Science Fair

What a great way to finish the term. We finished reading Shearwater Bell and heaps of parents came in to look at our Science Fair Projects.

Sefeti and Jemma Bake With Jess

Sefeti, Jemma and Tyler have been baking with Jess. Here is one of their favourite recipes for chocolate chip cookies. It would be a good thing for you to bake in the holidays as a family treat.

Chocolate chip cookies

Ingredients

225g butter
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup sugar
2 cups flour
1/4 cup condensed milk
1 cup chocolate bits
1 teaspoon vanilla

Instructions

Preheat oven to 190 deg C. Cream butter and sugar, add condensed milk and vanilla.
Cream until mix is light and fluffy. Sift baking powder and flour. Stir dry ingredients
into mix with chocolate bits. Roll into balls and place on baking paper. Flatten balls with a fork. Bake for 15 minutes.

Miniball

I play miniball on a Friday night in Richmond. It is fun. When the Giants are playing we can't play because lots of people go and watch them play.

Rachel's New Horses

A while ago I had a day off school and I went to Murchison and picked up two horses. Their names are Pickles and Sonic. They settled at their new paddock very well and are very good.
This is David on Sonic on the day we were going on a ride. Sonic is a very small horse and he is very cute but he can be a toad sometimes.
Pickles is a standard breed and he has learned how to pace and he is very big. He is very spirited. He is good on his feet and nice and stable.

Joe Rokothoko

In the weekend we went to the New Zealand v France rugby game. The next day at Wellington airport we saw Joe Rokothoko. He is a real All Black. Dad, Maxwell and I went up to him and asked him for his photograph. He was nice and he was REALLY big.

Be a Maths Millionaire

If you want to be a maths millionaire this might be a good place to start. See if you can win a big fat cheque!

Guess My Number

We play a version of this game sometimes for maths. Now it is on the internet as well.

Timez Attack

Timez Attack is a really popular game in the classroom and I could recommend it to parents who are interested in helping their children learn the times tables. At school we have downloaded the free level one version but I would love to have a look at the paid for home version which would sell for about $60NZ. If anyone would like to shout us a paid for copy we would love to hear from you.
To download the free level one version for PC or Mac click here.

http://www.bigbrainz.com/Download.html

Polar Bear Swim

We have just had our New Zealand shortest day and it was celebrated by a mid-winter swim. We read a School Journal Part 1 Number 3 2001. It was an article about a Polar Bear Swim at Kaiteriteri. Children were asked to write a poem about the polar bear swim and then they read them aloud. Here they are. Children would love some feedback about their poems. Add the feedback to the comments.

Click here to listen to Alex.

Click here to listen to Hayley.

Click here to listen to Jordan.

Click here to listen to Kiera.

Click here to listen Maisie.

Click here to listen to Tullamore.

Click here to listen to Jessica.

Prefixes

We have been learning about prefixes and the way that they can change a word. Kakapo reading group have been collecting words with prefixes and sharing them with Wordle.

Book Review Homework

I am trying something a little different for the last week of term. As well as gluing a copy of the homework sheet in children's homework books I am going to try to make a link to the download of it here.

So here it is. Click on this link to download a copy of this week's homework grid.

It is as a pdf (Portable Document File) which should mean that it can be read on all computers with a free Adobe download.

If you need the download you can click here.

Book Review

We are going to have another go at preparing a book review for our homework this week. Here is a great book review from Courtney at Springston School.

Review done by Courtney J.
Age 10 from Springston School.

Candy Floss
By Jacqueline Wilson

How easy was it to get stuck into this book?
It’s very easy to get stuck into all of Jacqueline Wilson’s books because she has such a thought for her readers and tries to base her book ideas on problems that her readers might have in their life. Also this book has a great personality which might sound odd, but what I mean is that I think this book isn’t like all her other ones (because there’s like millions) it’s one in particular that I would most certainly recommend to someone.

Who are the main characters?
Well first off, there’s Floss who’s a kind, friendly girl and then there’s her dad and he’s a tubby, happy person, but will he find his true love, or will he be left heartbroken?

What’s the story-line?
The story-line is about a young girl whose parents split but as her mum goes on a work trip to Australia with her new boyfriend Floss is determined to stay with her dad who takes her to every fun fair that passes through her town. But as her dad meets a wonder woman he is set to follow her and have a great time. But then, as Floss’ dad goes broke and loses his house, will wonder woman save him?

How it’s written!!
This book is written both in a formal and informal style because it is something that happens to people, but it’s also quite funny and jokey.

Other books by the same author that I know about!!

Jacky Daydream
My Sister Jodie
Love Lessons
Best Friends
Double Act

My Rating!!

I give this book a 4/5 because it’s the best Jacqueline Wilson book I’ve ever read, but that’s just me so why don’t you read it yourself because it’s a great book?

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The Working Form

We have been learning how to do the working form of adding making sure the ones, tens and hundreds are all in the right place. This website lets you write the working form and check your answers right then and there. This one will be a clever one for you to do Olivia- while you are at home getting better. Now that's one clever web site!

Fletcher's Homework

Last week for homework we had to some do some art so I decided to do a battleship. It was an English battleship with English soldiers that were fighting German soldiers and there were German planes.

Fletcher made this post on our playground blog. What a lot of work he put into making this piece of art. If you want to see the big display you will have to come into Moturoa.

Rugby

On Saturday we travelled to Murchison to play against Murchison. This is my rugby team. Their names are Daniel, Cody, Conner B, Conner C, Josh, George, Liam, William, Reon and I.
We lost against them but we played well and I got player of the day. I was really sore after the game.

Frozen Lake

On Thursday morning Dad, Mum, Flynn and I went up the back of our place to have a look at the pond that was frozen.

It felt weird to stand on a frozen pond.
My feet were freezing to death.

Wimbledon Tennis

The Wimbledon Tennis Tournament has just started in London, England. Just for a bit of fun to while away these cold winter evenings I thought you might like to play a spot of tennis to improve your hand/eye co-ordination.

Click here to play a spot of tennis.