Celebrating Smoothies

Our recent science unit on milk led on to a technology unit 

where the children planned and made yummy smoothies for some adults in the school.

They had to decide on ingredients and test for flavour and suitability, as some people have allergies.
After a test run where each group got to make, taste and adjust their recipes, the children made and delivered the smoothies.
Everyone thought they were delicious!


What is your favourite smoothie recipe?

Questioning Poems

Here we have the last in our series of poems for this term -  our questioning poems.

Maybe you could write a poem for us about your pet, or your brother or sister!

Playing with Poetry

We've had a lot of fun this term, 

finding out about some of the tools poets use, and writing our own poems.

We learned about similes, and used some to add effect in 
our Mothers' Day poems and our autumn poems.

We also had some fun with alliteration.

Now we are trying out some different poetry formats.
Here are our cinquain poems.
(We just followed word rules, not the syllable rules in these first attempts!)

Have you ever written a cinquain poem?
Leave us a poem as a comment, telling us about yourself!

Enjoying Kahurangi Theatre

We've enjoyed another quality show from Kahurangi Theatre .

This show told the story of Matariki, a star cluster who's appearance marks the beginning of the Maori New Year. Harvesting is done, food is collected and stored, and it is a time for stories, singing and dancing.

Kahurangi show at Reefton Area School from Judy McKenzie on Vimeo.

When do you celebrate New Year?

Autumn Poems

What is your favourite season of the year?

Milk It!

In Science this term we are having fun learning about milk with Mrs Wistrand.
We tasted cow's milk, almond milk, soy milk and rice milk.
Some were nicer tasting than others!
We talked about the properties of each milk.
(The properties are the features or special qualities something has.)
Milk is a liquid. It can pour.

We heated milk to see what happens.
When we held a plate over the pan, water collected on the base of the plate - we think milk has water in it!

 There was no liquid left in the pan, just some solids. 

We added vinegar to milk, and the mixture separated into curds (curdled solids) and whey (the liquid in the milk).

We found out that milk can be changed into other products.

We made butter!

And then we made icecream!

Measure the milk, sugar and vanilla essence

Place in a snap-lock bag

Put ice and salt into a larger bag and put the milk bag inside it.

Shake

Shake

Shake

Shake

And shake

Enjoy!

Do you drink milk?

What type of milk do you enjoy?

How many animals or plants can you think of that can 

provide milk?

Have you ever made ice-cream in a bag? 

What is your favourite ice-cream flavour?

  

Taonga Puoro

Jerome visited our school and shared his 'taonga puoro' - singing treasures.

Jerome skillfully showed us how he is able to make music from 
percussive instruments such as rocks; 
wind instruments such as gourds, bones, putatara (shells) and wood; 

and whirling instruments.

He played music from a whale tooth. 
The tooth had been made into a nguru - nose flute.

Jerome used these carved instruments to tell the story of the casemoth:

Here is a compilation of the sounds of Jerome's instruments.
Singing Treasures at RAS from Judy McKenzie on Vimeo.

What was your favourite instrument?

For our visitors - What are some traditional musical treasures from your area?