Wow Room 21 we have had an amazing year together! Thank you for being such fabulous students! I will miss all of you!! 

Room 21 were so excited that we succeeded in our break out. We had to put our good thinking skills to use to solve riddles and problems to break out of a locked box in 40 minutes. 

Last week Room 21 got to make slime! Emma and her mum, Sally did a great job of teaching us how to make it! 

In Room 21 we have been focusing on persuasive writing and what amazing writers we have! They put their skills to use and had to convince Miss Tordeich that their doughnut flavour was the one to win flavour of the month for a pretend store. Each doughnut design was unique and creative and well done to Doris for winning the competition! 

We brainstormed in groups first with given doughnuts, we had to try and convince our peers that our one was the perfect choice!

Then we made our own design each. Here's some of our publishing...

Broadbean Bonanza

Today Room 21 had our last Enviro Day with Mrs Daniel. We harvested  the broad beans we had grown from seed and sketched them. Next we slid them out of their fuzzy pods and tried them raw. They tasted crunchy and nutty.

After that we cooked them in the microwave and popped them out of their pale shells. Then the beans tasted soft and 'potatoey'. Yum!

We're not going to eat all of our braodbeans. We'll leave some on the stalks and when there are big we'll collect them and save them to grow into new plants next autumn.

We ti

pped the pods and shells into the brand new compost bins, where they will break down and make new food for our other vegetables. How sustainable!

Our Enviro Day - hunting, planting, watering & harvesting

On Friday we went to Auckland Zoo to learn about animal adaptations. We had such a fun day! Here is a few of our highlights. Some things we learned were...

"Elephants walk on their tiptoes"-Diamon
"Elephants send vibrations through the ground to talk to other elephants"-Oliver
"Crocodiles have a v shaped snout and the alligator has a u shaped mouth"- Rose
"Snakes can camouflage and they have different patterns"-Loretta
"Camouflage means that they can blend in with their natural habitat"-Doris

In Room 21 we have some fabulous writers! We have been focusing on descriptive writing and using adjectives and similes to enhance our writing. We did some writing on the best part of me, here are a few students pieces