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Monday 17 June 2019

Hershey's Kisses

In Rūma Rima, we like to have fun in class!

During one of the lessons on persuasive writing, we were told to go back to our desk to write the next two paragraphs of our persuasive writing.

Mrs Lee had 20 minutes on the clock and we were furiously typing away. About halfway through, Mrs Lee walked around the classroom and placed a Hershey's Kiss on each of our heads. She said it was so that we would not hunch over our devices and improve our sitting posture. She added that, if we kept the chocolate on our head for the remaining time, we would be rewarded with another one!

    
  

Some of us succeeded and got our second chocolate. But some of us didn't.. because Mrs Lee made us nod or shake our heads!

We weren't too sure if the posture exercise was successful, but it sure got a lot of us thinking about different persuasive writing topics, eg. Mrs Lee should not distract us when we are working!

Wednesday 12 June 2019

Nailed It!

To mark the end of our baking adventures, the Year 6 students of Room 5 had a 'Nailed It!' competition. The students were divided into four groups and given a vanilla cupcake recipe.

        
 

They also received a picture of what they had to recreate on their cupcakes.

Shall we have a look at the final creations?

Group 1: Sesame Street


This is what they created....


NAILED IT!

Group 2: Cute Dogs


This is what they created....


NAILED IT!


Group 3: Farmyard Animals


This is what they created...


NAILED IT!!


Group 4: Nature


This is what they created....



NAILED IT!!


The cupcakes were judged based on taste and how similar their finished products were to the picture.

Here are the winners:

Best Individual Decoration: Blue Dog (created by Kylie)

Best Overall Decoration: Sesame Street
Best Cupcake (taste): Cute Dogs

The decoration was created using white icing and... food colouring! There were many multi-coloured hands by the end of the session! The students found it much harder than they thought to model the icing. One group did not follow the recipe properly, making their cupcake batter very runny! Can you guess which group that was?

What do you think of our creations? Which cupcake would you judge as being the best?