Cooking For Kids

Waka Whanake member Amber entered the Book Island Bake Off Competition with her Granny and their AMAZING Summer Berry Flan won them some book vouchers for herself and for our school! We are so proud of Amber and her Granny. Here is an explanation from Amber and her Granny...

Hi,

My name is Amber. I am nearly 8ys old and have been baking with my Mum, Dad and Granny since I was about 3yrs.   Some of my family have dairy allergies so this is good for us. My sisters and cousins all love this cake.

To make my special cake Granny and I made the flan first, I beat the eggs with a beater and added the sugar then we added the flour, it is quite hard to fold the flour into the egg mixture but it just takes practise. We put it in the oven for 10 minutes when it was brown Granny took it out because it was too hot for me and she turned onto a cake rack to cool. 

Ambers Summer Berry Jelly Flan.

Sponge Flan

3 eggs, 1 pinch of salt, 1/2 cup of sugar, 3/4 cup flour sieved with 3/4 tsp baking powder.

Beat eggs and salt until creamy, add sugar slowly.  Fold in flour and baking powder.

Pour into a greased flan tin and cook for 10 mins at 200deg.

Jelly topping.

2 raspberry jellies, 1 tsp gelatine,  400gms frozen raspberries.

Put 2 jellies and gelatine in a bowl with 3 cups hot water, stir until dissolved, add the frozen raspberries they thaw in the hot mixture and pour into a jelly mould.  I use a Tupperware one which is a ring so I can fill the centre with fresh berries.

 

Put the flan on a big plate then we  tip the jelly onto it and put cut up strawberries into the centre and whole ones around the edge. See the picture of me cutting the flan.

 

 

Have you got any yummy baking recipes you could share with us?? Or maybe you could try make Amber's Summer Berry Jelly Flan at home? Leave us a comment because we LOVE to hear from you.

 

Fractions Fun

This week in Waka Whanake, we have started learning about fractions.

Mrs Mason, Miss Fraser and Whaea Tracey showed us a picture of a pie chart and we brainstormed all the things we NOTICED about the pie chart and all the things we WONDERED. See our ideas below...

Next, we were given fraction pieces to explore. We tried to see what different combinations we could use to make a 'whole' and discovered which pieces were halves, quarters, thirds, fifths and even twelfths!

One of our 'wonderings' was whether we could learn to make our own pie chart? So watch this space...

Where can you use fractions at home, school or in everyday life? Comment and share your ideas with us!

Hockey

Today we had a visit from Graham from Taupo Hockey Club.  He came to teach us some hockey skills.  First we learnt how to hold the stick correctly - left hand at the top of the stick and right hand on the tape halfway down.  He showed us how to strike a hockey pose with our legs bent.  Next we practiced dribbling the ball.  Graham told us to think of the ball as a puppy on a leash! It was important that we didn't let our 'puppy' (the ball) run away from us.

We played a game called traffic lights where we needed to dribble the ball at different speeds. Next we played Rob the Nest hockey styles which was madness but plenty of fun!  We finished the lesson with mini games of hockey against each other.  Miss Fraser and Mrs Mason were extremely impressed with our skills!

Check out the photos of Room 19 and the video of Room 20...

Week One Challenge

In Waka Whanake we are starting the year by completing co-operative challenges. By doing these challenges we hope to build lots of skills that we will need during the year.

 We need to learn how to:

·        Create a plan

·        Solve problems and work together with different people

·        Take sensible risks

·        Ask questions

·        Research a problem

·        Share ideas

·        Reflect and evaluate our plans

In Waka Whanake we aim to be Curious, Confident and Co-operative learners.

In Week One we completed our first challenge in groups of 4. Miss Fraser and Mrs Mason gave us 2 pieces of A2 paper and challenged us to get our whole team from one side of the hall to the other without touching the floor. We thought it was going to be impossible!

First we brainstormed in our groups. We had to all agree on a plan we thought would work. We wrote and drew our plan on a piece of paper. This was quite tricky and we learnt to listen to all of our team members.

After lunch, we went to the hall and put our plans into action! There were very different and creative ideas.

 

 

Some of our plans worked really well and other plans needed changing. In the end, we all made it across to the other side of the hall. Back in class we reflected on our plans. We thought about what worked well, what didn’t work so well and what we would do differently next time.

We learnt that you have to listen to everyone in your team and make sure everyone gets the chance to share their opinion. We also learnt that the first idea isn't always the right idea so we have to negotiate and modify our plans.