Making milo

One or two teaspoons of milo are tipped into a cup.

Adding in the milk.

Can we drink our milos yet?

Is there anymore?

Badminton

Today we had someone from Badminton Southland come to teach us badminton skills.


Did you know?

• badminton is the 4th most popular sport in the world
• you use rackets and shuttles
• it is an indoor sport
• the shuttle has a cork covered with goat skin at its base. This is the bit you hit with the racket.
• the shuttle has 16 goose feathers above the cork
• it takes feathers from 8 geese to make one shuttle
• a shuttle can travel at 420km/hr.

Nogards

Yesterday Mrs T-K gave our class a set of instructions to visualize and draw a creature called a Nogard. Miss Swney read the following instructions and we drew the individual parts.

What is a Nogard?

The Nogard is an animal. It has an oval-shaped body. It has a long neck and tail. The top of the neck, back and tail are covered with a row of triangular-shaped plates. The Nogard’s head is shaped like a long triangle. It has big eyes and eyebrows that stick out. It also has big nostrils. Its body is covered with scales. The Nogard has four short legs. At the end of each leg is a foot with five toes. Each toe has a sharp claw at the end. The Nogard has two wings attached to its body. These are located behind the front legs towards the top of its back. Nogards are usually green but change to a deep purple during the winter months.

We noticed that everyone’s interpretation of the instructions was different. You can see our ‘Nogards’ if you stand outside our classroom and look at the windows.

Paper planes

Last week we were lucky enough to have the boys from Room 2 join us for our paper plane making.

The instructions were put up on the IWB for us to follow, although many of us already knew how to make paper planes. Our prior knowledge made it challenging to follow these instructions. Luckily the instructions included diagrams so no mistakes were made as we folded the paper.

After the planes were made, we drew designs onto the wings and body of our planes so when we flew them we would know which plane was ours.


The best bit was this, we got to take them outside and fly them to see whose plane could fly the greatest distance. Isaiah-Runi's plane was the winner and it flew onto the roof so Mr Parker had to rescue it. Making paper planes was fun!!!!!

Rainbow writing

Today we followed a set of instructions from Junior Journal 24 for Rainbow writing. We identified the verbs or doing words at each stage.

Rainbow Writing

You will need:

• two sheets of paper the same size
• a sharp pencil or pen
• a set of oil pastels

1. Use the pastels to draw stripes in rainbow colours on one of the sheets of paper. Press hard and colour in every bit of the paper. Dark colours work best.
   
2. Turn the coloured sheet over and place it face down on top of the other sheet of paper.
3. Write on the back of your coloured paper with a sharp pencil or pen. Press firmly.

When you have finished, take the top sheet of paper off, and you will have rainbow writing.

"Rainbow writing is cool!" said Reilly.

"Rainbow writing is fun to do." said Scarlett.

"It is easy to do by yourself." said Josh.

Aboriginal Art

We are creating a piece of Aboriginal Art. We are learning to 'make it right' and 'persist' - two 'Habits of Mind'. Watch this space to see the finished products in a couple of weeks.

Patiently applying dots to the snake using a cotton bud.

Instruction Writing - Sandwich making

These photos are of some of our class making sandwiches as part of our "Instruction writing' unit.



Goal How to make a butter sandwich
Equipment/Ingredients

• bread
• butter
• plate
• knife

Method

1. Place the bread on the plate.
2. Get your butter
3. Spread the butter on the bread with the knife.
4. Cut the bread in half.
5. Eat the sandwich.

By Ella

Goal
How to make a honey sandwich

Equipment/Ingredients

• plate
• knife
• bread
• honey
• butter

Method

1. Place the bread on the plate.
2. Spread the butter over the bread.
3. Spread the honey over the bread.
4. Cut the bread.
5. Eat the bread.

By Aiden