Hi everyone.
Welcome back to Shaw Block Stars 2013. 

We have started the term with out Monarch Butterfly study. So far we have 85 caterpillars and 24 chrysalises.
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After the weekend we came back and caterpillars had turned into chrysalises "everywhere" !

Today we made two big chocolate cakes.
We put in 2 eggs, brown sugar, milk , oil and golden syrup.

 

Then we had to stir it together.
We got the flour, baking powder, baking soda and cocoa and mixed it together.
Then we added it to the liquids.

 After we mixed them together we put them into a microwave baking dish and cooked it for 12 minutes.

 

 

 

These are the two cakes we made.


The cakes were so yummy after we made icing and put sprinkles on them!

 

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Thanks from all of Shaw Block One children at Paeroa Central School, North Island, New Zealand.

                                 Olympic Games 2012

The Olympics Games are being held in London now. Most countries have sports teams there.
We looked at the Olympic rings and found out they show all the colours of the flags in the World.

This is our New Zealand flag with the Southern Cross on it.
Keanu, Karapi, Mia, Eric, Davon, and Stephen-George watched some of the Games on TV.

What sports have you watched at home?
Tell us tomorrow.

                         The Flood July 2012



On Monday we had extraordinarily heavy rain and the Ohinemuri River spilled over it's banks and flooded everything.

Mrs Hack had to leave in a hurry because the river had gone over the road in the Karangahake Gorge otherwise she might have had to stay the night in Paeroa.

Pounamu, Laith, and Teremoana had to go home too because the Criterion Bridge was going to be closed.

Sandy had to stay to look after the rest of the class.

Mrs Hack had to stay home on Tuesday as well but Sandy came to school.

There were 9 kids in class because the roads were still closed.

The floodgates were put up at the Criterion Bridge to stop the water flooding the College and the town.