Gala Day Advertisement

Hello bloggers, today's post is going to be about my Gala Day poster. This year we are holding a Gala and we would like it to be very successful. For inquiry we were asked to make a poster that would advertise for the school Gala. At the Gala we will be selling sustainable products like totebags, soaps, pot plants, candle holders, homemade paper and any more! All the information will be in the poster. I hope you can come!Have a look at my poster that I made on Google drawing.



I thought that this activity was very fun to do. My favourite part was when we could decorate the poster. I liked adding the colours and images. The hardest part of this activity was making all the information fit on one page because there is so much information to write about the Gala. 

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Travelling around NZ on a budget

Hi bloggers, it's Joyce again. Today's blog post is going to be about Travelling around NZ with a budget. In maths we had to complete a slideshow of us travelling around NZ. We had to travel around NZ for 11 days with a daily budget of $500. Here is an example of what we had to do. 

This is a  task board of what you have to complete.

We had to go to the Air New Zealand and Jetstar websites to find out the price of tickets and decide which to fly with. I chose Jetstar

We also had to select a car to travel with, during our stay at our destination.

 We then had to choose an accommodation to stay for the night. I chose the one in the bottom right corner.

While in Dunedin we also had to choose two activities to do. I chose Cadbury World and Taieri George Teain.

 Finally we had to add up all of our expenses and mine was under budget. Yay!

This activity was quite easy for me since I do travel quite a bit and I sometimes help my parents plan the trip. 

One thing that was quite hard for me during this day's activity was choosing what car to rent. 

Overall I thought this activity was very fun to do and sometimes a bit challenging. 

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Folk Lore Poem

Hi Bloggers, today's blog post is going to be about my poem that I wrote this term about mountains and camping. We had to make a couplet poem which is when every last word of two lines rhyme together. We did this because we were about to go to camp at Mt Ruapehu. If you can't really see the words on the picture the words are below:

Folk Lore

The pale white snow

Has a shimmery white glow

Mountains reach up so high 

Towards the bright blue sky

The still peaceful quietness

Gives my heart this wildness

That made my heart want to soar

Forever like a princess in a folk lore

There were some difficulties during the process of making this poem. We didn't have a lot of time to make it and we had to colour it, write it, and publish it. It was kind of hard to make the sunset blend since we only had colouring pencils. But at the end everything was fine. The positives of this activity was that I concentrated more because we had so little time to do it.  Another good thing about the activity is that I learnt how to blend with colouring pencils. Overall I thought that this poem was very fun to make. 

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Camp

☃❄Hi Blog World! It's Joyce here again.⛄❆

Today this post is about our school camp at Mt Ruapehu. Camp was awesome! It was such a blast! In class we had to make a slideshow about the trip. There were some tasks to complete in the slideshow. My favourite part about making the slideshow was adding photos. Some photos were super funny that you might see during looking at my slideshow.

There were many challenges I had experience at camp like skiing, going on the chairlift and finding particular things in Hamilton Gardens. At Hamilton Garden we had a competition between all colour groups we were in. We had to find 25 particular things in the gardens. We came first and got chocolate bars. I also had some successes at camp as well. I could ski down Happy Valley very well and confidently. My ski instructor Rory was very funny. I went on the chairlifts and saw some spectacular view of the mountains. Going on the magic carpet (travellator) was cool. I didn't like it when the chairlift and magic carpet stopped in the middle. I nearly fell over on the magic carpet, but when the chairlift stopped at the highest point it was super scary because it would swing around. I thought I was going to fall off. My first tobogganing experience didn't go so good. I bumped someone off their tobogganing and crashed into a icy snow wall. I don't think I'm ever going on it ever again. Me and friend Dora also learnt the Universal Alphabet from our bus driver Royal. We can say it off by heart now. On the bus we even made some of our own alphabets. That was super fun. We stayed at The Park Hotel at National Park. In my room I had my friends Dora and Hilary. Dinner was very yummy. My favourite was the beef lasagne and brownies. They were so good. The trip to every stop we went to was quite a long bus ride but it didn't matter to me because that meant me and my friends could talk for longer.

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Ako Hiko student led toolkits

Hi everyone!

Today a group of people from Te Waka Ako went to New Windsor School to do some student led toolkits.

I learnt how to Powtoon and I also did Prodigy. They were both really fun fun to make and play. I also did the problem solving challenge with my friends and we won the most creative for our structure. The structure had to be at least 10cm tall and could hold a cup containing 100 grams of weight. Some people were lucky enough to teach others to do things and play with robots. After the event we went on to the Ako Hiko website to leave a reflection. We had to records ourselves answering the questions. We also took selfies to go with it, some were super crazy. Here are some photos of the event. 

I think Powtoon is great for presenting information. It is just like google slides but more fun to make. The most enjoyable part of the day was the problem solving challenge.


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Bye!

Suffixes

Hi  everyone it's Joyce here with another blog post.

This week when Literacy Tumble I made a poster about suffixes. Have a look.

I enjoyed making the poster because I like to change the colours of a lot of things to make it all pretty. Making the poster wasn't challenging because I already knew all of this stuff. 

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Procedure writing

Hi blog world it's Joyce here again. In writing this week we did some procedure writing. We discussed what features a procedure needs and the structure it has. I decided to do a procedure about how to make Chinese dumplings from scratch. My writing is below.👇

WALT Create a Procedure             

Success Criteria I will include:

• A clear title
• Ingredient list
• Equipment ist
• Strong verbs
• Specific nouns

How to make Chinese Dumplings from scratch

Ingredients for filling:

Pork mince

Chives

Oyster Sauce

Soy sauce

Salt

Or

Ingredients you would like

Ingredients for dough:

Flour

Water

A lot of energy/power/muscle

Equipments needed:

Frying pan or Sauce pan

Kettle

Really big bowl

Chopping board

Drainer

Draining spoon

Spoon or chopsticks

Bowl

Instructions for filling:

Step one

Drain and wash the pork mince through the drainer until it doesn’t have too much blood and whitish pink.

Step two

Chop up the chives or whatever you choose into small pieces.

Step three

Mix the pork mince and chopped up vegetables and mix thoroughly.

Step four

Sprinkle two pinches of salt over the mince.

Step Five

Splash over some soy sauce over the filling mixture.

Step Six

Pour in a lot of oyster sauce. (2 cups for about 1kg.)

Step Seven

Stir the filling mixture well until everything is combined. (You can add more flavouring if needed.)

Instructions for dough:

Step One

Pour some flour into a really big bowl. There are no exact measurements for this you really just need to eyeball it.

Step Two

Spill in some warm water into the flour and mix.

Step Three

Mix well and when it becomes a dough-like consistency you should now decide if the dough is too sticky or too dry. If too sticky add some more flour, if too dry add a bit more water. Because we are making dough for dumplings make sure it isn’t too soft. Once you are happy with the consistency of the dough wrap some glad wrap around the dough and leave it for about 30 mins. After 30 mins the dough is ready to use. When you take the dough out of the glad wrap you might notice that it becomes a bit more sticky so add a bit more flour and mix in the dough.

Now just make the dumplings!

When finished making the dumplings either fry them or bring to a simmer in a boiler.

If you choose to fry them place the dumplings in the fry pan and add a bowl of water to that.

If you choose to boil them make some hot water and pour it  into the saucepan and once it is boiling in the pan put the dumplings in the hot water. Bring them to a simmer and use a draining spoon and scoop them out onto a plate.

Both ways for better taste dip them in some dumpling sauce or vinegar.

Writing the procedure was really fun and quite easy because I've made it lots of times and know it off by heart. I was basically just using my prior knowledge. I really enjoyed writing this. Also feel free to try the recipe I wrote.

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