Ice cream sundae

Last week, in our writing workshop we wrote instructions of how to make an ice cream sundae. Then on Tuesday, we all went into the staffroom to make our treat! We swapped instructions with people, ( I swapped with Ella ) and followed our instructions exactly.

My instructions went really well as Ella loved her ice cream sundae! The ingredients we were meant to have were: vanilla ice cream, chocolate sauce, hundreds and thousands and a pink wafer, which we didn't have so instead we used some marshmallows. 

I think Ella's instructions were amazing but we both could have added how many scoops of ice cream. Over all I absolutely loved this and I hope we do something  like this again sometime soon.

LTP Week 7

This week for Learning Through Play, since it was hot and sunny, we went down to the beach with the whole Moana Syndicate. Me, Alice and Ella usually play horses at lunch and morning tea so when we found out we were going to the beach we were super happy because we could play that at the beach!

My favourite bit when we went to the beach was jumping off the dunes and sprinting down the beach, turning around and restarting. After playing for a bit we saw that Josie was plaiting Indie's hair. After Josie had finished the braid, she started sticking in pretty little flowers. It looked amazing!! Everybody wanted to have their hair done but since me, Ella and  Alice had asked before it started to look like Christmas shopping, we got our hair done super fast!

Josie's hair salon was really popular, even some of the teachers wanted to get their hair done! We think that the flowers are called Freesia here is what they look like:

I loved going to the beach and I hope that we go there again soon!

Automata

On Wednesday me, Alice and Josie made an automata. If you are thinking what are you talking about? An automata is moving toy that has a cam, a frame, a cam follower and a handle. 

Last week was when we did the planning but I wasn't here last week so I joined Alice and Josie's group. Our initial plan was to do a moving dolphin but instead we did Earth. This wasn't as difficult as we thought it would be. 

First we made the frame. To make the frame you need a box with no sides, some cardboard and tape. First we taped the cardboard to the edges and then made the cam and glued it to the skewer. After assembling the automata we started decorating.

We printed out the earth and stuck it to the top skewer. Then we cut off the edges of blue paper and stuck it on. Then we painted the automata black like the night sky and let it dry. I really liked automata even though it was tricky, would you like to play with our toy?