Green Bay Kids Can Cook!

As mentioned in a previous post, Chris Fortune from the Kids Can Cook Kitchen visited our school for two days a few weeks ago. He was awesome, so full of energy and such a good cook! If you click HERE, you will see the highlights of Chris Fortune's visit on the Kids Can Cook website.

 Here are two videos made by the Kids Can Cook Kitchen team.

Here is the recipe that Chris Fortune used to cook his delicious crepes:

Apple and Silver Beet Crepes – the key is to get the kids to make them as well, crepes are easy and fun and you can fill with any filling – even leftovers!

250 g Plain Flour

1  1/2 cups of milk

2 eggs

Apples, Grated

Silverbeet or Spinach, Washed

Mix  milk and eggs, whisk into flour and leave to rest for 20 mins.  If it is too thick thin with a little milk.  Ladle into crepe pans and cook until golden brown, leave to cool.  Mix Apple and thinly sliced silver beet together,  and roll up into a tight cylinder.  Slice and serve cold or heat by placing in the oven with a little cheese over the top.  

Cook Chris Fortune

The Weta, By Gideon

Here is a report that Gideon wrote about the NZ weta.

Andrewsarchus, By Dennon

Have you heard of a creature called the Andrewsarchus? The Andrewsarchus is a carnivorous land mammal who is believed to have been alive during prehistoric times. Dennon has written a description about the Andrewsarchus and has used iMovie to publish his story. 

Events From the Past Week

Events R5-Medium from Savelina Lepou on Vimeo.

Caring For Animals

Our Learning Pathways topic for this term is Caring for Animals. We have been carrying out a lot of activities using the iPads and computers as part of our literacy programme. Here is a slideshow of some of our work.

Festival Practice

Today the talented groups at Green Bay School performed at the Corban Estate Arts Centre as part of the Pacifica Living Arts Festival. On Wednesday we got a sneak peek of the performances. Here are some highlights from their practice concert.

The Kapahaka Group

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The Jump Jam and Cook Island Group

The Jump Jam team are competing in the National Competition on Saturday. Good luck, you guys are awesome!

Little Duck Tales

Sam and Rook have used Little Bird Tales to publish facts from their information reports about ducks.

An Insect's Body

We have been studying a poem about insects.

Every Insect
Every Insect (ant, fly, bee)
Is divided into three:
One head, one chest, one stomach part.

Some have brains.
All have a heart.
Insects have no bones,

No noses.

Bu with feelers they can smell,
Dinner half a mile away.

Can your nose do half as well?

Also you'd be in a fix,
With all those legs to manage:
Six.

By Dorothy Aldis

Today we had to create insects using modelling clay. A lot of us created spiders, worms and snails and most of our insects only had one huge body part. Then we gathered some information about insects, including watching this video.

After that, we all reviewed our clay models to see if we still thought they were correct. We realised that none of them were correct insect models. We also found out that spiders, snails and worms are not insects! A lot of us decided to change our clay models. Here is a picture trail of our different models.

Spooky Narratives

Last week we worked on writing spooky narratives. We focused specifically on writing orientations that created suspense. Here are orientations and illustrations by Nox and Avalon.

As the sun was coming down, I went into a haunted hospital with my friends Jessley and Jayden. Everything was dark, we turned on the light switch. But the light didn't turn on. We heard a noise, it sounded like someone walking up to us. But the noise stopped and the lights came on, then...

By Nox

As the sun was setting, more zombies awoke and more clear white ghosts came out of hiding while we were stuck in an empty classroom. Then the girl said, "Quiet I hear something." It was a moan and they had to stay quiet as a fly. Luckily they survived...

By Avalon

We also had a go at creating spooky narratives on Puppet Pals. This first narrative is by Jayden and Gideon. They spent a lot of time drawing their characters and their weapons. They also got creative with their backgrounds. Great job!

Here is Jessley's story about a haunted car.