How to Make Chocolate

We wondered how chocolate is made.
Here is a video to show us how we can make chocolate.

We have been talking about Changing Matter.
We melted some chocolate at school. We found out that 
heat can melt chocolate. The chocolate started as a solid 
block of chocolate. After heating it over hot water, the 
chocolate changed into a liquid. We also found out that 
we could change the liquid chocolate back to a solid again 
by cooling it. We poured the chocolate into moulds and put 
them in the freezer. Then we got to take our 'new' chocolates 
home to eat. YUM!!!

SCIENCE: Melting Chocolate on PhotoPeach

Gymnastics

Today at school we had gymnastics.
Rachel and Adele were our instructors and they showed us how to use all the equipment. 
First they showed us how the circuit worked and how to land safely when we land.
Here we are balancing, swinging, catching, turning, rolling and climbing our way around the circuits.

Alphablocks

Letterland

For Maths we are talking about measuring length. 
We had lots of fun with Mrs Lewis using playdough 
mats and making things with playdough that were 
shorter, longer or taller.

Measuring with Playdough on PhotoPeach

In Rata Toru we are very lucky to have four new children in our class. A big welcome to Asher, Bryden, Maddy and Sara.

Here they all are reading using the magic pointers and writing 

about what exciting things they did in the school holidays.