Yummy Teach Me Tuesday!

Today Tamzin and Millie taught us how to "pimp our doughnuts". They showed us how to cut our doughnuts and then cover them in sugar and cinnamon. Next we grilled them in a sandwich press. This made the doughnuts fresh, sweet and crispy! 

What a great idea for Teach me Tuesday! Thanks Tamzin and Millie.

Zoo animal recounts

We had such a great time at the zoo. Here are some recounts about the event. See if you can spot our deliberate language choices in our writing.

The Spider Monkeys and Gibbons- By Ruben

Ohhh... the spider monkeys,

Whoosh the spider monkeys were swinging around and around joyfully. They looked like a kangaroo with a sugar rush.The spider monkeys fur looked like a bunch of soft furry dog hair .

I felt happy when I saw the spider monkeys were laughing with joy on their faces.There were so many I could fall over counting all of them.Their tails was long, furry and flexible.

Suddenly, the gibbons started making loud noises using their balloon like voice boxes.The teeth of the gibbons looked sharp and scary. The gibbons looked like Mr twit with his hairy body.

The Cuddly Red Panda- By Millie C

Their soft silky fur was shining in the sun and there eyes were gazing at me.  At first I wanted to take him home because he looked so chubby and cute.  But I knew I couldn’t take him home with me.  He was moving quite fast around the tree, as if he was a spy sneaking around the streets, trying to find the baddy.  He stared at me like a statue then he vanished to another branch to meet his buddy once again.  Soon we had to go, the sun shined on me. I was sad we had to go.

The Pink Butted Monkeys- By Robyn P

Swish, Swish, Swish my feet glided on the smooth path. I opened eyes and saw a rose pink bottom that looked as if it had been

smacked really hard.

A glimpse  of those monkeys teeth and you’d think you are their   prey. But I knew that they could not reach me in distance , although I felt quite scared . As if I knew that they were going to leap over their enclosure and bite me with their threatening teeth.

The baby baboon leaped up to his or her mothers paranoid arms I actually felt more sorry for the mother than the poor little baby baboon who only wanted attention. Just then the mother accidentally pushed her baby and she slipped and fell now I felt more sorry for the baby.

Tweet , tweet, tweet the peaceful little birds sang while they passed my ear. I wondered where they were going in such a rush. 

I decided to follow the littlest bird but I could not run as fast as she could fly. But she was too fast , oh well It was so close to see where she was going.

The baboons yelled in a medium voice. It was kind of freaky. I felt like they were going to leap out again. It was like that scared feeling all over again. "Robyn!" someone yelled. I sadly knew that it was time to go. 

"Bye bye", I whispered  softly.

"Ekk" a baboon whispered as if  he was saying goodbye too.

SunBathing Ottaz
By Daniel M

SPLASH! I heard. 
The fancy otters were diving into the water. While I watched, one otter was chewing the jiggly meat. 

Another otter was sunbathing and twisting and turning. It was funny though they looked joyful. A really funny otter was peeing like a waterfall and it made Saahil and me and laugh.

For a few minutes a stinky fish smell appeared. I thought  Saahil farted but it wasn't him. I asked Saahil if he farted but he shouted NOPE!

Autumn poetry

This week we came back to school to find that autumn had arrived. Some of our trees had turned from green to gold and the temperature had dropped too. On Monday we spent some time out in the grounds looking at the trees and writing poems about the things we could see, hear and feel.

Here are some of our beautiful autumn poems.

Autumn leaves- By Marina L
Autumn leaves falling from naked trees.
Sand yellow leaves falling onto soft fresh grass
Bony old trees bending in the wind
Rustling from withered claw-like leaves
The out of place tree has leaves with diseases
The smell of cinnamon comes from the shrivelled up leaves
Behind me stands the lush green everlasting trees
Autumn, autumn has come to stay
And leaves fall to the ground
Autumn, autumn has come to stay.

Autumn- By Dan T
Falling yellow leaves from fishing rod trees
The tree is feeling alone from inside to the bone
It is sad and scared
It's friends are gone
But it has to wait until spring is here.

The autumn leaf - By Millie C
The wind lifts me from my feet
My favourite friend has gone
My crispy shell and scaly patterns are so cold
Although the sun gazes at me still
I fall onto the lazy green pieces of grass
Suddenly I see a foot and then I know a beast was upon me
Autumn.

Autumn leaves- By Tamzin H
The autumn sun shines down on me
Burning my shell to a crisp
I let go of the branch I stand on,
and dance down to my old friends
The wind lifts us off the forest floor
The bees fly past humming to their nests,
A drop of rain comes hurtling down towards me
and throws me to the ground.

Team building in the Tipa team

In the first week of school back at Upper Harbour the Tipa team played some games to get to know each other better. Here are some photos of the team building games.

In this game we had to kick the ball up to the Tee and then run around it 10 times before kicking the ball back to our teams. Everyone got really dizzy!!