Chocolate Truffles .....

Can you help us with making some home made sweets for the fair?  I have attached a recipe for making Chocolate Truffles - these seem pretty easy to make! Famous last words!  We'd love these to be  at school this FRIDAY and we can then package them up in the class!  

You will need:

150 gms of plain chocolate

150 mls of cream

25gms of butter

To coat the truffles:

cocoa powder

coconut

dipping chocolate - white or brown

1.  Melt the chocolate in a small bowl over simmering water.  

2. Add the cream and butter, and stir until it has all melted together.

3.  Let the chocolate mixture cool for a few minutes, then leave in the fridge to cool further. 

4.  Remove from the fridge and roll into small balls.

5. Roll in cocoa, coconut or dip in chocolate!

6. Store in the fridge until you are ready to bring them to school!

I do hope this recipe works!  I haven't tried it but have made the Edmonds Recipe book ones and they work and are divine!

Athletics Day Today!

Are you ready to take part in Athletics Day today?  Make sure you have:

• school house colours on
• a hat
• a drink bottle
• a safety pin for your card
• sunblock on
• sensible clothing for competing - a warm layer might be a good idea too!
• a great attitude and a big smile!

Be prepared to have fun!

The Room 13 Relay Teams...

Congratulations to the children who will run for Room 13 in the Year 3 relay teams!  We are really looking forward to it!

Good luck!

Willie Wonka's Amazing New Chocololate Bar!

In class we had to devise a new imaginary chocolate bar for Mr Willie Wonka. First we looked at the Cadbury website along with wrappers from different chocolate bars before coming up with our own ideas. We then had to plan our chocolate bar, write a set of instructions and draw the design with labels detailing key aspects.

The winner of the class competition was Eve.

 

Caramel Coated Supreme

Goal:

How to make a bar of supreme chocolate.

Materials:

·      50g of cocoa butter

·      cocoa solids (50g if you want dark chocolate, 30g if you want milk chocolate)

·      milk

·      sugar

·      popping candy

·      melted caramel

·      super fast mixer

·      bowl

·      moulds

Steps:

1.    Pour the melted caramel over the popping candy, then let it set in the fridge.

2.   Whilst the popping candy is setting pour the cocoa butter in with the milk in to the bowl.

3.   After the popping candy has stayed in the fridge for 15 minutes take it out.

4.   Pour the sugar in with the butter and the milk, then with the mixer start the beating on high speed like 14 or 16 for 10 minutes.

5.   Add your cocoa solids, start mixing thoroughly on 3 for 3 minutes.

6.   Tip in the popping candy.

7.   Mould the chocolate in any type of mould, but make sure it’s clean.

8.   Wrap the chocolate in a wrapper.

9.   Enjoy eating a ‘scrumdidely’ creamy chocolate!

By Eve

Aboriginal Art

This term we have been working on producing a piece of Aboriginal Art.  A technique is used where dots are repeated on a page to highlight the outline or make a pattern or shape.
We worked on the shape of our snakes first, (this was much harder than we thought!) Then we painted a background.  We used colours that represented the warmth of Australia - reds, browns and yellows.  Finally, we painted in the snake and used cotton buds to dot in our outlines and patterns.

Mrs Brown is very thrilled with the outcomes.  Here are a few - but do come in and see the rest in our class!

Summer walk......

With raincoats on and even some in umbrellas, we made our way to Malvern Park.  It was meant to be our Summer Walk but it wasn't that different than our Winter Walk!  What is going on mother nature!

We did manage to see some new developments in the environment on our walk plus one new surprise at the park! We hope the walk provides us with great motivation for our writing tomorrow!

The sky looked very grey!  We knew we had a small amount of time to explore!

The trees were far more lush with green leaves.

The hedges all showed new growth from the spring sun.

Blossom was growing on the trees. 

Mohit managed to find some leaves blown off by the strong winds.

Johnny found some interesting leaves on the ground.

Eve found these baby chestnuts, blown off by the wind.

Ashley, Eve and Charlie taking some time to relax.

Charlie took this photo of Eve and Mrs Brown

Then we spotted this beauty!  One of the giraffes in the 'stand tall' competition.

And evidence of the continued work in Christchurch!

What a fun walk by all!

Summer Walk

We plan to do our Summer Walk to Malvern park today!  Bring a jacket and maybe some gumboots as the grass will still be wet!