Aboriginal Inspired Art!

G'day,

So this week was our cultural focus. We spent the week preparing for our cultural day on Thursday. As a team, we decided on Aboriginal Australia and spent time planning, designing and creating aboriginal inspired art on canvas.

Thursday, the big day came along. Fehi, Ina, Mandita and Kanishka worked hard to practise their scripts so they could introduce and present our artwork to the whole school. They did a marvelous job. Everyone loved creating and presenting.

Have a look at this page on our class site to see what we produced!

Enjoy folks!

TTFN!

Can it Cheese?

Hello Everyone,

How lucky are we? School Kit very kindly sent us a science kit that allowed us to investigate the process of making cheese.

First of all, we tasted different cheeses: Cheddar, Feta, Brie and Blue Vein (moldy cheese - yuk!). We completed a taste chart to cheese descriptive vocabulary that best represented what we had tried. Check out Simon's taste chart to see what he thought of each cheese.



After that we followed instructions to make Paneer cheese. This was simple and needed only milk and lemon juice to create curds. Once the curds (lumpy globs) had separated from the whey (the liquid left behind) we strained the whey to leave the curds and then pressed if using plates and a brick. This then got rid of any remaining liquid so that once refrigerated, we had cheese.

We got to taste the Paneer and most of us liked it - so we filled out our final chart on the taste test. Finally, we used our taste chart to compile a guide for Countdown customers to help them choose different cheeses.

Check out Lucas' guide to Cheddar:

Check out Lillias' guide to Paneer:

We had great fun tasting, making and evaluating cheese. If you want to see more, check out our term 2 photo gallery here! You can also find our tasks and work around this cool experience on our class site here.

Let us know your thoughts. Comments are always welcome!

See you next time...

The Retelling of the Titanic Disaster!

Kia Ora Blog Fanatics,

This week we have been learning lots about the disaster of the Titanic. Most of us had seen the movie and were captivated by this historical moment.

The task was to create a DLO showing the true story of the sinking of the ship - NOT the movie, which we found out is a fictional love story created to make people want to watch it.

Here is Ina's Screencastify of her animation and story!

Enjoy and drop us a comment to let us know what you think :)



Until next time...