Baking for Grandparents Day

Room 5 has had a busy day baking biscuits for Grandparents Day on Friday.

We melted the butter, sugar, milk, baking soda and golden syrup.

 

We mixed it with the sultanas, flour and vanilla essence.

We put spoonfuls of the mixture on a baking tray. 

We baked the biscuits in the oven for 12 minutes.

 

We counted how many biscuits we made. We had to count a lot of biscuits.

There were 94 biscuits!

We hope our Grandparents like their biscuits for morning tea on Friday.

Banana Cake

We made a banana cake using the kitchen in Room 6. We are very lucky to be able to have a kitchen in our learning space.

We had to cut up the butter before we put it in the cake mixer. Some of us thought it was cheese!

We needed to get a lemon from the tree outside our classroom. 

We all helped to bake the cake. We had to stir the mixture. 

 

 

When the cake was baking it smelt delicious.

The cake even tasted delicious.

 We shared the cake with the teachers.

They told us it was yum!

  

Feijoa Cake Book

Read our book about making the Feijoa Cake.
Click on the cover. 

Baking

Today we made a feijoa cake. We got the feijoas from the Kitchen Garden at school.

 

 We cut the feijoas in half and scooped out the insides with a teaspoon. 

 

Next we mashed a banana. This bowl has 2 eggs, 1 cup of milk, 1/2 cup of brown sugar, 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda and 1 mashed banana.

This is what it looked like after we mixed it.

Next we mixed it with 2 1/2 cups of flour and 2 teaspoons of baking powder.

Finally we mixed in 1 1/2 cups of feijoas. The mixture smelt delicious.

 

We poured the mixture into a cake tin. The baking paper stops the cake sticking to the cake tin.

 

We cooked it in the oven at 180C for about an hour.

 

The best bit was eating the cake in the sun outside. 

Delicious!

Looking after Nature

We went for a walk on our Nature Trail. 

When we got through the gate we could hear so many cicadas and we could even see some cicada shells up high on the trees.

When we walked along the path we were surprised to see lots of rubbish on the top part of the track. Anna told us that some of the Nature Trail helpers had collected a whole lot of rubbish just last week.

Look at all the rubbish we saw.

When we walked back to class we picked up more rubbish from all around the school.

 

 We want our Nature Trail area to be full of birds, insects and trees. We want everyone to put their rubbish in the right place.

Take a look at our video to help you remember what to do - 

Tutaekuri Potatoes

We harvested some potatoes from our garden. These potatoes are called tutaekuri which means dog poo in maaori. The shape of the potatoes does look a little bit like dog poo.

The tutaekuri were in the dirt. We had to dig with our hands to get them out. We got to hold them in our hands and then put them in the container. Looking for them was like finding treasure. They have dark skin and the inside is purple.

Look at all the potatoes we got.

Do you know how many potatoes there were? 

We counted them and there were over 140 tutaekuri potatoes.

What do you think we should do with our potatoes?

Helping the Environment

We have been thinking of ways to look after our environment.

Have a look at our brainstorm - 

What could you do to care for the environment?

Leaves

After our trip to Jubilee Bush we have been talking about all the leaves we saw. We were surprised that leaves could be so different. 
We have written this book about leaves.  

Jubilee Bush

Even though we went to Jubilee Bush over a week ago we talk about it a lot. Today we talked about our trip again and all the things we liked.

What did we like about our trip to Jubilee Bush?

What do we think other people would like about Jubilee Bush?

Jubilee Bush

 

Look at our X chart of our experience to Jubilee Bush. 

We used our photopeach to remind us of things we saw on our trip.

  

Jubilee Bush

We went on a great trip to Jubilee Bush which is at a park near our school.

We created a flowchart of our trip. We were very excited that we got to go on our school bus. 

We had so much fun while we were there and we will share some of our learning with you over the next few weeks.
Here is a photopeach of our trip. 

Jubilee Bush on PhotoPeach

We each created a map showing some of the things we did at Jubilee Bush. 

 This is me. The leaves fell down. These are trees. By Cruz

There was a small tree. There was a big tree. This is the ground. 
By Joey

This is a tree. Plants. There are bugs. By David.

This is grass. This is a big tree. This is a bug. These are trees.

Its got leaves. By Abshir

 There are leaves on the ground. There are little leaves. This is a        tree. This is a little tree. These are worms. By Chloe

This is a slide. This is a tree. By Ben

 This is a big tree. This is me. Here is the playground. This is a big tree. This is where we sat down. By Lizzie

It is dark in there. These are snails. This is a tree.

This is a big tree.  These are leaves. By Maee

 These are worms. This is a big tree. These are little plants growing. This is a flax plant. By Mia

This is a tree. These are leaves. This is an egg. By Kayden

 These are big trees. This is the leaves. By Subair

This is the path. This is a long tree. This is little leaves.

These are bugs.  The leaves have bugs inside. That's the park. By Magdalena

 This is a leaf. This is an egg. This is a tree. This is the slide. This is where we did the leaf rubbing. By Caylee