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Sunnyhills Athletics Day 2018

   

On Monday 5th of November, the whole Kauri Whanau school participated in games and athletics activities. It was a windy day but we had a really fun day!

Year 4-6

   

   

   

Science in a Van

        Baking Cupcakes

Today we made vanilla cupcakes

at Sunnyhills. It was a rainy Friday

morning,

when we arrived at school hall

we melted the butter in a bowl

and then mixed it with an electric beater.

Then we poured the sugar into the bowl

and mixed it with an electric beater again,

then we cracked 2 eggs into the bowl,

and poured in some flour, then added some milk as well as the vanilla essence.

We put them in the oven and they cooked

for 15 minutes. Lastly we tasted them

and they were delicious, So we handed

them to one for everyone and they loved them!!

The End

By Zoe Blanchard, Lily Jaksic and

Alexandra Lawry

Baking Vanilla Cupcakes ⍤

Firstly, Mrs V preheated the oven to 190°C, Mrs V also went to the staff

room to beat the butter. Secondly, Khan and Daniel added Chelsea caster

sugar, then Alex beated the mix until it was soft and fluffy with the electric mixer.

Thirdly Khan and Lily cracked the two eggs, and we had to mix

the mixture well again! Our group added the sifted flour, milk and

vanilla essence then we beat the mixture again! We placed the paper baking

cases in a cupcake tin, we each put in the mixture in the paper cases until

it was 2/3s full.  We baked it for about 10 minutes. We were going to

make the vanilla icing, but we didn't have all the ingredients.

It was delicious.

By Khan & Aayush    

Buddhist Temple

Room 7 went off with the

year 5’s and 6’s to

the Buddhist temple,

here’s what happened:

Firstly we  were placed into four separate

groups, 1, 2, 3 and 4. We were introduced to

the temple’s people and staff, then we went to

the wishing bell and learnt how to make a wish

with it. There was a long line to have your wish,

but it wasn’t too long of a wait.

                                                      

Secondly we huddled inside a small room.

Then the staff taught us how to hold an ink brush

and gave us a piece of paper with chinese

characters to trace over. It was a really hard grip.

Most children struggled, some of us just gave up.

After we were finished we picked up our papers

and headed to our next activity.

We walked over to another part of the temple,

before we entered we had each been each given

a flower to put in a little area with all the other flowers.

We scurried into the room and watched a video about

a prince riding on a white horse. We then wrote a wish

on a  piece of paper which was shaped as a leaf,

cloud or flower. We then each got a pin and stuck it

onto the wall.

After we were all outside in a group we learnt how to

bath the buddha. Firstly we poured water over the

right shoulder, then the left. Finally the back,

whilst doing so we were saying the 3gs and 4gs.

After we walked up a few steps and had a small break.

We each got biscuits and small cup of water to

wash it down. While we were enjoying our food

we got a tattoo which said one of the 3gs  4gs in

action

Once we had finished we scrambled inside

a few policemen came to talk to us. We got to

ask questions about what they carried around with

them on the job. One of the kids asked if they could

get handcuffed and the police replied with, “alright.”

After he got handcuffed we had to exit. It was sad to

leave but we all had a great time, we each got a horse

charm to remember the special moments we had there.

By Shreyas, Shayden, Zoe and Tony.

Adventures of Room 7

Welcome to the wonderful Room 7, where everything is fun and exciting! Oh, don’t worry parents we still do lots of learning! So for the past 6 weeks we have done lots of action packed activities. There’s been Yr 6 camp and the Year 5’s have been to EOTC. The Yr 6’s have had so much fun at Lakewood Lodge which was down at Huntly. We did some horse games, archery, Survival, the flying fox, climbing wall, kayaking, an intense game of tug of war, the mud run, there was literally tadpoles swimming in the murky water and much more! Some of us face our fears but we all had such a great time… and so did the Year 5’s! The Year 5’s had a great time at Eastern Beach. They did some kayaking and there was a lot of crashing waves! They made bubbling pikelets, fun paddling games, awesome raft building, tent pitching and…..(drum roll please) a scavenger hunt!  Tree adventures, they had lots of courses where they each had to wear harnesses and helmets. The obstacles were made out of wood, metals and rope. They had ziplines and other fun stuff too! They had to also had played Frisbee Golf which is kind of like mini golf but we use a frisbee instead. But most importantly, we all survived…. Well most of them…

But we had just as fun at school we have created some awesome Picasso Paintings we used pastel and paint and they turned out amazing! We are reading the book, ‘Wonder’ and are learning about how each of us are unique. We have also created this artwork which shows our personality. We have sooo much more adventures to tell but we don’t have enough time. Until next time!

Adios!

By: Karthiga and Zoe