Our Assembly

We had our assembly today. It was about racism. We did a dance on our individuality. This is a picture of our assembly.

Marae Trip

This week on Wednesday, we went to a Marae. We went to the Unitec Marae. When we got there we learnt about the history of that Marae. It is exactly 10 years old! Then we had some morning tea. After a little run around we went back into the Marae to learn a Haka. When it was time to leave the Marae the year five and six boys performed a haka. I think we all enjoyed having the oppourtunity to go to a Marae and learn some Maori traditions.

Procedural Writing

In writing we are learning about procedural writing. In class we all worked on an exact recipe, and then we were told to make our own. I did mine on how to bake eggless cupcakes. This is my recipe.

How To Bake Eggless Muffins/Cupcakes

By:Soeun

Got a big sweet tooth, but are allergic to eggs? Well then try this recipe it is egg free!

Ingredients

Dry Ingredients

Flour-1.5 cups

Sugar-1 cup

Cocoa Powder-0.5 cup

Baking Soda-1 teaspoon

Salt -¼ teaspoon

Wet Ingredients

Milk-1 cup

Oil-½ cup

White Vinegar-1 tablespoon

Cooking Utensils

Measuring Cup

Tablespoons and Teaspoons

Random Spoons

Sifter

Bowl-2

Muffin Liners

Muffin/Cupcake tray

Oven

Oven Mits

Spatula 

Recipe

1. Have everything laid out nicely on a table.

2. Open your bag of flour, then carefully and slowly spoon it out into your measuring cup until you have exactly 1.5 cups. 

3. Sift the flour from the measuring cup. Make sure you have a bowl underneath, to catch the flour.

4. Repeat this for the sugar and cocoa powder. (You will need 1 cup of sugar and 0.5 cup of cocoa powder).

5. For the baking soda, you need to spoon out a teaspoon, making sure you do not do add too much or too less. Pour the teaspoon of baking soda into the bowl with flour, sugar and cocoa powder.

6. Repeat this for the salt.

7. Mix all the dry ingredients together until there are no bits that are too white.

8. Get another bowl for the wet ingredients.

9. Slowly pour 1 cup of milk into the measuring cup. When you have a cup pour the milk into the clean bowl.

10. Repeat this for the oil.(use 0.5 cup of oil).

11. Get your tablespoon and your white vinegar then slowly pour your tablespoon of white vinegar into the bowl that has the milk and oil in it.

12. Then get out your muffin tray, and lay it on your kitchen bench or wherever you are working.

13. Put your cupcake/muffin liners on the places you are supposed to put them.

14. With your wet ingredients bowl and your dry ingredients bowl, pour your wet ingredients bowl into your dry ingredients bowl and mix it all till it is smoth and drizzly.

15. Put your muffin liners the right way into your muffin tray.

16. Carefully spoon your mixture into the muffin liners and ½ fil them.

17. Put the muffin tray cautiously into your oven.

18. Close your oven door slowly and heat it to 210 degrees celcius for 15 mins.

19. After this is done put on your oven mits and carefully take out your oven tray.

20. Wait for them to cool then enjoy.

Maths Week

This week is Maths Week. During the week we did lots of fun maths games and my favourite was called the maths chaser. The maths chaser is a game where you have to answer questions and get down a ladder before the chaser does. One website we used during the week was mathsweek.co.nz. I really enjoyed maths week this year.

Maori Art

At the end of last term we learned about Peter Gossage. He is a New Zealand artist and author and we used his drawing style to create our own Māori art. We began by sketching our drawings out on A3 paper, then we went over our design in sharpie. To add some colour to our art, we coloured our drawings with pastels. After this we dyed the background any colour we wanted and I chose black. This is my Māori art.

Cook Island Week

This week is Cook Island week. To celebrate our cultural leaders taugh us this song called 'God Loves Me.' We are also learning cook island myths, how to count to ten and some fun facts. This is our Cook Island wall.

Ocean Posters

This term we did a google draw poster on an ocean of our choice. I chose the Atlantic Ocean. We had to find out where it was located, the size, the oceans deepest point and five sea animals located there. This is my google draw poster.