My pony

 This is my pony Jackson. He is a Shetland pony. I went to a cowboy challenge in Reefton. We did all 10 obstacles. In my class for overall I got first place

1st

2nd

3rd in my afternoon round in the cowboy challenge

   

Matiriki week

 Today we made animation about Matariki. We had 3 videos to choose from. I chose the 7 kites of Matariki. We could have buddies but I worked on my own. it was a little bit hard but fun. 

And we also made flax boats by weaving the flax.  I helped 4 people do it. We used 12 pieces of flax. We helped the juniors to complete theirs.

    

Matariki art

 Today we made Matariki art. I will tell you the steps to make the Matariki art. These are the materials 

1 news print

2 pencil

3 scissors

4 images of a mountain

5 black paper

6 pastel chalk

7 stick on stars

8 hair spray

9 white mounting paper

10 glue stick                       

First get a image of a mountain. Second get your newsprint  and draw a  mountain  range. Thirdly cut out the mountain range. 4 get your black piece of paper and get the pastel and push up. Then get your Chromebook and find the Matariki star pattern. Lastly stick your stars on.  

Place value with Mrs Burt

 This week we did place value with Mrs Burt. We did counting with money using ones tens hundreds.

We also used ice cream sticks and made 70 with tens and ones.And we also used beans and made 70.

making 70 with beans my beans are in tens

It was really fun and a little bit hard but we got to buddy up. Have you ever done place value? 

The big skateboard

 Today we had the worlds biggest skateboard come to Kaniere School. The people who made it names were Matt James Beaumont. The skateboard was as heavy as an elephant. The skateboard came to school because  to promote skateboarding in the Olympics.The Olympics is being held in Tokyo .

 

coast 2 coast

 

The next Coast to Coast is next year in February 2022 , 11th and 12th.

Tangrams

 Today we made tangrams. What is a tangram? A tangram is a puzzle. Have you ever made a tangram? We did it because  it helps us with spatial awareness.