Food Tech

W.A.L.T Explain the science behind making Hokey Pokey.

Lately, we have been making and baking food while the year 7's in our class have gone to high school to do fun things like baking, technology, sewing and more. This term we get to do baking and we made Hokey pokey. To make it we needed 3 simple ingredients, Golden syrup, White sugar, and baking soda. I really enjoyed when we were making it because it smelled amazing!!!! I found it challenging to get the Hokey pokey onto the tray on time. The way that the science works is that the golden syrup gives the hokey pokey the flavor while the baking soda releases air into the mixture allowing it to rise. One thing that would make it BTB (Better than Before) is by taking it out of the pan a wee bit faster so it doesn't burn.

Bella and Georgia's shot techniques

WALT To show people different shots. We found it challenging to get some of the shots. We enjoyed being on camera and having so much fun. Today our teacher set us a task to get 6 shots and blog them and we were up to the challenge. We decided we would take turns of taking the photo. Some of the photos were really fun and some were really hard and challenging. We hope you learned something out of this.

Transformation using grids

 The other day our Toki pounamu teacher came in and decided that we are going to be doing a project that contains one tool on Google Drive. We used a 5x5 grid and had to use the line button to make a replica of the little picture on the left. This is how mine turned out. I found it hard to get the right shape of the boxes. I enjoyed when something worked perfectly. Have you ever tried this? If yes how did it work out?

How To Play Go Fish

 How To Play Go Fish

Equipment: Stack of cards, 2 or more people

Goal: To get as many pairs as you can.

How to play: So first you and your opponent need to have 5 cards each and a pile of the remaining cards in the middle… But don't show anyone your cards. Then you're going to need to check if you have any pairs. If you don't then don't do anything but if you do you put the pairs down (By the way, if you ever have one card left then pick up another card from the pile.) Now the oldest can start and it will go anti-clockwise from there. The oldest says to the person on their left “Do you have a King (or any card).” So then the person to your left says either “ Yes.” and gives you the card or says go fish. Go Fish means they don’t have that card and you need to pick up and then the person you just asked asks the person on their left. If the card you pick up is one of the cards you need to make a pair with you get those two cards and put them to the side. If they say yes you need to match them up and put them to the side with the other cards. I hope you enjoy playing Go Fish!!

By Bella and Georgia

The 9 Matariki stars

WALT: To explain what the Matariki stars jobs are.
It was challenging finding out about the stars.
I enjoyed decorating the slide.

How to play Colour twist

 How to play Colour Twist

Goal:
 To get back to the class first with five different colour stones

Equipment:
4 different coloured stones. The colours are White, Black, Blue and Yellow.

How to play:
 2 people go and hide a bunch of different coloured stones around the school. Everyone else goes and hides while the 2 taggers go and count to 30 sec. Everyone tries to get 4 different colours of the stones and if you get found by the tagger then you have to go back to home base ( A.K.A ) the classroom and wait 30 sec and then you can go back out. If you get found you have to drop all of your stone and anyone can pick them up. You cant have 2 of the same colours and if you do you have to go back to home base for 30 sec. There is one multi coloured stone and if you find it then it is 3 colours in one. Do not throw the rocks on the ground

Wellington camp 2019

We learnt how to use Google MyMaps and then we got to look closely at our own environment and locate landmarks. For each landmark we found we had to name it, write something about it and find an image of it so that the pin on our map had information on it. This is my finished map of Wellington. Have you ever used MyMaps to locate places in your community?