Room 7 MCS 2013: June 2013

Monday, 24 June 2013

Making The Ice Shelf - by Annie, Hannah G, Gabrielle and Ibanez

On Monday 24 of June, Room7 and with the help of Gabby O' Conner, an artist, made part of an ice shelf out of tissue paper.

Gabby came to MCS with a scientist who had been to Antartica 6 times. WOW! Gabby told us that he would help us if we had a question, of course he would probably know the answer to our question. He is a amazing man by far.

We were given tasks that include gathering 6 different shapes each and finding another group with a stapler so we could share. First we found our buddy and then we found a place to sit with enough room to lay all 12 bits of tissue paper on the ground.

Next we set the paper into space so it would fit in the gaps. After that we stapled the paper together so all the tabs were facing upwards.

Once we were finished we had to find another group that had finished too. We had to connect the 24 bits of paper together make a larger ice shelf. Then we had to find ANOTHER group to connect with them and then we kept on adding and adding.

After all that stapling we ended up making the hugest ice - shelf ever. We put the ice-shelf up on the wall and it looks amazing.While people were doing that some people got to see her sketch books and look at some photos of what she had also made earlier on.

We only get to have it in our class for two days and that's a huge bummer! Well, at least we can still see our beautiful art for 2 more days!!!

Gabby said that our art was going to be displayed in an art exhibition and we were all invited! We heard the first 100 children get a ice block.

We think Gabby will take all the work and stick them together so that it will make the sculpture amazing.

We hope she can come back again to show us more. Luckily her daughter goes to our school so Gabby might as well come back to our school to teach us more.

Wednesday, 19 June 2013

Making Flat Bread

Today Room 7 made flat bread. We got this idea from a book that Ms D reads to us. The book is called Boy Over Board, it is about a family escaping from Afghanistan. The boy in the story is named Jamal. He gets stuck with his little sister Bibi on a boat. Jamal had to cook bread because everyone was hungry.

Where did he cook it you ask? ON THE BOAT ENGINE!!! Ms D thought we could look at her car engine to see where Jamal would cook the bread. When we got back to class Ms D said that tomorrow

we could make flat bread BUT NOT ON THE CAR ENGINE!!!

This is how we made it:

First Annie, Haree, Martha, James & Nick put flour, oil, & salt in a bowl.

Then they added a little bit of water & then they kept adding little bits of water and mixing until it was like play dough.

Next we had to take a golfball sized piece of dough.

Get a rolling pin & roll until it's very thin.

Cook in a hot frying pan until both sides are golden.

ALSO: The book is fiction NOT non fiction

and the bread was YUMMMMMMM!!!!!

By:Stella & Sreypich

Recipe.

Flour - 1 dessert spoon of plain flour for each bread you want to make.

Splash of oil

Pinch of salt.

Water

Put a frying pan on to heat up. These flat bread are best cooked in a HOT pan.

Put ingreadients in a bowl and add small quantities of water, mixing, until you have dough. It should feel like 'play-dough'. If it is too sticky to knead - add a little more flour.

Knead for a couple of minutes until the dough is smooth and springy.

Break off a golf-ball sized piece and roll it out very thin on a board. Add a little flour if it sticks to the rolling-pin.

Put your bread in the pan. If it bubbles up a bit press it down with a fish slice. It is cooked when each side is nicely browned - see picture above.

Best eaten as soon as made.

Thursday, 13 June 2013

Putiputi - Flowers of Flax

It is Matariki - Maori New Year. We decided to have a go at making flowers out of flax. Ms D made it look easy - it was HARD! The whole room smelt of flax, and many cries of "I need help" could be heard! As the pictures show we gave it a try and many of us made flowers.