Ricotta and Spinach Canneloni

Here is a recipe we made in class when it was class PINS. Four students made this and enjoyed eating it for lunch.

Ricotta and Spinach Canneloni


Ingredients

Filling
San Remo Canneloni tubes
225g ricotta or cream cheese
1/4 cup grated cheese
250g spinach or silverbeet
2 egg yolks (separate the yolk from the eggy stuff)
1/2 teaspoon of salt
pinch of nutmeg
1 clove garlic, crushed

Sauce

425g can tomato puree
teaspoon ground basil leaves
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 level teaspoon salt
pinch of black pepper

Topping:

1/2 cup grated cheese


Method:

Mix spinach, ricotta, eggs, garlic, nutmeg, salt and pepper together thoroughly in a medium sized bowl. Fill the canneloni tubes with this mixture using a spoon.

For the sauce

Heat oil in a saucepan, add tomato puree, basil, salt and pepper and bring to the boil. Remove from heat.

Canneloni

In a greased ovenproof dish, pour a layer of the sauce but leave enough to cover the canneloni tubes when they are filled. Place the canneloni side by side in the dish and cover with the rest of the sauce.

Sprinkle with grated cheese.

Bake in oven at 200 C degrees for 25-35 minutes.

My Morph by Xavian

For my morph I chose Scott because he looks cool.

I made my morph by going on to Morphx. Then we got a picture of us and a picture of our Thunderbird character.

Next we drew little lines of where we wanted to morph. After that we played a slide show to see which photo looked the best so we can put it in Thunderbirds photos so Mr Nisbet can print it out and display it in the classroom.

Finally  we had to save our photo to Mr Nisbet's folder.

Scot shows the value of team because he works with others.

Children need to go to school by Kaea

Do children need to go to school ? I think they should because they need to learn new things. If children don't learn, they won't get a degree at university or get a good job.

You should also go to school because it's better than staying at home and not learning anything at all when you can go to school and learn something that you didn't know before, maybe like fractions or

spelling words. 

Getting a degree at university is really important because yo need to graduate if you don't you will have to start it all over again. A degree also helps you get a really good job or you can not get a degree at university and end up working at Pak 'N Save or Mcdonalds.

You could make really good friends that could help you if you struggle at something, like a maths question. In conclusion, it's good to go to school because you can learn new things and get to meet really good friends.

We should not have to go to School by Lorenzo

Children do not need to go to school. I think that kids should not go to school because you get to lay on the PS3 or on your iPod touch and more and play Minecraft on the Xbox 360 as well.

First of all, if you let your children go to school, they will get bored and bullied. If you don't want that to happen to your child, then keep them home so none of that will happen.

Alo they should still do homework but just at home and also let your child play video games.

On the other hand, your kids might like going to school to see all their friends and learn more than their parents. Also school is so cool because when you grow up, you will know more about the job you are going to do.

On the weekend by Marco

On the weekend on Saturday morning I was meant to go to soccer, but I didn't. First I couldn't play because our coach Conan said it was raining. When he texted everyone on Friday he said it was going to be raining. On Saturday morning the sun was shining and it was a beautiful shine.

Secondly I couldn't play because I had an extremely painful headache.

Then every time I swallowed food and drinks my throat hurt like getting smacked in the head with an axe.

I didn't know why that happened to me, and it kept on going all day and all night. I thought I would have died or I had to go to hospital, so I asked my parents if I could go to hospital. They said "No it's fine". Then on Saturday I had to eat  ten pieces of orange and it felt like an axe again but I had to swallow it.

On Sunday night I had to eat some oranges again. I thought I died but I could still see, look, taste, smell and feel. When soccer was cancelled on Saturday morning, my dad wanted to watch John Carter with me so we did.

Then we watched it. Literally five minutes later, he was sleeping and I kind of thought that was a bit rude.

I turned the movie off and he said "Why aren't we watching John Carter." I said "You were sleeping and that wasn't nice so I turned off the movie."

Then he said "Let's watch Dolphin's Tale. I said "OK". We watched halfway through the movie (one hour). Then he slept again.

Children do not need to go to school by Wendy

Do you think children do not need to go to school? I believe they do and I guess it's yes
                         
If you don't go to school, you won't learn how to read, how to write, how to do maths and times tables.

If you go to school with big smiles then you will go to university and get a job that you want.

If you don't go to school, you also don't learn how to use manners.

School is important because by going to school, you learn a lot of vocabulary and things that you don't know, you get to know.

In conclusion, I think children should go to school and it is important to go to school because they will learn things.



                          

My New Violin Jaanvi.

                                  My New Violin.

In the holidays my family and I went to KBB's music store to buy me a violin for me.The violin they brought is a pink violin. I liked it because it was shiny with a pink bow and a red case.

Rosin is a white powder that you put on the bow. The rosin was really shiny at first, but then my dad scratched the top with a sharp knife because, the white powder or rosin comes out when, I rub it on my violin bow.

If you were wondering what the rosin does, it gives a stronger sound to let more volume go through the two "f''s"that look like "S's" on the violin.

My first lesson was with bridget my violin  teacher. She taught me the notes and asked me to pluck the high notes.

Bridget is nice. She is teaching me how to play ''bow down old Belinda.'' I'm learning how to pluck the high notes. That was G and D. Bridge is also teaching me how to hold the violin bow. It was very hard because you have to hold the violin firmly with your shoulder but hold on to the bow tightly.

Then we went home and I memorised all the notes in the song. It was easy memorising the notes because there were only a few of them. I love having a pink violin with a red case.

Girl in the snow by Divij

This girl is in the freezing cold snow.The girl is wearing a warm fuzzy coat with 6 brown buttons.She also has a hoodie connected to her coat.

I think that she's feeling nervous because she's getting a photo taken.The girl has a tiny smirk on her face.There is a little boy trying to get in the photo behind her. I think that's quite sneaky.

The girl looks Canadian and she's giving a half-hearted smile. She's not waving properly either because she might be shy.

I think the girl lives in the Northern part of Canada because the girl is blushing. I think she's shy.

She's outside because she was bored inside her house. She was bored because there is no t.v. in her house.

I think the girl is keen to go back and play again in the gargantuan snow.

I wish I was there too because I've never been in snow.

Children should go to school by Samara

Do you think that children don't need to go to school. Think again.

First of all children need to go to school, so your children can be smart. Your kid can learn lots of things at school like spelling, maths and reading and writing. If your kid did not go to school, he or she will not know how to write. Your kid will get bored watching T.V. and he or she will be mean.

I hope that, you understand that school is better than watching T.V.

Children do not need to go to school by Sydney

Children do not need to go to school because they think they are smart but they are not smart and there are a lot of things to learn, a lot at school they didn't know, a lot of their maths and spelling words.

Learning is really good for your brain but lots of kids think school is boring but it's not. It is good to learn and there are fun things to do at school and cool things too. When you grow up you will know nothing because you haven't gone to school and learn and so you have to learn when you are an adult.

Your Mum, Dad, sister and your brother can teach you at home instead of going to school and learn for a long time but I think school is better than learning at home because you learn at home a little bit but at school you learn a lot and for a very,very long time.

School ends in the afternoon and at home you finish in the morning sometimes and that's not a long time. You also learn a million things at school but at home not that much.

Now I hope you know why kids really really need to go to school so that they can be really smart at their maths, spelling and reading too.

Children should go to school by Yang Yang

Do you know I disagree that children should not go to school, because they should learn at school to read and write. Now read this. About 2,000 children in New Zealand don't go to school on any one day. If you want to know more, carry on reading.

I really don't agree that little kids should not go to school, because children should really go to school, and learn at school, and always get their mind going, or buzzing.

On the other hand parents might not think that their child has to go to school, just because their child was sick for one day. They let them have a long long  holiday, and miss out school days. That's not a good idea at all.

Have a think. Do children have to go to school? Not just to learn, but also to make friends. Think about it. It will be quite boring if your child just stays home every day, watching television, and playing games. Watching television will damage their eyes, and playing games will just make them dumb because they don't learn anything. Well have a think about what if that was you. How would you like it?

It's right that children have to learn new things, and have new friends at school. Well, there is another reason that children should go to school, and that is because learning is important. If kids don't learn what will happen? Think about this. If you don't learn, what will happen to you? What will happen to your future? Have a read of the next paragraph.

If you don't learn, you will probably be poor, maybe not, but you won't have a work place, which means where to work when you grow up.

Have a think. 2,000 children not going to school? That's a lot!!! 2,000 children not going to school. Think about that. If the kids don't go to school, what will happen to them? They will have nothing for their future because they don't learn anything.

Finally, children should always go to school, because I think kids need to learn, so let your child go to school, not stay at home, and watch television every day. I hope you understand now.

The best part of Room 13 Divij

The best part of Room 13 is having Momentum. It's sort of like homework in a fun way.We have to write ten spelling words depending on the spelling groups we're in.Then we 

Divij bike west

Today we went to the courts to have a lesson with bike west. They teach young riders skills and how to ride a bike. I think it’s nice because it encourages people to ride a bike more often.

We had three teachers. Their names were, Meg, Morgan and Brendan. First we had to check our helmet by making a Y shape on the side of the helmet. We also learnt the ABC’s on a bike. A:air B is brakes and C is chains. Then we learnt scooting. Scooting is when you put your left foot on the right pedal of your bike and both your hands on the handlebars. You have to also try to mount the bike by gliding. Gliding is when you scoot so fast on your bike that you don’t have to scoot any more.Then you can mount it. On Monday our teacher was Brendan.

In this picture are Maddison, Sydney, Samara,  Taonga, Lorenzo, Noela,  Kuresa And  Divij 

Fun Bike West by Jaanvi

Today I went to bike west where we learnt how to ride bikes and learn tricks and skills. Bike west is really fun. If you want to know more about me at bike west read more of my story.

In this picture are Samara, Taonga, Lorenzo and Zairon

We had three teachers who taught different things. One teacher taught people how to ride a 2 wheeler bike.

Another teacher taught skills and tricks, same with the other teacher. The teachers’ names were Meg, Morgan and Brendan.

First Brendan taught us our A B C. The A stood for air, the B stood for

brakes lucky last, the C stood for chains.

I was with a teacher who taught skills. Mr Nisbet was with my group. There was also Yang Yang, Divij, Andy Ethan, Courtney, Amrita, Samara, Xavian and myself.

The people who I mentioned just in the last paragraph

were in my group being taught by Meg.

Some of the things we learnt were scooting, scooting then putting your foot over , gliding,  and u-turns.

BIKE WEST By Xavian

                                               

Today the class went to the courts to learn bike skills and how to keep ourselves safe out in the open when we are on a bike.

First we had a warm up by riding around the courts 3 times. When we finished our warm up, we split into two groups. Half the class went with Morgan and the other half of the class went with Meg and the learners went with Brendon. After we split into groups I ended up with Morgan. The first skill we learned was how to glide  through 2 cones. 

In this photo is (from left to right) Divij,Wendy,Kuresa,Zairon,Lorenzo and Marco.