Famine Challenge

Hi Room 4

Just a note to say "hi". We were wondering how your Famine is going for your camp fundraising. We hope you have been able to get heaps of sponsors to help you out. By now some of you will have been days without TV, junk food, or playstation, so we hope it is going well. Remember if one of your friends has given up the computer for the holidays you will have to pass this message on to them.

we hope your famine is going well and you are raising heaps of money,

Keep up the great work
Mrs May and Mrs O

Tell all of your friends!!!

Hi everybody,

holidays are a great chance to e-mail all of your friends and family members to visit our BLOG and see what you got up to in term 3. There are so many great posts for them to look at.

Lets see if we can have over 1,000 visitors on our 'Cluster Map' by the time we head back to school.

Tell everyone to visit http://r4las.blogspot.com/

Bread Making

As a 'grande finale' to our Kitchen Chemistry Unit for science we made some bread.

We split into 5 groups and each group made a different kind of bread.

Brittany, James, Seamus and Annie made Foccacia Bread

FOCCACIA RECIPE

Water 430ml

Olive Oil 5.5 Tblsp

Salt 2.5 tsp

White Flour 720g

Yeast 2.5 tsp

Place the ingredients inside the bread pan in the order of the list.

Handshaping

1. Press the dough on a lightly floured surface with a pastry roll. Add any additional ingredient to the dough at this time.

2. Make an incision on the top of the dough

3. Stand in a warm area during 20 minutes

4. Baste the with water and a cooking brush.

5. Bake in a preheated oven at 220 degrees C for 25 minutes

6. Leave the Foccacia on a rack to cool down.

Jackson, Mary, Lisa and Dawn made Raisin Bread.

RAISIN BREAD RECIPE

3 tsp Yeast

2 Tblsp milk powder

3 cups of flour

1 tsp salt

3 tsp cinnamon

320ml water

1 tsp sugar

* 1 cup rasins (sultanas)
2 Tblsp butter

* Add after raisin beep

Kane, Caine, Jameisha, Lily and Erika made dough-buns.

BREAD ROLLS RECIPE

Dough:

Water 250ml

Sugar 1/4 cup

Egg 1x 60g

Bread improver 3/4 teaspoon

Margarine 2 tablespoons

Plain Flour 520g (3 and 1/4 cups)

Salt 1/2 teaspoon

Yeast 2 and 1/2 teaspoons

Topping

Margarine, melted.

1. Remove completed dough from bread pan. Line a baking tray with paper. Heat oven to 180 degrees C

2. Divide dough into 15 pieces and shape each piece into a ball. Place on the baking tray, cover and allow to rise for 30 minutes or until doubled in size.
3. Brush with margarine. Bake for 15 minutes or until golden brown.

Megan, Trishia, Rueben, Finn and Anastaja made white bread.

Tyler, Amy, Keegan and Melissa made white bread without yeast.

Everyone really enjoyed trying all of the delicious breads. The favourites of the day were the raisin bread (which tasted just like Hot Cross buns - "MMMMmmmm, delicious!!!), and the dough buns.

The smell of freshly baked bread wafting through the classroom was heavenly! It was a wonderful way to finish our unit. Good luck trying the recipes at home.

Yeast Experiment

We completed a yeast experiment with Mrs O, and she will add the details next week, but in the meantime - here are the photos!!!!

Dance Night - ANNIE

Many many hours of rehearsals have gone in to creating our class dance for the school dance night. We chose a song from the musical and movie 'Annie' called 'It's a hard knock life'. Students auditioned for the lead roles and funnily enough, Annie was chosen to play the part of 'Annie'!

Huge thanks go to Anna Clayton-Smith for all of her choreography and hard work in not only putting the dance together but also recording the class singing the backing track for our dance. We are most impressed with the final result. Check out the photos and videos.