Mocktails

The Eye of Delight

This Eye of Delight is a mouth watering drink with L & P, maple syrup, whipped cream and apple. The divine whipped cream with slices of apple is a perfect topping for a tasty mocktail on a sunny summer's day. It is named because the whipped cream resembles the eye of delight.

Ingredients:

• 1 can whipped cream
• 185ml of L&P
• 65ml of maple syrup
• Half an apple

Method

• Grab one glass and pour 180 ml of L&P in.
• Add 65ml of maple syrup and stir with spoon.
• Put apple in ice shaver.
• Place apple in drink.
• Make a big swirl of whipped cream.

By Ben and Luke

procedural writing in action

In Room 2 we have been studying procedural writing. We wrote recipes using language features specific to procedural text. We included a purpose, ingredients list, method, with individual steps in chronological order and used active verbs. Upon completion we had the opportunity to make our fruit concoctions / smoothies. It was a really successful afternoon of fun learning and a good opportunity to work cooperatively with our class mates.

Please enjoy these photos.

Netsafe - Keeping Safe on the Internet

Hi everyone, I thought I would put on the blog the websites and information that was in the newsletter on the 3rd of September. These sites are very informative and the tips about reading the terms and conditions is extremely helpful. Hope this is useful. Miss J.

Two useful websites to help us are http://www.netsafe.org.nz/ and
http://www.thecybersafetylady.com.au/ and below is some useful tips:-
1) How to keep your kids safe on Minecraft:
 http://thecybersafetylady.com.au/2014/08/a-parents-guide-to-minecraft/
2) If your child wants to register for an online game, check the Terms & Conditions for the age
 limitation first. When you are reading the Terms & Conditions you can do a search using
 Ctrl F on a Windows laptop or Command F on a MAC laptop to find ‘age’ or ‘limitations’.
3) Talk to your child about what makes a good digital citizen. The same core values apply
 online. So for example “respect each other”, add the word “online”.
4) Videos/Quizzes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79IYZVYIVLA This is a video which
 goes through what a person's dossier looks like throughout the entire life starting in the
 womb! Digital footprint https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DinW62zlWcc. We like to
 talk about our digital footprint as our ‘digital tattoo’.
 This is a great “How Cyber Smart Are You?” quiz
http://www.cybersmart.gov.au/Home/Kids/Have%20Fun/How%20cybersmart%20are%20you.a
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5) This is a website which talks about the importance of having breaks and some suggested
 exercises to do http://web.stanford.edu/dept/EHS/prod/general/ergo/microbreaks.html

Experiment day in Room 2

Today (Monday 1st September) we are all doing our science experiments. We have to teach the people in our group (3 others) how to do your experiment and then we have to assess our students to know if they have learned anything or listened. We come up with our own assessment methods.

My (Joseph) experiment is about how to make glowing Oobleck. Through the process of doing my experiment, I realised I only had Wheat Starch. I used it and it works. Usually we would use Corn Starch but it looks like any type of Starch works.

By Joseph

Science website from Joseph

Here is a Youtube channel that helps me a lot when it comes to science. Please try it out and have some fun.

https://www.youtube.com/user/HouseholdHacker

From Joseph

Also here is the link to the toilet paper experiment with the leaf blower. Enjoy. Miss J.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtzVIXO7zh8

Commonwealth Flags

In Room 2 a few weeks ago we decided to research the Commonwealth Games. Room 2 had some spare time so we made flags of the some of the countries that participated in the games. Amelia did Ghana,Singapore and Malawi and I did India, Tanzania, Bahamas and Trinidad and Tobago.

Here are some of our flags we made.

By Kyla and Amelia

keyboarding skills

Hi everyone, with computers being such a big part of our life, typing skills are very important. I found this link that may help. Enjoy.

http://www.e-learningforkids.org/computer-skills/lesson/keyboarding-skills/