Teach me Tuesday today!

It was teach me Tuesday again today! Today Mrs Millett didn't need to do much teaching, because we had two lessons from room 13 students and one lesson from some UHPS korean parents.

To start, James taught us how to make chocolate mint cookies. We really enjoyed working together to make these scrummy treats! They tasted delicious too James- thankyou. 

Next, Mitchell and Rohan taught us a few basics of playing the guitar. They showed us how to play a few chords and also demonstrated some guitar pieces too.

Lastly, we were very lucky to have some of our parents teach us how to play a korean traditional game called Jegichagi. The Jegi looks like a badminton shuttlecock which is made of a small coin (or cap), a plastic bag and a rubber band. In the game the player kicks the jegi up in the air and keeps on kicking to prevent it from falling to the ground, (much like a hackey sack).

We had heaps of fun with all our lessons! Thanks to James, Mitchell, Rohan, and all the UHPS korean parents who gave up their time to teach us how to bake, play the guitar and play Jegichagi!

Peer Mediator day

Today our peer mediator leaders had a great day together working with teachers from the "Peace foundation" and with students from other primary schools. 

Their task was to plan out the programme for Term 3's Peace week, and also think about how they can do their role even better. 

It was an inspirational time for all involved. All came away with great ideas and a little bag of goodies for their efforts. Thanks Mrs Leonhart for organising the day for our peer mediators!

Anzac Poppy Art

Recently we created some beautiful Anzac Poppy Art. 
Here is a slideshow made by Bella, Brydie, Micaela and Mitchell. Thanks to Mrs Blackmore for helping them make the slideshow.

Anzac learning

It's great to back at school again. This term we have started our learning with a mini Anzac Study. So far we have read about the First World War and completed activities to develop our understanding about NZ's involvement in the war. 

Yesterday we read Peter Millett's book, "The Anzac Puppy" based on a true story about a puppy who went to the war with the NZ rifle brigade. 

Today we made Anzac biscuits. The Anzac biscuit was made by the families of the soldiers during WW1. It was a hard, long-keeping biscuit that could survive the journey by sea, and still remain edible. 

The anzac biscuits were delicious!

Here is some recounts about the experience:

Anzac Biscuits!!!

Today was the day when we were going to do baking! We baked Anzac biscuits because it was near Anzac day but we can talk about that later.

Mrs Millett told us to follow her up to the staff room. When we were up to a different step like putting ingredients in she would pick someone to help. I helped with unwrapping and putting the butter into the saucepan. The butter felt sticky and well buttery! As soon as it touched the saucepan, I let go and bolted straight back and the butter melted and sizzled. That gave me quite a shock but I went silently back to my spot again. Other ingredients were also added to the saucepan then it got stirred. It smelt irresistible.

I quietly watched everyone else help with the baking. Then finally we could mould the dough into a balls and place them on  the trays to put in the oven. Meanwhile Mrs Millett told us to start the writing I am doing right now! Everyone had a big cheesy smile on their face and we could smell the biscuits baking. They smelt delicious! I could have drooled as much water to fill a pool. Finally the time had come-the best part...eating!

My teeth took a tiny little bite then Bam! I was in Anzac Biscuit land. There  were Anzac biscuit trees, Anzac biscuit grass like Anzac biscuit everything! Suddenly I was back to my own world chomping angrily away on  the most wonderful,delicious and the most magnificent type of biscuit in the whole wide world!

By Feifei Sun

Anzac Cookies

It all started when Mrs Millett and Room 13 cooked Anzac cookies in the staff room.The class were pretty chilled laying on all the sofas, until Mrs Millett  abruptly gathered us all around the bench.

We quickly popped the butter in the pan to melt it. BOOM! A smell crashed with a smell of golden syrup and sugar filling my nostrils. BOOM! another smell blew up in in my nose. This time it was a unique smell. I was getting closer to tasting it, but no the cookie war was at a stand still.

Finally there was a breakthrough. A fantastic taste burst in my mouth. I can't explain it but it was good! All I could see was crumbs and oats and a tray full of cookies.

By Mitchell

Team building in the Tipa team!

Today was our first day at school. At 12:00 we got together as a team to play some fun team building games. Here are some photos from the event.