Vegetable Soup

Last week our food of the week was onions.  We used onions to flavour our vegetable soup.  Ethan and Isla helped to saute the onions in butter to make them soft in our vegetable soup.  We all helped to make the soup by peeling, slicing and dicing the veges, adding the water and stirring the soup.  We cooked our soup overnight in the crockpot.

the next morning we came to school and our classroom smelt wonderful!  We all tasted the soup and most of us loved it and even had seconds.  We wrote instructions about how to cook the soup.

Here is Yina's recipe... she has remembered every step and put it in order.

Symmetry in Motion

We have loved exploring shapes and symmetry this term.  We have been learning to find lines of symmetry in different shapes and also making shapes that are symmetrical.  We made these creations with different maths equipment  in our classroom.  Then we used pieces of wool to show where the line of symmetry would be.

Making Hulk Juice

Our school is participating in the What's for Lunch? Food of the Week and Reduce, Reuse, Recycle programme this term. This week we have been learning about spinach. Spinach is rich in antioxidants. Antioxidants are good at getting rid of the bad stuff in our bodies. They are like the superheros of our bodies, who fight the bad guys to keep us healthy.

We made Hulk Juice with the spinach.  We all helped to make it and we ALL tried it.  Most of us thought it was delicious.  A few of us weren't so sure.  

We all wrote about what we did and then altogether we wrote a recipe.  You might like to try and make it at home.  

Badjelly the Witch

In the last week of the term, we enjoyed listening to the wonderfully imaginative story by Spike Milligan called "BADJELLY THE WITCH".  

We read the book and we listened to the story told by Spike Milligan himself.  On the last day of school we all drew our favourite character from the story and wrote a speech bubble to show what they would be saying.

We put it all together into a big mural for our classroom.  We have taken small snippets form the story and added them to our pictures so you can see how clever and creative we were.

We hope you enjoy it and maybe you and your family could listen to the whole story together. 

The day the rabbits came to school.

On the last day of the term, we had a special surprise from Archie's mum.  She brought their guinea pigs and rabbits in to school.  We were amazed because the rabbits could jump really high.  It was such a fantastic time.

Washing our Socks

We read the book "The Way it Was". This book looks at the way life was like for our great great grandparents.  We were quite fascinated with all the effort they had to go to just to do their washing. 

We wrote about what happens when our socks get washed.  Here are a sample of a few of our pieces of writing. 

Our Big Books this week

This week we have been reading two really fun big books in our class.  One was called "The Fun Bus'"and the other one one was called  "Captain Quake and Boss Bird".  Yesterday we shared our books with each other and did a couple of creative art responses.  

The Fun Bus

Captain Quake and Boss Bird