💡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

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

🍫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!

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😊

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.

🍕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!

~ 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!

A Luxurious Meal!

Third day of cooking and it. was. SPECTACULAR! Surprisingly, It was better than last week and the week before. Today we made Lasagna but this time I had a different person cooking with me today. Her name is Laura and she helped me cook Lasagna. Fortunately, We didn't burn or overcook anything so we had a luxurious dinner (well kind of dinner). HAPPY LATE BIRTHDAY TO MRS TUIPULOTU! It was her birthday yesterday so lucky for my group we got to eat chocolate cake when we finished.

Ingredients - 
Pasta 
Pasta Sauce
Mince
Cottage Cheese
Some Spices
Garlic
Onions but make sure when you cut the onion and garlic, you cut it then dice it!

Maybe you'll try it out yourself and make this one day!

English Breakfast Cooking!

Our second day in cooking and Ms Tuipulotu told us what we were making. We made an English Breakfast, now keep in mind I don't like Bacon or baked beans so I didn't really enjoy it. The only thing I ate was the sausages! My partner was Calais and since I cooked the eggs and bacon, I got burnt a lot. Unfortunately I burnt some of the eggs so I didn't eat it. I hope our next cooking will be something that me and my partner will actually like and cook well. Hope it has something to do with sweetness!

Ingredients - 
Bread
1 Inch Eggs
Ham Slices 
Sausages

Another Holiday Of Nothingness!

Woo Hoo! I was so eager to go home but found out that we were staying home for the holidays. I mean staying home isn't that bad but since it was the holidays I felt the need that I had to go outdoors and enjoy the breeze. I know that some people had a good holiday because they got to play fortnite or go on the internet 24/7 but that seems dull. I wanna go to an amusement park or go somewhere you can explore and investigate.

One of the things I did during the holidays was listening to music. The one thing that satisfied me was music. I have a big passion for music including dancing, singing, etc. Not many people know this but it's true, I love music so much that I need a break from it sometimes. Sorry to say but this is
pretty much the only thing that I enjoyed in the holidays. Take care and make sure that if you're having the same problem as me, nag your Mum and Dad to take you somewhere out of the house. It's not only good for you but I ensure you that you'll have fun.

Task Description -

Do you like the feeling of being cooped up in your house? I don't like it at all but sometimes you just have to deal with it. Some things that you could probably do if your at home doing nothing is begging your parents to go somewhere! Maybe don't do that but that's the best option I have, unless your a music freak like me.

Never Judge What You See!

Long ago there was a place where all Dinosaurs lived. A place where no living person was found except for Tarzan. Tarzan was a person who acted like an animal, he climbed tree's, ate bugs, he did everything that a caveman would do. No dinosaur ate him or touched him until one day.......

Tarzan was doing the usual things that he would do but then a dinosaur that Tarzan had never seen before tried to eat him. He swang through the jungle, one branch to another his hand slipped and he fell to the ground. He tried opening his eyes but something seemed wrong. It was quiet, very quiet. He stood up, his face was in shock. The dinosaur that was chasing him, was standing right in front of him.

He thought that this was the end for him but instead the dinosaur licked his face. All along he thought that the dinosaur tried to eat him but really the dinosaur just wanted someone to play with. He wasn't scary and mean but he was nice and playful. And that's the end of my story!!!

A Random Poem About A Mother...

I was raised by a mother, who didn't treat me wrong

But she was a mother, who kept me strong

She would always keep, my family together 

Through all the bad times, she would be there forever

She's a hard worker, she works all day
She may be stressed, but she smiles every day

Toni & Jannah!

Hello there reader, yesterday we had an unexpected guest show up to Team 5. Do you remember my blog post about all of the Attitude talks that we had, Well, Toni and Jannah had come to our school to talk about Friendship Factors. I know I've already talked about Friendship Factors before but this time they had something new up their sleeves. On each factor, they would give us an activity to do. In the next paragraphs, I will be explaining my two favourite Friendship Factors.

Be Positive. If you've already met me, you would know that I am a very positive and happy person. Being positive can not only help you make new friends but it can also make other people around you to feel more welcome and comfortable. Negativity is bad for a lot of people especially people who take it to the next level, positivity is more powerful than what you think it is. The activity that we did for this phrase was complementing one another and saying nice and wonderful things about them.

Be Yourself. No one's perfect, everyone is different in their own unique way. Many people have tried to change themselves just to fit in with some of the popular kids or smart kids but being yourself, you can make lots of friends no matter who you are. You should be proud of who you are, you shouldn't be ashamed of how you look or what other people think of you because being yourself is the greatest gift, it's the greatest goal to achieve so never doubt yourself.

Another Proverb & Poster!

WALT - Pick a proverb and make a poster!

Task Description -

This is another poster and proverb that me and my group picked. We never saw this one at first because it was on the other page but when we saw it when really wanted to do it. This saying is also in the bible so if you ever get to read the bible, try and find this saying. Thank god for everything we have!

Proverbs & Posters

WALT - Pick a proverb and make a poster!

Task Description -

This is one of the proverbs that we used in a maori book. From my opinion this proverb would mean "let other people sing all of your blessings and songs!". Me and my group (Christina and Rosaleen) picked this one because it stood out very well!

My Spoilt Holiday!

Do you ever feel Spoilt? Well, I definitely do! My mum always spoils me with expensive things and now that I have a step-dad...... I get even more spoilt. Oh, but I'm not a spoilt brat, to be honest, I hate being spoilt. You do get whatever you want sometimes but it can be the worst fee
ling ever but today   I will be telling you about my BEST but expensive holiday!

Last year when it was the school holidays, my mum invited me to go on a trip with her and our family. Where were we going to? Well, it was a Boat Cruz so we went to three islands that holiday! The Boat Cruz was SPECTACULAR!!! We got fed luxurious food, they had an entertainment stage, they had a bingo club, there was a pool, there was a big screen for movies and they even had a virtual car machine. All of it was exciting and fun, I enjoyed myself a lot but that wasn't the end of it.

My mum had to go back to Australia and I thought I was going back to NZ but my aunt and uncle asked me if I wanted to go with them to Dream World! Dream World is located in Gold Coast and since we were in Brisbane, it was just a 1-2 hour drive. I said yes and so we stayed with our family who lived there. Going to Dream World was amazing! It was like going to Disney Land but a bit smaller. Since Dream World and Whitewater World are connected, we went into both of them. I didn't get to go on every single ride and slide (mostly because some of them were too much for me) but I did have a really good time.

After all of those good times, we finally went back home. My family went back to Australia/Perth and I went back to New Zealand/Auckland. The islands that we went to was Noumea, Lifou Island and I forgot the last one but I had I really great time. If it's hard believing that I went to Dream World I have proof and the Boat Cruz Well, I don't have a photo but I do have proof but in real life. If you don't believe me, come to me and I'll show you. Remember to appreciate what you get!