Party food ideas...

For our Homework this week we had to think about healty party food and decide on 10 we wanted at our party. These are some of our ideas.

Asparagus rolls

dried fruit and nuts

fruit cake

fruit kebabs

sushi

club sandwiches

mini quiches

pavalova with kiwi fruit

Samosas

Spring rolls

Mini tacos

Apple crumble

Cherries

Bugs on a log (peanut butter on celery with raisins on top)

cheese and crackers

Vegan chocolate cake

Salad burger

Baby carrots and humus

Baked potato wedges

Home made biscuits/cakes

Salami and cheese on crackers

Fish fingers

Water with lemon

Banana and berry smoothie

Wraps

Pita pockets

Cherios

Banana balls

Fruit

Fruit tart

Veggie pizza

Laksa

Prawn salad

Jelly and ice cream

popcorn

Ice blocks

Tacos

Mixed nuts

Toffee apples

Carrot with peanut butter and nutella

Toasted sandwiches

homemade sausage rolls/hot dogs

Bran muffins

Homemade pies

Chicken legs/drumsticks

Marshmallows

Veggies and dips

Muffins

 

Well I don't know about you but I feel very, very hungry...  ;-)

Maths fun

Today in Maths some very patient and clever children made their version of the Sky Tower. It was even taller than Mrs Reid who was wearing her really high shoes!

Cameo Writing

 

We have been looking at this picture of a leopard lying in a tree. We have thought of every single noun, adjective, verb and adverb we could and written them in the correct box. Next we came up with a descriptive sentence. We think it sounds great and today we are going to try and write some on our own.... keep watching!

Update on our flowers...

We have looked carefully at our flowers and we have discovered that the side of the stem in the red water has drawn the water up and made that side of the flower go red. The side of the flower with the stem in the plain water has stayed white....
We didn't realise that only one side of the flower would change colour, we will keep you updated if any other changes occur.

Our popcorn fun

 

Tadah...

 

Finally, after weeks of hard work, today was the release of the newest cook book to hit the market.

Room 22 has released a very limited edition of their favourite recipes in a stunning booklet. If you are lucky enough to have on earrive home please try some of the recipes and let us know what you think.

Literacy Activity

 

Two groups read Green Fingers last week and in it were some experiments. Each pair chose and experiment to carry out and will be watching what happens over the next few days/weeks.  Most people chose to look at how the stem of a flower carries nutrients from the soil/water into the plant to be used as food.
We carefully split the stem of a pale flower and put one side in plain fresh water and one side in water with some red food colouring in it.
We have put them on the window sill to see what happens and will check each day.
We have a lot of different hypotheses on what might happen so we will wait and see....

The other pair decided to see how a clever a plant could be even when grown in the dark. First we have planted a kumera so we can get it to sprout. Once this has occured we will place it in a dark box with a maze like way to reach a hole where the light will come in... we will see what happens to the plant and how clever it can be.

Watch this space ....

How Popcorn Pops

 

How Popcorn Pops - The Wet Truth

Although popcorn kernels may look totally dry, each kernel of popcorn actually has a tiny amount of water inside it. This water is stored inside a circle of soft starch inside the kernel's hard outer surface. As the kernel heats up, the water's molecules start to move faster and get farther away from each other; this molecular expansion is the same reason water turns into steam when you boil it. As the water expands it puts pressure against the hard starch. Something's gotta give - so eventually the water pressure wins out and the popcorn ruptures. The soft starch inside becomes inflated and bursts, flipping the kernel inside out to release the steam inside! Mmmm, popcorn!

Did U Know?

• Don't freeze popcorn or keep it in the fridge. This dries out your kernels and without moisture there won't be any poppin'.

 

Ice Cream Sodas

 

Ingredients:
Chocolate milk
Ice cream (any flavour)
Soft drink (any flavour)
Whipped cream
Chocolate hail or hundreds and thousands

Method:
1. Pour some chocolate milk into the bottom of a tall glass
2. Add 2 scoops of ice cream
3. Pour soft drink over top to fill glass
4. Mix carefully with a long spoon
5. Add whipped cream and sprinkles on top
6. ENJOY

We sure did :-)

Our sweet afternoon

This afternoon we looked at how many teaspoons of sugar we could get to dissolve in a cup of cold then hot water. (we found out that a can of fizzy drink can have 8 teaspoons of sugar in it which is an awful lot.)
We stirred in each teaspoon until the sugar was fully dissolved then added the next. Most tables managed to get 11 or 12 teaspoons of sugar in the cold water before it stopped dissolving. We even had a little sip and boy it was sickly sweet.

WOOHOO

 

As the sign says....It's over! Well done to everyone who took part or sponsored someone else throughout the last 40 hours. Your efforts are so appreciated and yes.... YOU ROCK!!

Now it's time to get life back to normal and start collecting in your sponsorship money...the quicker we can get it in the quicker we can get it to the people of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea.

Again.... THANK YOU

This weekend many of you are joining in the 40 hour famine to help raise money for the people of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. Botany Downs Primary has about 80 students joining in which is an awesome achievement.

If someone you know is going hard out for the hungry give them lots of support and encouragement as they are really helping to raise not only money but awareness of the needs of other countries.

If you are going without something for 20 or 40 hours keep at it and be proud of your actions.

Some people are giving up food, eletronics, furniture, talking, phones for 20 or 40 hours....

HOW AWESOME :-)

 

 

This year there are 4 teams you can join so I hope you picked a good one.