Haiku

Today for writing we did haiku's. I did my haiku on spring. This is my haiku.

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.

Poetry

This week we have been doing poetry to send over to another classroom in New Zealand and we get poetry from another class which is very cool. We had to do a poem with 18 words in it, plus an anagram and say what your object was. I did a chess piece and a gem. These are my poems.

Pepeha

Last week we worked on our pepehas. A pepeha is a form of introduction and heritage. This is my pepeha.

Persuasive Writing Eating Edible Insects

Eating Edible Insects

By:Soeun

I am learning to persuade my audience

Their face scrunches up and they say “eww” or “yuck” and the food gets thrown across the room in disgust. Yes, this is a normal reaction, but after you eat a bug you will be delighted by it’s flavor. Did you know that after people try a bug they mostly like them better than their normal meals like pork or lamb. In my opinion I think that everyone should try to cook with insects. They are tasty, high in protein, low in fat and are a creative idea to try.

Do not judge a bug by it’s look, judge it by its taste. In fact 98% of the people who tried bugs liked them. When we all have a look at an insect we don’t want that disgusting slimy flavor in our mouths but a bug won’t crawl once it’s blanched. So my challenge for you today is to try a bug. Why not try a scorpion lollipop, chocolate crickets or mealworm biscuits because they are definitely healthy plus they are easy to cook.

Wait a minute are bugs healthy? Yes of course they are! Bugs are high in protein, low in fat, have heaps of vitamins and minerals and they don’t have a lot of calories so you won’t put on weight. Bugs also have the same amount protein as an egg. The bugs that have the most nutrients are beetles, cockroaches and crickets. Are you scared that bugs produce greenhouse gasses? Well now your problem is solved because bugs do not produce greenhouse gasses like cattle do and you can eat them without having to say yuck because there are lots of creative ideas out there to try.

Donuts, cakes and cookies! What’s not to like? These foods are all full of flavor and everyone loves them but they aren’t healthy for you. So why not make this delicious junk food good for you by adding a bug. There are many ideas out there to try. Any yummy recipe can be turned into a healthy one and they still taste exactly the same as they did before.

In summary bugs are tasty but are also healthy so you do not get a guilty feeling about eating unhealthy. You must try new ideas for dinner so why not eat bug as part of your diet what’s wrong with trying a new exotic dish? Next time remember a bug a day keeps the doctor away.

Success Criteria

In writing, we have been learning to write a persuasive piece of writing .  We hve co-constructed our success criterea together. Here is our criteria list.

Kiwi Bird Stories

The Flightless Kiwi

By Soeun 

I am learning to inform my audience through an information report.

It’s brown, it’s nocturnal and it is a New Zealand treasure, yes it is the kiwi bird. Many people believe that there is only one specie of kiwi but there are actually five, The Great Spotted Kiwi, the Little Spotted Kiwi, the North Island Brown Kiwi, the Okarito Kiwi and the Southern Brown kiwi. The kiwi is a rare flightless bird that is only found in New Zealand. Kiwi’s have many unique things about themselves like the nostrils on the end of its beak, it is the only bird that has their nostrils located on the end! A kiwi can run as fast as a human but with predators around they are endangered as they can not fly it isn’t easy for their to get far away and it is important that they stay alive because they are New Zealand's native animal. A kiwi life span of a kiwi is up to 40 year, if they don't get caught by a predator.

Predators: Mustelids, Pigs, Possums, Rodents and hedgehogs. There are four groups of predators for kiwi. Let's start with Mustelids. Stoats, ferrets and weasels all eat eggs and baby kiwi that weigh under 1kg and about 4 to 5 times bigger than them. Pigs eat kiwis in their nest and destroy eggs. Some people purposely release wild pigs to catch kiwi. New Zealand has started put traps out for pigs so we can save our precious treasure. Possums were first brought to New Zealand in 1837 to establish a fur trade but after that they have gone crazy. Possums kill adult kiwi and are starting to have a big impact on New Zealand birds and native animals.Rodents and hedgehogs may not eat the kiwi but compete for the same food as it, so the kiwi’s food supply could die down or a rodent or the hedgehog could simply push the kiwi and kill it. A diet is something important all animals need and so does a kiwi.

Diet: Weta, worms and beetles. No one will want a breakfast of that but guess what, a kiwi eats that survive in its habitat, and if they can not find food that they like they can sometimes eat leaves, berries and several species of leaves. Do kiwis drink water? Well they rarely ever drink water because of the food they eat is mostly water, did you know that juicy earthworms are 85 percent water. Kiwi’s a nocturnal is also another reason of why they do not drink much water because they will not get bothered and hot by the sun. When they do drink water they tilt back their beak and guzzle down the water. Kiwi’s get all the food they need in a habitat.

Habitat: Kiwis are adaptable which means they can basically live everywhere as long as it is not too dry or too wet. Kiwis are found it wetland environments, sand dunes, scrublands and even mangroves. The kiwi likes to be near the soil because they are soil feeders. A kiwi lives in these areas to get food and have it suited for their needs. Some kiwis live in zoo’s where they are protected and looked after.

In conclusion the kiwi is a endangered New Zealand treasure that we must protect. Now you know that in order for a kiwi to survive it needs a habitat and food to keep itself healthy and happy. We should do our part to save the kiwi because they are our national animal.

Sea Turtles

The Life Cycle Of A Sea Turtle
I am learning to inform my audience through an explanation piece




What animal has been around since the dinosaurs? You probably did not know it but it is a sea turtle. Sea turtles are reptiles. They are a miraculous animal. There are seven species of sea turtles but six are critically endangered. Sea turtles have been around for 220 million years. Sea turtles can see an extra colour that humans cannot. They have three main stages in life. The egg stage, the childhood stage and the adulthood stage. The first step is being born. All baby sea turtles start off the same and they start as leathery ping pong ball eggs.

The mother sea turtle comes to the high tide line and looks for a good place to nest. She usually lays her eggs in the same place she did last time. She lays about 50-200 eggs in a pit, and then goes back into the water, not able to see her eggs hatch. It takes approximately six weeks for the eggs to hatch and 20 percent of the eggs will not hatch. Once the sea turtles come out of their eggs they crawl to the surface. They are now baby sea turtles.

The baby sea turtles are about the size of your palm. After they crawl out of their pit they make their desperate dash to the water, but they have a lot of predators awaiting them like racoons, crabs and birds. There is also rubbish and holes that people have dug. 50 percent of the sea turtles make it to the water. With the sea turtles that make it to the water they face more dangers like big fish, sharks, dolphins and birds that will try and grab the sea turtles when they come up to the air to breathe. They will eat jellyfish and fish eggs and then they start to grow. The sea turtles will rest in beds of seaweed. 50 percent of the turtles that make it to the water will perish. The survivors will increase in size. It takes a sea turtle 10 years to grow to the size they will be when they grow up.

From a whole nesting site less than 10 percent remain. When they are adults the baby sea turtles are now 160kgs. The only things that worry the sea turtles now are the big sharks and also the killer whale. If female turtles breed 1000 eggs probably only one turtle will remain with human interference. If we do not do anything we will only have one species of sea turtle left.

Soeun narrative writing

The Robot Monster
I am learning to create a narrative based on a image.

As 14 year old Tom rolled out of his bed he stared up at the frosty window. Grabbing the sleeve of his pajamas he wiped the frost off the glass pane and looked at the bustling streets down below his apartment block. Tom was a boy that was short for his age. He was bad at everything apart from creating new things.

Reaching into his plain cupboard he pulled out a crust of plain crunchy bread, for his plain everyday breakfast. Plain was his favourite kind of bread. Tom gulped it down before making his way happily to his workshop where he created his new things. He knew he didn’t have to be there but he just wanted to finish the toy robot he started. Tom realised it was New Year's day in 2060 as he arrived to the empty workshop.

Alone in his workshop Tom finished his toy windup robot he’d been working on for months. He was so proud of himself for making the toy robot , he decided to see if it actually worked. He always failed at the other things he had tried to invent. He plugged his robot in giddy with excitement. Everything was going very smoothly until... ‘Rattle, rattle, rattle,’ Tom suddenly sensed something, he was smelling something like burning rubber.

The robot started to turn huge, and smoke started to come out of it. There was a power surge and every time there was a power surge the robot got more bigger. It took a step towards the boy. The boy screamed, “Stop!” But it was no use the robot was pacing towards him. Everyone was screaming hugging their babies, in a sudden moment the bustling market had no one on the streets.

“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH,” Tom screamed like a girl. With the robot’s giant feet it suddenly stomped on Tom and he had to go to a hospital nearby. The doctors and nurses quickly pumped his stomach up. Soon Tom was feeling better but he still had a big scar on where his tummy is. After he got released from the hospital he pushed a stop button on his robot.

Now Tom never goes to that workshop again. He is scared of robots.

Most Disgusting Meal

I am learning to inform my audience by sharing an entertaining moment. 

Have you ever had a food that was so bad you wanted to vomit it back up? Well I have and it is a boiled steamed egg. So I was five years old and I was at my grandma’s house playing hide and seek with my older cousins. Everything was fine until my grandma called everyone up to the table.

“Everyone, dinners ready!” called my grandma. As I started to get closer I could smell something fishy. I realised at this point that I was going to be the last to the table, while everyone was waiting for me, licking their lips waiting for what they thought was a delicious meal.

The fishy smell was so unbearable as I walked into the room, I wanted to run out of the house screaming to avoid the smell of that meal. Then suddenly it hit me just like lightning would hit people suddenly, the fishy smell was a boiled steamed egg not fish. I saw the not so attractive meal in front of me all watery and disgusting like vomit. I was unable to swallow it while everyone around me was enjoying their meal, gulping it down, the disgusting meal.

I know lots of people like boiled eggs and steamed eggs but the egg was a cracked egg whisked with a whisk then boiled on the stove and had chopped up with the extra bonus of fish in it, yucky! I don’t know how people like things like that, let alone actually eat it.

I knew I had an intolerance to egg so I said, “No way I am eating that.” As I sat there refusing any food from my plate, watching as they all continued to dive into their plate. 

My Amazing Trip

I was feeling the cool water on my body and I was swimming. Then the stench of the water stung my nose, it smelled of rotten egg. My grandma was in the 42 degree water with steam bursting out and my mum was with me. I remembered the water was hot and I was steaming. I wanted to get out. I went to the freezing pool and it was so refreshing. Can you guess that I was in Rotorua.