Quiz Masters!!

Quiz Team 4 challenged Room 9 for a spot in the finals of the quiz competition.  Well done to our team:  Robert, Edward and Kelecia, who have made it through to the FINALS!!  YAY!!  Way to go Room 4!

Fast and Furious Friday

Friday 26 August we made some Big Macs - the Room 4 way.  We smothered our buns with Best Foods mayonnaise (low fat of course), topped it with fresh green lettuce, a juicy piece of tomato, a thick meat patty, an egg and some BBQ sauce, or tomato sauce.  Extra fillings were onions and cheese.  Thanksgiving's Mum came with 28 extra hamburger buns, that were already cut, and a jar of Best Foods mayonnaise.  So we had enough buns, patties and eggs to make two hamburgers each.  We reckon our burgers are waaaaayyyy better than McDonald's and Burger King!!  Thanks for eating at FastandSerious Donald's...ha! ha!

Could This Be The Snow We've Been Waiting For?

Check out our pictures of today at lunchtime...so much fun trying to catch the white balls of ice...  There were lots of small balls of ice raining down from above.  Such an awesome sight, and at times a terrifying experience for some, as it hurt when the balls hit our faces and arms.  But most of us loved it.  Our weather wish for tomorrow?  SNOW PLEASE!!!

Lunchtime Madness 

Having fun trying to catch the balls of ice raining down from above.

Outside Room 5

A handful of ice - made the natural way.

Baker's Delight - Last Day of Maths Week

Measurement is always used for cooking.  Today we baked chocolate afghans made with Weetbix.  We used fractions like one quarter, one half and a whole to measure the volume of flour, sugar and cocoa needed to make the afghans.  Colin's group didn't add enough flour to their butter and sugar, but it still tasted delicious.  Yummy, yummy!  The afghans were different sizes, but they were the same shape.  Most of the groups' mixtures turned out great, and so did the end product.  Below is the recipe:

CHOCOLATE AFGHANS
200 grams butter
1/2 cup of brown sugar
1 1/4 cups of plain flour
1/4 cup cocoa
4-5 Weetbix - but we used three

Preheat oven to 180degrees celcius.  Cream butter and sugar and stir.  Hand crush the Weetbix one by one into the butter and sugar mixture.  Mix together.  Make balls and put on to a lined oven tray.  Press down with a fork if desired.  Cook for approximately 12 minutes.  Leave to cool on oven tray for approximately 5-10 minutes, then remove & place on cooling rack.

Icing:
100g butter
1/4 teaspoon vanilla essence
2 C icing sugar
2 tablespoons cocoa
Tablespoon hot water
When biscuits have cooled, ice with chocolate icing.

 

Mathematicians' Morning - Day 4

Today we had four maths activity stations.  It was games galore!  One group played multiplication and division bingo.  Sonya, OJ, Latoya, Tiana and Latisha won the bingo in their groups.  We learnt about the memory operation on the calculator.  M+ means Memory Plus, which is putting a number into the calculator's brain and it remembers it.  Pretty cool huh?  Speed place value helped us identify the value of each place holder in decimal numbers.  Maths Week is almost coming to an end...what are we going to do tomorrow to celebrate?  Watch this space. . .

Hula Hoopers - Day 3

We had a competition between Rooms 2, 3, 4 and 5 to see who could hula hoop the longest.  Two representatives from each class took up the challenge.  On your marks, get set, HULA!  In the first group Folasa won by an impressive 46 seconds!  Unbelievable!  The second group was won by Tala from Room 5.  He lasted 30 seconds.  Not bad for a boy.  We even witnessed some interesting hula hoop moves, compliments of Daleah in Room 2.  Malo lava Daleah.  Stay tuned for the next episode of Dragon Ball Z...oops we mean, Maths Week Challenges.
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Mathematical Jumps - Day 2

Day Two of Maths Week 2011 - Room 4 estimated how many times we could skip in PAIRS without stopping.  Kelecia and Folasa joined ropes to jump 30 times.  Luarrell's guess-timation was SPOT ON!  Thanksgiving and Vine used one rope to jump together, and skipped five times.  Robert guess-timated the correct amount of skips.  Next up were Paulo and Colin.  Once again Robert was the winner!  Well done to Luarrell and Robert (x2)!  All this skipping is in preparation for Jump Rope For Heart in Week 5.  Watch this space...
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Exciting Estimation Challenge - Day 1

Maths Week 2011 kicked off with an estimation game for the whole of Tupulaga.  We estimated how many times Sophie (Room 5) and Manila (Room 3), could skip without stopping. 
The results were:  Sophie = 66 jumps and Manila = 66 jumps.  A tie between the both of them!
Nigel guessed 86 jumps for Manila, and he was the closest.  Robetta guessed 56 jumps for Sophie.  She wasn't too far off.
It's going to be a fun and fantastic week of marvellous and magical maths!  Cheers!

Manila getting ready to skip

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