Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Lost Property Box Take I

Last term we presented our social action for our Financial Literacy inquiry learning
to the school at Positive Assembly and at the Parent Information Evening. 

We also recorded our script and made an imovie of our findings.

This is our first attempt at recording our findings. We watched it as a class and reflected on the quality of the movie. These are the things we thought we could do better next time

  • hold the iPad still when filming by leaning on a table to keep it steady
  • make sure we don't cut off the heads of people when they are talking
  • make sure the people behind the iPad aren't giggling, talking or moving their hands on the iPad because it records all of those background sounds
  • when you are speaking you are looking at the camera and make eye contact (we are going to try putting the words on the back of the iPad to read off so it looks  like you are looking straight at the camera)
  • we think a song at the start would make it more interesting
  • stand still when you are talking so you don't look nervous
  • use a loud clear voice and/or a microphone (we need to ask Whaea Sheryl)



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!


Melted butter

Mixing(combining) dry and wet ingredients

The final product - a little bit too close together.


Butter melted to combine with the dry ingredients

Dry ingredients measured out

Biscuits on the tray ready for the oven

Anzac biscuit dough