Rewena Bread

We read a book about rewena bread. After that we made it. But it was only the rewena starter. First Mrs M mashed some potatoes without draining it. Mrs M poured it into a bowl. Next we added 2 cups of flour. Then we put some sugar in. We stirred it up. After that we sliced a raw potato up. We mixed it up and left it in a warm place overnight. Today we are going to have to stir in a cup of warm water. Then cover it and put it back in its warm place. The next day we will stir in a teaspoon of sugar and a teaspoon of flour. Then we will put it in the warm place and cover it up again.
by Islay

Bread Making

The Yeast Beast had water and yeast and sugar.The blue balloon filled up of carbon dioxide.
The yeast is frothy. We made bread. For the bread we put yeast and flour and salt and sugar and oil and water in a bowl and Mrs M put the bowl in Mrs M's car. The bread rose. The we cooked the bread and the bread was hot. We took the bread out of the oven. Then we ate the bread.

by Dylan

Potato Report

Stacy's potato is growing very big and well but it is growing on one side.The leaves are very green and big.Tiny little leaves are growing.The new potatoes in our school garden are growing very well too.
By Stacy and Islay.

Yeast Beast

Yesterday we made an experiment. We put yeast, sugar and water in it.
It had a blue balloon on the top of the bottle. Carbon dioxide filled it up with air. Then we made bread with yeast, flour ,salt, sugar, oil and water. The yeast made the bread bubbly. I had two pieces of bread with butter on it. It tasted very, very, very good.
by Jesse.
This is the first time Jesse has written a two page story.
Well done Jesse.

Where is Jared?

Jared's photo will be on the blog later in the week.
Keep a look out for it.

Group Day

Some people went to Group Day.Blake ,Ethan , Jessica ,and Stacy all went to Group Day.They all won a prize.Stacy got a certifacate and a ribbon.Blake got a trophy.Ethan and Jessica got a ribbon. Jared got a trophy and a ribbon. They all had a lot of fun.
By Jelena and Islay.

Group day

Potato Report

The potatoes are growing potatoes because you can see the stalks and leaves. Mrs M hopes the potatoes don't get blight.
by News Reporters
Charlie and JJ.

Today we learnt about the Potato Famine in Ireland.
Mrs M. found a good site by googling "Irish Famine Tandy".
The children had lots of fun on this site.

Potatoes in Ireland

Athletic Sports

Potato Report

Room 3s potatoes are growing very fast. We can see the shoots in the potatoes.
We water them two to three days a week.
by News Reporters,
Dylan and Callum.

Planting Potatoes Again

We planted potatoes. Mrs M changed the worm farmers from the girls to the boys.The girls are now the gardeners.The girls dug and weeded in the garden.Mrs Wood helped the girls. Mrs M dug some holes in the garden. We put the potatoes in the holes. Jessica and Islay put tags in the places the potatoes were after they had covered them up.Then the girls watered the potatoes.I love planting potatoes.
By Islay.

Our Roots are in the Andes

We are learning about potatoes. We made potato people from the Andes. Some people brought potatoes. We drew a pattern on some material and cut a hole in the middle for the poncho.We put the potatoes through the poncho.Mrs M stuck ice-cream sticks into the potato for the legs. Mrs M made little hats for them. We made the Andes in the sandpit. The whole class played with their potato people in the sandpit.
By Stacy, Casey, Islay and Jelena.


After that we wrote about where potatoes came from.
This is called HISTORY......(a university word)
Here are two pieces of writing........

8000 years ago the potatoes got found. They were in the Andes in South America . The potatoes can be grown in all different places.The men were going to get gold and silver. But they found the potatoes. They had come from Europe to South America. That is how we have potatoes.
By Casey.

8,000 years ago two men sailed around the world from europe to south America. In south america they found gold, silver and potatoes. The potatoes grew in some mountains called the Andes. In the Andes there are lots of gaps for water and potatoes to grow in. So that's how potatoes got discovered. All around the world the countries found out about potatoes.
By Jelena

Bubble share Video.

Mrs m had a little bit of trouble with this video.
There seems to be lots of copies.
We all were having loads of fun though.
Enjoy everyone.

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PLANTING POTATOES

• We drilled five drainage holes in our buckets and put a name tag on them.
  
• We filled the bucket half full of compost.
• We put a potato in the bucket.
• We filled the bucket up with compost and patted it down.
• We watered the potatoes.
  

by room 3.

Mr Potato Head

Blake , JJ, and Ethan found Mr Potato Head in the cupboard.
Then they put it in Blake's bag and brought it to school.
Some of the children put him together.
We watched a little movie about Mr Potato Head.
We have coloured a potato head on the computer.

PLANTS

Mrs M brought two pumpkin plants to School. At the moment they are yellow because they haven't had any sun..We are wating for the
leaves to go green.The one Stacy planted is green already. Stacy and Jessica planted them in
two blue pots.
byStacy and Jessica.

We are getting these potatoes ready to plant.
We have put them in a warm place in our room.
We are going to plant them on Friday.

When Mrs M got the plant out of the compost we saw it was growing from a potato.
Two little potatoes were growing off a potato root.
Then someone saw a very small potato as well. It was the size of a spider's egg.

Above the Ground/Below the Ground

We named all the vegetables we could think of.
Mrs M wrote these on a special piece of paper.
Then we sorted the vegetable pictures and decided if we ate the bit that grew under the ground or above the ground.

TERM 4

Hello. Room 3 is back again blogging.
This term our big integrated topic is POTATOES.
I wonder if anyone knows why ?

The Rainbow Castle

We are learning about Fantasy. Mrs.M saved a box for us.We made a castle out of it.It is called Rainbow Castle. We painted it all sorts of colours. We all made a princess.Jessica made one
dolphin.Islay made 3 dolphins.We made a boat with a hook to hook up to the castle and the
boat was coverered in shells.Jelena's princess is called Saphire. There are pretty decorations on the castle.Stacy's princess is called Anabelle.Casey's princess is called Melody.Islay's princess is
called India. Jessica's princess is called Amber. Lucy's orincess is called Ella and Meryl's is Princess Penelope.

The Knights Castle

Dylan and Jhaelen made the bridge. Dylan made the drill to pull up the bridge.Ethan made the turrets to go on top of the castle. Callum and Connie painted the mote and windows. Charlie and Jared made the flags with sticks to put in the turrets. All the boys made the knights. Connie made the alligators for the mote.
We were learning to co-operate.
After that we wrote narratives about the characters in the castle.

The Rice balls

The Olympics

CHARACTERS

Have you seen any of these characters in Greenpark?
Do you recognise yourself or somebody?
Read on and ...........
PLEASE make some comments.

Mum has brown hair.
She has pretty, twinkly, sparkly eyes, and some wrinkles.
She always wears pants.
She is so pretty.
She has short hair.
My mum is little.
She is normally happy.
My mum sometimes wears earrings.
She loves baking, and walking the dog and the horse.
She really, really, really loves gardening, and she loves crafting.
Her crafting is so beautiful.
I love my mum because she is so nice to me and because she is great.

My Dad has green eyes that sparkle like the stars in the sky.

He wears farm pants and gumboots on the farm.

My Dad is cool because he gives me treats.

My dad has black hair, green eyes and wears green clothes.
He is really tall. He is about 1 metre and 86 centimetres.
he takes us to school when Mum's at work.
He feeds the baby lambs.
He watches ONE NEWS on tv.

My dad is cool and awesome because he gives us cool stuff for being good.

My Dad has a goatie.
He does tyres.
He has a heart on his hair.
He wears a red shirt and black pants.

My Dad has glimmering eyes that shine in the sun. My Dad's hair is pretty. My Dad's neck stretches long. My Dad has a prickly chin.

My Dad goes to work. My Dad works in the garden. My Dad teaches people to grow plants. My Dad builds things.

My Dad is fun to play with. My Dad makes me happy when I cry. My Dad is good fun.

My dad is so funny.

My dad has grey jeans. He wears them nearly all the time.
His eyes are like stars. They twinkle in the sun.
He has cool black hair. He has a hat on a lot.
Every day in the week he sleeps in. At night he goes to sleep late. When we have tea he eats a lot.
When I have spelling or reading he will do it with me.

He is so funny and silly. He tells jokes and tales. He tells jokes about me and other people. I love him.

My Dad has dirty hands like a brown beetle.
My Dad has brown wavy hair.It looks like sea waves, except brown.He has twinkling eyes.
He almost always wears pants, a jacket and a
t-shirt.His prickly beard is like a hedgehog.

Sometimes when we go to visit Nana he falls asleep on the couch and we can't watch the tv.
At home in the weekend he sleeps in until
10 o'clock.While he sleeps in he snores like an erupting volcano.

He gives me fun horse rides on his knee.I go up and down like a hopping kangaroo.
Sometimes when Mum is out he gives us a lot of lollies. Sometimes at night he sits on my bed and tells me a funny story. He uses his funny baby voice. When music is on he sometimes dances with me. We jump and spin and flop.

He rips his old dirty t-shirts when he is wearing them. He is funny because when he rips his t-shirt he looks like a gorilla.

BLUEY, OUR BUDGIE

BLUEY OUR BUDGIE

Bluey flies around in the cage.
He spins his toys and he listens to music.
By Jessica Y.

Bluey is in the cage.
Bluey is blue and silver.
Bluey is funny.
By Blake

We have a budgie.
He swings on his bells.
He goes in a circle and finds another one to go through.
He jumps up and down.
He walks upside down on the roof.
He makes a chair with his beak.
He has blue, black and white feathers, and a yellow beak.
I like Bluey because he is beautiful.
By Evarnn

He lives in a cage at Mrs M's.
He looks like a zebra and a blue bird.
Bluey feels happy.
I feel happy because Bluey is at our school.
By Charlie

Bluey is Mrs M's bird.
Bluey is blue, white and black.
Bluey does a flip.
I like Bluey because I like the colours on him.
By Jesse

Bluey is a funny budgie.
He likes to do a little course around his cage.
He likes dancing to music.
He has blue, black and white feathers.
Bluey goes on holiday with people,
and eats people's hair.
It's funny when he tries to get himself out of the mirror.
We love Bluey.
By Jelena

Bluey our budgie is Mrs M's bird.
He has blue, black and white feathers.
His tail has black feathers.
His stomach has blue feathers,
and his back has black and white feathers.
He lives in a little white cage.
He does lots of tricks.
He rocks, rumbles, shakes and dances.
I like Bluey because he is beautiful.
By Connie

Bluey is a very friendly bird.
He lives in a beautiful white cage.
He leaps like a frog with a broken leg.
He tweets to the best beat of music.
He has a very colourful ladder.
Sometimes when he is on the perch
he bounces up and down.
I think he is always happy.
He must like the classroom.
By Callum

CHARACTER WRITING

The garden gnome is at school.
He is wearing yellow pants.
By Ethan


A little garden gnome has black boots.
He sits in a little blue container with his arms out.
He has yellow pants.
He has got a belt with a gold buckle.
He has got a white beard.
He has got a pointy red hat.
He has a red coat.
He has brown sleeves.
He has got very very dark blue eyes.
He lives under the tree.
He likes looking around the garden.
He lives at Mrs M's.
He does not have a name.
I call it Gnome.
by Lucy

This term we are doing character writing.
These paintings are of the cats who went to The Dancing Cat's party.

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RONALD McDONALD

Today Ronald McDonald suprised the Room 3 children.

ACID RAIN EXPERIMENT

The seeds with water have grown.
The seeds with water and vinegar have not.
The vinegar has made the water like
acid rain.

TREE PEOPLE

After talking at home about changes that could be made to reduce our carbon footprint children made a pledge "I am going to ..........."
Korina has very kindly spent time helping all the children to join the Treepeople site,choose a tree, and make a pledge.
Unfortunately some of the pledges children had made at home were not available on the site so some children have changed theirs.
You can access the site through http://treepeople.co.nz
and look for names of children from Room 3 on it.
Thanks to Korina for helping us with this and thanks to all who have visited our blog and left comments.
Mrs M.

What is a carbon Footprint?

Today we unjumbled another sentence.
It said:
A carbon footprint is the mark that is left behind when we don't look after our world.
How do we not look after our world?

• by polluting the air
• by littering
• by cutting down trees

What can we do?

This weekend for Homework we are going to think of something that we can do to help our world.

ACID RAIN

Dylan had told us that smoke from the muffler of the car goes up in the air and becomes acid rain, and kills all the plants.
We did an experiment to find out if acid rain would stop seeds growing.

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We found out lots about carbon footprints. It's hard to understand

Cows and Methane Gas

When Connie told us that the cows "windies" were helping to make a hole in the ozone layer we asked Korina to tell us all about how this could be. Islay told us that the ozone layer was like a blanket over the world. The next day Gavin brought some cows to graze right outside our school. We went to check them out.
Callum took a photo of one of the cows, and wrote this explanation.......

COWS
Cows have four stomachs.
It looks like they only have one or two.
Their four stomachs have to work hard to digest their food.
Cows make a special gas called methane gas.
It comes out the rear end and the front end.
by Callum

Jessica M's friends thought her writing sounded like a poem.
What do you think?

COWS
Cows eat food.
The cows digest the food.
Then the cows burp
and the cows pass wind.
The cows pass wind
and the burp from the cows
go up to the atmosphere.
by Jessica M.

CARBON FOOTPRINT

Yesterday Mrs M asked us,
"What is a footprint?"
We talked with a buddy about all the things we had done
and learnt about footprints.
Then Mrs M gave us an envelope with words in it.
We had to make a sentence with the words.
The sentence was :
Our footprint is the mark that we leave behind.

Then Mrs M asked us a REALLY BIG QUESTION.
Mrs M asked us,
"What is a carbon footprint?"

Then Mrs M asked us,
"How can you find out what a carbon footprint is?"
We had to think of different ways.
Then we had to find out for homework.
Mrs M keeps telling us we are 21st century learners.

FOOTPRINT FOSSIL

I made a footprint.
We used dough and we rolled it.
Then we used the rolling pin.
We used the spatula , and used the oven to put the tray in.
Now we have done the recipe.
Now we have a footprint fossil.

by Dylan

Jessica Y. is rolling the dough.

Jessica M. is making her footprint fossil.

Footprint Fossil

MUSEUM VISIT

We went to the museum . We met a guy called Andrew. He took us to the dinosaur room to learn about dinosaurs. We sat on some seats. We had to think of what a dinosaur was. Then we had point to the things that were dinosaurs. Out of 19 things that could happen to dinosaurs, there would only be 2 fossils made. We learnt that flying dinosaurs were not dinosaurs neither were sea ones.Then we had to find 2 fossil footprints. The first one was the big one. It could fit 7 people in it. The other one was small and it was harder to find. We learnt where to find a fossil in the North Island in rocks.

by Jhaelen and Islay