Te Waharua Talent Show

Room 2's Talented Contestant's 

Congratulations to Mia, Luciele, Kingston, Lucas and Phoenix for their fantastic performance's at Te Waharua's Talent Show. Mia and Luciele came first for performing their wonderful dance to 'Roar'. Also Kingston, Lucas and Phoenix did a great dance to 'Gangnam Style' and came second. Well done guys!!!

Strike Show

Strike Percussion Show

On Friday the whole of Waikanae School went down to the Memorial Hall to watch the Strike Percussion Show. It was an amazing but very loud show to watch. We learnt that a percussion instrument is anything that can be struck. Some examples of percussion instruments are drums, piano, and Xylophone. During the show some of the teachers and the children we asked to go up onto the stage to have a go. It was a great way to end our week at school! Check out some of the pictures below...

Food of the Week

Cabbage/Kapeti

Week 6's food of the week was Cabbage/Kapeti. Check out some of the things we learnt about our new vegetable.

• There are 3 types of Cabbage we eat in NZ red cabbage, savoy cabbage and green cabbage.
• Cabbage is good for our digestive system.
• Cabbage take around 70 days to grow from seed.
• We tried Okonomiyaki a Japanese cabbage fritter. It was delicious.
• Cabbage was used a long time ago as bandages to help with swelling. We tried cabbage bandages and we thought they felt cold, sticky and slimy. 
• We wrote imaginative stories about why we had to use a cabbage bandage to help with an injury.

Food of the Week...

Capsicum/Rapikama

Week 4's food of the week was Capsicum/Rapikama. We really enjoyed trying the this delicious vegetable and learning a few things about it.

• Capsicum comes in many different colours. The main colours are red,yellow,orange and green
• The green capsicum is the most bitter tasting, and the red is the sweetest
• Capsicum doesn't need to be pollinated by a bee to grow
• If you look at the bottom of the capsicum and it has 3 bumps it is a boy, and if it has 4 bumps it is a girl.
• Capsicum is part of the chilies family
• Capsicum can be used in many different dishes such as on pizza, in salads, by itself.
• We found out that Capsicum floats
• We tried some sliced capsicum and made our own little pizzas. It was delicious!

Next week's food of the week is... Cabbage!!!

Food of the Week

Egg/Heki

Week 3's food of the week was Egg. Check out some of the things we learnt below...

• Eggs are a good source of protein.
• Some hens can lay up to 300 eggs a year
• We did a science experiment- you put an egg in a glass filled with white vinegar... after a few days the egg shell disappears. When we took the egg out of the glass we dropped it from a small height and it bounced!! We dropped it a second time for a high height and it broke!
• When the hens eat meal/food like corn that is yellow, it turns their yolks a lovely rich yellowish colour.
• Chickens love to eat silverbeet and worms.
• If you feed chickens shells that have been ground up it makes their shells nice and strong so they don't break as easily
• It takes 21 days for a baby chick to grow inside an egg