Chapter Chat

Takahe hub, are reading the Iron Man story by Ted Hughes.

On Friday we joined 'Chapter Chat' on Twitter, with other Year 3 and 4 schools across New Zealand.

We shared our thinking, answered questions, and shared photos of our Home learning tasks. 

We can't wait to read the next two chapters.

School - Past and Present

Watch this video
https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/video/history-school-journal-film

We had a look at various articles, books and videos...

then we had to think and talk about what school was like in the Olden Days.

Here are some of our ideas.

The Past

• They learnt how to shoot guns
• The boys wore suits and the girls wore dresses
• They drank milk and got apples every day, hot milk
• They practised writing on stone slates
• There was no gateway
• Most people left school by the time they were 14
• Putikitiki did not have a playground, it was flat.
• Reading the school journal
• 40 people in one class
• A rugby pole on Putikitiki was cut

The Present

• New buildings
• TV’s, computers, iPads, Chrome Books, laptops, projector, screens
• We don’t have to wear a uniform
• Pens and paper
• We are safe
• Clocks
• More colourful
• Youtube
• Library
• Air conditioning, heaters
• Putikitiki has a playground

We used a Venn diagram to think about the 

Past and Present, and compare what is still the same.

Harvest Festival

We celebrated Harvest Festival this week by painting our pumpkins using watercolours...

and baking Spiced Pumpkin Bread.

Find our paintings and work on our individual Blog posts.

Then we got to eat it. Delicious!

Try our Bread recipe at home. 
Tell us if you like it!

Pumpkin Spiced Bread Recipe

Ingredients

1¾ cups flour

1 tsp baking soda

½ tsp salt

½ tsp ground cinnamon

¼ tsp nutmeg

½ tsp ginger

2 eggs beaten

1 cup pumpkin puree

50 g butter

¼ cup vegetable oil

1½ cups brown sugar

2/3 cup water

Directions

1.    Preheat oven to 160 deg C on fan bake. Lightly grease one 23 x 13cm loaf pan.

2.  Combine 1¾ cups of flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger in a large bowl and set aside.

3.  Beat the pumpkin puree, eggs, butter, vegetable oil, 1½ cups brown sugar and 2/3 cup water until well blended.

4.  Gently combine the flour mixture with the pumpkin mixture.

5.  Pour into the prepared pan and bake for 45 to 50 minutes.

6.  Allow to cool for 10 minutes in the pan, then transfer to wire rack to cool completely.

School Kit Writing

Thanks School Kit, what an amazing adventure we have had being part of the Get NZ Writing Programme. We really enjoyed writing our metaphors and completing our poster.

3000 classrooms have taken part in the project this year, which means that roughly 96,000 students have been involved. We have sent our kit away to Hornby, in Christchurch, and are looking forward to one arriving for us soon.

We discovered how to write a Found poem and had fun creating our own.