Week 8

On Monday it was teacher only day. On Tuesday we learnt a maths game called magic square. On Wednesday we went to library with Mr Tops class. On Thursday we did GtT, and swimming sports. On Friday it was spotty day.

 By Oskar and Suzie. Photos by Nathan

Maths Problem Solving Game

Try playing "Weigh the Wangdoodles!" for some challenging thinking and problem solving!

Drama

Today we had drama with Mrs Winstone. We were super good

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Photography and writing by Nathan

Maths Week 8

We have been learning a range of subtraction strategies over the past few weeks. To show off your learning I want you to:

1.write a subtraction word problem as a comment to this post.
Think carefully about what strategy you want people to use when they answer it.

2. Answer someone else's subtraction problem as a reply to their post- write next to your answer which number strategy you used.

Subtraction strategies:

-Subtracting ones and tens
-Subtracting in parts
-Jumping the number line
-Don't subtract-add!
-Subtracting a tidy number then adding back on

Week 7

This week we went to Garden to Table on the wrong week. Here are some photos.
Next week we have swimming sports so please remember your togs towels and goggles on Thursday.
On Monday Mrs Carryer did her cooking show she made courgette fritters.
We had mandarin and we revised our body parts.
We also won the mathletics trophy this week. Well done Room 34!!!
By Teisha and Joel

Teachers Cooking Show

Here is our example of a cooking show. It didn't take us long to make and edit and was heaps of fun. Miss Hopkins even added a blooper reel to the end!
-Mrs Carryer-

Let's Cook!

Year 4 Menu and Cooking Show assignment
Due Monday 7th April

To show our learning from the term we are designing healthy menus that incorporate seasonal fruits and vegetables. We are going to use the drama skills that we have been developing to create a film that shows our learning.

 1. Design a menu with starter, main and desert.

Describe each dish on your menu using interesting vocabulary that will entice your diners to choose that dish.

Each dish must have at least one seasonal fruit or vegetable in it. We will write this in class.

 2. Choose one dish off your menu to cook in your 'cooking show'.

You will film yourself making the dish in the style of a cooking show. You must edit your film ready to share with the class. Parents can assist with this.

You may work with a buddy to create the cooking show but you both must appear in the film.

3. We will celebrate our learning with an in-class film festival and shared lunch where parents are invited to come watch the films.

  Success Criteria For your film

-Present with a clear, confident voice

-Face the camera while presenting

-Whatever you are filming needs to be the centre of the shot. Frame your shot carefully.

-Use appropriate language while presenting (such as the interesting adjectives we have used in writing)

- Use a range of camera shots including an extreme close up of your seasonal food
- Clearly show and explain the steps needed to create your dish
- Give some information about your dish, why you chose it and the ingredients you chose
-Edit your show so that it is succinct and interesting.
-You may want to add text over the footage to list your ingredients or steps.

Subtraction Week 7

We are learning a range of strategies we can use to solve subtraction problems.

Here are some games to practice on.

Calculation balance- click on subtraction for subtraction under 20

Subtraction to build a water slide- questions like 30-__=16

Subtraction conveyer belt- word problems for sums like 290+__=360

Reading Week 7- All about food!

Reading is also about visual language and sharing information in different ways.

Check out some of these awesome cooking demonstrations of dishes from the Pacific.
Write a comment to this post stating two things you noticed about the video.

Think about:
-camera shots
-ingredients
-seasonal fruits and vegetables
-Drama skills like voice and eye contact

Make a Niuean Takihi
Island eating: Poke from the Cook Islands
Fresh Flava's - Papiloa Foliaki's Lu Sipi
Fresh Flava's- Seru Mar's Fijian Curry

Awesome week

This week we started swimming lessons it was exellent! On Friday we had Mr Ratcliffe. For memo we went to the Junior side and there was a FIRE!!!! We wrote our reports and missed out on  garden to table because of EOTC. We learnt about alberga and philosophy. We are going to do a cooking show. Mrs Carryer's mum ( Dr von Hurst) came in and she is a nutritionist and she talked about how much water we had in our body.
By Naomi and Emily

Shreks Menu

Check out the fantastic descriptive language in these delectable dishes at Shrek's restaurant!

 

Shrek’s Restaurant

Caterpillar salad

This meal is served with rotting cabbage leaves. It will surprise you with wild mushrooms. The caterpillars are stuffed with syrupy boogers.

                                Naomi 

Toad Mash

This divine, original dish is cooked to perfection. Spectacular mushed toad legs with the grated eyeballs sprinkled on top. Extra mashed bodies and sensational arms plus some sour baked frog and toad hair. Served steaming with a strong texture.

                                Joel

Wormy spaghetti with mudballs

Gooey wriggling red, steaming with a touch of goo salt. Brown with green goo.

                                Suzie

Spicy chicken and frog legs

Spicy chicken and frog legs is flavoured with a vinegar that is the most popular soup and most loved. It is served with crunchy frog legs to dip in lumpy swamp water. It comes with earwax and saltwater as a drink. You won’t be able to get enough!

                                Lilly

Burnt Toast with Eyeballs

The toast is brown with a strike of madness in the middle. All the eyeballs are slimy with slime drizzled down the sides of the burnt toast. It is lumpy and rainbow coloured. All our eyeballs are free range. This is a sensational dish. If you don’t like it it’s a miss-mistake. The eyeballs are steaming hot.

                                Lucy

 Dried Mudballs

Here we have a speciality of dried mudballs. They have one big nut in the middle. On the outside is chocolate. Enjoy this taste sensation.

                                Bethany

 Eyeballs and worms

Eat scrummy soft worms with soft, chewy eyeballs. Served boiling hot with extra eyeballs.

                                Izzy

 Glow worm ice cream

Glow worms covered in pig snot ice-cream sunk in a toadstool sauce. It’s cold, sour taste will make you addicted. It’s a one of a kind, freshening dish with its gross, snotty taste of gummy, syrupy surprises.

                                Alex

Mud eyeball pie

A gooey, sloppy dish with colourful eyeballs floating on dark, thick mud. Made with a spicy, lumpy rat sauce.

                                Alex

Wild toad bolognaise

This one of a kind, hand crafted dish is served with spicy eyeballs on the side. The gummy toads legs are still frolicking and this dish is as gooey as glue. Drizzled with dragon juice, you will be dumbfounded if you swallow this steaming hot bolognaise.

                                Eve

Tangy toad soup

Chilled toad with a side of mushed caterpillar. Smelly socks on grated eyeballs, crispy and tangy toad dipped in booger soup. Comes with a side of crushed butterflies on toast.

                                Halle

Rat meat salad with boogy-snot sauce with pupils and a sprinkle of rat poop

The rat meat is served nice and sticky. The booger-snot sauce is nice and gooey and as runny as wee. The rat poop is served dry, rotten and crunchy. The bread is mouldy and green. Enjoy the unique taste of this spectacular dish.

                                Rosa

 Hot frog legs pancakes

With swamp mayonnaise and oranges stuffed with spicy turkey. Comes in any colour. We keep it in the fridge for 69 years before we serve it. It is also specially served with bananas that have been licked by dogs and covered with zest and vinegar.

                                Zara

Slime Pasta

It has freshly crafted mudzerella with exquisite rotten tomato sauce. With the slimy life changing vine spaghetti with grated eyeballs. If you get thirsty we have a cup of swampacola freshly here from the five star swamp.

                                Nathan

Five hundred thousand legged chicken with one metre rat

Disgustingly delicious for a family of ten. With a toxic chicken. Five dollars for takeaway. A crunchy rat has one dollar in its body. Extremely spicy! Try if you dare.

Joseph

Eye ball stew

This is one of the kinds of the dish for you because it comes out hot and tasty with a big steam on top of it. Also it comes out with a cold slimy smoothie with  lumps on the top with a straw and hot cheese around the gooey tasty straw .

                                Harrison

 Glass souffle

The glass souffle is the sharpest souffle ever invented. It will cut and polish. Use the poop mayonnaise and put a little bit of slime on it on it. It will slice and dice. The best way to eat it is smash it to pieces!

                                Preston

Eye ball soup

Eye ball soup is very hot and spicy. It come with toed still’s. it is crunchy. It tastes like lollies.

                                Greer  

Wild pixie casserole

Wild pixie casserole is amazing. It is served with snot trapped in worms, inside pixie wings. Now with a side of swamp weed juice. This is very rare and for a limited time only.

                                Mitchell

 Ear and hair brownie

This unique ear covered brownie has a strong taste of crunchy lady bird wings and silky hair complete with a sprinkle of baby ears. If you get thirsty the drink is zombie blood.

                                Emily

Rat marshmallows

Swam marshmallows with nose blasting stinky rat head and tail dangling off the side comes with ogre dip. You will be astounded by the gross taste.

                                Alex

 

Cooked worm tails with eyeballs

The taste is very disgusting and will make you turn bright green. Watch out for the eyeballs, they are very hot. They will make your lungs so tight that you won’t be able to talk. The worm tails are very long. They will make you puke.

                                Ben

Slug eyeballs

Yummy slug eyeball dish with slimy skinny and fat frogs. It’s rotten like a compost bin the eyeball are new and  fresh. Eat up.

Sivan

Spaghetti and eyeballs

This is served with mature noodles and eyeballs and dead ants. It comes with a rotten smoothie with cockroaches and a bowl of peas and snot and worms. It smells so bad that all visitors fainted.

                                Blake

Toad soup

It’s one of a kind. It’s spicy and sweet if you want we can put crunchy toad eye balls in. It is slithered with slimy toad saliva.

                                Oskar

 Eyeball stew and ice cream

This delicious deep fried eyeball stew has a spectacular taste of chewy eyeballs and a tip of tomato relish.

                                Teisha

Eyeball soup

You should try our one of a kind delicious lovely soup. It comes with rainbow eye balls with poo on the inside coated with toenail juice. It has a spicy spectacular taste.  It has chocolate flavoured poo. It also comes with 3 choices of other spectacular foods. It is one of a kind.

                                Zac

Eyeball Soup

Is on special it is like a crunchy human. Comes with a side of  lava  bones it is a spectacular dish.

                              Sam

Reading This Week

READING

 

 

Comment on the Blog

Read one of the following articles and comment on it stating two pieces of information that your learnt.

 

Seattle's 'Food Forest' Aspires To Provide Free Produce For All

 

locusts infest Cairo!

 

Feijoas for sale at Wainui School

 

Two kiwifruit a day improves your mood

 

 

Zebras

explore the Kelly Tarltons Website to find more information for your report

 

Monkeys

check out this great BBC website all about rock pools to find more information for your report

Lions

Check out this website to find out all about the Great Barrier Reef

Giraffes

read all about sharks on this National Geographic website (type sharks into the search bar)

Then try out this shark quiz!

 

 

 

Week 5

In topic we learnt all about seasonal fruits and vegetables. Mrs Elmore came in and talked to us about how apples grow and we looked at the orchard.

We have been reading about sharks lately because it is sea week.
In reading we researched about the colossal squid.

In maths we have been looking at how we are going to  share the pizza equally and what ingredients we need.

Don't forget swimming on Monday!!!

Bring:
-togs
-goggles
-a towel
make sure all your things are labelled!

By Greer and Zac

It's Sea Week!

It is Sea Week!

Seaweek 2014 will take place from 1-9 March 2014. The theme is “Our fragile, finite taonga – be alert to the fragility of the marine environment and its treasures. Kia mataara! Tiakina te au o te moana, he kōpīpī tōna“.

 

 

 

Home work

for homework research what our responsibilities are when we go fishing. Look at the Ministry of Primary Industries website for fact sheets specially for kids.

Write your answer as a comment on this post. Simply click COMMENT below and write in your answer

 

Reading

Te Papa has a great website about the colossal squid!

1. Click here to read all about it and try out the interactive activities.

2. In your reading book make a fact sheet with at least 4 facts about the giant squid.