Farewell 2012, room 13, Tawa intermediate

My time at Tawa Intermediate has been one of the best times in my life. I will never forget the amazing people and amazing friends I have made in this class. I have loved being in this class. We have done so many awesome and fun things in this class that I will never forget.

Some of my highlights have been camp. Camp has taught me how to do so many things and it has just been an awesome time. I have also loved all of the art that we have done. The mosaic and the panels I have definitely got better at art and have become more of a creative person. Also getting in to the top 40 in the outlook for someday movie competition we entered.

My low light has been losing dodge ball. I thought that we were gonna win but we didn't. that was disappointing. I also didn't like the homework or cross country.

I feel scared about next year because I'm going to high school. and I'm really nervous and happy  at the same time to meet new people. I will never forget Tawa intermediate I  will never forget this year and last year. I will Cherish every last moment I have left with with my teacher. and my friends I will miss everyone in room 13 . I will never forget you guys!

Chipmunks

My little sister Sienna is one of the most important things in my world. I would do pretty much anything in the world for her. Like go to chipmunks for her 6th birthday party.

 

It was a horrible rainy Saturday morning. When I walked  in  I thought I was going to go deaf. The crying the screaming and yelling I just could not take  it. As soon as we sat down my sister Sienna saw her friend Sophie and they both sprinted to the slide. It looked so much fun but I  was to old. People took a long time to get here but I did not know why. It was nearly time to go to the party room and eat. But then I realised something bad.

"Oh No"

"What is it" says my Mum

"I  wrote the wrong time on the invitation" I say very worried

"Is that why people are running late?" My mum said.

"Yup"

But it did not matter everyone is here now so everything is fine. Time for lunch!


Getting all the kids was hard since I lost everyone but when I found everyone it was OK. I was a bit jealous of the kids since they had food and I did not I mean what if I wanted some juice? When Charlie the chipmunk came I was kind of scared of him but he was not here for long. We had cake and it was time to play again.

The slide I was standing there eyeing it up it looked so bouncy and so fun. I just could not help it. I just had to got on it.I climbed up it looking out for little kids and then it was my turn.I bounced on it and then
Wosh! I went down really fast. As soon as i got of I was fighting with a little kid about how I was allowed to go on it. But then I was saved by my dad because he wanted me so that was good.

One by one the kids left and I got tired. We could finally go home. 


I had a good time at my sisters birthday I made new 5 year old friends they were all so cute but I just wanted to go home. 

How to make cupcakes

Not to long ago I posted about cupcakes. I make cupcakes a lot and I love them here is the recipe I use to make these awesome treats.............................

Ingredients

125g butter, room temperature
1 cup  White Sugar
1 ¼ cups self raising flour
2 eggs
½ cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
Pinch of salt

Icing
¾ cup  Icing Sugar
5g butter
1 tablespoon boiling water

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease and flour a 12 x ½ cup capacity cupcake tin.
2. Place all the ingredients in a large mixing bowl and beat for ten minutes or until smooth.
3. Divide mixture between prepared cake tin and bake for 10-12 minutes or until cakes spring back to the touch.
4. Remove and transfer to a wire rack to cool.
5. For icing, sieve icing sugar into a bowl, ensuring to remove any lumps. Place butter and boiling water in a small bowl and mix until butter has melted. Pour into icing sugar, a little at a time and stirring well between each addition until icing reached the desired consistency.
6. Spread icing sugar over cupcakes and decorate with icing flowers and edible glitter if desired.

 

How To Make Afghans.

Lately I have been making Afghans a lot and I also made them for food spec. Here is the recipe on how to make them.

Ingredients

200g butter, softened
½ cup  Sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 ¼ cups plain flour
¼ cup cocoa
1 ½ cups cornflakes, lightly crushed
Icing:
1 ½ cups Chelsea Rich Chocolate Icing
1 Tbsp butter (softened)
1-2 Tbsp boiling water

Method

Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease or line a baking tray with baking paper.
In a large bowl beat butter, sugar and vanilla until light and fluffy. Sift in flour and cocoa, stir thoroughly with the butter mixture until combined before stirring in the cornflakes.
Place heaped teaspoonfuls onto baking tray, squeeze mixture together gently if necessary then press lightly with a fork.
Bake for 15-20 minutes. Cool on a wire rack before icing.

Icing: Mix chocolate icing sugar, butter and 1 Tbsp boiling water at a time until combined, adding more hot water if necessary until icing is a spreadable consistency. Ice biscuits and top with half a walnut.

How the world started.

Have you ever wondered  of how the world started? I have  thought about it a lot  and it really makes me think.

 I get really confused because people tell me that god created the world but if he did then how did god get here in the first place? Some people tell me that monkeys and apes were here before we were but I still get confused. Sometimes I think that the world just appered out of the blue.
But then a  leaf turnrd into a dinosaur and had baby dinosaurs. Although it makes me think because how did the first ever cave man get here everything is really confusing.

There are some things in life that you just can not work out and maybe this is just one of those things.

Sustainability movie!

Ruby, Renee, Be, Arielle and I have been working on a movie about sustainability to enter for the Outlook For Someday movie contest. We have filmed nearly all of our movie and Ruby is working very hard on editing it, so far it looks great!

 Our movie is about water pollution. Me Renee and Be are news reporters. And Renee who is a fish interviews fish about how they feel about the water pollution and how it  is not good for life under water. Then me and Be say some facts about the water pollution.

Making the movie was really fun but it took a lot  of time and hard work. Our first idea was about something different but that did not really work so we had to do it on something else. We had to do all the storyboarding and planning the fun bit was making the fish for our heads to go through then the filming!

 For our whole movie we had to use the green screen and that was really fun. We thought that we filmed all of it but we had to re film most of our movie because we were not very good fish.I 
 think that we have a really good chance on winning this and that so far our movie looks really good and it will look even better when it is finished.

Out look for someday movie reflection:
Something that I learned from this project that I did not  know before was some of the Information about water pollution like:  How long different objects  took to degrade when there dumped in water.

process?
I learned how to work a camera.

The part of this project that was most challenging for me was:
The green screen and trying to see what worked with the green screen and what did not.

The part of this  project I found most rewarding was:
When we were the first group to finished our movie.

Cupcakes!!!

Do you like cupcakes? I love cupcakes there one of my favourite foods. Not only are they fun to eat but to make and decorate to! Some cupcakes look so beautiful even though it is just food you can make food look beautiful to. I love cupcakes my favourite is vanilla. 

Here are some cool cupcake designs.

Chips!!!!

Chips are so yummy!!!!! some burn some are salty and  some are potato chips. Chips  come in all shapes and sizes. My favourite chips are fish and chips because they taste so good.


In the weekend I ate some chips I ate salsa and cheese chips. Chips come from  potatos which get deep fried and they put salt on it. You can pretty much put anything  on chips they are just so tasty. There are also thin cut chips and thick cut chips I  asked some people  in the class what type of chips they  like.



Fish and Chips :11





Potato chips : 2





doritos burn: 4




Corn chips: 1







Other: 0


so look like the winner is Fish and Chips!!



here is a video on how they make chips!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkqBbr7Ewsw

Wavy chips

 Fish and chips.

 Potato chips

I really like chips they are so tasty I just love them.

Moving To Wellington Part 1.

Packing up was harder than I thought. Feeding the bag  squashing everything into it. I look down at the message on the box my friend Hazel gave me it said:


Friends are like stars you may not always see them but you always know that they are there.


I saw all the other stuff my friends gave me A tear fell down my cheek. I look across the room to see Arielle sitting on her bag. 


"Let's go!" I heard mum say cheerfully across the Kitchen. I was definitely not in a cheerful mood. I took my bag and walked through the stench of janola and said 


"Goodbye Christchurch"


Driving all the way to picton was not the most awesome thing to do in the world but I had no choice. We sat down in a little cafe in some little town that if you drive past it you blink and it's gone. I was eating my crepe very slowly. It was a cute little cafe with a pond and it had the sound  of a waterfall as you eat your food. When we finally left sitting back into the car I was in a bit more in  a happier mood than before. 


We drove up to the motel that was in the middle of nowhere. Me my brother and Arielle shared a cabin room thing and everyone else in another. We had a little snack and it was of to bed. I slept like a new born baby. I heard my dad knoking on the door saying penny penny penny he got that of the big bang theroy. I got dressed and of to breakfast.


I was full from breakfast all the pancakes I ate. Seeing the huge ferry and water just made everything worse.

Matariki

Matariki  is the begining of the Maori new year. And we have been celerbrating by creating art. In room 13 we have been creating Matariki panels to celerbrate matariki!

We had to divide our board that we painted black into three sections. Top one represents new growth, secound one you or your whanau (family) and bottom one matariki.

My first section is a sun and a koru growing. My next section is my family the biggest pattern is my dad and the other little patterns the rest of my family my three sisters me and my brother. Finally my bottom one is a marae and a kite flying in the sky. beacause at Matariki people fly kites.

When we had all our designs ready on our paper we had to tape up our board with masking tape. And put all our great ideas on the board. We cutted out our designs and we painted our board bright colours.

I really like my panel I think it looks really creative and colourful and I worked really hard on it. 

Scorpion

I learnt how to do a scorpion the other day! If you don't know what it is her is a picture.....

 Scorpion

Singapore The Cleanest City In The World.

Imagine having no chewing gum or you will be arrested,Or not being able to spit or litter, Have you ever thought about why those goverment people wear those wigs? Well today I learnt from Ryley's government slide show that you are not aloud to spit or chew chewing gum. And Nicole her slide show about those people wearing those wigs. Our teacher told us that we had to find  out what would happen if you found a chewing gum wrapper what would happen to you? and why they wear those wigs.Well those  people wear those wigs to show their maturity and wisdom, Older people who had white wigs were wiser, More mature and knowledeable The longer the wig the more important you are. I could not find out about the chewing gum one but I found a video about it here is the link........



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkSR9TVC6OY&feature=player_embedded#!

Fun Run

You know just beacause you put the word fun infront of run does not make it fun! Like how last Wednesday we had our school fun run. A fun run is were you dress up really goofy and it's  pretty obvious you run and collect sponsors to do so.

Our class theme for the fun run was sports player or just up like your a Netball player or something. So I went as a tennis player I didnt have a great outfit but Renee did and she won best outfit. We got dressed at morning tea and was looking at everyones outfits it was very cool
after morning tea it was time to make our way to the top field.

We got told what to do and were to run and how much laps we had to run which was 5k. We waited for our turn to run and finally it was our time to run. I kept on running and running and running but after like 40 minutes it semt like forever but I finally did it yay,that is the last time I run 5k.

Well after all the hard work it sure did pay of! I don't know how much I raised but im sure glad that it is over!

Jumps and Splits

Yesterday I had to go to cheerleading and we had to do alot of jumps and splits. We did pike jumps toe touches along with splits I nearly got all of them.



Toe touch                                                                                    Pike jump

 Splits

OWWW!!!

It was about a month ago since I slammed my middle finger in the car door! Although it didn't hurt that much because I have slammed my finger in the car door so many times I have just gotton used to it.

After that stupied thing happend I found out my nail was coming of! I asked my dad about what I should do  but he was not much help  he just told me to ask my Mum so I did and she just told me to put a plaster on it so I did.
But  before I thought it would be a smart thing to take my paster of .When I was gonna play a rough game of dodge ball.  I got hit really hard on the same hand as my sore finger and it started to bleed and pretty bad to. so I had to leave that game of dodge ball and go get a new plaster.

But just last night I started to get sick of my stupied nail so I asked my Mum if I could take it of she said that I can it would just be really painful. I got the nail clippers and took that sucker of. She was right it was painful but not as painful as I thought it would be.

So what I learnt and I had to learn the hard way is to try be more careful around doors because if you don't you might have to suffer what I had to go through. And trust me you do not want to have your nail come of! 

40 Hour Famine!

This weekend I did the 40 hour famine. The 40 hour famine is were you have to give up something for  40 hours I gave up food.  And you collect sponsers for it and the money goes to kids in Mali and Niger to have food all year round!!!!

It was very hard doing the famine. On Saturday I went to my sisters ballet and after go out for lunch. My sisters ate in front of me it was very hard watching them eat.
And for tea they had chicken and it was very hard not to eat it.


But after 40 hours my dad took me and my sisters out for lunch I ate so much it was pretty unlike me to eat that much. and so far the famine has raised 348,922 dollars. It is a really good thing to do the famine and I got over 40 dollars for doing it and that can feed 7 kids for a long time. I think I might do the famine again next year!!

Cross country

I was so scared, so frightend have I ever been this scared before in cross country? I don't think so but when I heard the teacher blow the whistle I new that I had no choice I had to run.

I was keeping a steedy pace with Shannon. My knees were trembling the hot sun was not helping at all people were passing me I felt hopless I passed a few people but not enough to make my goal to top 100. I looked back there were not that many people behind me so I knew that I was near the back so then I just decided to give up.

But then there were teachers and collage kids yelling and screaming telling me that I am almost there. I decided to give it my all and when I got up to the back gate I sprinted as fast as I could and when I got to the finish line I was so proud that I finished the race.

The teacher handed me a little pink card I looked at it and it said 90 so I was very proud of myself that I did my goal and got into the top 100!!!!!

More cheerleading!!

Every wednesday I do cheerleading at zone dance. Now my mum has put me and my sister down for an extra class on fridays at 5.30 were we go to  lots of competitions. And not everyone is the same age as me there are 5 year olds and 16 year olds but I don't care it is just as fun as the other one that me and my sister do.

Cheerleading

Every Wednesday at 5.00 I do cheerleading at Zone  Dance with my sister Arielle. I started cheerleading because my little sisters zoe and sienna do ballet so I wanted to do something to keep me busy so it got me thinking. I was thinking when I was little I always wanted to be a cheerleader so I asked my mum if I could do cheerleading and she said yes.

One day after school on wensday my sister came running up to me giving me bubblegum and telling me and my sister Arielle that we were doing cheerleading today at 5:00.

When I first went there it was pretty scary but when  I came in  everyone was really nice. We did
walkovers ,splits and lifting it was really fun but then it was time to go.

I used to hate Wednesdays but now I like them because I get to do cheerleading.

Sorry :(

SO sorry everyone I went on my post today and it said no post I tried getting it back but I cant find any of my posts. So I am going to try my hardest  and re post everything. Starting with my cheerleading post.