Cupcakes! (Home Economics)

Last Tuesday our task in home economics was to make a cupcake and do the icing on Friday. When we were making the cupcake we were all working hard together to make a tasty cupcake. Once we finish making the cupcake we then wait for 3 days to do the icing. Our cupcake turns out good and it tastes delicious. 

Here is the direction:

1. Cream margarine in a large bowl. Use a wooden spoon. 
2. Add sugar and continue creaming until light and fluffy in texture. 
3. Add vanilla essence and beat briefly.
4. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after you have added each egg.
5. Sift flour and baking powder onto a large plate. 
6. Using a rubber scraper, scrape all the mixture off the wooden spoon. 
7. Add 1/3 sifted flour/ baking powder mix and fold in half the milk using the rubber scraper. 
8. Repeat step 7 for the next 1/3 flour mix and the rest of the milk. Do not overmix. 
9. Add the last of the flour and gently fold this into the cake batter. 
10. Carefully spoon cake batter evenly into 12 paper cases. 
11. Bake at 180oc for 7 min then turn oven to Fan Bake for a further 6-8 min

How to do the Icing:

Cream together margarine, icing sugar and flavoring.

Spread icing onto cooled cupcakes and decorate with sprinkles if available. 

50 g Margarine/ Butter.

100 g - 150 g Icing Sugar.

Flavoring (Essence)

Don't forget to:

• To preheat oven
• Measure all ingredients accurately 
• Gently fold in flour/ baking powder (dry ingredients) alternately with the milk
• Do not over mix the cake batter
• Put the paper cases into cupcake or muffin tins before spooning in the cake batter

Here is our cupcake process:

                                  

Before

Putting the Icing

Finish Product

Chromatography

Aim: To separate the different pigments from ink using chromatography

Hypothesis: When I put the paper with colour in the water I think that the colour will not be separated.

Method:

1- Draw a line across the filter paper in pencil, 5cm from the bottom.

2- Draw a colored dot in the center of the line.

3- Measure out 10mL of water and place it in the test tube.

4- Place the filter paper in the test tube and fold over the side. MAKE SURE THE PENCIL LINE IS NOT IN THE WATER.

5- Wait for 5minutes and observe the results

Result: The purple turn into 3 different colour which is pink, purple and blue. Black turn into 4 different colours, which are blue, purple, black and orange.

Discussion: The purple had three different colour because it has 3 pigments on it. The black had four colours on it which means that it has many pigment on it.

Conclusion: My hypothesis was wrong because the two colours
had seperated and turned into a different colour.

Health- Mental Well Being

In the past few weeks in health what we are doing is mostly to understand how the 4 sides of Te whare tapa wha work. But the main focus last week that we did was our Mental well being. We were told to choose the following topic to study, the first topic was Stress, Depression, 5 ways to wellbeing and Getting help. 

I chose to do Stress because I think that stress is the most common thing that people can have. Many people are stress because when they face a challenge or threat, they have a partly physical response to it. My teacher gave us a question to answer and  research a little bit about it, my answer is all in the slide.



         

Ginger Gems

Home Economics:

Last Friday what I did in-home economics was we have to make Ginger Gems. Ginger gems are so tasty once you finish baking it. But first, the first task that we have to do was to get out all the equipment that we need to make the Ginger Gems. Once we have finished getting all the equipment out, we now need to get all the ingredients. Making Ginger Gems is so easy to make, here is the direction. 

Direction:

1.  1.Preheat oven to 200 degrees( Fan bake). Place the gem iron (Muffin Tins) in the oven to heat.
2.  Cream 100g of the butter with sugar, ginger, and cinnamon.
3. Beat in golden syrup and egg, adding a tablespoon or two flour to prevent curding
4. Sift flour and baking powder.
5.  Dissolve baking soda in the milk. Mix flour into butter mixture alternately with the milk. 
6. Remove gem iron from the oven and put it on the wooden board.
7. Add a half teaspoon of remaining butter for each moulds or hallow. It will Zizzle. 
8.  Fill moulds with batter, bake for 15 minutes, until a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean. 
9. Cool slightly then remove the gems to cool on a wire rack. 

Make sure to try it your self because it really tastes good. The texture of the Ginger Gems that we did was soft inside and crunchy outside. The colour was golden brown and the smell was very enjoyable.

 

  Ginger Gems

Ingredients:

150g of butter

2 tsp of ground ginger

1/2 cup of sugar

1/2 tsp of ground cinnamon

2 Tbsp of golden syrup

1 egg

2 cups of standard flour

1/2 tsp of baking powder

1 tsp of baking soda 

1/2 cup of milk

Wananga Barbeque

Yesterday the 12th of March, our school have an event (Wanga Barbeque). It was so awesome and fun yesterday, some of the parents came along to watch the performance that some of the Kahui prepared. The Filipino Youth group and the Pacifica Politest had also prepared a performance to show. I was on the Filipino Youth Group, we practice about almost four weeks before the event started. All of us show commitment by practicing every home time. 

I showed Achievement by performing in a big crowd and trying my best to not be shy. I think that all of us that were in The Filipino dance had an enjoyable time. Practicing every home time was worth it because we've learned the dance that we were going to perform. 

At the first practice that we did none of us didn't actually know the dance, so what we did was we keep practicing the dance to learn every movement of it. That how we show resilience.

I show respect yesterday by cheering the other kahui and the Pacifica politest performance. Yesterday was such fun because after performing the dance, the school provided us a sausage barbeque. That was so "Yummy". That is how I show the CARR values yesterday at school and I am willing to wait for next year again. 


  

Rats/Mice

                                             Video 1

1. Where did this happen? It happens in Australia 
2. How did this happen? Massive rainfall produces a lot of crops.
3. How much offspring (Babies) can 2 mice parents make? 2000 a months/ 100 million a year
4. How much wheat did the mice eat? 500,000 tonnes
5. How did they get rid of the mice and how many dead mice were there? They poison them using 1080 poison, 100 million mice got killed. 

    

                                   Video 2

1. Where is this happening? It’s happening in India
2. Why is this happening? Because they think that if they died they became rats.
3. What special treatment do the rats get? They worship them, they get to eat first, they treat them like celebrities and u can't kill them.

The Alaska Tsunami

Last week our task was to make a bar graph for the Alaska tsunami. When we were making our bar graph we have to put the F.A.C.K.T.S on it. F.A.C.K.T.S mean Frame, Arow, Colour, Key, Title, Scale. 

Here is the bar graph that I made:

Fake or Real friends

Today on health, we have been set a task if what is a real friend and what is not a real friend. So my class made a slide about what are they all about. We put all the things that we thought about what are a real friend and what is not in one slide. This is also related to taha whanau. 

Here are some of the example of it:

Athletics Day 2020

Yesterday was the whole school athletics day, it was so fun and enjoyable. On athletics day social people were told to go on their first and second periods first because the people who were doing the competitive need to do their event earlier. Some of the events that I did is Discus, shot put, and 60 meters sprint, all the people who try the event get a house point for there house. The way I participate in our athletics is I just used all our carr values in school. Which is Commitment, Achievement, resilience, and respect. I show respect by not only cheering my friend but others too.  I show respect by taking part in all events. I show commitment by doing all the events. I show resilience by not giving up. 

What is social? 

Social is just people taking part in the event but there score doesn't get measured. If you fail in your event it will not matter because they don't count your score. The way social work is if you try the event you will get points for your house. 

What is competitive?

Competitive our people who do the event and get measured, if you are in competitive you have to really try your best to go-to the zone. ( You will be put to the zone if you make it to 1st, 2nd or 3rd) It doesn't matter if you don't make it, at least you try your best.

My goal for next year is to join competitive because I have been doing social for 3 years now, I wanted to try new things to show my commitment and resilience. 

Athletics practice

Athletics Training

Last week on P.E we did a practice run for athletics, it was so tiring because we have to run 100m, 200m, 400m, and 1500m. Some of the practice events that we did are Long jump, high jump, discus, shot put, sprints and finally the long-distance one. The most tiring one out of them was the long-distance because, when we did our long distance it was so hot. 

This our my result for the long-distance:

Meters:                                                                      Time:

100m	18s
200m	1.30
400m	2.48s
1500	10.35s

This is my result for all the event:

Athletics Result 2020	Before	After
Shot put	1st-6.20 2rd-5.35	6.55
Discus	7.0m	12.11m
Long Jump	5.20m	5.20m 5.90m
High Jump	N/A
Sprints

It was fun practicing all the events in the last few weeks and I'm ready to do athletics tomorrow.