Well, it has beeen a foodie couple of weeks. When we looked at China, one of the first things we looked at was the food they eat. and what did we discover? One of the main foods in China is rice. We looked at a lot of photos that showed how the fields had been terraced to hold in the water. Did you know that rice needs heaps of water to grow?
We made fried rice at school on Monday. We put some peas, bacon, eggs. soy sauce, chilli sauce and some oil in our fried rice. We used chopsticks to eat the rice.
Kimberley said it was easy using chopsticks.
"It is fun using chopsticks to eat the rice", said Amy.
Sam said, "It was pretty hard using the chopsticks".
Charlie thinks it was easy.
Mrs C saw the stripy cat cleaning up all the rice we spilt on the concrete.
Today we are trying Chinese green tea and some fortune cookies. We will let you know what we think!!!!!!!!!
China is a very big place. It has a lot more people than N Z does.
N Z is MUCH smaller than China.
It is a very busy country.
James' dad is visiting China right now!
WE LOVE THE CHINESE FOOD!! Well most of us did.

MORE FOOD
Last Friday we joined the Senior School and had a hangi with chicken, pork, mutton, potatoes, pumpkin, kumara and cabbage. Mr Henry and Mr Wilson made the hangi. They dug a big hole, lit a fire in the hole to heat the railway iron and let it burn for 4 hours. Then they put the food in wrapped in wet sacks and covered it up with dirt. The food was steamed and delicious.
Thank you, Mr Henry and Mr Wilson and all your helpers.

Mrs C.

Wow! What a long trip Oska and his Mum have had to Arkansas. The pancakes were delicious but Oska and Pip are now in the world of real super duper pancakes complete with real maple or corn syrup. I am sure they will enjoy them as much as we did when we made ours.
We have also discovered that the towns and cities in China are very different to ours here in NZ. In one photo we saw a farmer driving along in a cart that was towed behind a rotary hoe, and there are still many people who move around on horses and in carts. In the big cities there are many skyscrapers and families live in homes that are much smaller than ours.

Incidentally the pancakes were delicious!

Mrs C

Well, there has been a great deal of work done with food these last two weeks. It is all part of our writing topic. We have some excellent budding chefs in the class, anyone for jelly, pancakes and toast. Next week we will move onto mousetraps and popcorn. All good healthy food! We have not yet attempted our INSPIRATION as the weekend stories have taken a long time to write.

PB

PB likes to play in the stones. PB is 1 year old and likes to come to school in her fur. She likes playing inside with my Barbie dolls and she sleeps in my bed with me. Bye from Sydney.

McFall's Teddy

This is my sisters bear and it is her favourite colour. Vicky got teddy when she was born from Auntie Judy. Teddy is soft and cuddly and I love her too. Bye from Kimberley.

Jack's lamb

Jack's lamb is cute and it sucks his finger. It is 10 days old in this photo.