Monday, 6th April - Sharing

The Google Hangout time was changed from 10am to 2pm for the second week of the Easter holidays, as it is hoped that Constance would be able to join us from China.  If we kept our usual meeting time to 11am, it would be in the middle of the night for Constance!

Even though Constance didn't join us today, we still had a great 90 minute hangout.  Everyone shared some of things that they have been doing in lock down.  Milan joined us for the first time, Abbey pulled out her wiggly tooth, Lucas wore Easter Bunny ears, Chen showed us her watermelon seedling, Eillie and Otis played the piano for us.  We finished the hangout with 'Who stole the cook jar' which is a favourite way to end to school day at Cockle Bay.

Thank you, Eillie, for your lovely piano playing and for everyone else who shared something at the meeting.  I think everyone is wondering who will be the next person to lose a tooth.  Adam, Isabelle, Linsey and Lucas all have a wiggly tooth, although Abbey is obviously the winner as she lost hers online during our hangout!


We updated the teddy bear tally, which now stands at:

• Kadin - 59 bears
• Sam - 200 bears
• Kadence - 99 bears
• Mrs Bear - 16 bears
• Dimitri - 50 bears
• Isabelle - 204 bears
• Wilson - 2 bears
• Emma - 93 bears
• Nathaniel - 43 bears
• Otis - 20 bears
• Adam - 36 bears
• Wallace - 42 bear
• Linsey - 1 bear
• Lucas - 1 bear
• Kadin - 18 bears
• Charlotte - 242 bears

EASTER HOLIDAY CHALLENGE #5 - SCAVENGER HUNT

See if you can find all these things in your house, garden or on your family walk.  Place them on a tray or on a table, and take a photo for SeeSaw.  You can label them for extra points!

• 1 strand of hair 
• 1 piece of wool or string (20cm long)
• 1 onion
• 5 seeds from a fruit (maybe, apple, pear, tomato or mandarin)
• 1 piece of litter
• 8 blades of grass
• 3 flower petals
• 7 grains of rice (cooked or uncooked)
• 1 thing you like to play with
• 1 thing that starts with C 
• 1 smooth stone
• 3 brown leaves
• 1 yellow thing
• 1 thing that is prickly
• 1 piece of egg shell

EASTER HOLIDAY CHALLENGE #6 FOR MATHS EXPERTS

Maths experts, Mrs Bear has a problem!  She did some gardening and pulled out all her old tomato plants from her vegetable garden.  Mrs Bear wants to make some green tomato chutney with the few unripe tomatoes that were left, but there are only enough to make 2 jars.  The quantities in her recipe book are for 4 jars.  Can anyone help calculate the right amounts:

To make 4 jars of chutney, you need (BUT how much to you need to make only 2 jars?)

• 750g green tomatoes 
• 2 large onions 
• 2 spoons salt
• 2 large pears
• 1 apple
• 1 cup sultanas
• 1/2 cup dates
• 1 1/2 cups brown sugar
• 1 spoon mixed spice
• 1/2 spoon pepper
• 1 spoon ginger
• 2 cups vinegar

Make a list or a labelled diagram with the correct amounts for 2 jars of chutney, and then upload your answer on SeeSaw.  Maybe we can have another picnic when we are back at school and make some bread and butter to go with the chutney.

Reading on EPIC is going well and we are now up to 200 books read.  So far, 18 people are using EPIC at home.  Remember that in the holidays you can also watch videos as well as reading books and comics or listening to audio books.  EPIC is free to access at home until the end of June as a special present from the company to help families around the world cope with the lock down.  Check that your parents have opened their emailed invite to join EPIC at home!

Some people are also practising Maths in the holidays.  The top ten Maths Whizz students last week  were:

• Eillie 
• Lucas
• Sam
• Abbey
• Kadin
• Wallace
• Wilson
• Isabelle
• Otis
• Adam