Careers: Chef

LI: to explore a career that interest me.

I took the Career Quest quiz to help me find a career that interest me. At the end the three options I chose were a chef, winemaker and a video/film editor. This DLO shows that I chose the chef career. I chose this one because the opportunities to get this career were good, the pay was good, and the training was 1-3 years. I also had most of the personal requirements for this career so I thought this career would be a good fit for me. 

Sagwala - Food Tech

LI: to follow the recipe to make sagwala.

Sagwala is a popular food dish around New Zealand, its mostly a curry based food but with spinach. First we got our equipment and ingredients, we then put the wet ingredients (tomatoes & yogurt) into measuring cups. We then put curry powder into a small measuring bowl. We the put oil into a big pot on a stove. We then cut our vegetables (onions, garlic) except the spinach and put them all into the pot. We then put the tomatoes, yogurt & curry powder into the pot and mixed it all together, we then served it on top of rice. It was fun to make and really delicous.

Long Division

LI: to understand how to use long division. 

For our maths challenge this week we were learning about a strategy called "Long Division", it was difficult learning at first but now I understand it. Once we understood the strategy we challenged ourselves by solving a few math's questions in our books, if we had finish those we would go on a site to give us extra questions. We then worked in partners to create a DLO about what was long division.    

Te Reo Challenge

LI: to do the Te Reo challenge.

For one of the Te Reo challenges Mrs Pryde provided us with was a challenge where it involved a lot of remembering, there were 10 actions, each action represents a maori number (tahi, rua, toru). We then had to do first action, carried on with the next actions, after that we had to do them backwards.

Art with David

LI: to show our care value

Yesterday a student from LS1 came to LS2 to teach me and some others some art skills. He taught us to choose a basic shape to start off with and draw it, he then told us that we should draw some patterns to go inside the basic shape.

How a Periscope Works

LI: To explain how a Periscope works.


Mr Johnston came and taught us about what Persicopes are, how they are used and who uses them. We found out that the angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection. That means if the light hits the mirror at a 45 degree it reflect the light back at 45 degree. It was fun doing this activity

Light - Light & Sound

LI: To show my understanding of light.

For one of our inquiry tasks we were tasked to work in partners that we have never worked with to make a DLO about 5 facts about light. The five facts were about how light goes in a straight line, how fast light is, the light we see, how light can be reflected and how light be refracted.

Serving/Recap on Setting

LI: To learn to serve in volleyball.

For our Volleyball session this week we had recap of setting and we worked on serving. There are two techniques on serving, one of the techniques is called an underarm serve and the other serve is called an overarm serve. The underarm serve is a serve where you serve with a small throw and hit it from under the ball.

Udon Noodles - Food Tech

LI: To make vegetable noodles.

For our food tech this week we worked in our usual groups to create Udon noodles, first we got our equipment and our ingredients, we put a pot of water onto the stove and let it sit for a bit. We then put noodles in the pot and once it was soft we poured the noodles into a strainer.We then cut the vegetables (garlic, onion, carrot, broccoli), and put them all into a pan with 2 tbsp of oil, we then put the noodles with the vegetables. After that we put brown sugar, oyster sauce, and soy sauce with the noodles. We mixed it around and we separated the food into our containers. It was really fun to make and it was really delicous.

Maths Challenge

LI: to find the most efficient strategy to solve the problem.

For one of my Maths challenges we worked in groups of three to solve a maths problem, this maths problem involved subtraction and multiplication, this was kind of challenging, but we still got the answer. In our dlo we showed our strategy and the main information.

 

NZ Timeline & Evaluation

LI: To read the information in the text, think about what you have read and form an opinion.

For our reading tasks this week we were tasked to create a slide of events in New Zealand history, we made differen slides for different events, and we added the year it took place, we also added some information about what happened at that event. We then evaluated the events. First we listed the most important events, then we listed the two most important events and why we chose them. 

Food Tech - Curry

LI: to create good food.

This week for food technology we created a curry with rice and chicken. First we got our equipment, and we go to our ingredients (rice, curry powder, beans, corn, onions, red cabbage, carrots, oil and chicken. We diced the red cabbage, we then grated the carrots, we put the carrots and the red cabbage together in a bowl. We then diced the chicken and put it into another bowl. We then put the onions with oil into a pot over heat. We then put 1 tbls of curry powder in a measuring cup, and we put 2 tbls of corn and beans in another cup. we then put the carrots & cabbage into the pot, we then put the rice into the pot, we then put the curry powder, corn and beans into the pot, we mixed it all around and we put the food into our containers, it was really fun to make and it was very delicious. 

Blog Post Analysis

LI: To analyse our blog post data to help us set blogging goals

I used the statistical information on my blog to help me set goals for 2020. Before I can publish a blog post I need to complete the task. I worked the average number of posts I made for each month and used this data to set a realistic and achievable blogging goal.

Kowhaiwhai Patterns - Maori Challenges

LI: To design a kowhaiwhai pattern for our PBS Te Reo Blog.

For one of our Maori challenges here in LS2, the challenge was that we were to create kowhaiwhai patterns. Everyone in the class created original kowhaiwhai, we first got inspiration and we used that to make our own. My kowhaiwhai that I made, was about collaboration, the two sides represent teams/people, when they come together and collaborate they can do great things, I did this because in our school were are used to collaborating with others.

Tragedy at Tangiwai Summary

LI: to explain in fewer words what the text is about.

For one of our reading tasks we worked in our reading groups to create a summary of what happened at the incident of the Tragedy at Tangiwai. Like the other summaries we wrote down 20 words linked to the text, pick the 6 most important words and use thos 6 words to sum up what happened in the text.

Tragedy At Tangiwai

LI: To learn what happened at the Tragedy at Tangiwai

For one of our reading tasks we read a text about a horrible incident that happened at a place called Tangiwai, the indecent was a train being caught in a muddy land slide and crashed into a bank of a river. After that we made a DLO about what happened and what we did when reading the text.

Current Events

LI: to explore the current events around the world.

For one of our current event tasks we created a google map to show events around the world (example: America - Goerge Floyd Protest), we also had to put them under different categories (Oddity, Emotional, Magnitude, etc). We got all of our news from kiwi kids news. 

PBS Assembly Livestream

During lock down my school had a method of doing assembly in their houses, they set up a livestream and did different segments of assembly (certificates, badges, general update on whats happening), but now we are back at school and the teachers are still organizing assembly livestreams, and today we watched the assembly on our tv's.

  

Food Technology - Hot Cakes

LI: to learn follow a recipe to make hot cakes.

Today we followed Mrs Heka's instructions and made hotcakes. First we got all of our pots, pans, measuring cups, etc. We also got all of our ingredients (Milk, eggs, flour, sugar, butter, berries, banana, ice cream), we put the dry ingredients together (sugar & flour) in a big bowl, we put the wet ingredients (eggs & milk) in a medium size bowl. We then put the milk & eggs mixture with the dry ingredients, we then mixed both with the banana, we then poured our mixture onto the pan and we put our pancakes in our lunch boxes, after that we made a berry sauce and we put that on our pancakes, we also put some scoops of ice cream with it. It was very fun to make and very delicous.

Cityscape of New York

LI: to write a description of my cityscape using prepositions.

For one of our tasks for art this week we created a description of our cityscapes, we added in prepositions (Position words: in front, behind, left, etc), prominent, hooks (Something to make the reader keep reading: as strange as it may seem, did you know, etc), and a reflection. Here is my description:

At the center of my cityscape of NYC, there stands the Statue of Liberty, surrounded by lots of buildings. As strange as it may seem one of the metals that the statue of Liberty is made out of is in fact gold, and the gold can be found at the top of the Statue of Liberty. Did you know that the statue of Liberty is a symbol of independence and to represent the friendship between America and France. Not many people know that when the statue of Liberty was built it was mostly made out of copper so it had a copper like color, but when copper reacts to air it makes the copper rusty, so they put a coat of a material on it to keep it from rusting and the coat happens to be the color green. My aim for my cityscape was a sun set so I blended red and yellow. As odd as it sounds the Statue of Liberty was originally designed for the Suez Canal in Egypt, to the right side of America.

Using Exponents

LI: to understand exponents.

This week for our maths challenge we worked in pairs/groups of three to solve a maths problem, the maths problem was about the mythological monster called the Hydra, the Hydra is known for growing two more heads when 1 head is cut off. The question was: If all the heads were cut of a Hydra every day, how many heads would the hydra have on the third day? The second question was the same with the first but with ten days. For our strategy we just did the amount of heads the day before multiplied by 2.