Our winter tree

Here we are acting crazy in front of our tree in winter. What changes have you noticed over the seasons?

Bye, Miss Gordon!

We miss you already, Miss Gordon! Good luck at your next school and see you in December sometime. 

Thanks for the fun songs! 

Thanks for the fun biscuits, too! 

Making ice cream

For our science rotation we made ice cream. 

Ingredients

Half a cup of cream

Half a cup of milk

Half a tsp vanilla essence

1 Tbsp sugar

2 cups of ice

1/2 cup of salt

We mixed the ingredients into a small bag, then placed the 

small bag into a bigger bag filled with ice and salt. Then we shook it up!! 

The salt causes the ice to melt, but it also makes it colder! Really cold! 

We all had turns at shaking it for a few minutes, then came the fun part : eating it!! 

Some of it was a bit salty as we realised we should rinse off the 

opening of the small bag first, otherwise it tastes salty!

We also talked about the changes in matter, from a liquid to a solid and what the cause and effect was of that. Room 12 loves science! 

Our special guest author, Jacob Hewitt

8 year old author Jacob Hewitt came in to visit us today with his mum, Jodie. Room 12 were 

fantastic reporters who asked interesting questions and Jacob answered them with confidence

and knowledge. He shared his inspiration and ideas, as well as his illustration scrapbook. 

Rose from the Western Leader also came in to take pictures for next Tuesday's edition. We are 

really excited about being West Auckland world famous! 

We loved getting his signature , which had a cat flourish! 

Manasa and Shakira won Jacob's competition, and their 

cat characters will feature in Jacob's third book. Well done!! 

New Zealand's new money

We have been looking at some of the current events happening in Aotearoa today. We have been discussing the flag referendum and the different opinions people have. Discuss with your family what your views are.

We have also been looking at the new upgraded money that will be in circulation soon. Here is a link below which goes into details about the money and the changes. They are pretty cool!

Brighter Money website

We also had a bit of fun with this video, to a well known song.

Whip Nae Nae exercise song

Enjoy.....

Tricks with paper

10 amazing paper tricks

See if you can trick your family and friends with some of these cool tricks!

Have a great weekend,
Miss Eyre

Jacob Hewitt, author of Agents of M.E.O.W

A few weeks ago Miss Eyre found a book written and published by Jacob Hewitt, an 8 year old boy from Titirangi. He has written 2 books in his series, the Agents of M.E.O.W. We have only read the first one so far, and we thoroughly enjoyed it. He has a competition up and running where you can create your own cat agent/villain, and the winner will be a character in his third book!

Here are our entries:
Agents of M.E.O.W competition page

You can also check out our comments on his book here:
Agents of M.E.O.W book comments

And here is the link to the homepage on his website:
Agents of M.E.O.W website

We are hoping that Jacob can come in to meet us as a guest author. We'll keep you posted.....

Jacob is also a philanthropist, as some of the proceeds from his book go towards supporting the SPCA. He is aiming to raise $100 and is almost at his target.