Show Not Tell

Today for writing, we did not do collaborative so we instead had to do 5 'What Am I' from 5 different categories. We had to do this in groups of wither 2 or 3. I went with James and Savarnah. We all did different slides and contributed to it evenly. The answer is on the following slide after the clues. Comment down below how many you got right. Did you learn anything from the clues?

My Saturday

I had a pretty good weekend, I did some stuff but also had time to relax but I had a great Saturday.

This is what I did...

On Saturday morning, I went to Board Training at Corsair Bay which is flat water training on a Surf Life Saving Board. We trained for 1 1/2 hours on the flat, luke warm water.

Corsair Bay

The highlight of my Saturday afternoon was going to Library and issuing some books . Three of the books I issued was by one of my favourite authors Des Hunt. He is a kiwi author from Palmerston North and has won a few awards for some of his novels. Some of my favourites he has written are Search For A Kiwi Killer, Red Edge, To Trap A Thief and Deadly Feathers. Trust me, these are a must read!

Des Hunt - aged 79 (2021).

Abandon Ship! Have You Read It?

Yesterday I finished reading the diary called Abandon Ship! It is by Shirley Corlett and is part of the My New Zealand Story series. I got it from the Christchurch City Library and read it as part of my School Wide Reading Awards. I started the book Tuesday night and finished Wednesday afternoon. It was a very entertaining and engaging book, let me tell you a little about it.

This is a diary of Debbie Atherton, a fictional character living in Wellington in 1968 aged 12 years old.

She starts reading her many greats grandfather's sea journal that her Gran gave her to read. Debbie finds it very fascinating and quite different to her own diary that is mainly about school and her friendship troubles. One day, sick in bed, Debbie thinks her long dead grandfather is trying to tell her something. Then she boards the Wahine.

I think this book is great for ages 11-14 as it tells a little bit of history and gives you a picture of what life was like in 1968. Do you think you will read it? What kind of books are you into?

Making A Recipe From Scratch

 Next term I am going to be competing in a cooking competition online. For our school there will be around 3 - 4 teams competing. On the night we will be given 10 mystery ingredients and we have to use 8 of them, we will also ave the pantry essential (e.g. oil, butter, flour, sugar)

So on a Thursday lunchtimes we do some research for substitute ingredients that we could swap with core ingredients and on Friday afternoons we do some experimenting. Last Thursday we were given 6 tins (green peas, chickpeas, red kidney beans, corn, apple and beetroot) we had to find out what they could each replace as. On Friday we made a recipe substituting 80g of the tinned variety and with 60g flour, 60g eggs, 60g sugar and 60g fat (butter). The recipe had to total in 240g which meant there was a bit of maths behind it.

Luna and I paired up and decided to make Red Kidney Bean, Beetroot and Apple Muffins because there were so many groups we only made a very small batch each so that we could sample each others. I found ours were fluffy, sweet but not overly sweet, a little crunchy on top and had a pretty pink colour. I sampled another pairs which were Chickpea, Beetroot and Apple Muffins and theirs had the same attributes except were a little more sweet. I tried one lot that just tasted of a green pea and had not a cakey taste at all!

I have shared the recipe with you down below and converted some of the ingredients into cups as best I could. Do you think you would try our muffins?

Whakatauki

I quite like this whakatauki that I chose as a whakatauki to post on my blog for the Maori language week bingo board. It reminds of team work and how a person can only succeed with help from everyone else. I also drew the koru heart on google drawing to go with it. 

Te Wiki O Te Reo Maori

This week is Te Wiki O Te Reo Maori which meant I did a quiz on words in Te Reo and a little slideshow of New Zealand cities in Te Reo and the Maori Atua (Gods). What are you doing to celebrate the week?

All About Orca

Yesterday, because it was our first day back from having 3 weeks in lockdown, we drew an Orca. We learnt how draw from a really good step by step tutorial by Anton, The Whale Man. In the video, he provided us with some great facts on Orca which was a great learning opportunity for us. I am not much of a drawing artist but I think my drawing could have looked worse, I just really struggled with drawing the tale or the professional word for it; the fluke. Have you drawn sea creatures before? What shape is their pupil?

21 Orca Facts

1. Largest member of the dolphin family
2. Known as Orca/Killer Whale
3. Noticeable because of their black and white colour
4. Male has a really tall dorsal fin
5. Has a bulbous head
6. The rostrum/nubbin is like their nose
7. They has big sharp teeth
8. Like eating stingrays
9. Distinctive flipper is like a big paddle and it looks like a lemon
10. The dot/tiny hole beside their eye is the ear
11. Pupil is a c shape
12. The blowhole is used like a nostril
13. Tail called the fluke
14. Black on the top, white on the bottom/tummy
15. Lower jaw/anything below the mouth is white
16. Their tummy pattern is the shape of a wave
17. The saddle (often grey) identifies them and it is unique a bit like a fingerprint
18. Scientists track the Orca's by identifying their saddle
19. They have a white eye path beside their eye
20. Super fast mammals
21. The scientific name is Orcinus orca

Orca in the water

My drawing