Apple Crumble Procedure

Ingredients -

> 4 Apples

> 2 Tbsp

> Water (to cover bottom of pot)

> 1 Tbsp Cinnamon

> ½c flour

> ¼c sugar

> ¼ tspn

> 3 Tsp butter

Items -

> Pot

> Peeler

> Chopping board

> Hand Blender

> Bowl

> Round pyrex dish

> Microwave

Method -

1. Blend in butter and flour
2. Mix baking powder and sugar into flour
3. Peel, core and chop apples, add to pot water
4. Place onto stove, high, boil
5. Remove from heat, add sugar and cinnamon
6. Put back onto stove, stir until soft
7. Scoop onto pyrex dish, sprinkle crumbles over apples
8. Place into microwave cooks on high for 6-7 minutes.

Reading, Is it Important?

Reading, is it important? It is easy to say that it is really important because of its many uses of related with learning.

  Reading is important in many ways that are included in our education. It is a helpful way  that we can understand what we write or read. No reading can result in learning no unique and may cause you to use already known words many times. Reading can help you learn new things and words everyday!

  First of all, learning may not be able to be done when someone cannot understand the meaning. It gives us the ability to communicate with others and know what they’re actually talking about. It can expand and enhance your memory and can give you facts and information that has been anonymous or something you haven’t learned yet.

  Second of thought, reading is something we need. You use reading when you read signs, advertisements around you, etc. Reading also expands vocabulary and can be used to understand books that require high reading ages.

  If you don’t read, many people will or can bypass you and become the better of you. You won’t be able to catch up with them if you don’t read and learn more than them. The meaning of reading is to understand what you’re reading, there is no purpose of reading if you don’t know what the subject of a story of a book may be. It is also needed to aquire maybe something you’ve always dreamed of or a job you’ve always wanted to be accepted by.

 So for those that don’t like reading or those who do it rarely, you may be missing out your advantages in becoming someone successful.

  

Te Reo - Making a Sandwich

WALT - recognise and use some food-related phrases.

.Te Reo Tupu - He Reo Ora      -  

We are Learning reo through using it in our everyday lives.

J - Homai he

S - Anei he .

J - Homai he .

S - Anei he .

J - He .

S - Anei .

J - He .

S - Anei.

J - Homai he .

S - Anei he .

J - He ... he , he .

S - Anei.

J  - He ? He   āno?

S - Anei.

J - Mmmmmmmhe tino reka!

S - Āe. He hanawiti Mmmmmmm.

J - Engari mā te manuhiri tenei. Manaakitia ō manuhiri i ngā wā katoa.

Shark Finning

Sharks worldwide are dying out because of shark finning. Shark fins are harvested from various species of sharks by fishermen in Europe.

10  to 100 million sharks die every year just for their fins to be harvested. When brought aboard, only some survive while having their fins cut. When they are dumped back into the sea, they slowly drop into the bottom of the sea, where they bleed out, die of starvation or killed by predators / scavengers. 3 sharks every second are in the operation of having their fins cut off by fishermen.

When the fins are sold to restaurants, they are boiled then made into soup. The dish is very common in the East Asian Cuisine. The fin is like a decoration for the soup. People who have eaten the fin described it as tasteless.The taste of the soup is mainly from other ingredients. Shark fin soup is sold for $350 a bowl! In the olden days, shark fin soup was only eaten by rich and wealthy people because of the cost.

Even though shark finning is reducing the shark population, the fins are also used its medicinal value. It prevents  heart disease, increases energy for kidneys, lungs, bone etc. Shark fins, believe it or not, actually contain a little more iron, riboflavin (vitamin B),  and zinc, but also a bit of phosphorus (phosphorus is poisonous).

Sharks should live freely through the ocean. They have done nothing wrong to have their fins cut off. If fishermen do still cut off shark fins, they should at least cut off only one fin at a time with a limit of 3 fins a week. The fins cut off should only be used for medical purposes.

Do you Trust me?

Friday 26th of June 2015

For the importance of preparing for camp, we had three challenges. The first challenge was to partner up with the student that was the closest to you. The second was to have your partner to cling on to your shoulder while they have their eyes closed. The leader had to lead them to the entrance gate without going on the grass. The blinded people needed to trust, listen and follow while the leader had to give instructions. The third challenge was to switch places (when you reach the gate) and to lead your partner back to class (going on the grass was allowed this time).

 Once everyone is brought back to class with their partners, the teacher picks one random student to face the board while the class messes up the room to make a maze. After the desks are moved around, the teacher disorientates the random student by turning him around, so that he/she will not know where to go. The student had to lead himself/herself to the exit just by feeling the items around them.

  Once the person reaches the exit, every student partners up with a different buddy. The buddies sorts out each other by picking who will be the leader and who would be the disorientated person. The leader had to guide them by voice so that their partner wouldn’t bump into incoming objects.

Getting Crashed by a jeep can really hurt!

At 2009, I was 4 and Jihad and I were waiting for the school jeep to come. As I was standing still I looked across the road and saw my school principal and the school jeep. At that time, I never knew what was “look left, look right and look left again”, so I just ran as fast as I could (I was slow) and a jeep was beeping at me from the other side of the road and I just stood there, mindless. The lights of the jeep got closer and hit me, knocking me back.

  I was knocked unconscious and woke up in a hospital bed. There was a needle going inside the back of my hand and it kind of hurt whenever it sucked up blood. I was given healthy food (a banana, rice, peas and broccoli) and taken care of for weeks. Whenever no one was beside me, I would always look at my room mate who was at the other side. After weeks of healing, my blood bag was filled and I was able to go home.

What is ANZAC day?

ANZAC is a day celebrated every 25th of April every year. It has been celebrated since 1922 and is still going. ANZAC day is one of the longest worldwide event! On ANZAC day, we wear poppies because those were the first flowers to grow on Flanders Field battlefield. These flowers also grew between soldiers’ graves.

  When the war was over, someone would play “The Last Post” on the trumpet. This song reminds the soldiers to wake up and go home. It is also calling out to the souls of the soldiers who died in the war, that they will come back to reunite with their families.

  NZEF (New Zealand Expeditionary Force) joined in with Australia and the word “ANZAC” was born (Australian New Zealand Army Corps). Australia and New Zealand fought in Gallipoli fighting the Turkish soldiers and Germans. When the soldiers came back from war, %50 of the soldiers were killed/injured.

  On the 24th of April, our school did a little liturgy at 2:15 and made small speeches about symbols of the ANZAC (lemon squeezer, poppies, etc). After we said the prayers, the children stuck on crosses into the ground. When they were done, the rest of Room 8 poked the ends of the sticks of the paper poppies into the ground and all left to go back into our classrooms.

A day at Extreme Edge and Burger King!

In the holidays, Nico, Liam, Danielle, Nathaniel, Melissa, Ging, Leah, My mum, Carl, Maria and Donna went to the Extreme Edge Climb Zone.

  On Saturday, I was awoken by my sister kicking me and watching Jojo’s bizarre adventure on her laptop. She was still in her pyjamas and she was excited to go to the picnic. It was a picnic where they had to cosplay as an anime character. There were going to be strangers and a few people she might’ve knew. I groaned and and picked my torso up from the bed.

   When my mum was dressed and ready to go, she called my sister and she quickly put on her basketball jersey, wig cap, short blue wig and short pants. She was cosplaying as Kuroko from Kuroko no Basuke. She had a green lunch box with her mini fudge cookies in it. She made the cookies last night and saved them for the picnic. I got rewarded a cookie from her after I cleaned the mess she made. It was worth it.

  When she left, I fell back to sleep. About 3 hours later, my mum woke me up and told me to change my clothes. I didn’t know where we were going, but we were in a hurry and went straight into the car. While we were driving to the ‘place’, my mum thought she smelt something bad, but for me, something smelt like fries. She passed me a paper bag that included fanta, coke zero, a pair of fries and burgers. I ate some fries and I passed her fries to her. When we got there, I started drinking my coke zero.

  There was a huge sign on the building that said ‘rock climbing’ all in capital letters. We entered the and then waited in the line. In the front of the line, there were two iPads that were used to register new people. When we finished giving the information about ourselves, we went to the cashier to buy the paper bracelets that wrapped around our wrists.

 When I looked at people who were climbing, they were fast, but I was amazed to see kids who were at least 4 years old climbing the wall to the very top! The first things we had to do was to grab a harness from the harness instructor. He showed us how to clip the hooks to the ring of the harness. To open up the lock, you have to push it down and twist to the right, but we have to make sure that we have the hook back in place because it might zip up to the top where no one can reach for it.

  Once the instructor put on my harness, I quickly ran to the others, wanting to climb with them. The  first rock climbing wall I tried was a wall that was planet themed. The rocks were supposed to look like meteorites and that we had to step and hold on to them. As I was ¾ there, I looked down, and people looked like they were the size of cats. I had the fear of heights, so I easily got scared. I thought that if I let go, the line that held me up would just hastily go down and that I would turn into a mush.

  I started to sweat and that caused my hands to slip off. My heart’s beat had slowed down and my breath was hard to catch. But then the line started to go down to the ground slowly, like a leaf falling to the ground. I went to my mum who was drinking her coffee that she ordered from the cashier earlier. I ate ¼ of my burger from the bag and drank some of my coke zero. That made me relief from my fear.

  I joined the others and tried the ladders wall. The ladders start off easy. The first ladders were like handles and you can grab onto them. It was very easy, but as you go higher, the ladders get thinner and there will be thinner platforms to balance on.  As I was on the final platform, I stood on one ladder and tried to reach for the ladder that was  high above me, but I wasn’t I enough to grab on, so I had to fall down and let myself fall slowly to the ground.

  I tried the other wall that was a NASA rocket ship with aliens on the top window. As I climbed up buttons, handles and gears, I was able to get near the aliens. Just like the planet wall, I couldn’t reach for the rocks. I took one last step with my right leg and I was high enough to get up to the aliens. I let go, cheering with my first victory and running back to the others.

  I caught up to them and tried versing with the others. As we all had turns on a wall, they wanted to go to adventure land that was between the arcades and the professional rock climbers section. They all left me behind (because I was still climbing a wall and because nobody ever told me) and ran away to adventure land.

  As I got down a wall that I had been climbing (I finished it), Danielle decided to be a goodie two shoes and told me where she and her cousins were going. As Danielle and I entered adventure land, there were some other walls that were easier. The adventure land also came with a huge pirate themed playground (sadly it was only for kids who were aged 9 years old or under).

  The first one I tried was a hurricane wall. There were objects hanging around a tree which we had to hold on to. Many of them were small and hard to get a hold of to, but I was able to reach the very top. As I looked for other walls I wanted to try, I saw my friend, Melissa, climbing the tetris blocks and sitting on the zig-zagged orange block. Melissa gained her other friends’ attention and we all started laughing.

  Later, I asked my cousin Danielle to climb the jungle wall with me. When we got there, we saw a small child, he was about the size of a standing old dog. He was stuck on the Jungle wall because he was scared to go down the steps (The each of the steps were about half a meter tall). He suddenly slipped and started screaming more.

  When he got down, the parents took him to the other easier walls, so Danielle and I went on the jungle wall. The jungle wall had blocks and hard obstacles to cross. It was also for two people so they could versus each other. The goal was to reach the 3 top blocks and stand on either one of them. We clipped and buckled on our hooks and started racing. It was quite hard to pass the steps because the steps were thin and there was no handle to hold onto. I was on the right side while Danielle was on the left. Both of us were trying our best to get up the blocks and ladders, but it was too hard. I was half-way through, while Danielle was getting up the blocks. We both got down because neither of us could get up.

  For the final wall, I tried the hard wall which was the sea wall with ropes to cling onto. When I tried it, there were no handles to hold on to, but flat wooden and painted fish to claw onto. To get on the fish, you have to press your fingers onto it, or else your fingers will slip off. Even if we tried to hold on to the ropes, the ropes will fall back and will make your legs out of reach from the wall.

  When I got off, I was very thirsty and I was sweating. I went back to the table where the adults were having a conversation to take a sip of my drink. It was empty, so I tried my mum’s drink. It was also empty. Auntie Donna was very kind and got me a Powerade energy drink (It was the large size). I thanked her and sat on the seats. When it was time to go, the others got the assist of an adult to take off our harness. Except for Danielle and I, we took it off all on our own.

  We went outside and went inside our cars. Instead of going home, we went to Burger King. In there I ordered a 6 chicken nugget pack with sweet sauce. I saw a poster near the cashier about the new (but it is actually quite old) frappes. The ad had perfect quality frappes, but all of them looked the same. I said to my mum “I thought this frappe was going to be yummy, but it turned out to not have that much chocolate!”

  When we sat on our tables, our orders were ready and I got my chicken nuggets that I wanted. There was a leftover of a chocolate frappe. I asked the adults at the other side of the table “Do you know who’s chocolate frappe this is?”

“I thought you said you wanted this?”, she replied.

“I sai- just… nevermind”, I replied

  While we were eating, Jesse and uncle Nick came over. By that time everyone had finished their food (except me, I was still drinking my frappe). We were sitting on the spinning stools. We were having fun spinning around. The adults were then finished talking and started to finish up the food that they’ve left over. They took their drinks and went inside their cars. This time, we were really going home. We had an awesome time at Burger King and Extreme Edge. I rate this 10/10, best day ever!

My special place to be!

The river with no name is known simply as Kariyan, which translated into English is river.

For me, this is an important place in the Philippines, one that I will always remember because that is where I used to swim, catch food and play with my friends. I also like the swings and slides in the water, easy to slip off but still fun.

Auntie and I would go there every weekend when it was hot. Every time we entered the reserve, we found cows eating the tall half-alive grass that was growing in the cracks created by the high temperatures. There were also  piles of smelly trash, beeping jeeps and bullfrogs tanning in the sun. It was like an oasis because it has dry land but a lot of water in the end.

In the water I usually swam in my underwear to find small fish and tiny sea snails. The fish have great speed but they cannot dodge our filters. These are made of metal and we use these to scoop up the fish when we run after them.

When it is evening we would go home to cook our findings. They are especially yummy with cooked and boiled drumstick tree leaves and soup. We usually celebrate some nights in the huts. These huts are where you can change and eat. These huts are in the water and they are made from dried bamboo and straw. A small, long wooden paddock leads to the huts.