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.
It was a beautiful afternoon so we got outside to have some fun races. We split into two teams the blue team and the red team. You have to walk with the egg on your spoon to the cone. When you get to the cone you throw four bags into the hula hoop. If you miss you have to pick it up and try again. When you get them all in you pick up your spoon and egg and run back to tag the next person in line.
Today we read all about sunflowers and even read a poem. Afterwards we made some beautiful sunflower art. Below is the step by step guide of how to make them.
This book is about a giraffe going to the zoo because he works at the zoo. A lot of different animals were going to the zoo but they were late because they didn't have a bike. The giraffe was on time to work because he rode his bike.
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?
On Wednesday we did some balancing. When the coach said, "stop" we had to try balance on one leg with airplane arms. We sit down and listened to the coach, the coach picked someone to be the tagger. He gave them a pool noodle and the tagger had to run and tag everybody. When the person got tagged they had to stand like a starfish. To be back in the game, someone had to crawl through your legs. The tagging game was my favourite game because I liked tagging people.
Author: Jeremiah, room 7
Room 7 has been enjoying Get Set Go which is a physical education program that incorporates all sorts of gross motor skills and balancing techniques with good old fashion fun.
Story above orally titled and written by Jeremiah, room 7.
Room 7 is learning all about adjectives and how we can make our story sound more exciting by adding adjectives (describing words). We brainstormed adjectives describing the monster then we wrote a story about the monster. Tomorrow we are going to try and write our own.
