THE SCHOOL GARDEN

Re-Planting the School Garden. 

We have been enjoying eating the cranberries, strawberries, silverbeet, potatoes and cabbages from our school garden. This week have done some wedding and re-planting. We have put in beetroot, lettuce, leeks, spinach and dome more cabbages. The cabbages seemed to grow really well and we had delicious coleslaw sandwiches. There were heaps of potatoes so each family got to take home a bag. No one is really interested in the silverbeet so it and the rhubarb are growing wild. It will be great when the year 6 students in our class start to cook with the produce,  while the year 7 and 8 students go to technology at the high school.

              

Blogs

We are getting ready for Tuhi  Mai Tuhi Atu so we have talked about how to make a good comment on other peoples blogs.

It is a program where we connect with another school and learn from each other our connecting school is St Pius X Catholic School. This is the link to their blog. Room 7 Blog. We are really looking forward to learning about the students there and getting lots of ideas for new things to try, as well as helping each other.

Self Portraits

Every year we do self-portraits and we learn about the placement of our facial features. This is the link to the work that we had to do on Romero Britto. He was the artist that we studied and we followed a video to complete our work. 

Romero Britto

It was fun learning about him and his bright modern style of art

SOLO

We had a refresher on Solo Taxonomy and learning what we have to do to get to the next level. We have a solo rubric for our recount writing, it is the first of many that we will be using to help us set goals and the teacher will mark our work against.

Martin Luther King

We researched him, found out about his beliefs and what he tried to do and did with his life. We listened to his 'I Have a Dream' speech. We all had to do a presentation about him and then complete a piece of art about ourselves and our dreams. MLK this is the site where we accessed out work.

They came out really great and added some colour to our classroom. Not everyone has finished them yet but we thought it was interesting to look at the different patterns and what some people thought was good colouring in.

2019

We started the year with a fun activity that made us think about what we wanted to achieve by the end of the year and also a celebration of where we are at.. The year 6 students are new to our class and don't know the expectations and how everything works and are learning to ask the teacher or some older students. We also had to think about our presentation- tidy writing - colour choice etc. Some people put in lots of effort and thought.

Bread Making (and our secret unhealthy dessert)

Today we made Soda Bread, it is an easy bread to make. We didn't have any buttermilk so we had to make some. We added vinegar to ordinary milk to make it go chunky and like curds. Two cups of milk and 2 Tablespoons of vinegar. The recipe had a capital T so we learnt that a small 't' in a recipe is a teaspoon and a capital 'T' is a tablespoon. While it was turning sour or into curdles we mixed together  3 cups of flour, 1 t salt. 1 t baking soda and made a well in the middle.

 We cooked it for 45 mins- if you tapped it and it echoed then it meant it was cooked. We were allowed to eat as much as we wanted. We put real butter on it and it melted into the bread it was YUMMY !!!!!!

Dessert !!!!!!!

We had lots of bananas left this week so while we were waiting we thought up a concoction for dessert. It's really unhealthy but also amazingly delicious !!!!!!!!!!! You cut bananas into small bite-sized pieces then you put on rice bubbles. After that, you add a good sized spoon of Condensed Milk and pour cream over the top. Some of us thought it sounded revolting but we ended up having 2 helpings.

After eating dessert and bread we really didn't feel like having lunch.