Baking Delights

Yum yum! On Wednesday Room 10 and 11 baked delicious Hot Cross Buns and amazing Anzac Biscuits. First we put milk and boiling water in a jug then sprinkled on some brown yeast. We watched in amazement as the yeast bubbled up. Next we added the liquid to the dry ingredients and mixed it up. After a rest we shaped the dough into buns and let them rise again. Miss McClue squirted crosses on our buns. A lovely Mum helped us to cook them in the hot oven. They looked yummy and smelt delicious!

To make Anzac biscuits we put sticky gooey golden syrup in with flour, rolled oats, sugar and coconut. Then we added melted butter and baking soda dissolved in boiling water. We stirred the mixture carefully. Next we rolled the dough in our hands and squashed it a little on the baking paper. The tasty biscuits were cooked in the oven. They tasted crunchy and buttery!

We loved making Hot Cross Buns and Anzac Biscuits. We hope we can bake again!

By Room 11

Our Voki

Powhiri Recounts

In week 9 we welcomed ERO to our school. We started the week with a powhiri. Here some recounts of the events.

Powhiri
"Today is the day of the Powhiri". I was so excited and there were lots of speeches. We sang a song to them. At the end they touched noses. They had something to eat and had a talk.
By J-Star

Powhiri
"Yay the visitors came". The old lady said in maori "Please come" Then another lady said in Maori "We're coming". The kapa haka group sang and I think it was great.
By KingT

Art Gallery Trip

Today we went on the fantastic Art Gallery trip. In the studio we made portraits. We had to draw around a face stencil and draw around our hand. Then we drew our favourite things in the middle. Next we put ink on our finger and filled the hand with finger prints. Finally we put hand prints on our paper. We had to wash the messy ink off our fingers.

In the gallery we saw amazing art. We saw paintings of people done by Gottfried Lindauer and John Goldie. We liked the art piece that was lots of coloured knitting. Jack counted that there were 140 circles. They looked like a rainbow.