Easter Gifts for the A-Z Pre-School

Our class has spent the last couple of days making Easter Gifts for the Junior Room to take to the Pr-school tomorrow,

    A couple of weeks ago our school got several copies of the Prime Time Magazine and we saw an Easter Egg recipe. We decided we would make these as our gift. The eggs are made out of Rice bubble mixed with Marshmallows and butter, You melt it all together then form it into shape. THIS WAS INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT and very messy!!!!!!!!!!!! In the end, we put lots of butter on our hands. You then dip half the egg in chocolate and sprinkles, that was another problem as the chocolate wouldn't melt enough. In the end, Jo (a teacher aide) suggested we add oil and it worked. PHEW !!!!!!!!!!!

 We made Easter baskets and labels. We printed the baskets but had to glue them together and then we glued purple ribbon around them to make them look better. We added yellow cellophane and gold Cadburys paper to the basket. After that, we wrapped them in Clear cellophane and tied on labels.

 We also had to make something for the junior class to take for sharing at morning teas time. We decided to ice and decorate some Milk Arrowwheat biscuits with M&M's. We are kind of wishing we were going to the pr-school instead of the juniors. There were some leftovers so we shared them around the school with students who have shown positive behaviour all term. 

Swimming

As our town swimming pool - "The Aquatic Centre" is closed, it has been closed for months to have the roof fixed. We have been busing to Cobden School to use their swimming pool every Monday. It is kind of shallow and much smaller than what we are used to but we are happy that have let us use it so we can keep developing our swimming.

We have 4 swimming groups all at different levels so that we are all learning at our own levels. Mr Clarke went early each day and roped the pool off into four spaces. It was a little cramped but it worked for us. We appreciate that Cobden School let us use their pool.

When it was our swimming sports time our sports were held at Runanga Pool which is bigger and deeper. Unfortunately, the junior school couldn't do swimming this term. Hopefully, our school PTF pays for us to swim next term. The school always pays for two terms a year.  If the PTF pays we will get e terms in the "Aquatic Centre'.

School Kit Get Writing

Today we received our school Kit parcel. It was fun reading the metaphors that the other school had written and putting our cards in order to form the message. We decided to put it on our classroom window so that people could see the message and if they were interested could come in and read the postcards. We also enjoyed reading the poster and looking to see where the other school is. It was Pukenui School in Te Kuiti (the North Island not the Mainland). We were curious about their school so looked up to see how big it was etc.

There Mauri stone was really interesting and had an interesting texture and feel we are going to see if we can identify what it is. There were also some cool words on their poster. We were hoping they had a blog so we could check them out but as they didn't we just sent an email message.

 We really hope that the school who received our poster has had as much fun as we have.

Omlettes 

When the year

7 and 8 go to tech we cook (we are year 6). Usually we make something that we can share with the rest of the school but this time we made omlettes.  They were ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

 The teacher was very impressed that we were ablt to fold them so well. We had a choice of adding ham, onion, mushrooms and cheese.  We  fried these things in better before adding them to the omelette when it was part cooked.They were really filling. We had some leftovers so we made some for the teachers who were very impressed.

What You'll Need

• 3 large eggs
• 1 teaspoon water
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
• 1/2 cup shredded cheese- onion, ham mushroom (all optional)
• cooking spray (or butter)

1.     Beat eggs, water, salt, and pepper until light and fluffy.

2.     Precook onion, mushroom ham etc. - in the pan with a little oil

3.     Heat the pan with a little butter in

4. When pan is hot (but not smoking), pour the egg mixture in.

5. As the omelette starts to set, lift an edge of the omelette
with a clean spatula and tilt the pan so that the runny, unset
portion of the omelette can run underneath and start to set.
Repeat on the opposite side. If adding vegetables or meats, do so now.

6. When the omelette is just about completely set, sprinkle
the cheese over half of the omelette. Then fold the other half of the
omelette over the cheese half.

7.     Or you can leave it unfolded and put grated cheese on it and grill it.

ASB 

We had a visit from the ASB get wise lady and leant heaps and heaps about managing our  money. We played an awesome game where we went to Fiji and kept running into some realife problems that cost us money. It was sooooo good. We are taking some of those strategies and using them as we are saving to go on our school camp in term 3. 

Like lots of other schools we are selling chocolate lollies etc to raise funds. However some of us are doing things like delivery junk mail, mowing lawns, cleaning cars and windows. It is really tempting to spend some of the money  as it seems a long way away but the game showed us how important it is to be prepared financially. 

Write NZ

Like lots of other schools we have been working on the School Kit writing task that arrived at our school. Ours was picked up yestereday and we cant wait to recive the one from our matched school.

We decided to add a little extra to our parcel and took a picture of our finished product along with some others around our school and made a laminated book mark to go with it. We also added phamplets and maps about Greymouth, a pen for the teacher and a piece of greenstone. We went to the beach looking for our Mauri Stone and hoped to find greenstone but didnt so we bought a peice and added it as an extra. Along with the pounamu we copied the Tai Poutini legend so they would know about that.

We had heaps of fun trying to lick out elbows , curl our tongues and work on found poems. This is a great project and we hope that is happens again next year as our meaphors will be even better.

Respect Resilience Responsibility.

These are the three values of our school. (right now we are each making our own individual site about these with videos and whatever else we can think of) To practice some of our skills we worked with the juniors for a day learning lots of patience and of course how to be helpful. Some of the five-year-olds were easy to deal with but some were really naughty and needed to be taught how to do things in a respectful way. Some of them were soooooo shy and scared that they hardly talked and it was difficult to find out what they wanted to do or use. When we worked with these kids we had to be really resilient and so did they as we had to be patient and keep trying but they had to be brave and give things a try and talk.

School Garden

We have been fundraising to buy mushroom compost for our garden by selling produce bags made out of net curtains. You can fit 16 apples in one bag    As you can see we sell the bags for $3 each or $10 for 4. We are now thinking that if we can raise enough money we will buy a new watering system as someone came in a balaclava ( we have cameras) and stole ours. This has meant that we have had difficulty keeping the garden watered.

We harvested everything in the garden before we purchased this. Gosh, it stunk !!!!!!!!!!!!! We wore masks and gloves to protect ourselves from infection. The teacher gave us mints to suck in the hopes it would help but it was still revolting!!

French Toast

Today we made French Toast. We put Maple Syrup on top and if we wanted we could cook banana in butter until it was nice and brown and also put that on top. IT WAS YUM !!!! We were allowed to eat as much as we liked and then we cooked for all the adults in the school, they got to choose their toppings too. After that, we cooked some for every child in the school, and some kids who had never eaten it before fell in love with it. We can't wait to make it at home for our families to try.

Ingredients:

·        1 egg

·        1 Tsp pure vanilla extract

·        1/2 Tsp Cinnamon Powder

·        1/4 cup milk

·        4 slices of bread

·        Butter

Method:

1.     Add the egg, vanilla and cinnamon in a bowl. Whisk it well.

2.     Add the milk next and keep stirring.

3.     Now, take a bread slice and dip it in the egg mixture. Make sure the mix coats both sides of the bread slice well.

4.     Melt butter in a pan.

5.     Place the bread in the pan and cook until it turns golden brown on both sides.