Cupcakes - Home Economics (Finale)

Hi! This week in cooking we baked cupcakes. It is our final week before we moved on to the next semester. For those reasons, we are being assessed by cooking on our own as a group to our specific recipe. My group was almost the same as usual but we have another person added to our group. We did the planning on Tuesday on who's gonna do which method. 

We were given a cupcake recipe for my group and for the others I think it was something like Anzac biscuits etc. To be more specific, my group had a Vanilla cupcake with plain frosting. As you probably may or may not know, I've done cupcakes before in Home Economics. The methods were completely the same. Here's a link to my other blog post on how to make it you haven't seen it yet. LINK

In my group, there were 5 people and they are Vann, Lars, Janel, Minseo and myself. Here's a picture of what the methods were:

Here's who's who were doing each method:

Vann - Vanilla Essence, Baking Powder - Method 3 - Method 10

Lars - Butter, Milk - Method 1 - Method 6 - 

Elisha Mae - Sugar - Method 2 - Method 8

Janel - Plain Flour - Method 4 - Method 7 - Method 11

Minseo - Eggs - Method 5 - Method 9 

Vann: Will get the 1 t Vanilla Essence and 2 t Baking Powder. He will also do both methods 3 and 10. 

Lars: Will get the butter and the milk. He will also do both method 1 and 6.

Elisha Mae: Will get the sugar, she will do method 2 and 8.

Janel: Will get the plain flour, she will do methods 4, 7, and 11. She will also help Minseo with the folding. 

Minseo: Will get the eggs and do method 5 as well as method 9 with Janel’s help. 

Estimated time is 30 minutes

In my opinion, honestly, our group was kinda chaotic and unclear. We would sometimes joke around etc
but we could also focus on some stuff. Some people like me were just on the side while others
do most of the work. I was not participating on everything because I'm scared at the fact that I might
get something wrong with the recipe/method. Like I said, I only picked it because I wanna try baking.
However, there are some room of improvement.

In our task, we are also asked to let someone taste the final product and record their comments about it. I gave mine to my mom and this is the rough translation she said. "The texture was a bit crispy but the flavoring is okay". I honestly relate to my mom about it. The texture was indeed crispy-ish. We kinda failed again at the creaming the butter part yet again. It had some lumps on the butter when the egg + vanilla essence.

Maybe it was maybe at the part where we were really unsure what to do with the 2 eggs. We started with one egg and mixed it with the creamed-butter+sugar+vannilla essence. It didn't really work very well and it ended up some lumps and the other egg didn't make a difference either. Well, maybe it made it worse because we beat that other egg instead which is unclever of us.

Maybe next time we'll both beat in the eggs and not just one.

What we could do next time is to ask the teacher if unsure or read carefully the recipe next time. Overall I think it was okay. It turned out okay except for the part where the cupcakes looked like it's a basic muffin instead. But the frosting I think mostly covered it so it doesn't look like it.

Bye have a nice day!~

Poster Facts - Hurumanu 6

Hello! Here's another second activity relating to Heroes and Villain in Power to the People which is Hurumanu 6. This is a second poster about Kim Jong-un but this time we have to pick at least 5 events from our timeline and create a poster about it. Here's mine :)

Here's another poster with no words.

Credits to the rightful owner =)

Bye! Have a nice day

Kim Jong-un Poster - Hurumanu 6

Hi! In Hurumanu 6, we moved on to Activity 2 which is to create a political poster of your chosen villain/heroes from the list. I'm still gonna do Kim Jong-un so here's a political poster about him and a quote underneath as well. I hope you like it.

Cow Eye Dissection - Hurumanu 5

Today in Hurumanu 5 last week, we began learning all about the parts of the eye. Such as Iris, Pupil, Cornea, Lens, Optic Nerve, and Retina. Today, we did an experiment and that is to the direction of Cow's eye.

Aim: Dissect a Cow's eye.

Equipment:

- Cow's preserved Eye

- Dissecting scissors 

- Gloves (optional)

- Newspaper

- Twicers

Before doing the experiment, you might wanna wear some gloves but that's totally optional. Also, make sure to put a newspaper across the table so it would not make a mess on the table.

Method:

1) Then we take a preserve cow's eye. Get your dissecting scissors and cut off any exes fat around the Cow's eye. 

2) Poke the corner of the eye and proceed to cut the whole Cornea. Be careful because the humour fluid inside would burst out. It should look something like this when you cut it off:

3) Next, emptied the eye and you should soon see the lens. A translucent squishy/sticky thing. If you take out the lens you will see the whole thing inside of the eye.

4) After that, cut off the whole thing in half and you should see some sort of colour blue inside.

Findings:

I and my team find it difficult to puncture the eye because it's squishy and slippery so we had to ask for some help. I find it oddly satisfying while doing the experiment. 

Conclusion:

Overall I think it was an odd experiment. It was sort of disgusting though but yeah it was an odd way of learning from the parts of the eyes visually.

Plot Story - Arts Kete

In Arts Kete, we began to plan the plot of our own story. We also started building up our characters that we are gonna use in our comic stories. In my case, my story is a bit complicated, but here's a brief explanation of my story plot. 

Credits to the rightful owner.

Basically, this is about some fictional character named Chi who is constantly getting bullied for having probably the only person that has glasses. This might seems odd but in her non-existent fictional world, having glasses is considered weird and odd. Devastated she feels, one day she decided to take off her glasses which her parents warned her not to do so because unusual might happen. 

Little did she know, a magical adventure was waiting for her. In this story, it involves a cat and a bear who are some side characters that help her throughout her journey. If you probably might have noticed already, the genre of my story is fantasy, adventure, and fictional. It is also inspired by an amazing anime movie called 'A Whiskey Away'. It's a lovely cute anime film that inspires me. 

Have a lovely day =)

Heroes VS Villains Timeline - Hurumanu 6

In Hurumanu 6, we began learning about different types of leaders that made an impact on history. They could be either Villains or Heroes. We had a bunch of lists to choose from and I chose Kim Jong-un. Kim Jong-un is the current supreme leader dictator of North Korea.

 

He is the successor of his father Kim Jong-il who was a former leader of North Korea. Apparently, I think he is a villain due to the dictatorship type of government they run under North Korean citizens. Anyways, after we research them, we put all the info into a timeline.

Here is my timeline I hope you like it!

Unwanted Visitors

Hello, This week in Wananga we are doing a new activity. It's a reading-related activity. We had to choose an article from the slide-grid. Soon, if we finish reading it we are choosing an activity off the slide-grid. Anyways, there are some levels the book is labeled of easy, medium, and hard. I choose an easy level book for a start. It's called 'Unwanted Visitors'.

This is basically an article about how unique New Zealand is and it is also precious and fragile so the Biosecurity is strict in order to protect this fragile country filled with species and plants that could be damageable.

I chose an activity which required to make an alternate cover of the article/book that you've read using Canva. Canva is a handy fancy digital tool that you can use to make posters, timelines, etc. Here's the finished product of my poster. I hope you like it!

The Stunning Experience in Student Summit

The Stunning Experience in Student Summit

Hello fellow people! Today I'm gonna be talking about the Stunning 1st experience I have in Student Summit 2019.  First of all, what happened was all of the amazing Hornby High School Student Summit people gathered up in a meeting room and getting ready everything. 

I was nervous at that time because It was my first time being a part of Student Summit which is pretty exciting as well. I went a check our Slideshow and make sure there's nothing wrong with it.

We ride on a Van of HHS and drive to South Hornby School, After that, we wait for a while for the rest of the students in Different schools. I feel like there are thousands of people but no, there's only like 50+ students.

Miss Morgan tell us our Timetable and stuff and we started on our first session.

I and Nevaeh were first to present our toolkit. So we go to the table where we're gonna presents and set up stuff like connecting Nevaeh's Chromebook to the TV.

After that, some students from a range of Different schools come to our presentation.
From my observation, It's all the girls who came to our presentation.

After a while, It was going smooth so far until the Wifi connection isn't good.

But it's fine we find a solution to it. Overall my experience to the Student Summit was AMAZINGLY AMAZING!

By the way here's our Slideshow presentation:

• Thanks for reading my post! Ciao~

Minute To Win It!

Minute To Win It!

Hola! This week was the last week of Term 1, So the Kiwi Kaha hosted a "Minute To Win It" to end the Term 1 Really good and unforgettable. Well sadly, I wasn't there for Full Period 3 because I have this Health Leaders event thing that I have to attend, So I just see the Half of the Event. 

Here are the players that went up for 7/8 Tz:

- Tamani - Cone flip (3rd)
- Jesse - Keeping balloons off the ground (3rd)
- Jayden - Cookie no hands (No place)
- Jayden - Blowing paper (No place)
- Rarotonga and Shanarnia - Balloon transporters (No Place)
- Hamid and Tevita - Bubbles (No Place)
- Hans - Spaghetti Pasta, Loading Penne Pasta (No Place)
- Zack - Yes/No - Water Gun (No Place)

As you can see, We didn't get any 1st and 2nd Place, we only have 3rd Place or No Place, But It's fine, At least we have fun. Hopefully Next Term, We will win.

Thank You For Reading this post, Have a great Day!

What's Mean, Mode and Median? (Statistics)

What's Mean, Mode and Median??? (Statistics)

Morena! This week in Maths with Mrs Hastie, we are learning what's the meaning of Mean, Mode and Median in Statistics. So today I'm gonna tell you what it means. 

So first, Let's talk about "Mean". Mean is the sum of the scores divided by the number of scores (Also called Average). 

Next, What's Mode? The mode is the number that appears most often in a set of data.

Lastly, What's Median? The Median is the number that comes in the middle of a set of numbers when they are arranged in orders.

Here's a Slideshow about it:

Thank You for reading my post about Statistics Mode, Mean and Median Maths.

Hope you learned something bye!

Have a great Year 2019!

Introducing The New Hurumanu!

Kia Ora! Today I'm gonna talk about our another New Hurumanu.  Our other new Hurumanu is P.E. also known as "We're On Each Others Team". Last week we started this new Hurumanu, we played this game called "Bench Ball", we also played another game called "Long Ball", but I wasn't there when we play it, because I have to attend the Student Summit in South Hornby School.

Here are some Pictures from our first session of Our P.E. Hurumanu:

Bye! Have a great day!