Room 7 had two special guests today, Nugget and Waffles. Room 7 and Blue Bubbles super Teacher Aid Mrs Megan brought in her two pet guinea pigs Nugget and Waffles and we loved spending time with them. They were very snuggly and scared but they loved eating all the vegetables we fed them, especially the celery.
Today we baked a quiche. Check out the photos of us below. If you would like to try and bake your own quiche then look at the recipe below.
Magnificent Blue Bubble Quiche
(no-pastry quiche)
Ingredients
4 eggs
1 ½ cups Milk
½ cup Self raising flour
1 cup grated Cheese
1 Onion
6 rashers Bacon / ham
2 cups vegetables of your choice, peas, sweetcorn, spinach, capsicum etc
Parsley
Salt and pepper
Equipment needed
Baking dish or muffin pan, greased with butter
Large bowl
Sieve
Wooden spoon or whisk
Grater
Chopping board
Sharp knife
Frying pan
Method
1. Preheat the oven to 180C and grease a large baking dish or muffin pan with butter/oil.
2. Put the eggs, milk and flour into a large bowl and mix together well until ingredients are well combined.
3. Add grated cheese.
4. Chop onion finely and chop up bacon. Add to a fry pan and cook for 5 minutes until the onion is softened and the bacon is beginning to brown.
5. Then prepare a further two cups of vegetables (corn, peas, capsicum, spinach)
6. Add the onion, bacon and vegetables of your choice to the baking dish or place a small amount in the base of the muffin pan.
7. Pour over egg, milk, flour and cheese mixture.
8. Bake for 40-45 minutes, you will know when it is ready when the quiche is set and golden. If making individual quiches in the muffin pan reduce cooking time to 20-25 minutes.
Today we had a wonderful adventure over to Dunkirk park with our teddies. We slapped on sunblock, slipped on our hat and took our teddies on an adventure. Miss Pryde read us a book then we got to introduce our teddy bears and talk about them a little bit. Afterwards we had lunch then we got to play. It was such a fun day out with our teddies. When we got back we got to eat our jelly from yesterday. It was a super fun day.
What is your favourite teddy bears name and where did you get it from?
Today has been a big day. We started off with phonics, we did the 'sh' digraph. Some of us did word finds (it was a hard word find) and others cut out letters to make words, some super speedy learners were able to do both. After morning tea we made jelly which wobbles like jellyfish. We put it into the fridge to cool, we are hoping it will be set before we go home. Next we read a fun book about Jellyfish, it was all about being helpful. When the book was finished we got to do some jellyfish art using water colours. It was super fun and pretty easy too. While the jellyfish art was drying we read a jellyfish poem and read it to three of our friends.
After lunch we got to go for a walk to the eels at Johnson reserve. We had to do zombie arms and put sunblock all over us because it was so HOT! We wore our sun hats too. The water was a bit yucky today so it was hard to see the eels but we will go back later this week and hopefully they will all be there. When we got back to school we were SO HOT so we all had a cup of ice cold water and read a book in the shade. It was a cool day.
On Friday we had book day. We dressed up as our favourite book characters because it was book week. We started the day off by going around the classrooms and listening to stories. Some of the people who read to us were Mr Johnston, our principal, Whaea Mele, Carlo's mum and a teacher at the kindergarten, the Panmure librarians and Mr James. After that we went to the hall for a special book day / Samoan language week assembly. There was a big surprise and Spiderman showed up. Spiderman jumped up on the stage and he was asking questions and all of them were about him. Next, all of the classes went to have lunch with their buddy class. With our buddy class we read books and ate our lunch. The last thing we did was take photos of ourselves in the Thing 1 and Thing 2 board. The day was fantastic!
The last few weeks Room 7 has been learning a range of new and different games, with a focus on card games. This helps us with number recognition, fine motor skills, social skills and is just a lot of fun. Below is some photos of our students learning through play.
Amarley and Ahea worked together to complete a puzzle. Later in the afternoon Rawiri joined in to help out.
Two groups played Go Fish. We focused on waiting our turn, listening to others when it's their turn and identifying numbers to 10. Next time we might use harder numbers.
One group played a new game called memory. Our focus was taking turns and paying attention to the numbers people were flipping over and trying to remember where they were. In the photo below you see Khit holding up a pair of fives, he was very excited.
Isaac and Ziv took to the whiteboards. They took the roll by writing down all the names of the students that were in class and they wrote down all the class rules. Awesome writing skills guys!
Freedom and Aryah played Pop up Pete, a wonderful game for fine motor skills. It was a bit of a shock to the whole class everytime Pete popped up.
What are your favourite games to play at home with your whanau?
Aanya is one of our three students on campus during alert level 3. She has been completing her distance learning tasks here at school and getting plenty of digital practice. Today Aanya watched the Oat the Goat video, drew a picture on her iPad of the goat then wrote a story to go with it. Aanya is practicing inserting pictures, using background colours and text boxes and is beginning to add things to her blog. Lots of learning, awesome work Aanya.
