Category: Hanga | Create

At NBC we are focusing on the July Home learning for the school. There are heaps of tasks to do and they all give points. For my task I chose to pick the Punakaiki Rocks and learn about them. The task was originally to add our favorite food, which I will do but for now I am giving my information about the Punakaiki Rocks.

The Punakaiki Rocks were formed around 30 million years ago by miniature fragments of dead marine creatures and plants that landed on the seabed about 2 km below the surface.

Immense water pressure caused the fragments to solidify in hard and soft layers.

Here is also my favorite food!

My favorite food is cake.

Personally, I like sponge cake, and here is a recipe for it if you are interested! 🙂

Ingredients

• 225g softened butter
• 225g golden caster sugar
• 4 large eggs
• ½ lemon, zested
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 225g self-raising flour
• splash of milk
• Optional fillings of lemon curd, jam, lightly whipped cream
• icing sugar for dusting

Method

• STEP 1

  Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4, butter and line the base of two 20cm spring-form cake tins with baking parchment.

• STEP 2

  Using an electric whisk beat the butter and sugar together until pale and fluffy. Crack the eggs in one at a time and whisk well, scraping down the sides of the bowl after each addition. Add the lemon zest, vanilla, flour, milk and a pinch of salt. Whisk until just combined then divide the mixture between the two tins.

• STEP 3

  Bake in the centre of the oven for 25-30 mins until a skewer inserted into the middle of each cake comes out clean. After 10 mins remove the cakes from their tins and leave to cool completely on a wire rack. Fill how you like. My personal favourite is a good dollop of lemon curd and some fresh cream, then dust the top with icing sugar. Will keep for 3 days.

At NBC we are focusing on the July Home learning for the school. There is heaps of tasks to do and they all give points. For my task I chose to pick the fantastic beasts activity. First we had to look at some monsters in the book Fantastic beasts and then make our own. This is mine and I even added all the features.

 

 

At NBC we are focusing on the July Home learning for the school. There is heaps of tasks to do and they all give points. My task I chose to pick the WWF activity. We had to watch videos about them saving the animals and what they do save them.

I chose to watch the one about them saving freshwater seals left. There are only 670 left in the world and they are very endangered. They build snow banks for them so that they can protect their babies when they are born. Its going pretty good and now they are trying to stop climate change.

 

In Room 2 we have been focusing on Jesus miracles. We have had weeks to do this and it was such a fun journey. Here is our video. Overall it was such a fun activity, especially with my friends! If you have questions about it please let us know so we can improve next time!

Have you ever done something like this?

In Room 10 we have been focusing on our reports since we finished with our Narratives. I enjoyed reports much more than Narratives. I really liked this because it was fun looking at facts about frogs. Here is mine

 

~ frog report! ~

 

Frogs are small unique creatures that people often misjudge. They are very fascinating when you get to know them and they have lots of interesting features such as using their eyes to help swallow their food. Crazy right? This report will tell you facts about frogs, including where they live, what they eat and much more.

 

Frogs are amphibians, which means their habitat would most likely be lakes and swamps, but amphibians can also live on land. They lay their eggs in the water as well. Although frogs live on land their habitat must be near swamps, ponds or in a damp place. This is because they will die if their skin dries out.

 

Frogs only eat living insects because any other food may cause them to be unwell. The best food to feed them would be crickets. They absolutely love them and it is totally safe for them to eat. Frogs have a very different palette than other animals, so if you want to have them as a pet you would have to know what they eat.

 

Some frogs are actually poisonous, which may be a surprise to some people. If you would want to know what frogs are poisonous and which are not you can look for these signs. 

Bright Coloured/ red, yellow ect.

Spiny ribs that protrude from their skin

They make a sort of “hissing” sound when predators are near them.

 

Overall, I think frogs are small creatures that I absolutely love and I wonder why they aren’t other people’s favourite animals! 

 

In Room 10 we have been focusing on our narratives. My narrative is all about the life of a bear, or the problems a bear would face. It took a while to finish it but I managed.

 

WALT: Understand diamante poems.

In Room 10 we have been doing diamante poems for our writing. My one was all about cheetahs, since it was the first thing to cross my mind. 

A diamante poem goes like this:

• 1 noun
• 2 adjectives
• 3 verbs
• A 4 letter sentence about the topic
• 3 verbs
• 2 adjectives
• noun

Here is my diamante poem:

 

Walt: Understand vertices and sides.

In Room 10 we had to do a quick blogpost about maths so we could do a Kahoot. I was going to show a video of me doing a quiz, but it wont upload. Instead, here are photos of me getting the right/wrong and you will have to see if I get them right!

 

 

 

 

As you can see, I got them all correct!

Would you have got them correct?