Knitting Club in room 2

Hi everyone, I started a Knitting Club which mainly consists of room 2 students (with some others). Here are some pictures of how we are going. Many of the children have mastered the knit stitch and next term we will start with the purl. The white work is a blanket I am working on for my cousin's baby due in August. Miss J.

Pizza with Mrs Fowler

One Tuesday, Mrs Fowler came to our class to make some delicious pizza. Well, you might be thinking, 'Pizza? Really, how unhealthy!' But actually, it is healthy!

Homemade things taste better! So in May, we got into groups of 3 or 4 and then began our activities. First we had to find 20 seasonal fruits and vegetables that are grown in May like apricot or avocado. Mrs Fowler also recommended the 5 a day website. Then we had to think of what we wanted on our pizza. My group picked potato, peas, pineapple and chives. For cheese, we decided on mozzarella and for meat, we choose none! Even without meat, it will be healthy and delicious.

On the day we made the pizza, everyone brought the equipment to school. Then Mrs Fowler showed us how to make the pizza dough. 

We all tried to make it and then we had to gather up all our muscles and knead as hard as we could, luckily the yeast made it rise and soften.

After morning tea, we stared with our pizza. We made the sauce with garlic, onion, tomato and tomato paste, the smell was so good that my mouth was watering!

Our groups eventually started with our pizza! We then baked it for about 10 minutes, the pizzas were our lunch and it was so tasty.

After our delicious lunch, we went to the classroom and wrote down the steps just in case we wanted to make more at home. 

I think making pizza was a great experience because I think that it boosted my fabulous cooking skills and I think I will defiantly make more in the future!

If you want to see the 5 a day website click down below

http://www.5aday.co.nz/

From Christine

Secret Garden Blog

Secret Garden

Every Thursday we spent the whole day with the Amazing Mrs Wallace. We have been reading The Secret Garden and as follow up we made our own secret garden in a shoe box by painting bricks as a background and bringing things from home. We've brought birds, butterflies, pipe cleaners, string, wool, toothpicks and cellophane. Some of us have made paper  trees and vines. 

Although we haven't finish quite yet they look amazing! Thank You Mrs Wallace.

pizza with Mrs Fowler

Mrs Fowler made pizza with us. First we had to make the dough. This was fun as we watched it rise and had to punch it down. We rolled it out ready for our toppings. Our toppings were a mix of different things. We put it in the oven. It was the best pizza ever.
Enjoy our photos.

More arts week - wearable arts

In our spare time during arts week we designed a picture on a drawstring bag. After our design had been penciled and coloured by special fabric pens we needed to iron them. This is so if it got wet the pens wouldn’t run. It was fun using an iron for the first time (don’t tell our parents!!)

We were also lucky enough to have some inspiring wearable arts in Room 22. These were amazing to look at. We even had the brainstorm and sketches, to see how people start with an idea and then have the finished product in front of us. We also got to see these costumes being worn by our students at the art week assembly last Friday. Truly fantastic!! Linda was also at the assembly, so we got to see her in person and thank her for lending us the costumes for the week.

Charlotte.

Please enjoy the pictures of the wearable art costumes.