Category: Hanga | Create

Health – blind drawing

Hi today I am going to tell you about what I did in health class today.

we had to get into pairs and had to sit back to back. and described what picture the teacher gave us.

We had been learning about inter personal skills, and the teacher asked us what inter personal skills we would use on this activity.

The skills we used were verbal communication and active listening.

I worked at the 1 level of hellions behavior model

science – distillation

Hi today I am going to tell you about what I done in science in class this week.

we had to find a diagram of distillation and then draw it.

we learnt the concept of how to distillation coke.

we are doing the experiment on Thursday, and half of the class are doing regular coke and the other half are doing coke no sugar.

science

Hi today i am going to tell you about what i done in science.

Equipment- Test tube rack, 4 test tubes, pipette, the chemical solutions Copper Nitrate and Sodium Hydroxide

Method- Take 4 test tubes, in the first test tube measure and pour in 10ml of Copper Nitrate. Then take 1ml from the first test tube and pipette into the second test tube. Add 9ml of water to make it up to 10ml. Then repeat for the third and fourth test tubes. 

Making the precipitate– Now add 5ml of Sodium Hydroxide to each test tube and take a picture in front of white paper.

Class trading – 9th may

Hi today I am going to tell you about what i have been doing in class today.

today we were doing trading as practice for what we are going to start on Tuesday.

I started with new balance shoes, then traded with someone in my class for cricket bat, then traded for a year worth of free supply of hand sanatiser.

Science- Water Boats

Aim- we are trying to find out if a paper box will hold water over fire.

Method-

Equipment

  1. Paper
  2. Bunsen burner – make sure the hole at the bottom is closed when lighting it.
  3. Tripod –  You use this so you can put what you are going to heat up on.
  4. Heat mat –  make sure to use them when using a bunsen burner, otherwise you might burn the counter.
  5. safety glasses – must be worn when doing an experiment to prevent something bad getting in your eyes.

Matariki

Hello today I am going to show you what i]I done today in my homeroom class.

We were doing work about what we know about Matariki, and answering questions so the teacher can know about what I know about Matariki. there were three questions we had to answer they were, what is Matariki? why is it significant to Maori? name three fact that you know about Matariki.

here is my work-

What is Matariki?

it is a time to celebrate with family and friends about what the previous year was like.

Why is it significant to Maori?

it is the start of the new year for Maori.

Name three facts that you know about Matariki.

Matariki is one of the clusters of stars closest to earth.

Matariki has many different names around the worlds.

it is the beginning of the new year for Maori.

Home economics – Cupcake Icing

Home economics – Cupcake Icing

Hi today I am going to tell you about what I have been doing in cooking the last 2 weeks.

we have been making a plan on how to make cupcakes, and what we are doing for the icing and fondant.

The people in my group are Oliver, Jonty, Cayleigh and I.

We decided to make swells around the cupcake and put 3 fondant egg middle sized in the middle of the cupcake on top of the icing.

We got given a mystery ingredient, that we had to incorporate in our cupcakes. The mystery ingredient was oreos, we got giving 6 of them, we crushed them up in a bowl and them sprinkled them on the cupcakes.

The colors we choose were green for the icing, and the flavor we chose for it was salted caramel, the color for the eggs were blue.

here is the recipe that we used-

125 g Margarine / Butter                                                  

¾ c Sugar

1 t Vanilla Essence                

2 Eggs (size 7)

1½ c Plain Flour

2 t Baking Powder

½ c Milk 

Method:

  1. Cream margarine in a large bowl. Use a wooden spoon
  2. Add sugar and continue creaming until light and fluffy in texture
  3. Add vanilla essence and beat briefly
  4. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after you have added each egg
  5. Sift flour and baking powder onto a large plate
  6. Using a rubber scraper, scrape all the mixture off the wooden spoon
  7. Add ⅓ sifted flour /baking powder mix and fold in half the milk using the rubber scraper
  8. Repeat step 7 for the next ⅓ flour mix and the rest of the milk. Do not overmix 
  9. Add the last of the flour and gently fold this into the cake batter
  10. Carefully spoon cake batter evenly into 12 paper cases
  11. Bake at 180°C for 7 min then turn oven to Fan Bake for a further 6 – 8 min

Here is a photo of our cupcakes.