Technology Reflection

Ingredients -

2 cups of SRF (Self raising flour)

1 cup of sugar 

1/2 cup of oil 

1 egg

1/4 of coca 

Inscrutions -

Combine all ingredients together into one bowl, do not mix it slowly and gently fold the mixture until there is no visible flour or cocoa. After you finish folding your mixture get a big spoon and scoop the mixture making sure that it is at least half of the spoon with your batter/mixture.

1. FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS
2. READ INSTRUCTIONS CORRECTLY
3. KNOW HOW TO MEASURE CORRECTLY
4. SHOW RESPECT

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Technology Lesson

1. FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS
2. READ INSTRUCTIONS CORRECTLY
3. KNOW HOW TO MEASURE CORRECTLY
4. SHOW RESPECT

These instructions are what we need to be showing all the time and inside of the class while cooking. TOday we were going to be making quiche and the ingredients we would need were - 

1. Two slips of pastry
2. Ham
3.  eggs
4. Oven 
5. Knife
6. Muffin Tray
7. Whisk
8. Cheese 

The first thing you want to do is preheat your oven to 250 degrees, after you preheat your oven you want to crack your  4 eggs into your bowl and whisk them after you have whisked them add ham and cheese until you have well combined. Put your mixture to the side and start to cut your pastry into the size of your muffin tins. Place the pastry into the tin and start to scoop out the hard parts of your mixture (ham, cheese) into the cups of pastry, after  you fill the pastry with the ham and cheese pour the egg into a cup and slowly fill the pastry up with egg. If you have any pastry left you can either put it on the top or double it up before you add your mixture.  

Inquiry Lesson 1 Reflection

WALA: Our Technological World. 

In the morning block we discussed what technology is and what different technology items there is, some of the items we discussed were clocks, watches, lamps, T.V, washing machines, clothes dryer, hair dryer and a lot more.  

The definition we have come up with today was, Technology is something that has a useful purpose.

Technology I use at Home -

Fridge and Oven -

A fridge is used every single day, because if you were to turn your fridge off with food in it, it will likely defrost your food, cause a small amount of flooding, and your food will go off. This is just one of the many items we use in my house hold. The next piece of technology is the very well known in households, the oven can be used for many things but the main reason or purpose is for it to be used for cooking your food, weather it's the oven or the stove. The oven is used pretty much every single day in my household, the only time we don't use the oven is when we get take out so things like pizza, chinese anything fast and easy.

Table and Chairs -

Even though when we think of Technology we straight away think of TV's, phones, laptops and pretty much anything that runs on electricity, but that's not true because you can get a lot of things that don't need electricity like spoons, tables, chairs, forks, beds. I know it's not really something you think of when it comes to technology but table and chairs are definitely a piece of technology, if you didn't know technology is something, item or object that was created by a human to make our lives easier.

Oven and Washing Machine -

These are technological items that we use nearly everyday unless you feel like having a lazy night and ordering pizza for dinner. Things like ovens, washing machines, microwaves, forks, spoons and knives are practically things we use everyday maybe only missing a day or two without using them. These may be items that come to your head while thinking about technology, but the main point is that these are nearly everyday technological items that we use.

Agricultural Technology -

Agriculture is farming and gardening, so things like cattle farming an example is like farming cows, sheep, pigs so pretty much animals and gardening is like planting plants and growing fruits, tractor, veggies and flowers.

Agriculture is used in every country, and the technology they use are things like, water hoses, shovels, spades, greenhouses and garden lamps. 

Construction Technology -

Construction involves building things like houses, buildings, apartments, offices and a lot more, you might have construction items at home so things like hammers, shovels, drills, crain, diggers, bulldozers, forklift, nails, nail gun and a lot more items. These are all the different technological items that you can find at a construction site or if you search construction.

Thank you for reading!!

What technology do you use at home?

What do you think Technology is -

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First Blog Post For Term 4

WALT: write a blog post about our school holidays.

Good Morning or Afternoon to whoever may be reading this, as some of you might know it is the beginning of Term 4 which is the last term before the long school holidays, which is the holiday that leads up to Christmas. In this blog post I will be telling and describing to you the most interesting/fun things I did in the holidays.

Something I really enjoyed and found fun about the holidays was going to a big family reunion on my dads side, I thought it was really fun and interesting because there was a lot of dancing, laughing, jokes and a LOT of food, but it did take a very long time to end even when we left it wasn't finished.

The things I liked the most about the family reunion was that there was a lot of cultural food and dancing. 

LINK TO CULTURAL DANCING 

Another thing that I enjoyed was actually watching a documentary, even though documentaries are usually boring this one was actually to me very interesting. This documentary was based on a man named George and a Lady  named Joy and the film was based in 1966 in Africa. George was a hunter and Joy was someone who walked around the bush and dry lands of Africa, George and Joy became really close and soon married each other. One day George went hunting for a female lion that had killed a person and someone cattle. He found the female lion and shot it but only when he had shot it did he realize that the female had cubs.

They searched for the cubs and they found 3 of them.  Joy and George offered to raise them but they could only take 1 so they talk a female who they named Elsa. As they raised Elsa they had plans of releasing her to the wild where she could run free, but Elsa didn't know how to fend and look after herself so George and Joy started finding was so Elsa could defend and hunt for herself. Some of these ways were putting dead carcases on the back of there truck and driving away so she could chase and run after them, after a small amount of time she knew how to be a wild lion and she was released, I am not sure what else has happened because I haven't finished watching it. 

LINK TO DOCUMENTARY#

I think the things I am most looking forward to this term is all the fun and exciting things we will be doing this term, some of those things are going to MOTAT, visiting Te Tuhi again and a lot more other things throughout the term. I'm not sure which will be my favourite because there is a lot more to come and I don't know if those days will be good or bad but right now I think it going to be MOTAT I just hope i'm with one or two of my friends so we can spend it together.

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Kia Manawanui Production Reflection

WALT: use scripts and skits to tell stories about Natural Disasters.

Throughout last week we practiced our natural disaster skits, these skits were based on real life natural disasters that happened all around the different Pacific Islands because as you may know Natural disasters is our inquiry topic. The Islands were Tonga, Cook Islands, Fiji, Samoa, New Zealand and Niue.

 The group I had been put in was Cook Island and the natural disaster that we got was a volcanic eruption, the story also involved the traditional cook island drums.

Small Paragraph of what the story was about -

The story was about two tribes (Rarotonga Cook Islands and Ra'iatea French Polynesia), these two tribes both had a drumming challenge to determine who was the best drum player in all the pacific. The two tribes called upon the gods to choose the winning drum player, so both men got their best drummers and drummed away. After the men were finished the gods made the decision of picking the winner which was Rarotonga. The chief of Ra'iatea was so mad he chucked his drum stick as hard as he could causing a volcanic eruption (The volcano of Rarotonga exploded), lava spat everywhere and the gods and the Rarotonga men knew they had to stop it so they got the god of winds to blow the lava to cool it down and stopped the flow. After the Volcano settled down the gods banished the chief and his men of Ra'iatea from the Island of Rarotonga.

Practicing -

Practicing this skit/play was actually really fun because I got to work with a group of people I would probably not work with and it was fun to see people from different cultures in different cultural groups. In our skit we did have a lot of performances altogether I think we had about 5 performances where other groups only had 1-3 performances because our welcoming song, boys had to play the drums, girls had to dance, then the boys had to drum again and then the girls had to dance. 

Script -

I think personally I learnt my lines somewhat fast considering that we had our scripts and story changed, but I think the thing I struggled with the most was being really loud and saying it really clearly because I usually don't shout or be really loud so that was something really challenging I found with this but I guess I somewhat got there in the end. 

Dance and Drums -

 I really enjoyed doing a Cook Island welcome song and dance because it is my culture but the first thing that was hard was teaching the other girls how to move there hips correctly and properly only because they didn't know how to do it properly. Luckily my friend Bianna helped me otherwise I would have gone crazy. The thing I know my group struggled with was the drums because they were off beat they didn't drum together and the drums were just being really annoying for everybody, that's why we went with one that was on youtube.  Even though the girls already did a welcoming dance we had to dance to a fast drum beat and that was even harder because we had to teach the girls how to shake and move their legs, feet and hips to a faster and harder beat, and after the first drum beat and dance it got faster and faster so then we had to teach the girls how to do it even faster than before and that was a struggle.

Next Steps or what I would work on next time -

In the future if I was to do something similar I think I would be a lot louder and a lot more clear and also not as tight, only because it shows like you can tell your scared and people might not hear what you are saying, and even if you say it loud you probably wouldn't understand cause you wouldn't have said it clearly.

Photo of Rarotonga -

Photo of Ra'iatea 

LINK TO THE DRUM BEAT

LINK TO THE WELCOME SONG 

Mary Jane and Monita Indigenous Games

WALA: different indigenous games all around the world.

This week we have been working on a slide with indigenous games. The definition for indigenous is originating from that country, so you can only find that thing in that country, so things like animals, games, people. So like the kiwi is an indigenous animal of New Zealand because you can only find the kiwi in New Zealand. 

In this slide we got asked to research a sport that was already on this slide and given to us, then we got asked to answer all the questions that were beside the sport. Questions like Where is this game played? Where can you find and play this sport? What do you need to play this sport? These were all the main questions that were asked in this slide, and other activities that were cool and fun to do.

Technology, Cooking Lesson 1

Last week for Technology we started a new rotation, this time we are not doing, graphics or hard materials. This time we are doing cooking, in the first cooking lesson we cooked hot cakes.

Ingredients -

1 1/2 cup of self raising flour 

1/2  cup of sugar

1 egg 

1 cup of milk  

First you want to add the sugar and self raising flour in one bowl and mix them both together before adding the other ingredients into another bowl. After that you want to add all the wet ingredients into a bowl so your egg and milk, and whisk them together until they are nicely combined. 

After mixing your dry ingredients and wet ingredients in separate bowls you want to incorporate them together in one large bowl, mix it well and it should look nice and smooth and just a little bit thick. After you have mixed everything you want to add butter into the hot/warm pan, after the butter has melted add 1/2 a cup of the pancake mix into the pan. Once the pancake develops bubbles on the top surface it should be ready to flip.  and when your finished cooking all your mix add whatever you want on top so things like golden syrup, chocolate sauce also fruit and other things.

I really liked cooking this because it was super easy I really believe that everyone and anyone can do this because it is that easy.

Photos of hotcakes -