Last week our epals in Ua Pou in the Marquesa Islands sent us some recipes - food they like to eat. This week the class created 'recipe slides' to share with them. They were asked to find recipes for food they eat at home, food that they enjoy, food that represents their cultures, foods that are unique to NZ - we included some Pacific Island recipes so our epals can find similarities with theirs:
We also took some pictures of where you get coconuts and fish in Tokoroa.
Last Monday the class had an Anzac soldiers lunch. Bully beef, cheese, jam and hard tack 'soldiers' biscuits. This was followed by a treat - fruit cake (this was a new experience for many in the class). So why did the class get to eat the rations of 1915? So they can get a better understanding of the food Anzac soldiers ate at Gallipoli.
In Social Studies, and Reading the class have been learning about World War 1 and some of the New Zealanders who went to fight at Gallipoli and the Western Front, this knowledge was used to create some Soldiers and Nurses who have just 'joined up'...
As part of our Anzac study, the class made Anzac Biscuits.
In pairs, they had to find an Anzac biscuit recipe, compare the ingredients with the other recipes brought in, and reduce the quantities of the ingredients ( 13 batches of 24 -30 biscuits was too much for the Food Tech' room ovens to cope with!).
When making their biscuits they had to measure quantities carefully and follow the method in the recipe. There were some interesting results :
Brian Falkner a well known NZ author spent the day at the school recently- he worked with groups of our more capable writers and spoke to the school at Assembly. He’s a seriously nice guy, a great author and those lucky enough to spend time with him today learnt lots.
Andrew from the Room 10 2017 class, hosted Assembly and introduced Brian to the school, he also wrote a report for the school newsletter:
Our Time With Brian Falkner
On 11 May, the extension language groups of Tokoroa Intermediate had the rare opportunity to work a best- selling author. This talented man is named Brian Falkner, his most famous work being ‘The Tomorrow Code’. He began his lesson by telling us about his passion to write and read books, it was always a dream of Brian’s to have his name on his very own book in a library, to achieve this Brian had to push through with the pure power of tenacity for three decades in order to be noticed by a publisher and finally achieve his lifelong dream. One of the many, many things we learned while Brian taught us was the actual concept of a story. We were taught that in order to make a story immersive was to use emotions of the reader. Mr Falkner also spoke to the school assembly.
A big thanks to our school librarian Mrs Van Der Putten for arranging for this author to come and spend the day at Tokoroa Intermediate.
Our school caretaker is quite a character - he's only been with us since November '17 but what a difference he's made to our school. He is always working:
He paints, he mows the lawns, sports field boundaries and our running track, he cleans us around the school - puts the bins out early in the morning and gets them in at the end of the day, he lifts stuff , he fixes things ( no daughty door in Room 10 now!), he sprays the Onehunga weed so no-one gets prickles in their feet at PE and Sport anymore, he climbs on the roof to get balls and frisbees down, he comes in after hours if security calls...
But there's more to Mr MacPherson than meets the eye....
