Metaphors

As part of our focus on poetry, today we were learning about metaphors. A metaphor is when we compare a person, place or thing to something else. It's different from a simile, as we don't use the words 'like' or 'as'.

Writers use metaphors in their poetry for many reasons.

• To make the writing more interesting
• To make a clearer picture in the readers mind
• To make the reader use their imagination and really think about what they are reading 
• Because they can be funny!

We worked with a buddy to google an interesting image of the sky, then we had to create a metaphor about the image. Our writing had to:

• Have a capital letter and full stop
• Be a metaphor that used the words 'is' or 'was'
• Make sense!

We had to open a word document, copy and paste an image, change the layout, font and colour - so we were learning lots of computer skills too!

 This is what we came up with this morning.......

Friday in Room 8

Today was our first whole school assembly - and what a fantastic assembly it was!

A HUGE congratulations to Ardyn who received the first Duffy book of the year for being so supportive of his classmates during cricket. Ardyn cheered and shouted words of encouragement to players on his team, and the opposition team. What a great role model you are and inspiration to us all Ardyn. Well done!

Some of the other fun things that happened on Friday...

 Augstina and Amy planted our classroom flower garden. They were learning how to dig the hole to just the right depth to cover the seedlings roots then to push firmly around the plant without damaging it. They did a great job!

Lots of TLC! Can't wait to see them grow and flower.

Room 8 hard at work. Such focus and concentration as these children were creating their first ever google slide to share on their blog next week......watch this space!

Amy, Sia, Adam and Jeremiah working on their masterpieces. Creating the background for their bio-poems.

Welcome to 2016!

I am very excited to be writing the first post for 2016 on our class blog!

For new visitors, I am Melissa Bedford and have had the privilege of teaching at BMPS since 2005. 

I'm the mum of two energetic boys....  

 

Liam 4

and Blake who is 6 and in Room 18 this year.

A blog is a great place to connect with others as well as reflect on our learning. 

Sharing our learning with others helps it become clearer in our own minds. 

 

We welcome feedback and would love it if you could take some time to leave a comment. 

 

I look forward to seeing the clever children in R8 take greater control of the blog over the next few weeks as they  begin to learn what to do.

It's over to you now R8.

Watch this space! :)

Check us out at camp and farewell to year 6's

Wishing this gorgeous group of children all the very best as many of them head off to intermediate. 

What an amazing 2 years we had learning and growing together!

Lots of special memories to treasure.

To the children who have gone on to other classes in BMPS I look forward to watching you shine as amazing year 6's xx

A few photos/clips from our time at camp. 

What was your highlight?

What did you find most challenging?

What were you most proud of?

What did you learn?

From Garden to Plate

This week we made spinach balls. We picked all the spinach that we planted in our garden last term.

We worked in 4 groups and we got points for participation, appearance, taste, and tidying up.

The first thing we had to do was read the recipe and get the ingredients and equipment. We mixed everything together in one bowl. Once it was mixed we rolled it into balls and put them on a tray and put them in the oven and waited for 20 minutes.

The hardest part was the eating for some students and waiting for them to cook, but the easiest part was reading the recipe. The most fun part was rolling them into balls.

Finally when the spinach balls were cooked we had a good feast.

We had a lovely day in the kitchen.

By Kakala and Johnny

SPINACH BALLS

• 220 g fresh spinach leaves,, trimmed, washed - about 6 cups. It makes about 160g (2/3 cup) of cooked, squeezed and packed spinach
• 3 eggs, size 6
• 1/2 cup (60g) grated cheese - I used noble cheedar from Mainland
• 1 cup (75g) Gluten Free Panko Crumbs,
• 1/4 cup fresh herbs of your choice - I used coriander

Instructions

1. Trim and wash the fresh spinach leaves.
2. Place the leaves into a saucepan, add salt and cover with boiling water. Cover and set aside for 3 minutes.
3. Rinse the spinach with cold tap water. Drain using your hands to squeeze all the remaining water. You should obtain about 2/3 cup (160g) of packed cooked spinach leaves. If you are using frozen spinach, defrost and measure this quantity.
4. Place on a chop board and finely chop the cooked spinach. Transfer into a mixing bowl.
5. Add eggs, cheese, herbs and panko gluten free crumbs. You can also add salt and pepper if your cheese is not very salty. I did not add salt.
6. Combine with a spoon or your hands, until it forms a batter from which you are able to form balls with your hands or use a small cookie scoop maker to avoid the mess
7. If too moist add slightly more crumb until easy to roll as ball with your hands palms.
8. Place the balls on a non-stick cookie tray covered with baking paper.
9. Bake at 180 c for 15-20 minutes or until golden on the top.
10. Serve immediately or cold in lunchboxes.
11. Serve with dips of your choice like pesto, hummus or homemade ketchup.

Hanging with the BREAKERS!!

First of all this was ages ago but we wanted to share it with you. This day was really fun! The whole school walked to the rec center in Otara. Getting to see our school vs the Breakers was awesome but obviously the Breakers won they were impossible to beat.

They invited everyone to play a game. There was a breakers player who had to shoot a 3-pointer and if we thought that he will miss then we had to run to left and shout boo!! The people who thought that he would get it, in had to run to right and cheer him on.....WOOHOO!!

Autographs. We had ten minutes to get autographs from the players but sadly I only got one autograph. It was an exciting time for all of us and we wish to do it again!

By Phoenix

 

Athletics day!

Today was an exiting day, it was athletics day. Everyone from Bairds Mainfreight participated 

in the fun. We were feeling pumped and a few people felt nervous. Some of the

seniors raced in the 200 meter run and the 400 meter run and we all ran in the 

75 meter run.

Everyone did well but in room 08 Julee-uz, Cace, Mafoa, Tara, Muna and Marina

got ribbons in the finial.

In the afternoon the seniors had some fun relays. It was cool.

Now at the end of the day everyone feels very tired but we all made it though!

By Paul