A Wonderful Time Was Had By All...

The Athletics Sports were held today. At lunch time I was told by many teachers how well the seven and eight year olds behaved and performed. The two Room 16 relay teams ran well, the girls even won the Year Three Girls race. Great job everyone, sleep well tonight! 

A Good Case of the Blues

It's secret admirer week for the staff at St Albans this week. My S.A. knew my favourite colour (for the sky at least) is blue and so I was greeted by this lovely sight this morning.

Thank you Secret Admirer! And thanks too for making the sky blue this afternoon!

Good bye Sam, we'll miss you.

Lucky Ohoka School, they're getting our Sam.
Good luck Sam, we hope you have a wonderful time at Ohoka School.
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We're On the Move...Around the Sun.

These children seem to have a good understanding of why we have night and day, and the four different seasons.

The Best White Bread Ever!

Today at school we made bread with Mrs Allen. Some of the ingredients were: water, salt and bread. When we put the bread mixture in and pressed start, the machine started to make a funny noise. After a while it stopped. Mrs Allen said that soon after morning tea, the bread will be ready. I'm looking forward to eating it.

by Kayla

Room 16 are making bread. There are two teams. The key ingredient is yeast, that makes the bread rise. I wish I could open the lid and eat it now! 

Mmmmm... what's that smell? It's the bread - it smells good. I wonder how much time until it is finished.

by Max

Today we made bread because it has to do with measuring and we're learning about measuring in Maths. 

Some of the ingredients we used were water, salt and butter. We used a bread machine. I got to put the ingredients in the machine and push the start button. The other group put too much salt in. I hope the bread is delicious.

by Samantha

Today I walked in the door and Mrs Allen told us that we were making bread. We got into two teams. We put water in a big pot with high grade flour, salt, white sugar and some other stuff.

It got quite messy, so, as always - the dumbest part of cooking (and why I don't cook), we had to clean up - boring!!!

I hope it's going to be ready soon. I'm hungry!

by Isabella

Today Room 16 made bread.  When I first came in I didn't know that we were making bread. I looked at the two machines, they were bread makers. We had to measure the ingredients carefully.
Wow the smell was really strong. Our class smelled like a bakery!
by Morgan

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Thanks Mrs Allen!

Red sky in the morning...

... shepherd's warning. That's how the saying goes and yet today seems to be a great day. You could look up where and when this saying originated and see if it makes sense for New Zealand in 2010 or not.

This is the view from my back door at 6.30 this morning.

This view is slightly more to the East.

I found an explanation  here, but it's a bit tricky to understand. There are some other sayings to help predict the weather at this site too.

Some Space Questions to Ponder

1. How long does it take for Earth to travel around the Sun?

2. How long does it take for the moon to travel around Earth?

3. How long does it take for Earth to spin around on its axis?

4. How long have humans known this?

Planets, Suns and all that Jazz

We thought this website was worth sharing. It gives quite a good idea of how big the planets are in comparison with each other.