Cooking from Our School Garden

On 17 March 2011

Christian,Lisiate,Gabriel and I went to the kitchen with our gardening teacher Mrs Palmer. She was teaching us to cook roast carrots,potato,garlic,herbs and pepper. First we chopped the carrots and potatoes. Then we cleared the table for stage two. We got a big tray, put in the chopped carrots and potatoes as well as squashed herbs, garlic and oil. Mrs Palmer put it in the hot oven to roast.
It took 40 minutes to cook. Mrs Palmer carefully removed the hot tray. She invited Mrs Elia in for morning tea. Mrs Boyer had some too.
The roasted vegetables and herbs were delicious. Miss Elia and Mrs Boyer thought so too.

Thanks Mrs Palmer.

Drumming

Last year, all the students at Glenbrae School were lucky enough to have a fun, fantastic visit from Chewy and his friends. They are amazing drummers and they have got heaps of drums, enough for everyone to have one. We had a great time learning some new rhythms from them. We were pretty sad when they left and took their drums with them BUT, thanks to the singers in the fantastic choir who donated their night's takings of $800 to us, we have been able to buy 10 drums for our school. Today, Room 7 got into the rhythm and practised some beats. We're not too bad but we plan on getting much, much better. Watch out for our next drumming post.

P.S.

Did you notice how Douglas and Lisiate made sure Nunia had a turn with the drum? I felt very proud to have two such helpful, caring boys in my class. Thanks you two. You are great role models.

Everybody else was great at sharing as well. I am lucky to have such a friendly and kind group of students in my class this year. Keep it up everyone.

Mrs B

Backstroke

Room 7 and Glenbrae School teachers had a tutor from Water Safe NZ come to school to help us learn how to be safe. She lent us some life jackets and told us to practise floating and kicking on our backs as this is a good way to stay floating for a long time. Some of us are getting quite good at backstroke and sculling to help us move through the water even without the lifejackets.

How do you think we are doing?

Lisiate Swimming

Hello Everyone,
I am Lisiate and I'm in Year 6 at Glenbrae School. I have been working hard to improve my swimming and breathing. I can swim the whole length without stopping. How do you think I am doing?

Hello again Everyone,
We are so lucky at Glenbrae School because we have our own pool. Mrs Cooper, our caretaker, looks after it carefully so we can learn to swim and have fun in this hot weather.
We have so much fun swimming at lunchtimes. We take it in turns. Today was the girls turn and we had a handstand competition.

Waste Wise Audit

Glenbrae School is on it's way to becoming a Waste Wise School.
We had to save all our rubbish from everywhere in the school on Monday afternoon. On Tuesday morning, we had our first ever waste audit. It was hard to remember all the places we needed to collect rubbish from. We nearly forgot Miss Elia's office and The RTLB office. All the waste was taken to the hall for classifying and weighing.
Waveney and Marissa from Waste Wise Schools came to help us with the audit. Twenty five students were selected to be counters, sorters, checkers and recorders. Students from all areas of the school were involved, with the older students helping the younger ones.
We were surprised to see how much stuff we thought was rubbish, could actually be recycled or reused.
Our goal is to be waste wise and REDUCE, REUSE and RECYCLE much more in the future.

Netbook Rollout

Hi Everyone,
Welcome back to Room 7's blog for 2011. We have new Year 6's and lots of Year 5's. We are having a great time getting to know each other and because our netbooks have arrived. We booted them up and are learning what they can do. We hope you enjoy this slideshow showing us on rollout day and that you keep checking back for news on our progress. Have a wonderful year.

From Room 7 and Mrs B