Tamariki Akoranga 8: May 2014

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Autumn has arrived at HES....temperatures are dropping coming up to Winter

Thank you to all the wonderful knitters at Knit World who kindly made all

these scarves for our school. Everyone has a cosy warm scarf to wear at break times!

Inquiry Unit - Money Doesn't Grow on Trees

WALT: be curious and ask investigative questions

Our Inquiry unit is all about money. We have a lots of questions we want answered and here is our question brainstorm. We will be researching and writing explanations.

The Sensational Strike percussionists

Friday 23 May 2014

Today me and my friend Ryal and the rest of the class were excited to go to the strike show. The names of the three percussionists were Biscuits, Timbo and Mufasa and they were amazing with the drums. They travel all over New Zealand. They have hundred of drums they can beat. They are very funny and silly.

Ms O ‘Neil and Whaea Eve were having a drumming competition…. Ms O’Neil won the drum competition she was the best and the drums were loud but some of the kowhai kids were a bit scared because the drums were too loud!!

Gursimran, me and Ryal are friends too. Gursimran was lucky to go on the stage to play the forest log. The logs were so loud that it shook the hall.

By Kevin and Gursimran

Making Anzac biscuits

We had a great time baking Anzac biscuits to celebrate Anzac Day which was in the school holidays. We learnt that the soldiers were sent anzac biscuits because they lasted longer because there were no eggs in them. The biscuits were also cheap to make because there were no eggs in them and eggs were very expensive during the war.

There was only one batch of biscuits that didn't work out very well because instead of 1 tsp of salt one group put in 1 cup of salt!!! The biscuits didn't taste very good at all.....

Next time we cook/bake we will need to read the recipe very carefully to get the right measurements correct.

Ingredients

1 cup flour
1 cup caster sugar
1 cups rolled oats
125g butter
2 tbsp golden syrup
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp of salt

1. Heat oven to 180C. Line baking tray with nonstick baking paper. Place flour, caster sugar and oats in a bowl and stir to combine.

2. Place butter and golden syrup in the microwave in a bowl to melt. Dissolve baking soda in the melted butter. Add melted ingredients and dissolved baking soda to dry ingredients and mix to combine.

3. Roll spoonfuls into balls and press with a fork onto prepared baking trays, allowing space for biscuits to spread while cooking.

4. Bake for 15 minutes or until firm and golden brown. Remove to a wire rack to cool, and enjoy!