Kia ora Bloggers, I apologise for not being active and posting much but this week I've learnt how to find a pattern of a number even if its 2 different digits. I also learned lots about climate change, how people need to pay more close attention to it, the causes and effects and the worst situations that can happen.
Here is my DLO about climate change, please sit back and enjoy !
Today my group & I made chop suey but a healthier version, to be honest I think the healthier version tasted much better! I really liked the food and enjoyed making it with my partner. Cooking teaches me different techniques, skills & teaches me to try new food and to alter my ingredients. It also teaches me the importance of cooking, cooking is not only fun but we must be careful for hazards and many more. We have one more week of cooking then we rotate, cooking has been very fun and has given me many amazing opportunities.
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This semester my year level & I have moved onto a new subject, our last subject was pacific & native plants our new topic for this semester is Earth Science. I find earth science interesting as we learn the layers of the earth, the movement of the earth (Tectonic plates) in which I find most interesting and the disasters that occur such as lava, volcanoes & more.
Kia Ora Bloggers,
Today my class and I went to tech as usual, went to our groups and completed the tasks that needed to be completed. We made vegetable curry with lentils, green beans, spinach, chicken breast, carrot, onion, garlic and curry paste.
Instructions :
Dice your onions, thinly cut the carrots, cut the stalk off the spinach and cut thinly after that thinly cut the chicken breast into bite sizes.
Prepare your pan to 1/2 degree, add 1 1/2 oil then add your onions into the pan.
Once the onions are nice and brown, add your chicken breast onto the pan as well as the garlic then let it fry.
After its fried or close, count in the lentils, green beans, spinach and carrots stir for 10-12 minutes then allow it to set.
Next, add in the curry paste and mix once you've mixed it let it settle for 15-20 minutes check on your food just in case it gets over cooked then take it off the pan onto a plate and enjoy :) !
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Today my class & room 10 went to Te Oro to learn about matariki and Maori art. We each had 3 groups for 3 activities called Harakeke, kowhaiwhai,Tuhituhi. I was in kowhaiwhai with Matua Logan and whetu, they were very kind and thoughtful.
They also encouraged us to be creative and to leave all your negative thoughts outside and to also think outside the box. Obviously before that all happened we took our shoes off and lined up as we enter Te Oro. Once we entered Te Oro we were surprised with an amazing introduction by the teachers and their whanau. After all that Matua Logan asked us simple questions about Matariki and questions such as 'what's the god of the oceans name?' (Tangaroa) as we answered the questions correctly Matua Logan gave those who answered the questions a lollie which was surprising because no one expected anything.
As we move on with our groups, some year 8s from last year already went through this but luckily we went into a group we haven't done last year and so I went into kowhaiwhai. It was very fun and interesting as we had a white plain paper, folded into 4 squares already served to us. In those four boxes, in box 1 we had to draw a koru, in box 2 we drew a hammerhead shark also known as Mangopare, In box 3 we had to connect the Mangopare on box 2 with box 3 but drawing it on opposite sides & last but not least we drew waharua kopito. (If you are new to these Maori patterns feel free to use google) After all that Matua Logan and Whetu gladly gave us good amount of wood that was painted white before given to us, they also put painting pallets with the colour blue, purple, gold, black and green.
Using those patterns we drew earlier, we painted with the colours that make us who we are, but of course we had to plan our work with a pencil on our piece of wood and then colour it over using paint. I would say this adventure was pretty amusing I had lots of fun with my friends as well as learning new things.
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Today my class & I had to complete another test which was maths strand. As you can tell by the following images I earned a 4B, to be honest I'm not sure if I'm happy with my score or not. I feel like it's good but not good, because of this it encourages me to try harder,work harder and earn a 5B or 4A. This test was a little tricky but I managed to get through it.
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Today my class & I had to complete our EasTTle maths numbers test. As you can see by the image I received 5B which means I went up 2 sub-levels. It was a tiring session but very worth it, I was very excited and happy once I saw my score. I am definitely happy with my score but really want to try harder and better next time. If you read my all about me blog post it says that I want to reach 5B which I gladly did, so now I want to keep it up and continue going up step by step.
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Malo e lelei Bloggers.
Today my class & I had technology in the morning on Tuesdays as usual, today we made popcorn chicken and wedges as you can see by my title.
This task was very creative and innovative. I had an awesome time making popcorn chicken with my partner, we both liked it very much and thinks it taste amazing. I definitely had a good time with my class & I and looking forward to seeing what we will be cooking next week.
Ingredients : 1 1/2 cup of flour, 1 egg, 1 1/2 bread crumbs, canola oil, chicken breast
Cut the chicken breast into small square pieces.
marinate the chicken breast into the milk and lemon.
Get your pan out, cover it with foil and spray a good amount of canola oil.
Dip the chicken breast into the flour then the egg into then bread crumbs after that put it onto the pan and repeat the same process.
Once you've completed that process, make sure your oven is on 180 degrees and then put your popcorn chicken inside the oven and let it set for 10 minutes.
After 10 minutes is completed take your pan out and turn the popcorn over then putting it back inside the oven for another 10 minutes. (Make sure your watching your popcorn because in some cases it can burn up).
Wedges:
Put the amount of wedges into the oven on 190 or 200 degrees then leave it to set for 20 minutes or so.
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Kia Ora Bloggers. Today my class and I decided to make a google form about coconuts, teaching you some interesting things about coconuts, the amazing different things that coconuts can create and its habitats.
Please feel free to complete my google form and comment your favourite question or what you liked/enjoyed about my google form.
Thank you :)
This week's cooking recipe was mince with salad.
This weeks recipe was very delicious and fun, this recipe was not difficult at all in fact this was very easy and amusing. My favourite part about creating this dish is putting the mince into the pan and dicing the onion and carrots. Although the following images above is not the real picture, here is just a similar dish to what we've created today.
Recipe:
Ingredients: Mince, onion, carrots, stock cube, oil, lettuce, garlic and ginger
Dice the onions and carrots.
Set the frying pan halfway, check if its hot pour a good amount of oil.
Then put your diced onions in the pan, let it set then add in the garlic and ginger.
Once the onions are nice and light add in the mince, stir and then leave it to cook.
(You will know when the mince is ready because there will be no pink parts, it will all be brown.)
Once it's nice and cooked add in the carrots, stir and then leave it to cook.
After that, add in your salad to your bowl,plate or container, turn down your stove and add your mince into your salad.
Finally, sit back, relax and enjoy :)
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Today, my class and I was set to complete an activity about coconuts.
Although I knew what a coconut is I didn't know much behind it like the way they use the coconut, what each part of the coconut tree is used for, how old a coconut tree is and lots more. I had an awesome time completing this tasks with my class and I also had an amazing time learning about the coconut and lots of things its used for while writing my DLO.
Please feel free to read my DLO above.
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This week is week 4 and we've started a new rotation today. The group I'm in until we switch or rotate is cooking with Mrs Hamer, It was a fun and calm first day of cooking, I've always wanted to do cooking with Mrs Hamer especially because we didn't have her last year. Although we didn't have her last year, this year we have her and believe me it's a good feeling going into the kitchen and start cooking.
Today we didn't make much because it was our first day so Mrs Hamer just wanted to give us a little experience of how it felt like being in the kitchen and start cooking.
For today's cooking we made a smoothie :
Ingredients: 2 tbsp yogurt, 1 cup of milk, 1 banana- peeled and sliced, 1 apple - peeled and sliced and a handful of spinach. Mrs Hamer also asked us if we wanted to add some honey/syrup into our smoothies even though it wasn't meant to be apart of our smoothie she wanted to give us a little treat to add in our smoothies, so my partner and I, Milika decided to add some syrup into our smoothie and blended it. Next thing you know it tasted amazing and the syrup went well with the smoothie.
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This week back at technology has been hectic !
2 more weeks of Robotics with Mr Krishna and then we rotate, this week's subject or topic was different for us year 8s and year 7s because we normally do the same topics together but for this week Mr Krishna wanted us to have our own topic because we had already learnt and completed that task. So for our topic we had to used a site called Tinkercad, this site was a lot of fun and I also learnt some things while completing the tasks that were assigned on the site.
Our first task for this week wasn't really a task it was getting to know the site better so that we know how to use it because we usually use mblock, but then following with the first task we had to write hi,welcome or our name onto the micro-bit that activity was so cool and fun completing. Our second tasks which was the last task because we didn't have enough time to complete one of our other tasks. Our second task was called beating heart basically we had to watch a video of showing us how to make our micro-bit have its heart beating, this activity was pretty fun and cool whilst completing it with my friend.
Today's activity was not difficult although my hands are tired from dragging shapes to create this google drawing of mine but besides that I definietly had an awesome time completing this activity and learning the different types of shapes there is, the variety of colours and how to create a fish using google drawing shapes.
This activity was really interesting because at first I didnt know how to create a fish using google drawings until I saw a photo and was trying to look for the shapes to fit the fishes and trying to understand its pattern until finally I got a hang of it and did it to the best of my ability :)
