💡Ultraviolet Light💡

Task Description -

Hello Kids! I have an announcement. If you didn't know, I am a new member in extension. Since someone left in extension I was chosen to join them. This term we have been learning about UVL which is a light that comes from the sun. If you want to learn more about UVL, then look through my slide and enjoy!

Nacho Nacho MAN!!!

Unfortunately, this is our last day of cooking which is a bit disappointing, but at least I learned how to make some new foods. This time I had a new partner because all the year 8's who are going Tamaki Collage had their Orientation day today. My partner was Tehillah and we both made Nacho's! In my opinion, it wasn't too bad. It actually tasted really nice and it was really fulling. If you would like to try it out, here it is:

Ingredients -

Onion

Mince

Bake Beans

Cheese

Chilli Sauce

Mix Herbs

Step 1 - Dice the onion and fry until soft

- Add the mince and fry until it is cooked

Step 2 - Add bake beans 

- Chilli Sauce

- Mix Herbs

- Cheese

Optional -

Add Sour Cream

Add Cheese

Six-Sentences Story

Once Upon a Time there was a handsome boy named JayJay. He lived in a small cabin with the sight of a nearby river. He was a poor boy but he had the ability to heal anyone who was injured. The problem was, no one believed he was able to do this. He felt betrayed, but one day he saw a girl bleeding to death. He decided to heal the girl in front of the whole village, and that’s when the people made a celebration about this amazing save, and gave him the label, Chief.

Hangi In The Oven?

This is the 2nd to last week for cooking which is a bit sad but at least I'll get to cook these in the future. Today we made a Hangi, which is a traditional Maori food. It's where people cook food under the ground, and steam it up. I'm not quite sure how it actually works but the food somehow doesn't taste like dirt. Since we can't do it under the ground, we are going to be cooking it in the oven. If you would like to learn how to cook it, here is your instructions.

Ingredients -
Onion
Carrot
Cabbage
Orange Kumara
Potato
Pumpkin
Chicken

Step 1 - Dice the vegetables

• Onion (Slice)
• Carrot (Square)
• Cabbage (Slice)
• Potato (Square)
• Pumpkin (Square)
• Chicken (Cut in half)

Step 2 - Put the chicken in first and top up with vegetables, spices & salt.
- Bake 180 degrees for 40 mins

Fair Trade N.O 2

WALT: Analyse and interpret statistical data

Task Description -

I know I've already posted my fair trade but this is our 2nd version. The first few slides are the ones from the other one but the others are what we did this week. It includes graphs and comparing kids with other countries. It's what's the difference between our lives compared to someone else's live.

🍫Chocolate Cake🍫 (Gone Wrong)

Just a normal Tuesday, the Year 8's went to Tech/Tamaki College. Today we got to make Chocolate Cake but something went wrong. I accidentally put too much water in the batter mix, which made it watery. Surprisingly, I kept mixing it and it didn't turn out bad. It was a bit watery but the mix was still good so we still put it in the oven. My advice to all of those bakers and readers out there, don't be stupid like me and listen to your teacher/parent when cooking/baking. If you would like to know how to make this cake then here we go:

Ingredients -
Plain Flour
Sugar
Cocoa
Eggs
Oil
Milk
Vanilla

Step 1 - Dry Ingredients
- 2 c of Plain Flour
- 1 c of Sugar
- 1/3 c of Cocoa

Step 2 - Wet Ingredients
- 2 Eggs
- 1 c of Oil
- 1/2 c of Milk

Step 3 - Baking Part
- Put it in oven and will till it's baked
And ENJOY!

✨Expressive Poetry✨

WALT: Use our senses to write a poem

Task Description -

This week we have been learning about how to use our senses and putting them into poems. We had to pick an emotion and use our 5 senses to describe the emotion. We were only suppose do one emotion but I decided to do 3. Here's my Expressive Poetry, I hope you enjoy it.

Fair Trade

WALT: Analyse and interpret statistical data

Task Description -

In this weeks math's, we did a trading game. We had to get into teams and make up a name for our country. My teams name was Combat and how the game works, Mrs Stone gives us some paper that has some resources on it. Coffee, Electronics, Lumber, Oil and Gold. We were already wealthy so we didn't need to trade.

Mince Gravy With Rice👌

A classic cooking people like to make, the old Mince & Rice. Calais and I made Mince & Rice, now keep in mind a lot of our cooking's have included onions right? Well, today turned out a bit bad for me, since I was the one who had to cut the onions, a tear drop or 2 came out. I found out that I am pretty sensitive to onions, but except for that happening, me and my buddy think we did a pretty good job. Here is what we made.

Ingredient -

Onion

Frozen Vegetables

Mince

Tomato Soup

Step 1 - Dice the onion and fry until it is soft.

Step 2 - Add mix vegetables and cook until it is soft.

Step 3 - Add the mince and fry until is it cooked.

Step 4 - Add tomato soup and mix well.

Step 5 - Serve into white bowl/plate.

Step 6 - Enjoy Your Meal😊

📀German Folk📀

This term we have been doing a rotation in team 5. This week, Room 3 is in Room 1 doing German Folk/D'hammerschmeids. The dance is new and creative, it's similar to hand games. All you do is grab a partner and start doing a hand game. If you've ever played Slime Yuck Yuck before, then it'll be really easy for you. This is one of the easiest dances I've learnt. Make sure to try this dance out because it's something new and fun. While we were doing this dance, Mrs Moala recorded us so if you would like to see what we did, here it is.

DNA - Proteins

Task Description -

Whaea Kelly hasn't been coming to school for the past few days since she is sick, but today we had Mrs Ilaoa. Our little project we had to do was doing some research about DNA. I found proteins interesting so I decided to pick that as my subject. We had to make a poster and share it some of the students in our class. This is some of the interesting things I found out about Proteins. I hope you learnt something new from my research.

🍅Vegetable and Bean Paddies🍅

Not much people like vegetables and that's a fact. It either taste weird or looks weird, but if you make these paddies, it'll be something different. These paddies aren't regular paddies you buy from pak n save or mad butchers, these paddies are one of a kind so let me tell you, they taste different but really good. At first, Calais and I thought it sounded a bit weird, but it turned out to be really nice. Don't judge something by what it looks like.

Ingredients -
Butter Beans
Zucchini
Red Pepper/Capsicum
Carrot
Red Onion
Bread Crumbs
2 Eggs

Step 1 - Mash the butter beans until it looks like mashed potato.
Step 2 - Grate the Zucchini, Red Pepper & Capsicum (but it might be hard to grate it).
Step 3 - Crack your 2 eggs into the bowl of butter beans.
Step 4 - Add all your vegetables to your bowl and mix.
Step 5 - Make your paddies and put some bread crumbs on it to stop the sticking.
Step 6 - Put it in the pan and wait for it to cook.
Optional - You can make it into a burger if you want, or you could eat it by itself.
You Choice😊

Experiment With Onion Cells

Aim:

Finding a clear picture of onion cells?

Hypothesis:

The magnification I think we’ll be able to the onion cells is 40.

Equipment:

1 Onion

A Slide

A Cover Slip

Tweezers

A Blue Stain

Method:

Firstly, we peeled a thin layer of onion with the tweezers. We put the thin onion
layer on top of the slide Mrs Stone gave us, we put 2 drops of saline on top of onion to smooth it down. Next, we put 2-3 drops of blue stain on the slide. Mrs Stone gave us a cover slip to put on top of the onion/slide to cover it and then it was ready!

Observation:

For my point of view, It looked like wings but specific types of wings. It looked like
insect wings or fly wings. There’s lines everywhere that connect with each other
and little dots in between some of those gapes.

The Hungry Wave

WALT: Read between the lines to understand the hidden meaning in the text.

Task Description -

This work was for week 3-4, since most of us didn't finish on week 3. Just as usually, Whaea Kelly gives us a school journal and picks a page so we can read about it, then answer the questions she has made for us. This article wasn't too bad, it wasn't easy or hard but I was able to finish it.

🍕P.I.Z.Z.A🍕

Seventh day here at cooking. It feels like it's my thousandth day. I enjoy coming here and cooking something, it's a new experience for me since i'm learning something new. Calais and I made Pizza but it's not those types of pizza's at Domino's or Pizza Hut. It's quite little but still enjoyable, if you would like to try and make this yourself then here are the instructions and ingredients. Mine may look a little overcooked so try to to do that😅

Ingredients -

Tomato Sauce

Red Pepper/Capsicum

Red Onion

Ham

Options For Toppings -

Pineapples

Cheese

Etc

Step 1 - Paste the top of the pizza bread with tomato sauce

Step 2 - Dice the red pepper, tomato, red onion and ham

Step 3 - Spread all your vegetables, ham, cheese, pineapples on top. Put sauce on top and bake for 15mins.

🍗Curry Chicken🍗

We're are at cooking again and this is my sixth day of cooking. My partner is still the same and today we had to make Curry Chicken. I haven't got the chance to taste but by the looks of it, it looks SPECTACULAR! I feel like my partner and I's cooking has improved a lot since we've been here. I would like to thank Mrs Tuipulotu for teaching all of us how to cook these delicious meals. She uses her own time to teach us silly kids how to cook which I am grateful for.

Ingredients - 

Curry Powder 

Chicken

Potato's 

Onions 

Spices

Frozen Vegetables.

Dice the onions and chicken, Add them both to the frying pan and add half a cup of water, Some minutes later, add some curry powder and spices, Mean while cook your potato's, After that you add the vegetables and potato's.

Wait until it's all cooked,

Serve it out...

And Enjoy!

Life's A Stage - Last Term For 2019

Have you ever heard of the play Romeo & Juliet? A dramatic love story, written by William Shakespeare. How does this relate to my writing? Well, This is our last and final term and our theme that our teachers have chosen for us, is 'Life's A Stage'. Drama's, Fiestas and many more to come!

Is That Mr Burt? We walked into the hallway to see a random man with colourful afro hair and big yellow glasses but turns out the random man was Mr Burt! Mr Somerville, Mrs Tele'a and Mr Burt had something to show us. Is it Kind? Is it True?

Bippity Boppity Boo! Team 1 made a movie showcasing Cinderella and her four evil sisters. While Cinderella was cleaning around the house, the four sisters were dressing up in gowns and putting on lots of makeup. Dancing their way through corridors, Fairy God Mother popped out of nowhere and turned the four sisters into frogs. I guess that's a happily ever after?

We've Got Some Hula Girls In Mind! Team 5 did a little dancing performance for us. They danced to He Mele No Lilo which is originally from Lilo & Stich. One of the other dances were Git Up, and as we all know, this is one of the new challenges people have made. Do you know who Shakira is? One of her most famous songs is Waka Waka. They used some of the moves from just dance, so if other people knew it as well, they could join in.

In this immersion assembly, many people embarrassed themselves, trying to make others laugh. The good thing about this was that they were confident enough to get up on that stage and do the weirdest things ever. Being confident is one of the most powerful things I've experienced, but that doesn't mean being nervous is a bad thing either. A brave person is a person who shows their fear to others, letting out your fear takes courage, and that's what you call a brave person.

~ Fettuccine ~

Start of term 4 and we already get to cook. Today is my fifth day in cooking and we made Fettuccine. If you don't know what that is, Fettuccine is like pasta. It can also be like noodles since the pasta strips are really long. It has a nice texture to it, which you could eat for lunch and dinner, not much for breakfast though.

Ingredients - 
Succini
Mince
Fettuccine
Spices 
Cream

~ Choco Muffins! ~

Don't we all love the taste of soft muffins. Well, today me and my partner (Calais) made chocolate muffins. This is my fourth day at cooking and it's getting better and better by the second. Right now the muffins are still in the oven but I really hope it comes out nice and not burnt. Here's a photo of our muffins and with some whip cream. There was only whip cream on 4 because those were the ones that we ate. To be honest, I loved the whip cream, I thought it was better than the cupcake itself.

Ingredients - 
Sun Raising Flour 
Cocoa 
Sugar 
Milk 
Oil
Eggs

Dry Ingredients
Step 1 - 1 1/2 cup of S.R Flour
 1/4 cup of cocoa
 1/2 cup of sugar

Wet Ingredients
Step 2 - egg
1/2 cup of milk
1/2 cup of oil

When Finished
Step 3 - Mix Well
Step 4 - Enjoy what you made!

What's The Purpose Of School?

Most people say school is for learning and getting a good education, but is that the reason why we go to school? Many people in this world have different opinions on why we go to school, and most of the time, the answer is learning. Let me tell you what I think the purpose of school is.

Education. We mainly come to school to learn about things that'll get us a better job so we'll earn lots of money and have a better life. Teachers also teach us about all the cautions and dangers that could hurt us in life. If there were any robbers, they tell us to run as fast as we can and if not yell and scream at the top of your lungs.

Haven't you noticed that when you go to school, you get there and see all of the friends you've made? Socializing is a big thing for kids. If we were all homeschooled, we would all be scared to go out to places and meet new people. We wouldn't have the confidence and courage to talk to anyone because you would only be used to your family.

They teach us what foods are good for us even though we love eating junk. They help remind us what food we should eat to keep in better shape. What if we didn't know what foods would be bad for us? We could be eating foods that could kill us or foods that could get us sick.

Do you agree with my statements? Or do you have other reasons for what the purpose of school is? If you think about it, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and other people, have become billionaires, but they dropped out of school. School might not always be the answer, but most of the time, it's the best option. When you go to school, always listen and respect your teacher because you might regret it when you're older.