Discovery Time Cafe

This week the cafe opened with two items on the menu - warm milo and juice.  Waitresses showed customers to the table, took their orders and delivered their order, checking that they enjoyed their drink.  Conversation was flowing this week with stories from some very busy weekends.

Porridge playdough was also a hit this week along with our new puzzles.  What an interesting cafe we have!

Handwriting Stars!

We've had two handwriting stars recently.  Destiny is working hard to make her letters the right way and Martin has been working hard to get his handwriting finished on time, making his letters the right way.  We are very proud of both of these handwriting stars! 

Humpty Dumpty is broken!

Oh no!  Humpty Dumpty has fallen off his wall and we need to try and stick him back together again!  We were practising our cutting skills as well as showing compassion to Humpty Dumpty.  Once all the pieces were cut out we had to put him back together again, like a puzzle, using sticking plasters to stick him together.

Assembly Stars

This week we welcomed 4 new students to our class.  Reicela had her big sister Anja introduce her to the school.  Martin had his big brother Nachito introduce him to the whole school.  We also welcomed Reina who has a big sister in Room 9 and Mason whose family is new to our school.  We hope all you enjoyed your first week at school.

The cafe is OPEN!

Our Cafe has opened at Discovery Time.  This week we had some great waiters and waitresses who had milo and juice on the menu.  They showed us to our seats, took our orders, checked that we liked our drink and then washed all the dishes!  We had a great time ordering, drinking and chatting to our friends.  It was exciting having puzzles at the cafe too!  

We are wondering what will be on the menu next week.

Investigations

This term we are continuing to learn about Energy.  We used three different forms of energy to cook an egg.  We used a frying pan to fry an egg, a stove to boil an egg and the microwave to poach an egg.  Here are some photos of what we did to poach our egg.

 First we got a bowl of water and our egg.

 Then we cracked the egg into the water.  We could see the yellow yolk in the middle and some clear liquid around the outside.

 Next we put the bowl into the microwave to cook.

 It didn't take very long to cook the egg.

 We had to check that the egg was cooked.  We can see that the clear part around the yolk has changed colour to white.

 When it was cooked, we tipped the water out.

 Finally, the egg was ready to be eaten.  We poked a spoon into the yolk and it spilled out.  Eggs cooked like this are great on toast.

Handwriting Star

Today Collin was our Handwriting Star!  Congratulations Collin on working hard to make the letter 's' the right way.  We are very proud of how you are showing one of our values - excellence!

Te Waka o Matariki

When we first come to school we start in Te Waka o Matariki.  This is where a group of us learn what school is all about and we practice some things that we will need to be successful at school.
This week we have been learning the poem 'Humpty Dumpty'.  We have been practising our scissor skills while we make grass, bricks and Humpty Dumpty.  We are nearly finished so come back and see our great pictures next week.