Procedural Writing

We wrote what we did to make jelly.
Here are some of our wonderful procedures.

Ingredients: jelly crystals, hot water. Equipment: bowl, spoon, cup, fridge.

What we did: First we put jelly crystals in the bowl.

Then we put two cups of water.

Then we stirred it around.

Then we put it in the cups.

Lastly we put it in the fridge.

Author: Samuel

Ingredients: jelly crystals, hot water. Equipment: bowl, spoon, cup, fridge.

First we put the jelly crystals in the bowl.

Then we put hot water on the jelly crystals in the bowl.

Then we stirred the jelly crystals.

Then we put the jelly crystals in a cup.

Then we put the cup in the fridge.

Author: Harold

A question for Rata Rua scientists: Where did the jelly crystals go?

Cross Country Training

Easton's dad came to talk to Rata about cross country running.
Cross Country Expert on PhotoPeach
Thank you so much for sharing with us.
We are looking forward to our school cross country on Thursday.

Which snake is the longest?

Some more science about changing matter.

Today we changed jelly crystals using hot water.
Why did the jelly crystals change?
Can you use the science words solid, liquid, dissolve, heat and cool to explain what happened?

Rata Rua Star Gymnasts!

More Gymnastic Fun on PhotoPeach

What changes chocolate?

Melting Chocolate on PhotoPeach

Gymnastics

Today we went to the hall for gymnastics.
We were shown how to land safely.

Next we were shown some circuit activities which we then tried.

Here are just a few. There were lots of different ones.

Samantha was given a special ribbon.

She was 'The Gymnast of the Day.'

Which activity was your favourite?

Finding out about long and short

We measured how long we were...

We used our string to compare our length with someone else.
Who is taller than you?

We hope you will enjoy...

Our stories about the Swimming Sports.
You will find them on our Authors Page.

Welcome Back.

You may have noticed the new class photo at the top of our blog.
This is because our class has grown and we have three new children in Rata Rua.
A big welcome to Izzy, Zia and Grace.
On Monday Rata block got together to share our holiday news in buzz groups.