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This is where we write to you our audience.

We are learning that what we write is read by someone else. That our writing has meaning and that we have something to say.

"SO WATCH THIS SPACE."

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It's all about the learning - so sit back and enjoy our blog.

We are interested in the world around us. Read to us from the local papers,the Herald and encourage us to watch the Television News with you. You can help us to follow International current events using digital images and internet feeds.

In class we will get to explore how new events may impact on our lives.

What we write will be what we think.

We are learning to Communicate meaning beyond a simple statement.

In our ANZAC DAY study we learned to use writing for another purpose.

We wrote letters to people to show we understood why people remembered the past.

We showed respect at our ANZAC DAY Ceremony at school. By looking, listening and saying the words 'LEST WE FORGET'. We stood to sing our National Anthem. We were quiet while the flag raised on the school's flagpole.

Angus wrote...

Room One

Lincoln Heights School

17.5 2012

Dear Gordon

Thank you for putting up the flagpole for the ANZAC Ceremony.

I learned about the Maori soldiers stealing the cabbages for the boil-up.

Arohanui

Angus Dunn.

We hope you enjoy our letters.

Room One

Lincoln Heights School

Massey

Wednesday 16th May 2012

Dear Mr Johnston,

Thank you for coming to our school four our Friday ANZAC assembly.

Bo Min wants to tell you she learned about poppies. Thomas learned about candles that help us remember the dead soldiers.

Angus liked the way the flag was raised up and then put down so we remember the soldiers. Hamish liked singing the National Anthem.

'Lest we forget'

Mrs Ennever, Mrs Simpson, Bo Min, Hamish and Angus.

We are poets.

Whanau

My family is one hundred.

10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90,100.

Aunties and uncles

Nanna and Poppa

and

cousins and cousins

but

only one dad

We walk like dinosaurs.

Ranui Wickliffe

Anzac Biscuits

A group of women during World War 1 decided to make biscuits to send to the soldiers that would provide nutrition and keep for a long time. They were originally called Soldiers biscuits but after Gallipoli the name was changed to Anzac biscuits.

Anzac Biscuits are still a favourite treat amongst Australians today and are very easy to make.

Recipe for Anzac Biscuits. 1 cup rolled oats
1 cup plain flour
1 cup sugar

3⁄4 cup coconut
125g (4oz) butter
2 tablespoons golden syrup
1⁄2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda 1 tablespoon boiling water

1) Combine oats, sifted flour, sugar and coconut.
2) Combine butter and golden syrup, stir over gentle heat in a small saucepan until melted.
3) Mix bicarbonate of soda with boiling water in a teacup. Add to melted butter mixture. Pour into dry ingredients and stir.
4) Place tablespoonfuls of mixture on oven trays (for easy cleanup place a piece of baking paper on the tray)
5) Cook in a slow oven for 20 minutes. Makes about 35.
6) Try and stop your family eating them while they are still warm and soft.
Once they are cool they will go harder and you can store them in a container.

Read Perry's blog.

18/5/12

We made ANZAC Biscuits.

The ANZAC biscuits we measured, we stirred the mixture in the bowl.

We each got a tablespoon in our hands and rolled it, round and round.

We put the dough down on the baking paper.

We patted the biscuit flatter.

Next we put the baking tray into the oven. They baked at 180 celsius, for twenty minutes.

Bing. The timer went off.

We did the taste test.

They tasted nice soft and warm but awesome when they cooled down and hardened up.

I made a box and put two of my biscuits into it.

I am going to take them home to my mum and dad.

I love cooking days with Room One.

Perry

My Buddy Bo Miin

Bo Min is a girl.

Black hair.

Big brown eyes.

Two big feet.

One, two hands.

A big smile.

My buddy Bo Min.

Wednesday, 21 March 2012

Thomas Smith

A shark eating the seal.

The sea lion is swimming fast.

The shark is swimming fast too.

The shark has sharp teeth. It has big fins for swimming. The shark thrashes its tail as it comes out of the water and opens its jaws to catch the sea lion in his mouth.

Then he closes his mouth and bites the sea lions ‘s tail. Lastly the shark splashes back into the water.

The sea lion is dead.