Solar Oven S'mores

We had a sunny day today so it was time to use 

our solar ovens to make s'mores.

They were delicious!

We hope to make some more s'mores later this week when we go on our class picnic.

Have you ever made s'mores?

Where is the most fun place you've ever eaten them?

Hot - or Not? : Zeer Pots and Solar Ovens

In technology with Mrs Wistrand we've been learning that the sun's energy is used in many ways. 
We've looked at solar heating systems and also 
cooling systems.

We've already made zeer pot fridges, to keep our milk cool. See the post about it here. 

Now we've made solar ovens. 

When we get a sunny day we'll try making s'mores with our ovens!

Do you think our solar ovens will work?

What else could we try cooking with our ovens?
Do YOU make use of solar energy?

Can You Guess What We are Doing?

Can you guess what we are doing?



Can you guess what was in the container?

provided by flash-gear.com

Can you guess the missing vowels in these words?
h - t 
c - ld 
- ns - l - t -
m - t - r - - l

Lily Writes About Getting Ready For Pets Day

Lily has just turned 6. 

She was excited to enter her rock Mouse Family as an exhibit on Pets Day last week.

Do you have any feedback for Lily about her writing and her mouse family?

Through the Window: Looking At Ourselves

We've been working with Mrs Wistrand to create these artworks, where we are looking at ourselves 

through a four-pane, white-framed window.

These are the pictures that gave us inspiration:

'Birds of a Feather'

(2005)

Joanna Braithwaite

and 

'Boy with Noah's Ark'

(1916, 1917)

Edith Collier

Our sepia-look picture has a photo of us now, with our baby photo in the background. 

The sepia effect was created with crayon and dye.

In the second picture we clothed ourselves with photos of something special to us.

The third picture, with our toys, was done using water colour pencils, high-lighted with vivid pen.

For the fourth picture we drew memories, using pastels in our school colours.

What would you include if you were making artworks like ours?

What inspires you?

The Global Classroom Scrapbook Moves On

A few weeks ago a Global Classroom scrapbook arrived in the mail for us. 

You can read about it in this post.

We've put together our pages for the scrapbook. 
Here are two of them:

Now it is time to send the scrapbook on to the next class.

Off it goes to a school in Milton Keynes, England!
We're looking forward to hearing that it has arrived safely.

Do you think a traveling scrapbook is a good idea?
How can it help us in our learning?

Mystery Number Skype

Mrs. McKenzie read this post by Ms. Cassidy in Canada about her class doing a mystery number skype, and thought that the students in B4 would enjoy doing it too.

Now we've had our first mystery number skype with Miss Revell and her Year 2 class of iKids, near Napier, New Zealand.
Beforehand, we brainstormed some useful questions, so we could eliminate lots of numbers from our choices.
These questions can all be answered with 'yes' or 'no' answers. They are called skinny questions!

First, our class had to work out their mystery number.

After lots of questions to eliminate the numbers, there was only one number left. It was 64!
That meant that the iKids won that round!

Then it was their turn to guess the number we had 
chosen to start with, which was 67. 
It was funny that both classes had chosen a number in the 60s!
For the next rounds we tallied the number of questions asked. Both classes solved their puzzles in only 6 questions.

Now we are looking forward to more mystery number skypes with Mrs. Watson's class in Canada; 

and Ms. Lirenman's class, also in Canada!

We have a mystery number for you to work out.

Ask us questions in the comments section.

Remember, questions can only be answered with 'yes' or 'no'!