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Monday 29 June 2015

Onesie and Wacky hair day!

Last Friday was our onesie and wacky hair day. Room 3 looked amazing!
We had some very wacky hairdos and some very snuggly onesies.

We had this day to raise funds to give back to kidscan. Kidscan are an amazing charitable trust that supply us all here at school with some pretty awesome things, such as our awesome warriors jackets, all our amazing food, new shoes, and plasters and tissues. All of these things have been so helpful for us all.

Congratulations to Shayne, Violet and Lucas for being Room 3's wackiest and onesiest!





Our last week this week! Enjoy the week and have a safe and fun holiday!
Miss D'Ath

Sunday 7 June 2015

Making butter!

This term we have been investigating and seeing how egg beaters work.
Last Friday we wanted to test out our hand egg beaters, and race them against the electric egg beaters.
To do this we decided to make butter. Room 3 had to work out where butter comes from...... funny how it comes from a cow! But we decided it didn't come out of the cow as butter.
Our butter began as milk. This was then left to set so that the cream set on top. The cream was gathered and put into a bottle- which Miss D'Ath purchased from the shop.

We made sure we had 2 iPads at the ready so that we could time each bowl of cream- the one that was being hand beat and the one that was being electrically beat.

And guess what! They took exactly the same amount of time to turn into butter!

We noticed that when it started to turn into butter the cream went all curdly and then water started to gather in the bottom of the bowl. This water was butter milk. Or whey- as in curds and whey.
We pressed our butter down in a bowl to get rid of all the butter milk.
Once we were certain we had pressed out most of the butter milk we put our butter into a dish and got out our bread. We each buttered our own piece of bread and added sprinkles to make fairy bread!

It tasted delicious! Just like butter that you buy from the shop!



Cream starting to curdle

The "whey" that came out of our butter.






Wednesday 3 June 2015

Ripper Rugby and Reading Tents

On Thursday Miss D'Ath went down to Napier to see what Nelson Park School get up to. It was a very cool chance to see what they get up to down there. It was also a chance to pick up a very cool reading tent which has seen a lot of reading visitors this week!


Last Friday there were not many people at school. That was because half of us were at the inter- schools Ripper Rugby tournament at the War Memorial Park in Wairoa.

It was a very chilly morning and all of our feet were frozen! Thankfully we went for a big run to warm ourselves up and then into our games.

I followed our Yr 3 & 4 team around and they were awesome. They focussed on passing the ball to the person nearest them instead of trying to find their friends.

We had some very speedy runners and all our players contributed in either tries or rips. We got into the plate shield final and were working well as a team in our last few games.

A very big thank you to all the parents who came and supported us. Especially Bernie who coached the team.

We all had a lot of fun.