How Smart.

Yesterday(25/05/21) we did a task called smart relationships and we did this so we are safe online with what we’re doing and who we are talking to. This is a very important task because it could help with things like social media and I just want children like me to be safe on social media. This will help me in the future because I now know to change my social media status to private so only my friends can see it and try and play with people that I know and not people that are strangers. When we were doing this I found it hard to figure out the main points of the video we watched, also I found it not too hard to remember what I was supposed to write.

Do you have your social media on private?

 The Amazing Bake

In Te Ngahere the year 7s were doing cooking at tech again but this time we made a potato bake. The potato bake we made had a lot of ingredients like potato obviously, salt, bacon, veggies and cheese sauce. The first thing to do when you're making potato bake is boil the potatoes in water with salt then cut up your veggies and meat. When the potatoes are done put them in a big bowl and hack at them with a knife, I think when we made our potatoes they were 1 of the best because they were soft all throughout the potato. After that is done you will have to make the cheese sauce but I figured out that was not to hard, so all you have to do is put butter in a pot and wait for it to melt and then add 4 tablespoons of white flour into it, when that is done you have to mix it and put in 1 and a half cups of milk slowly then it will start to thicken so you would have to mix it continuously until thick then add cheese and do the same thing again and after 1 to 5 mins your cheese sauce will be done. Then put the cheese sauce on the potatoes and that’s a potato bake.  What I found hard this time was not over cooking the potatoes. But I found cutting the veggies a lot easier than cooking the potatoes.

Have you cooked potato bake before?

 My Google Fish.

In class we have been making sea creatures on Google drawing to explore what other tools were on Google drawing that we could use in the future, I think these newly explored tools can help me in the future with things like DLOs(digital learning objects) and animations. 

While we were doing this I made a jellyfish, dory, nemo and a goldfish with some seaweed on the side. When I made this I thought I made my fish very well by making different variants of fish but I think next time I maybe able to finish my drawing a little bit faster by doing it at home for an extra 5 minutes but besides that I found this task very entertaining and fun. 

What‘s your favorite fish?

What’s The Time?

Today(12/05/21) in class we did another task master but this one was about being a human timer but

first here are the rules, rule 1: sit in teams of 3 and number yourselves 1,2 and 3, rule 2: you cannot

communicate with your group. So here’s what you have to do to play, the person marked as number

1 will stand when they think it has been 1 minute, the person marked as number 2 will get on their

knees when they think it has been 90 seconds and the person numbered 3 had to clap continuously

when they think it had been 2 minutes.  We also did this task to see how well we can trust ourselves.

What I thought I did well was timing myself but I thought that I could have trusted myself a little bit

more.

What’s the most you’ve counted to?

 The Italian Pizza

Yesterday(04/05/21) at technology(in Moerewa) for the first time me and the other year 7’s did cooking.  At tech with Whaea Dot(cooking teacher) we made homemade pizza and a homemade pizza base using oregano, yeast, oil, sugar, white flour, milk powder to make the bread softer and water. First we put sugar, yeast and water in a big metal bowl swirled it and put it in a warmer at the bottom of an oven. Once that was done we went out to play on the park but when we came in we got to use knives to cut lots of vegetables and meat such as tomatoes, onion, mushrooms, garlic, ham, capsicum and some of us even put spinach in our pizzas. Then our bread base was nearly complete so we pulled them out of the warmer and put oil in it, we also new that it was almost ready because it smelt a little like alcohol. Then we mixed it with some flour, milk powder and a bit of salt and put it back in the warmer with a cloth over it. Next we had to clean while the bread dough was rising so we washed our dishes and wiped our areas till they were spotless. When the dishes and benches were clean we pulled out the dough then needed it into a circle pizza shape then put our toppings on the pizza base then put it in the oven. When it was cooked we pulled it out of the oven and had a taste it was delicious. When we were making the pizzas I thought it was hard making all the measurements but everything else I found easy like cutting and kneading the dough.

Have you ever cooked pizza?

 Can You Follow Directions?

Kia ora today(03/05/21) we are back in class doing a reading test that our teacher Whaea Becks gave us and this test was about following directions. We did this exercise to show ourselves how bad we are at reading things carefully and I think the teachers were trying to teach us to follow directions properly. This test was thought to be easy but it was the opposite because we didn’t do what the first direction told us, instead we went through and read the direction at the same time as we wrote it. The first question was read every question carefully before doing anything but I didn’t really understand that and thought it meant read the question then write what it says right after that. The second question was put your name in the upper right hand-corner of the paper, I thought that was an easy direction but after that I started to write more answers and failed because we were only supposed to do 3 directions out of the 23. The last direction said now that you have finished reading  everything carefully  do only direction 1 and 2 then flip the paper and quietly draw on the back. I thought it was hard trying to read some of the directions properly, but I found it easy writing everything down. 

How well can you follow directions?