make and create

 One our reading activates this week was to choose small activities throughout a page and one of the activates was to create a song that reminded us of a cartoon theme song. this is mine. it reminds me off a cartoon called bubble guppies from when i used to watch it when i was younger.

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Make your choice !

 This morning we went out to sports with Nick, He introduced to us today a new game called make your choice. It is when you could choose between baseball and cricket. I was in a group with Rihanna, Amani, Laykon, Carlos, Moana, Darion and Tiare. It was me, Darion, Rihanna and Carlos vs Amani Laykon Moana and Tiare.  For the sports if you hit the ball you had to run around 3 orange cones and if the pitcher had the ball and was back in his place ( the white cone ) he would put down the ball on the cone and say stop and you would have to stop running. Each cone was worth one point. In the end everyone had heaps of fun and we all enjoyed ourselves. Here are some pictures !

Grad slides !

 Since i have been at Belfast it has been a pretty interesting experience. This year is my last year at Belfast and for graduation we have to make a slide of our highlights and add some of pictures to it.

Here is mine, I have updated it due to changes made slightly.

Dumpling for days !!

 Yesterday we had Sally, Amy's mum come in and make dumplings an wongtongs with us. 

Most of us have never made dumplings before but yesterday was the first day! 

It started off were Sally showed us all the ingredients and how we make it, then we got the dough out of the bowl and split it into 4 and had to turns at rolling the dough around to stretch it out, after it was all stretched we put it on the table and cut it into small thin pieces of dough, after that we used rolling pins to flatten them all out and put small piles of beef on the flat surface, we then folded one side to the other and pushed the sides down with our finger and put it on a trey. with the wongtongs i didn't learn how to make them so i couldn't tell you how they work, but basically they have pork in the middle and you have to do special folding techniques. I then helped Sandy with cooking the dumplings and learned how long to cook them for and what to look for as a sign they are done. After the first batch of dumplings was made Sally asked me to taste if they were good or not so I was the taste tester in the class to make sure they tasted alright.  Well Bill ( Am'y younger brother ) and some of the boys were in room 20 cooking the wongtongs me and Chloe cleaned up the table as it was a very big mess. After cleaning it up we got all set up ready to eat them and we all got 6 dumplings and 2 wongtongs each. They were so good and i would definitely recommend them for a lunch or snack. 

Ingredients:

- pork   - beef    - flour ( 1 kilogram )   - water ( 6 kilograms )    - chives   - wongtong pastry    - oil

Here are some pictures from the successful morning we had !

I hope you enjoy your dumplings and wongtongs !!!!

spelling to the highest

 Kia Ora, This morning for reading we are back into interchange which means im back in room 20 for reading. One of my reading tasks this week was to do some vocabulary work on a google sheet. You had to read a sentence and there would be a list of words and you would have to go to another page and figure out which word matches with what sentence and match it up with the number the sentence is in. As you complete the task slowly

if you get word right then it starts drawing something on a blank page, This time it drew out a witches hat with a moon sitting on top of it. I think this was hard and challenging but fun. What do you think ?

The passion to my project.

A couple of weeks ago Miss Mccombie gave us the challenge to make a passion project on the choice of topic. I chose to do the most followed people on socials, those socials being Tiktok and Instagram the most famous platforms of social media. I hope you learn something new as i did well making these slides.

If you had a choice of topics to pick from to study and learn about what would you choose ?

Spring time-lapse!

 Today this afternoon we had Mary from Orchid schools come and visit us again. She came to check in on our beautiful trees that site in the school garden. We have many different varieties of types of trees and they are all growing so fast. Except for Darion's his is quite small like him tehe. Well we were out in the garden we had a look at what was growing on the trees and what needed to be taken off the trees in order to help them grow more! Here are some pictures of this afternoon!

We had some younger kids from the Lower Middles come and hang out with us during this afternoon.

Thanks to Miss Mccombie for all the great pictures taken with good lenses. 

Here is a picture of a beautiful bee sitting on a flower, I tried picking up some of the bees, i did eventually get one because all the boys challenged me  but then they  all started freaking out because i was holding one on my hand and then it flew away.

This is a picture of me Amy, Chloe and Micki and we are with our tree that we planted. we named it Patricia.

We planted another tree and named that Petunia but we only got a picture with Patricia.

This is a picture from at the start when we were talking to Mary about what we were going to be looking at the trees for. 

If you ever have a chance, come stop by the senior syndicate and have a look at all the trees and see if you can spot any fruits !

My speech on disasters of 2020

 

As most of you will know we all had speech's last week. There were heaps of different topics. I did the disasters of 2020 topics. What topic did you do for your speech ?

And now we are going into the weather forecast for 2020... We have had a very bad ride ahead of us with cycelon Betty distructing with 4 massive events occurring in our year. Yes, 2020 has been a bit of a crazy year so far but we don’t know what else is to come ? And as for all the other ‘20 years - they have been similar. For now leaving that and moving onto Austrailas weather.. 

Fires

Our weather forecast for today is vibrant flames throughout nearly the whole of Austraila so it looks like it is  probably a short and singlet type of day.But these vibrant flames turned into fires that continued for quite a long time. These cruel times took at least 34 human lives through the fires and around 417 lives from smoke inhalation. These fires took around 210 days to be declared extinguished and have burned at least 2,500 houses to the ground.These fires have taken at least  19,000 square miles and burned it all.

Kobe and Gigi

Now we have some news about Kobe and Gigi Bryant, yes we were all quite sad about the tragic deaths of these 2 very important people. But some people have no clue on how they died exactly. Kobe and Gigi Bryant Died in a helicopter crash on a Sunday in Calabasas. His second oldest daughter was only 13 years old when she died. The family were devistated.

Covid-19

Covid-19 struck many as no one was clearly expecting it. Most people say it came from China which most people are correct as it came from Wuhan city,Hubei Province which is in China. Most people say there was a bat that was eaten by a man who didn’t cook it enough. When actually there was a woman who ate a bat after buying it as she thought it had been pre cooked. Well we were in quarantine. I think it was day 7 and I was already bored, I remember having a good old conversation with the spider. It didn’t last long. I think he fell asleep but it's probably because I was telling him something that was pretty interesting but it was quite long.

George Floyd

Now In the middle of Covid-19 I think we all heard the death of a black man that led people to chanting down their streets holding signs and yelling things for justice. George Floyd was having breathing troubles when he was forced to the ground after being named a suspect of a robbery then later blamed as the man that caused the crime when he was just taking a daily walk with one of his mates. The man responsible for Floyds death was later put in jail after people surrounding the situation started live recording and thousands of people were watching and shared  it. Graphetic posters were made on the walls of street buildings and a massive row of flowers, toys, cards  and presents were laid against the fence of where his death finished him.

Now i'm sure we are all sorry for these events, but sadly we can’t do anything to stop any of them. But 2020 isn’t over and we don’t know what else could come for us all.2020 has just been horrible

 I remember that at the end of 2019 everyone was talking about how 2020 will be the best year yet, well i personally think that 2019 new years eve everyone jinxed it and this is what it turned out to look like.