Worms with play dough

In Maths today students have been learning to compare the length of objects. We used play dough to make long and short worms. Everyone got a ball of play dough and were asked to make a worm. Students then described their worm (eg. My worm is long, My worm is fat, My worm is tiny).

After that, students were asked to make a worm that is short and looked at which worm was the shortest / longest. Great display of our Virtue, 'Creativity'!

We had lots of fun and great discussions.

Biscuit Making

Our students had a great experience by baking a special batch of biscuits today. They all had a chance to put some of the ingredients in the bowls.

Students learned about measurement and division (each got a big ball, which they had to split into four equal parts). 

This fun activity also encouraged teamwork and developed patience... as students had to wait for the biscuits to cook!

Thank you to Whaea Kate for sharing her baking skills and to Whaea Halei who catered for the gluten free student in our class.

Our Biscuit Mix Recipe

Ingredients

500 g butter

1 cup sugar

1 tin condensed milk

5 cups self raising flour

Method

1. Cream butter and sugar together

2. Add 5 cups of flour and mix

3. Add 5 cups of flour and mix

4. Add flavourings like M&M, Choc Chip,  peanuts, cranberries, raisins, sultanas, apricot & white chocolate, dried fruit.

Bake for 10-20 minutes in a 180 degrees oven.

Making our own Pizzas

One of the many things our students learned in Maths this term was about 'Shapes'. Today students made their own little pizzas... Thank you so much to Halei Aarsen who kindly donated all the 'ingredients'. We all had so much fun!

We had to ask Mr Taylor to help us set the oven...!

Cooked pizzas...

Yummy!!

Mr Taylor got a pizza too!