Hiphop

Today we had a wacky hair day to raise money to send Ben and his hiphop dance group to Melbourne to compete. Ben used to go to CLifton Tce School. They did some awesome moves and at the end we got up and had a go. We hope Ben and his group have fun in Australia.

Washing Day

Today, in Discovery time, we had a washing day. Our Key for Learning was being a team player and cooperating with others. We could wash Judy and Carol's car and the dress up clothes. We made a clothes line from the long skipping rope. Lots of us wanted to wash the cars so we had to think about how we could cooperate and make it fair for everyone. We worked as a team and Judy and Carol got clean cars!

Gardening

We are lucky this term to do gardening with Petra. We go out each Wednesday, in small groups, for half an hour. We have planted seeds, looked at the worm farm and made our own lemon juice. We can't wait until our seeds grow.

Hi, Flo!

Hi Flo,
We're not sure if you will get the chance to look at our blog again before you leave but thought we would leave you a message, just in case.
We hope you are having a good time in England. We hope your uncle's wedding was good. We are missing you too. We miss playing with you. Sacha and Fin have got birthday invitations for you.
We love you,
From Room 6

Kahurangi Theatre

Yesterday the Kahurangi Theatre came to perform for us. They used poi, rakau and taiaha to tell us about taonga. We really enjoyed watching them. Today, in Discovery time we are going to make our own poi and have a go with rakau.

Muesli Bars

Today we tried two muesli bar recipes as part of our Science Fair investigation. We all helped to make them and then we cooked them in the hall kitchen. We tried both and had a vote on which one we liked best. The apple and cinnamon bars were by far the favourite. Here is the recipe. They were very easy to make. We added dried cranberries as well even though they weren't in the recipe. If you make these at home you won't have any rubbish in your lunch box.

Apple and CInnamon Muesli Bars

125g butter
⅔ cup brown sugar
1 Tab honey
1 cup apple sauce
½ cup plain flour
1 ½ cups rice bubbles
1 cup rolled oats
½ cup coconut
1 cup finely diced dried apple
2 tsp cinnamon
½ cup All Bran (or cornflakes)

Preheat oven to 150 degrees Celsius. Line a 25cm x 30cm swiss roll tin with baking paper.
Combine butter, sugar and honey in small saucepan on a low heat and stir until sugar is dissolved. Allow to cool.
Place flour, rolled oats, coconut, diced apple, cinnamon and All Bran in a bowl and mix well. Mix apple sauce into melted butter mixture, then add to dried ingredients. Mix well.
Press mixture firmly into prepared tin. Bake for 30-40 minutes or until golden brown. Baking longer will result in a crunchy muesli bar.
Cool in tin. Cut while still warm as crunchy bars will break up if cut cold. Enjoy!

Rubbish

Today Mary Curnow came to talk to us about rubbish free lunch boxes.
She told us that plastic goes to the dump and can’t be recycled. It can take up to 1 000 years to break down.
Mary had photos of 6 lunch boxes. We sorted them into which had the most rubbish to the least rubbish.
Mary showed us some rubbish. She showed us how much rubbish you get if you buy Shapes in the little bags but if you buy a box of Shapes you only get a box which you can recycle. Also, it’s about $1.50 cheaper.

An email

We received this email from Walter the Rubbish Wizard.

Bridge Building

We had a challenge in discovery time today - to build a bridge over a crocodile infested river. We came up with lots of different materials to make our bridges. Our key for learning was working together and we all did that to build our bridges.

Puppets

In Discovery time this week some of us brought socks to make puppets. Next week we might make some more and use the puppet theatre to make a show.