Andy Griffiths inspired Crazy Machine and Inventions.

Andy Griffiths inspired Crazy Machine and Inventions.

Over the last couple of weeks we have been using an awesome book to inspire us with our writing and get everyone enthusiastic about writing.  The book is called Once upon a SLIME – 45 fun ways to get writing…FAST! By Andy Griffiths.

We have been writing Bad Mummy and Daddy cartoons, writing crazy baking accident scenarios and matching character quotes to the different characters.

Today we read the chapter called Crazy Machines and Inventions. The book showed us heaps of examples of invention illustrations from Andy’s books (his illustrator is Terry Denton). Our mission was to design our own crazy inventions, either using his ideas or creating our own crazy ones. We had a massive range of ideas including, a superfast flying machine, a crazy helmet that puts ideas into your mind, a cloning machine that creates things out of thin air and DNA and a gun creator machine that lets you pick what is included.

Here are some of our crazy machines and inventions…

 

By Jonathan, Caleb, Isabelle and Nick.

Typing Skills

As a part of handwriting we have started doing typing skills. Mrs Colliss found this website for us to practice on. The aim is to have 0 errors and the fastest time possible.

http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/keyboarding_games.html

Some people are going to have a go at home so they can try and bet Mrs Colliss.

 

Ancient Egypt Day

 

Our Preparation for our Egyptian Day started earlier in the week when we made our Egyptian style collars and hats. We used cardboard and paint to create these. The reason we made them so people could use them as part of their costumes later in the week.

 

On Thursday most of us made some Egyptian Bread in class. We mixed the flour and salt, and then added the yeast and water mixture. We had to knead the dough and then form small disks out of the dough. We then left it to rise and Mrs Colliss took it home to bake. In class we also worked together to make some hummus.

 

While most of us were making the bread a small group were outside tending to the garden with Isabel’s mum. They planted some new winter plants and picked the rhubarb. They had a special helper, a cute, little white cat. 

 

Friday was the day we were all super excited about. DRESS UP DAY. Most people turned up to school looking very different, there were wigs, makeup and a whole heap of bandages.

We started in Room 13 were we begun making Scarab Armbands (we are finishing these next week). We also had our ancient feast, which included, dates, raisins, almonds, apples, plums, marshmallows plus the bread and hummus we made yesterday. We were lucky enough to have an extra treat. Isabel’s mum used the rhubarb that was picked yesterday to make a rhubarb and apple crumble along with custard. Yum!

The armbands Room 11 made with Mrs Colliss

After morning tea we went to Room 14 and completed activities with Mr Papuni based on the Egyptian Gods. Halfway through the middle block we went over to Room 11 and made clay Eye of Horus tiles. After lunch we went to school singing, then finished off the day with Mrs King doing Ancient Egypt games like tug-a-war and javelin.

It was an awesome day!