Beginning our 'Changing' unit

We drew an outline of our right foot, cut it out and placed them in order from smallest to largest. Liam has the smallest foot, Miss Baillie was in the middle and Max has the longest foot. We are now going to measure them to see what the range is in our class. 

Richmond Kids Market

Sophie-Rose and her friends went to the Richmond Kids Market. They sold their homemade wares of hand decorated jars of fudge from their 'Lollilicious' stall making a staggering $160.00 between them.

Miss Baillie's Christmas present is looking promising this year!!! :)

Morning Entertainment in Room 10

An innovative way to stretch to start the day!

Winter Tournament

A great day had by all. Hockey players enjoyed meethe otherting and competing against all the other Stoke schools.

The Nukes

Great performance by The Nukes ukulele band and enjoyed by all. Birchwood Ukulele Band took part in the following workshop to learn one of their original numbers and to share their own learning by playing a number for them.

Room 10 Soccer Star

Marcos received the 'most improved player'of the year for his grade.
Well done Marcos!

The Nukes performed at school today

Great to see some wonderful ukulele playing and good harmonies. Enjoyed by all with lots of clapping and actions throughout.  The ukulele students also enjoyed a workshop afterwards and now know how to play an original 'Nukes' song.

Room 10's Swimming Champion

Tara competed in the Wharenui Winter Swimming Championships. She was the only swimmer to improve her personal bests in every race she competed in. She won all her races and was awarded the Top Female Points Scorer trophy for 10 years and under.
Well done Tara!

Messy but oh so delicious!!! - By Mason

Here are some more photos from our cooking during MATHS WEEKS! Scones on Wednesday and piklets on Thursday. We made all of it and they were so good! Thanks Mrs Shepard!

Cooking for MATHS WEEK! By Tayla

This week it is MATHS WEEK at Birchwood. All week we will be doing awesome maths activites. Today we started with baking some super delicious chocolate chip cookies. They were delicious! Here is the recipe.

Ingredients
1 ¼ cups plain flour
½ teaspoon baking soda
¼ teaspoon salt
125g butter (at room temperature)
¾ cup brown sugar (firmly packed)
1 teaspoon pure vanilla essence
1 large free-range egg
1 cup chocolate chips (I like to chop up good quality chocolate and use that)
3/4 cup chopped nuts (optional)

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 200°C conventional bake.
2. Sift flour, baking soda and salt together in a bowl and stir with a whisk to combine.
3. In another bowl (or a food processor) beat together butter, brown sugar and vanilla with a hand mixer until well combined.
4. Add the egg and beat until well mixed.
5. Add flour mixture and mix well to combine.
6. Stir in the chocolate chips and nuts if using.
7. Spoon the mixture in 2 tablespoon portions about 5cm apart on a baking tray lined with baking paper.
8. Bake in the oven for about 8-10 minutes. The edges of the biscuits should browned.
9. If using two trays at the same time, switch the trays around half-way through to ensure even cooking.
10. Cool the biscuits on the tray for about 5 minutes, then transfer to a cooling rack. Eat them warm then make some more!