Sausage Making Process

By Charlotte.

One day Rosie the cow was having a calf! She was moaning and groaning… hours later that day the farmer saw the beautiful calf drinking from Rosie’s tummy.

The farmer picked the baby calf up, and put it in a different paddock and took good care of it and decided to call it Diggy!

Four years went past, Diggy became a fully grown bull. When it was time to send Diggy to the butcher, the farmer put him in the back of his truck and drove off not really caring about Diggy in the back, tied up. When it was time to say goodbye, the farmer got Diggy out of the back of the truck, tied him up outside and went to get the butcher!

The butcher came outside and collected Diggy, and took him out the back to kill and chop him up! 

After about an hour, the butcher had chopped up Diggy. He put him in a mince making machine. 20 minutes later, Diggy the bull was not a bull anymore, he was mince!

The Mince Collectors came to pick up all of the mince, and placed it in the supermarket in a freezer!! The mince was just sitting there waiting to be bought. 

My teacher, Mr Huskinson came across it and bought it. After he bought the mince, he took it to room 14 (my class) and we got to make sausages using a sausage making machine!

Matthew (Jayden's dad, who is a chef) came to help us make the sausages! We needed lamb intestine, herbs, spices and of course mince to make the sausages.

First we put the intestine on the little tubes on the machine, next we put the mince inside the machine, and Mr fillet pumped the sausages out. We got to hold the tray! (intestine is the outside of the sausage).

After all of that Mr Huskinson had other supermarket pork and beef sausages. Ms McClean cooked the sausages on the BQQ, and Kaylin helped cook the pork sausages, (lucky).

After they were all cooked, we had a taste test! Before I go on to that the year 5’s made the homemade beef sausages and the year 6’s made the homemade lamb sausages!

My favourite was homemade lamb!. The class liked the beef sausages we made the best, the lamb sausages we made were second favourite, and the beef and pork supermarket 
sausages were the least favourite in our class.

How high can you grow?

Recently we grew some grass seeds. To make it interesting, we made grass heads (hairy characters). This is how to make a grass head.
Items needed: plastic cup, a pin, soil, grass seeds, funny photo
Method:
Step 1: Tape the funny photo on to the plastic cup.
Step 2: With the pin, poke seven holes in the bottom.

Step 3: Carefully spoon a reasonable amount of soil into your plastic cup (+-3/4 cup).

Step 4: Carefully place your cup on a plastic plate and water the soil.

Step 5: Carefully spoon one spoonful of grass seeds onto your soil.

Step 6: Carefully push your seeds +- 3 centimetre underneath the soil.

Step 7: Place your plate and cup on the bookshelf/ window sill.

Step 8: Remember to water your plant sensibly every day.

Step 9: Hypothesise on how high it might grow and compare the heights of different grass heads.  

Step 10: Take photos to see how the grass/hair grows.

Room 15 JH

Athletics at Botany Downs

Athletics day

On Friday it was athletics day. We all had to be ready in sports gear. Then we had to meet at the hall to get ready to go to our first event.  We were split into age groups and some of the school did non- competitive and some chose competitive activities.

First we did high jump. The starting height was one metre. Most of the people were able to jump that height. Then it was increased to one metre five. Most people were moaning and groaning that it was going to be too high. The highest was one metre fifteen, which four people cleared.

Nervously I was standing on the starting line waiting for the clapper to bang. Then we started to run as fast as the wind. I could hear all my friends cheering loudly - all the way to the finish line! Then I waited to see if I made it into the top 3 for the semi–final. I was so disappointed!  I finished 4^th so I didn’t make the semi-finals.

Using what I learnt at ball throw practices I hoped to get through to inter schools. I was standing behind the line, hoping not to step over it, trying to focus on my technique. I pushed the ball as hard as I could and watch it fly into the air. I was really ecstatic that I came first for the 11 yr. old girls.

AM, KF & IS Room 15

Sid the blue tongued skink!

Sid is a beautiful blue tongued skink, he comes from the Australian Outback, but was found in home and was not cared for properly.  He was found in his tank with a tub yoghurt and a tin of cat food which is the worst thing for a lizard. 

So Danni’s mum, Sally, rescued him and now he is being looked after properly. Guess what! Sids real name was Billy but Sally didn't like the name so she changed it to Sid. And now Sid has a "Happily Ever After" home and nice people to take care of him. 

His dream has finally come true at last!                 

By Haylee!

Thursday 5 November 2015

Sid the blue tongue lizard

Aim: to write a report on sid the blue tongue lizard.

 
Today the 5th of November Sally Blackwell came to room 14 to show us her new pet lizard, called Sid. She got him from an abandoned house.  
She told us some facts, asked us some questions. some of the questions she asked we did not know the answers so we have to research them by ourselves.
Some of the questions she asked were;

• What sort of plants can we put in Sid’sCage that can handle 40 degrees?
• What is the temperature that Sid has to be in night and day? 

We asked her some questions too , like…

• Can his scales go different colours?
• How often does he eat? 
• How many degrees can Sid’s neck turn? 

She told us some facts. The mothers give birth to live lizard not eggs , that Sid’s food is 50 percent vegetables 40  percent meat and 10 percent fruit.

So this is my report on Sid the friendly blue tongue lizard. 

By Eva room 14 :)

The Value of Determination

We have been learning about the value of determination.

After much discussion we all agreed that determination is “deciding that it’s worth it, to finish what you’ve started”.

Here are some inspiring quotes and phrases that we like:

“Whatever your dreams, the difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination”.

“When you feel like quitting think about why you started”.

“Dream big, set goals, take action”.

We discussed the differences between long, medium and short term goals. Sometimes the dreams are so big it will take years of determination to complete, such as learning a new language or a musical instrument. Sometimes the goals can be reached in a few weeks or months of determination like learning how to use a skateboard or improving your swimming technique. Sometimes determination is shown when completing a quick fun activity that just requires us to overcome mild frustration, such a completing a crossword or a sudoku puzzle.

In class we have been having fun using our determination to complete challenges. Recently, our mission was to stack 28 plastic cups in a pyramid using just an elastic band and some string. It took a while, but with determination and lots of laughs, we succeeded.

Take a look at our video to see how we did it!

Rugby World Cup

Rugby is rough
Uniforms look awesome
Great players show off their skills
Bumps and bruises
Yawning at the end of the game

World cup madness
Oval ball
Roaring crowds
Loud fans
Diving tries

Conversion is over
Under the goal posts
Popular people




Rugby
Uplifting
Getting a goal
Ball
Yelling from the crowd

Working as a team
Over the scoring line
Running across the field
Landing a goal for your team
Defence

Coach
USA
Players

Room 15 MB and JDW