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Holiday flooding

Saxton Stadium in a mess. Photo from Waimea Weekly

Wow the first week of the holidays and many people in the Richmond area have been badly effected by the huge amount of rain we have had.

Have you or your family had any problems with flooding?

Share your story here, or tell us what you have been up to for the holidays

Brigadeiro

Today we found out about a traditional Brazilian sweet called Brigadeiro, which is like a chocolate ball. Children make and eat these at birthday parties and on children's day. It is a special tradition that Miss B fiance Vanderley continues to do here in New Zealand, this remind him of Brazil and his childhood growing up there.

This is what you do once you have made it (Vanderley made it for us at home)

First, you rub a bit of butter on to your hands.

Then, you take a teaspoon of chocolate and roll it in a ball between your hands.

Lastly, you can add some shredded coconut into your hand and roll it around the outside of the chocolate.

 The best part is eating it!!!

It is so good you try hard to get seconds!!!

If you would like the recipe to make this at home, here is the link in English

So what did you think???

PayBack

Today we finished our class book called Payback written by Michelle Kelly.
We came up with a list of words that we thought of when trying to describe this book.
Here is a wordle that showed our thinking

What was your favourite part of the story?

Refugee Camps

We have been writing descriptive sentences describing what we think refugee camps might be like based this photo we looked at.

Here are some examples:

Refugee camps houses are made out of old ragged sheets, blankets or whatever else they could find. Philip

Refugee camps are full of rubbish flying everywhere, it’s as dry as a crisp and the harmful rays of the sun beat down on the people all day. Xavier

The smell of it is so terrible it is like sticking your head in the toilet. Josh.B

The camps are not roomy at all and are coated with handmade small tents, with dirty cloths and many people crowd into them to get to the shade. Lauren

The stench is revolting. Laura

Traditions

Derek shared with us a tradition that his family does at Easter time called Cascarón. This is a tradition where his family paints eggs, hollows them out and fills them with confetti. Once you have made the eggs you then crack them above someones head, which is said to bring good luck. This tradition is also very popular in Mexico.

Thank you Derek for kindly making one for everyone in the class to enjoy your families traditions.

Does your family have a special tradition? 

Aerobics

Giving it a go

Last week Maria, Lucy and Hannah ran our classes fitness session.
Throughout the week they created and revamped an aerobics routine which the whole syndicate had to follow.
It was a fantastic performance which everyone enjoyed and participated.

Thanks very much for the great idea, effort and enthusiasm girls! Well done to everyone for giving it a go!!

Our stars, Hannah, Lucy and Maria

What did you think of the aerobics??

What are some other ideas for our next fitness session?

Discrimination

Today we discussed discrimination, and we did not really understand it. Watch the animation below. Then try and answer the following questions: How does this animation explain what discrimination means? What are some examples of discrimination? What does the video suggest to do to stop discrimination?

Interclass cricket

On Tuesday the 27^th of March room 2 played Non stop cricket against room 13.

Room2 won paper, scissors, rock and choose to field.

We had an alright fielding session but a lot of us stood around like dead fish. Room 13 got 80 runs.

Then it was Room2’s turn to bat. It was quite bad. We didn’t look for the gaps, tried to smash every ball and got out.

In the end we got 72 runs. Over all Room13 had a better bowling and fielding set up.

So Room 13 advance to the next round and Room2 is knocked out.

Well done for everyone getting involved, hopefully we will do better endball.

Written by Xavier

Check out the photos from our game

March 27, 2013

Easter around the world

 Easter is quickly approaching and people around the world are preparing themselves for their annual celebrations.
Christians celebrate Easter as a day to commemorate Christ's resurrection while in certain other cultures it is a day to welcome spring.
The celebrations all over the world normally include attending the mass and making Easter eggs, Easter bunnies, chocolates and buns. But there are also strange Easter traditions and weird customs followed during the celebrations in some countries.
For example in Greece Easter is known for multicolor-decorated eggs, but in Greece you will find only red color eggs. Greeks paint all their eggs only red and use these for making the Easter bread. 
 In Colombia, Colombians have strange dinner menu for the Easter day. Instead of chocolates and eggs, they dine on iguana, turtles and big rodents for the feast.

What family traditions do you have for Easter?

Or

Do you know how some other countries celebrate Easter?