Making Apple Pancakes
This week we made apple pancakes. There are lots of apples on the trees at the moment so we used Granny Smith apples, with egg, flour, baking powder, milk and cinnamon mixed together [...]
Bread tag Racing Boats
We turned bread tags into racing boats in our science investigation this week. We carefully floated a bread tag on the surface of the water in a desk tray. Then we dropped a [...]
Room 5 2014
We are a Year 5 and 6 class made up of 31 enthusiastic learners. This term our rich concept is The Treaty of Waitangi. We are planning a Marae visit this term to our local [...]
Swimming Sports
Tomarata School swimmers had a successful day at the Rural Schools Swimming Sports day at Rodney College. Most of the students challenged themselves by swimming the length of the pool. We even had [...]
Maori Stick Games
We have been practicing using our sticks, keeping beat with the rhythm, learning the lyrics to E Papa, and playing with the ukuleles. When we are very good we will give a performance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr6bZA16EeA
Making Sherbet
Today we investigated what would happen when we mixed a base and an acid. We mixed citric acid and bicarbonate of soda with some icing sugar. When we mixed the powders together and put it [...]
Bikewise
We have been learning about keeping safe when cycling. Constable Watt visited this week to watch us bike around a course on the tennis courts. He was looking to see if we were looking behind [...]
Vegetable Fritters
We harvested some vegetables from our garden before they were past their best. There were potatoes, carrots, silverbeet and herbs all ready to eat. We prepared them and cooked vegetable fritters which we all agreed [...]