Making Butter and Toast

We found out how to make bread last term so this term we were curious about butter.
We knew it had something to do with milk and cows and that if you beat it for long enough it would get thicker. So we tried the old "shake the cream in the jar" method and with everyone having a go, it did't take very long to see and hear a change take place. 
Why did this happen? I added a video from youtube that explains the process.

But what's butter without something to spread it on.
Time for some toast!

We wrote a story about our experience.

Butter and Toast by R.7

How do you make butter?
You need to get cream which comes from cows and you can buy it at the supermarket. First you put the cream in a container. You have to make sure that the lid is on tight or the cream will splash out when you shake it. We put a little bit of salt in the cream but you don't have to.
Then we all took turns to shake the container. We counted to 10 as we shook it. We could hear the cream sloshing in the container.
When we had all had two goes, Andrea gave it a big shake. The cream wasn't sloshing much any more. Andrea took the lid off the container and we saw that the cream had changed. It wasn't runny any more. Some of it looked like milk but there was some yellow lumpy stuff in the container. It looked a bit yucky but it was the butter.
We put white softbread in the toaster and waited for the heat to change it to crisby brown toast. We spread the butter on our toast. It was delicious!

Counting to 10 in different languages

O Te Whanau Matariki

Last year for Matariki the children started sewing the stars on our Matariki flag. We finished sewing the stars on this year thanks to help from Yannie's mum.

Leadership Workshops 2017

We love Leadership Week at Newmarket School. Especially when the Kahikatea Students lead fun workshops that we can all take part in. We could choose from Soccer, Gymnastics, Slime, Lava lamps, Drawing and Sketching, Tinkercad, Dance and Movement, Drama, Bubbleology, Rubix Cubes, Makey Makey and Origami.

We love Leadership Week Workshops!

NPS Leadership Assembly 2017

Here are some highlights of this year's Sir Peter Blake Leadership Assembly.

Come and read our fabulous stories

We love writing. Here are four authors from Room 7 with their stories from this week.

The Shiny Shiny Star
by Keiran

The stars are glowing in the sky and no one can sleep!

We looked at an image on Pobble of a miniature castle. Here are three stories inspired by this picture.

The Silly Castle by Connor

My castle has four arms and four legs. It is a silly castle.

The Goblin's Castle by Sebastian

I saw a castle and it was in a forest. It was the castle of the goblin king and Amelie is caught in the dungeon. A waterfall comes down the tower and into the moat. There is a dragon and a portal that leads to a parallel world. If you go there you turn into a bad person.

The Monster Trap by Jowan

I went into a castle and I was scared and I didn't know that the castle was a big scary monster! The monster swallowed me! When I was in the monster's stomach I got out my knife and I cut a door out of his stomach and I escaped!

Making Bread

Meet the Room 7 bakers.

We wondered how bread was made so, last week in Room 7 we made bread. It was interesting to watch how the yeast mixture went frothy and the dough became more and more stretchy when we kneaded it. The yeast made the dough rise and our bread rolls grew bigger when we left them on the tray. They smelled delicious when they came out of the oven and they tasted yummy too. Some of the children put butter on their bread. 

Now we are wondering how butter is made.....