Celebration time

We'll done to all these children who got certificates for great learning, passing basic facts and achieving their learning goals.

Fractions!

There is nothing like starting maths on a Monday morning using m and m's to help us learn more about fractions!

Celebration time

Congratulations to Emma our MVP this week!

Taj and Brenton got our certificates this week.

Printmaking

Team tui has got some new printmaking art on our walls. 

We used styrofoam to create a print and copied them onto white and coloured paper. They look fantastic! 

Check out our individual ones on our pages.

Southland stag visit!

TodAy we got a chance to meet some of the south land stags.we got to meet Craig smith ( mrs stanways really tall brother! ), Morgan Mitchell and Keanu Solomon kahukura. They told us a bot about themselves, asked us some questions and we go to ask them some!

We were lucky enough to get some signatures off them and even a class photo! 

Go the stags( or as miss Williams saids, go otago!)

Jobs in a chocolate factory

Today we had a Look at how jobs have changed over time in a factory. Technology has changed since the early 1900's,this has meant that less people are needed to manually work in a chocolate factory. Nowadays chocolate is made with machines rather than by hand. 

We had a look at jobs that people did in the "real life willy wonka factory" which was created by Joseph row tree. These photos were taken in 1912!

Then we read some job descriptions of the types of jobs people do these days in chocolate factories. We presented back our findings to the class.

chocolate technologist -makes sure that the machines keep working properly

Quality assurance - trains people up to be able to test the chocolate.

Panning sector operated - operates the machines that coat the chocolates like jaffas, smarties etc. make sure the machines are working and they are set to coat the right chocolates. Taste test to make sure they are right. (Coating is made of syrup and flour).

Industrial technologist -create new recipes and make sure they are suitable ft content,moisture etc. have to be good at chemisty, they research chocolate recipes.

Team leader- organises the staff and supervises the factory.

Celebration time

Chocolate taste testing

As part of our inquiry about how we get chocolate we thought we better have a we Friday treat by taste testing some of the different chocolates out there!

We tried six different chocolates, we had our eyes shut and had to guess what it was we were tasting. Most of us only got one or two right, it was hard to tell without looking at what we were eating . 

It was a lot of fun but we will all have to brush our teeth extra hard tonight! 

Colouring in competition

Congratulations to these three girls for coming first, second and third in the year 3 and 4 colouring competition to fundraise for Grave. They had to colour in a picture of African animals. 

Libby-1st

Asha -2nd

Liana -3rd

Commonwealth games

MVP

Congratulations Sophie for being this weeks MVP.  Sophie got the MVP for the school value of innovation.

Celebration time

Today during celebration TeamTui got a chance to share heir show sculptures with the school. Emma shared her fabulous moment in time story and Arden shared the picture book 'A busy day for a Grandmother'.

Congratulations to Jacob who got an award for great work with his reading comprehension this week.

Have a great weekend!

The Story of Chocolate

Lindt Chocolate Factory

How chocolate is made