Cooking with Mrs Bevis

PART ONE

Five lucky people got to go down to the school kitchen to make a feast. Chloe cut the ham into cubes. Shohei cut the cauliflower. Jack cut the broccoli. Michael grated the cheese. Justis grated the carrots. They made macaroni cheese with cauliflower and broccoli. There was also a coleslaw. They had to clean up about 6 times during cooking. Shohei’s favourite part was pouring the pasta into boiling water. Chloe enjoyed cutting the ham and mixing the coleslaw together. Grating the cheese really fast was something that stood out for Jack. Justis enjoyed peeling and grating the carrots. Michael liked grating both the cheese and the carrots.

By Jack , Michael , Shohei , Chloe , Justis and Isabel M,     

PART TWO

Today we had the most fabulous lunch In room 13. We invited Mrs Bevis, Mr Lister and Cameron. We had macaroni and cheese with ham broccoli and cauliflower. We had a side dish of coleslaw and juice. we set the desks into two long tables and set all the plates cups and  cutlery. We had the best feast ever!!

By Ethan ,Tahlia , Humo ,Nick and Samantha.

Stu Duval Visit - Thursday 16 May & Friday 17 May

The brilliant Stu Duval visited Bledisloe School.

 

He drew one of his famous chalk pastel masterpieces, it took him only about 3 minutes to complete. The picture matched the story he was about to tell us. The told us an unpublished story called Wild the Wind.

 

The story was about a young boy named Angus who lived at Piha in the 1900’s. He was sent to WW1 with his 2 brothers in law, they were part of the ambush at Gallipoli. The 3 kiwi boys fought valiantly against the enemies.

There were a few teary eyes in the hall by the end of the story.

After the story we had a quiz and the first class that got 2 questions correct won the picture. We were so, so close to winning (Mrs Colliss was tempted to whisper an answer in Humo’s ear, but she didn’t want to be a cheat!) Room 14 now has it proudly in their room L  

Last night he did another performance for families in the school hall. He told one of his favourite stories, Pudding Pirates and drew another picture that went with the story. They held an auction for the picture and Jonathan almost won it, but was just outbid. In the end it was sold for $115.

Today we were lucky enough to again have time with Stu. He talked about how he writes his stories and showed us his writing scrapbooks where he keeps his ideas (they were amazing!) He gave us some writing tips such as, using the 5 senses in our writing, don’t repeat the same words, choosing the right path to create an interesting story.

One thing that stood out for a lot of us was creating a hook for the reader in the first sentence to catch their attention. He read some great examples from his books.

Some people were lucky enough to purchase one of his novels or reading books.

Mrs Colliss brought a book of short stories to read to the class. Stu even signed it for us.

 

Welcome back to term 2

Peppermint

Peppermint is our class mascot, he is a sock monkey Mrs Colliss made him while at her old school in Raumati. As a class we decided his gender is a boy and his favourite colour is purple. When our name gets pulled out of a container we get a choice to take him home or not.When he is with us we write a fiction or a non-fiction story about what we did with him, we can also take photos and add pictures. The aim is to be creative. Liam is the first person to take him home.  

By Tommy, Te Ahu, Liam, Kairon, Michael and Jack

Ancient Egypt

This term our topic study is Ancient Egypt. We have written what we know and what we want to know. We have collected lots of books about  Ancient Egypt that are displayed in our room. We have started doing our title pages in our topic books. We are looking forward to carrying on with our interesting study.

By Kimberley, Kayla, Isabel and Nikita  

Senet

Our topic this term is Ancient Egypt and a game they used to play was Senet. Everyone enjoyed the game from Pharaoh to farmers.

We decided to make our own game of Senet. We first made salt dough we added half a cup of salt and one cup of flour and we mixed it and added small amounts of water until we had a squishy piece of dough. We crafted pyramid type pieces and put our table number on the base. Mrs Colliss put the pieces in the oven for four hours. We are going to paint the pieces and make the board game. We are looking forward to play the games when it is done.

By Ethan, Humo, Caleb, Bryce.

 

 

Shared Reading Groups

On Monday the 6^th of May we stared to read horrible science books. There are 5 groups. Our groups are our desk groups.

The books are:

Vicious veg

Blood bones and body parts

Deadly Diseases

Angry animals

Fatal forces

One person reads and the rest follow along with the reader, using our own copy of the book. You have a choice whether you want to read to the group or not, some people like reading aloud and others prefer to listen.

By Pasa Justice Seth Sam Shohei and Nick

Our garden

Last term, we planted some sunflower, lettuce and silver beet seeds. Now this term our sunflowers are growing very tall, also the lettuce we planted in the garden is growing bigger and stronger there is also some cauliflower which is starting to open up so we can see the white cauliflower. The garden is really standing out and is being very successful. We are very proud of it.

By Shirley, Micayela, Anna, Samantha, Isabelle and Tahlia