Baking Bread the traditional way! Technology we can always use.

 Mixing the yeast/ sugar/ warm water concoction with the first lot of flour and salt and leaving to rise.

Alex and Karlia ready the trays.

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Lauren and Rose start to mix in the flour.

Time to get kneading!

Another group's batch is ready to rise on top of the warm stove.

Erin and Franca have started the next bowl of yeast and sugar. Now Athena, Tiffany, Leena and Felicia are ready to mix flour into a bowl with salt.

 Golden, brown, hot bread rolls ready to eat!

Always moving at Sunnyhills School - keeping fit and having fun in Spring weather!

First up we have Max M's Teach the teacher - where he shared some very complicated but fun soccer moves and we all had a really good growth mindset and had a go! None of us sprained an ankle!

We have continued our running training and are thinking of the Huff n puff early next term! Most of us can now easily do 3 laps and pushing towards 4 laps now. Remember to bring your PE uniform and running shoes to protect those little growing bones every Tue and Thur.

Badminton Auckland sent Dhanny to teach us how to play this fun indoor sport. We learned lots of fun warm ups followed by the different grips and ways to hit the shuttle across the net. Once again a really great mindset from everyone and we are keen to have another go next term. Mrs Fowler has bought some more badminton equipment for our PE shed so we can continue playing.

We felt like it has been raining Cats and Dogs so we wrote some great verb adverb lines!

Collecting verbs and matching adverbs...

Twitter connections on Chapter Chat!

Answering questions about our Class Novel Tuesdays at the Castle is a great way to see how we have listened and understood the story so far. We can see what other children are talking about and agree or disagree with their answers.

We are also learning to give other children feedback on their work about the book. We have learned that it must be positive, encouraging and thoughtful feedback.

We have also practiced writing tweets in pairs and reading them to each other to edit before we tweet. We are being responsible Twitter Users using the Internet carefully just like we agreed to when we signed our Device Use Contract.

Do you recognise these underwater creatures!?

GET NEW ZEALAND WRITING!!!

Around 3000 classes are taking part in Get New Zealand Writing and Room 20 is one of them! We have been sent a box with all sorts of things inside to do for our Writing Project. It was very exciting to open it up last week. Inside was also the address of the class we are writing to. We discovered it was a class in Longbeach in the South Island. CAN YOU FIND THIS PLACE ON A MAP OF NEW ZEALAND AND SHOW US AT SCHOOL?

 When we have completed our Found Poetry Art we will send it down south and they will send us their Project. It's like having a Class Pen Pal! We have until next Friday to complete our Writing Project and have it ready to be picked up by courier !! 

Our first task was to find out all sorts of things about ourselves and share them by recording them on the big poster below. We have almost finished it.

Here are our answers so far! 

 Next we had to learn about Metaphors and what they describe when we read or write them.
We read a Poem together called Iain Sharpe and identified the metaphors we read. We drew what we think the metaphors are describing, and the person, and how he looks and acts.

Then we started writing our own poetry about ourselves using the starter  I am a car I ...
You can read these in our Google Docs under Writing.
Next we will choose a favourite line and transfer it to the postcard below:

We will each write a line of our poem, including the metaphor, on the back of a postcard.

Here is the front of the postcard. We must make this super colourful! When all 30 postcards are put together they will read a Found Poem.

 Now back to our class project!

Lockie is doing a survey for the poster - can you roll your tongue?

Lauren and Sophie are finding out how many siblings we have.

Felicia and Franca are cutting out interesting words from magazines and newspapers to create a Found Poem later.

Rose is doing a survey too - can you lick your elbow? Lucas, Robert and Max M are drawing a map of our classroom.

Tiffany is drawing the weather report for the class at Longbeach School so they can see what the weather is like up here.