The Most Delicious Cooking I Have Ever Done !

 On Tuesday May the 5th the year 7’s and 8’s went to Technology. The year seven’s were doing cooking class and the year eights were doing woodworks. 

I was in cooking class with Whaea Dot because last term we were with Mr Edwards. We were sitting in pairs in our own units my pair was Tiana but we got to make are own pizza because there were only 9 of us.

 I thought it was easy because I listened to the instructions carefully. The other easy thing was measuring the flour, sugar and water. The hard thing was trying to keep everything tidy well cooking.

 Ebony and I both added all of the ingredients on our pizzas, I added capisican, onion, tomato, mushroom, pineapple, garlic, spinach, oregano bacon, cheese and tomato pasta sauce . We used flour, sugar, yeast, milk powder, water and olive oil  to make the dough. 

When my Pizza came out of the oven I tasted  some and it tasted so amazing and so did Tiana's because we would keep eating each others.

Have you made homemade pizza before and if you have what did you add?

This Is What Happens When You Don't Read Carefully

 This term in Te Waka Awhina/Te Ngahere  we started our day by doing a reading activity  about following directions. Our teacher Whaea Becks gave us a  sheet about  following directions carefully. The first instruction was to read the directions carefully before doing anything  but I didn’t listen and I didnt read the directions carefully,  I did the directions while I read them. I got up to direction  22 but when I read the 23rd direction I realized that it said to only do direction 1 and 2. The reason why we did this is to be able to read the directions carefully.

  I thought it was going to be easy but because I didn’t follow the 1st instruction I failed because I didn't read it carefully. It was still fun but when I reread the instruction 23 I realized that I made a mistake.

Have you ever done a reading test about following directions?

The Facts About Coastal Seas

 This week in Te Ngahere we have been learning about coastal seas and about the marine life that lives in them. We watched an episode of Our Planet coastal seas  on Netflix and recorded ten or more facts that we found out. Then we had to record the facts on a Google slide.

For me it was hard because I was distracted watching the video instead of writing them down but then I started to right the facts down so I could make the Google slide. The easy thing way copying the facts onto the Google slide then fixing them up and the other easy thing was to add pictures to show what the marine life look like.  I learnt that the

Have you watched Our Planet? Do you know anything about coastal seas? Did you know that otters eat food to keep warm?

Why You Shouldn’t Use Place Value For Subtraction

 This week in Te Ngahere  we have been learning how to solve word problems in Mathematics. When you are doing maths I would recommend not using  place value partitioning for subtraction, because it can be really hard to  solve subtraction using place value for example if you had 732-521 you wouldn’t be able to take the 30 from the 20 because 30 is a higher number than 20 and you wouldn’t be able to take the 2 from the 1. I would recommend using the number line instead. 

For me it was hard to use place value for subtraction problems but the easy part way to use place value for addition, The second hard thing was when I way trying to figure out with some of the question if they were subtraction or addition. 

What strategy would you use to solve subtraction problems?

What do you think About My Task Masters Blog Post

 In Te Ngahere we have been learning how to    collaborate  with our learning groups by doing a team building task copy the picture. We had one person drawing and the other person had to go outside and look at the picture and tell the drawer what the picture is and where to put it.  The rules were if your the person who is running, you are not allowed to touch the paper and if you are the drawer you are not aloud to get of your chair and look at the picture.For me it was hard to do it because it was really confusing with my group telling me where to put the picture  and what colour to use without touching the paper. The most challenging  part being the drawer was not being able to understand what the runner is saying and the challenging part about being the runner was the drawer not understanding where to put the picture  and what colour to use. We didn’t finish our drawing because we weren’t understanding each other properly. Have you ever done the task copy the picture?

Freaky Friday Tsunami

    Last week on Friday there was a tsunami drill  lucky it didn’t hit the beaches, I wasn’t at school on Friday but my brother was and he told me that it was scary because he called see surges in the water. I was at home on Friday and I wasn’t allowed outside which was sad but instead I watched the news to see what happened outside.  If I went to school I would of had to evacuate the school with everyone else and run up a big hill to be safe from the tsunami if it did hit the beaches. It would of been hard to walk up the hill because it is a tall hill. When I was at home it wasn’t hard because we didn’t have to do anything but I was scared for everyone who was near the beaches because it is a really scary thing to be near a tsunami. The tsunami was caused by  two earthquakes off the coast of Gibson and one of the earthquakes was a bit higher than the two other ones. What will you do if you were stuck in a tsunami drill?

Mind Blowing Facts About Roy Lichtenstein

 

 This year in Te Ngahere we have been learning about Roy lichtenstein he was a famous pop artist in the 1950s and he used the Ben Day dot technique. We are using his technique of Ben Day dots for our own self portraits.

 It was a little hard to find important facts about him because there were so many  facts to choose from  but it was easier to find images of his paintings to show people what the picture looked like.  

Did you know that Roy lichtenstein has a mural in the Times Square Subway Station?