The Eagle Helicopter and the Fire Engine came to Botany Downs School

"I like the buttons and the controls inside the cockpit of the helicopter" said A.R

"The Eagle helicopter looked really awesome" said E.M

"The police constable talked to us about not speeding in the car" said N.F

"I liked wearing the firemans helmet" said J.M

"I liked the lady fire fighter, she was awesome" said A.J

We are learning about different types of occupations. The police helicopter came to visit our school. It was totally awesome. We enjoyed it coming to Botany Downs School. The fire engine came to visit our school too. The fire fighters came to teach us about how to keep ourselves safe if there is a fire. They taught us how to 'Get down, Get low, Get out - Fast'. Room 10 really liked the helicopter and the fire engine coming to school

Story constructed by the children in Room 10.

Engaging with our learning experiences

At the end of each day we gather together as a class and reflect on our learning. We use a variety of different activities when reflecting. We love thinking about our learning - we reflect about what we have achieved and what we need to keep working towards.

Autumn is here at last!

Autumn leaves

Autumn leaves autumn leaves,

falling from the tree,

autumn leaves autumn leaves

floating down to me,

autumn leaves autumn leaves,

on my hair and clothes,

autumn leaves autumn leaves,

tickling the tip of my nose.

 

Hot cross bun recipe

Ingredients:

1 tbs dried yeast
1 tsp caster sugar
185ml (3/4 cup) warm milk
125ml (1/2 cup) cold milk
50g butter, melted
1 egg, lightly whisked
525g (3 1/2 cups) plain flour
200g mixed dried fruit
70g (1/3 cup) caster sugar
2 tsp mixed spice
A pinch of salt
75g (1/2 cup) plain flour
160ml (2/3 cup) water
2 tbs caster sugar

1.        Pour warm milk. Add yeast. Add sugar.

2.        Whisk together. Leave for 10 minutes

3.        Add cold milk. Add melted butter. Add one egg.

4.        Whisk together

5.        Into a large bowl, add flour, sugar and dried fruit. Add mixed spice.

6.        Mix together.

7.        Make a well in the bowl. Pour yeast mixture and stir well.

8.        Flour bench and knead dough for 10-15 minutes. If it gets sticky re-flour

9.        Spray clean bowl with oil and put dough inside of bowl. Cover with glad wrap. Leave for 1 and a half hours.

10.    Put dough on floured surface, punch a hole in middle and knead for a few minutes

11.    Break off pieces of dough and place on baking tray. Lay buns side by side. Leave for 30 minutes in a warm place, covered with a clean tea towel

12.    In a small bowl, add flour, add water. Mix together until a thick smooth paste is formed

13.    Pipe crosses onto buns. Bake 35 minutes at 180 degrees. Check that buns don’t burn.

Recipe from Nickos Bakery

Yummy yummy hot cross buns

We are looking forward to Easter coming. We decided to make hot cross buns on Wednesday to celebrate Easter. We worked in two groups to made the hot cross buns. After we finished making the buns and they were cooking in the oven, we tasted each individual ingredient that went into the mixture. We tried flour, a milky egg mixture, yeast, sugar, chocolate, salt and mixed spice. We said that the salt tasted like the ocean and we liked trying yeast because yeast is what makes bread dough grow bigger and bigger. We liked all of the ingredients except for the mixed spice.

We made so many buns that we invited our friends from Room 9 to join us for a hot cross bun celebration. Room 10 children thought their buns were the best. They were so yummy! Miss Crosland has a great hot cross bun recipe that she is going to send home with everyone from Room 10. Yum yum yum.

Room 10 Self portraits

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Internet safety

Today we learnt about how to keep ourselves safe on the internet. Miss L told us that it is important that we should never put our full name on the internet and that we should use a nickname instead. We learnt about how Hectors World has very important information in it to help us use the internet safely.

Thank you Miss L.