger's attack on the bear goes wrong. Siberian tigers live for around 15 years and spend their time alone other than for mating or to look after young. The Siberian Tigers are critically endangered. There is less than 500 of them in the wild.
A Lion has a Strong compact powerful body with a yellow or golden coat. Male adults have reddish-brown to black manes. The length and colour of its mane depends on the age, genetics and hormones of the lion. Male lions are 5.6 - 8.3 feet and 330-570 pound and female lions are 4.6 - 5.7 feet and 270-400 pound. A lion will eat any animal with meat fresh or a few days old. Lions live in East and South Africa in the sub-savannah plains. Lions have no natural predators the only threat to them are humans poaching them and destroying the habitat. Lions are the Most social of big cats living in groups called packs. Lions are listed as vulnerable and there are around 20,000 in the wild.
A puma is also known as a Cougar or mountain lion. A puma has a ttan or slightly yellow coat with a lighter underside.
They have a round face, long tail and ears that stick up. The colour varies from grey to reddish brown and some black have been reported, the colour of them can change depending where they live and the seasons. A male Puma is 6-8 feet and 110-180 pound
And females are 5-7 feet and 80-130 pound. Pumas living near the equator have smaller ears than those living in the North and South. Pumas are found in desert scrub, chaparral, swamp and forest areas from Southeast Alaska to South Argentina and Chile. Due to the climate they live in they mainly eat hoofed mammals like deer but also will eat rabbits, raccoons, bevers and coyotes. The only predator that they have are humans. A Puma is vulnerable on the endangered list.
A cheetah is a slender , long legged cat with blunt semi retractable claws. It has yellow or tan short fur with black solid round or oval spots with unmarked white throat and belly. It's spots are used to camouflage them. A cheetah is around 30 inch tall and 44-56 inch long with a tail length of 26-33 inch. Males are smaller than female Cheetahs. They are carnivores and eat a range of small to medium sized animals like spring box, impalas, birds, rabbits and small boar. Cheaters have become extinct in most places other than the African savannah. They are vulnerable due to the loss of habitat and limited genetic diversity. The cheetah is the fastest living land mammal and can reach zero - 45mph in 2.5 seconds allowing them to run to a speed of 60-70 mph or 69-112km.
The leopard is the smallest of the large cats. They are 17.5-30.5 inch tall and females weigh 46-132 pounds and a male 80-165 pound. They live up to 23 years. Leopards live in both cold and warm climates. They are tawny or light yellow in colour, and in warmer climates are darker orange-red, or orange in colour in dense forest. A leopard's coat is covered with dark irregular spots called Rosettes. They live in forest, subtropical and tropical regions, savannah desert, grasslands and rocky mountains. The countries you will find leopards in are Africa, Middle East, Asia, China, Inda, East Russia. Humans are their main threat but Lions, hyenas or painted dogs will hunt them in Africa and Tigers in Asia. Leopards are nocturnal so will only hunt at night whereas the other big cats will hunt any time of the day. A leopard can run to 36mph and can leap 20 feet in one jump. Unlike most cats leopards are strong swimmers. Leopards are known for their climbing ability and they use this to their advantage to carry food into the trees away from other animals. A really interesting fact about leopards is that their rosettes change in shape depending where the leopard lives. They are circular in Eastern Africa leopards and square in South African leopards.
I can not pick one favorite as I like all of the Big 5 Cats. I like tigers because they are so big and look so cool. I like Lions because they are so fierce. I like leopards because they can climb trees. I like cheetahs because they are the fastest land mammals. I like Pumas as they remind me of house cats because of their ears.
I hope that over time the numbers will increase and humans will stop hunting them so that they are no longer under threat of extinction. Please humans stop before it is too late and these animals join the fully extinct list.
My Leopard Story By Lucus White
On Tuesday this week for writing I had to write a descriptive piece of writing on picture of a Leopard sitting on a tree branch. After I had wrote my story I turned it into a stop animation story book. Here is my story.
My little brothers love the story.
Coding Maths Create Task
I did Coding with my little brother as part or my maths create tasks. I kept it really simple so he could understand. I coded him from the top of the stairs onto the trampoline.
Here is the video clip of Alex following my instructions.
Friday 3 September 2021
Spelling test 10/10
During Lockdown I have been working very hard on my spelling words for the week. I managed to get 10/10 on my spelling test. I really happy I got them all correct.
Book Review on Dog Man A Tale Of Two Kittens
This is a book review on one of my favourite Dog Man books. I like the Dog Man books because I can read them on my own and they are really funny. They are set out as Comic book and that is my favourite type of book.
Tuesdays Maths Question
Today for maths we learnt that lizards have 5 limbs. I used our 5 times table to work out the questions. Here is what I did.
Prototec Level 4 Weekly Scores
This week at home I have been working really hard to get better times on Prototec. I have been able to get some really good scores this week. Thursday was my best time with 2min 29sec.
Here are my scores for the week from my first attempts. I am really proud of my results.
Wednesday Tiger Reading
On Wednesday for reading I read about Tigers. I really like tigers as they are one of the Big 5 Cats. Here is what I read and the questions I did.
Friday 27 August 2021
Lego Animals
As our topic we have been doing animals. I made some Lego animals and did their names in English and Maori.
Home Learning About Penguins
This week we have been doing home learning about animals. I chose to learn about Penguins. I have put all of my penguin work on one presentation, here it is.
Lockdown 2021 Prototec Stage 4
I have be doing Prototec Basic Facts Stage 4 this week and I have been trying to get my time under 3m. I have managed to get my time down to 2m 52s.
Monday 16 August 2021
Mini Olympics Recount
In Team Awa we have been learning about the Olympic Games and using this in our maths. In class we had our own mini Olympic games to help us explore measurement. Here is a recount I wrote about this.
Friday 9 July 2021
Thursday 8 July 2021
Peksol art
We have been learning about Matariki. Here is my pixal art with the 9 sisters. Waipuna-a-rangi, Tupu-a-rangi, Hiwa-i-te-rangi, Ururangi, Matariki, Tupu-a-nuku, Waita, Waiti, Pohutukawa.
Wednesday 7 July 2021
Kiwi textured and Kiwiana Popart
This term we have been learning some new techniques for creating digital art pieces. Here is my artwork from this term.
I like my pop art because I can trace images of of google and make them my own.
I like my kiwi texture because It looks realisitic.
I learnt how to Insert a texture background.
Monday 5 July 2021
Lucus T-Shaped Literacy interview
Friday 2 July 2021
Matariki Day - Sound Lab
Today for Matariki Day we did activities. I got to play on Music Lab. This is what the music lab look's like. I liked making a picture with my name and turning it into music. I was really fun.
Thursday 1 July 2021
Reflection,translation,rotation
We have been learning about transformations. We learnt how to show reflection, rotation and translation.
Friday 25 June 2021
Friday 18 June 2021
Cyber Challenge #13
This week out cyber challenge was to think about our digital footprint. Our digit footprint is about the trails of information we leave behind when we are on line.
Friday 4 June 2021
Monday 31 May 2021
Cybersmart challenge 12, What we share
Our challenge today was to think abut public and private information.
Friday 28 May 2021
Friday 14 May 2021
Sunday 9 May 2021
Wednesday 14 April 2021
Friday 9 April 2021
Make a Compass
As part of t-shaped literacy this week we read a journal article called Make a Compass. We followed the instructions and recorded the steps.
Sunday 28 March 2021
Sailing
This week our focus for Reading has been sailing. Here is a reading follow-up I completed for the article Sailing.
Wednesday 24 March 2021
America’s Cup Questions
We have been learning the difference between statements and questions. We wrote our own questions based on the America’s Cup