Monday, June 4, 2012

Purple Carrots


We tried a very familiar vegetable during Monday Munchies last week, except it was a different colour! We ate purple carrots and they tasted just like orange ones! Carrots originated around 5,000 years ago in the area where Afghanistan and Iran are now and they were originally purple. Farmers only began cultivating orange coloured carrots around 1,000 years ago.


We have been very busy in Maths learning all about fractions. We've completed lots of activities and played lots of fun games to practise our skills. One of our favourite activities was calculating the fractions of pink and white marshmallows in little plastic bags. We also enjoyed working out the fraction of vowels and consonants in words!

Last week, Mrs G went to watch some of the girls in our class play netball. This is a really popular sport in Australia, especially among girls. It's a little bit like basketball, but you can't dribble the ball, the hoop doesn't have a backboard and you can't move your feet if you're holding the ball! It can be really challenging, but it's also heaps of fun. Mrs G used to play it when she was in school too!



Mrs G also went to watch the other football team play. She was feeling tired just watching all the running the boys were doing during the game!


Love from The Smarties and Mrs G

4 comments:

  1. You boys look great in your footy uniforms, and girls you look awesome in your netball uniforms!

    Purple carrots, marshmallow percentages, what a great week you must have had with Mrs. G! I love seeing your work, Smarties! Keep it up!


    Sincerely,
    Your past music teacher, Mr. F

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  2. wow what a great school I wish that I could teach me how to play rugby

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  3. Sounds like you have a lot of interesting things happening. Purple carrots and marshmallows for learning. What a fun way to learn..

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  4. Hi Smarties! I think your purple carrots look really gross. I nearly bought some the other day to try them but thought it might put my Dad off his dinner. :)

    You might want to check out our Blog and look at our scrumptious Vietnamese Rice Paper Rolls.

    Love Miss Vxx

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