Student of the Week Clifton

Clifton, it is so great to see how hard you are working with your writing this year. I can see that you love writing and that you are having a lot fun getting your great ideas down on the page. Keep up the tremendous effort, it is really awesome!!

Technology challenge for blog visitors

As a part of our technology unit Mrs May brought along a piece of technology from her utensil drawer. We had a brainstorm of all of the things that we thought it might be. 

Can you guess what this piece of technology is and what it's purpose might be? Add your idea to our brainstorm by commenting below. 

Technology Investigation

Today we each brought something from our 'utensil drawer' at home. We put them out so that everybody could guess what the utensil's purpose might be. We had fascinating discussions about what different things could be used for. Here are some of the photos of the bits of technology we brought from our kitchens. 

 Pizza cutting wheel

 Chocolate dipping spoon

 Avocado slicer

 Clips for sealing plastic bags

 Hand beater for mixing and beating

 Cooking thermometer for measuring temperature of meat

 Cake server - for serving cakes and pavlovas

 Gravy ladel

 Egg slicer (for hard boiled eggs)

 Spatula/cake server

 Orange peeler

 Knife sharpener

 Ice scraper - for cleaning ice off your freezer

 Knife sharpener

 Can opener

 Spurtle - for mixing porridge

 Rolling pin with designs for fancy baking

 Mouli grater - for making crushed garlic, bread crumbs and Parmesan cheese

 Nut cracker

 Another Mouli grater

 A measure device - can be changed depending on what measurement you require tsp, dsp or Tblsp

 Tongs

All of these things are Kitchen Technology because they have all been invented or designed to make our lives easier. 

Kitchen Technology

More Modigliani Art - Charlie & the Chocolate Factory

We have been really enjoying listening to the Roald Dahl story 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' this term. We have been doing lots of activities about our shared novel and we decided that it would be great to create Modigliani portraits for the characters of the book. They turned out really great.

Descriptive writing - A haunted house

This week we have begun to write some descriptions. We have been working on adding details so that someone else could visualise the picture that we see. Here are some of the pieces of writing.

Green, misty skies hover above the creaky, old building. A light is on at the top of the house and a raggy old curtain is hanging over the bright light. Old, dead spooky trees are secretly whispering to all of their surroundings in the windy night. The creepy old building creaks as if the wind will blow it over. An old clock quiet ticks along through the night. Spider webs hang from the lonely, forgotten building. Pointed rooves have tiny cracks in them and they wobble like they're going to topple over and fall to pieces. Grave stones wonder whether they're going to join the world or whether they're going to stay in this dark, lonely land. The mysterious house stand tall in the lonely night. - Imogen

Out of the dark a haunted house remains, standing by itself. In a window you can see a light on. Trees screw up the sky which is green and stormy. A clock is on the top of the tower. It is spooky and sculptures are looking like graves. Shadows and mud surround the house. - Amelia

A house built in the middle of nowhere. A shiny light burns inside the house. Creepy shadows are all around the house. It is a tall house that has statues around it. A clock is at the top of the house. There is a dangerous green stormy sky and a flood at the bottom. It's all on its own. - Lochie

Black, creepy shadows surround the haunted house. Old, dead, creepy trees are about to fall over. The light shines out into the dark. At the end of the house lays headstones covered in mud. Dark black, green, dangerous, scary clouds are everywhere. - Te Aroha