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Cooking

 In cooking we have made food.

We have made:

-Cinnamon toast. 

-Cheesy toast

-Scones

-Cheese and greens muffins. (We made this today.)

One day we had to learn about kitchen safety so we could be safe in the kitchen while cooking. 

My favourite recipes that we have made so far is the cinnamon toast and cheesy toast. 

Plant Challenge.

 In class we are growing micro-greens for the wonder challenge. 

First we got an ice cream container and cut a 1cm hole in the side of it. Then we got this brown mat and measured the edges so the mat would fit in the container. Then we put it in the container, the mat was so we could grow the micro-greens without soil.

Next we got a cup of water and poured the water on the mat so that all of the map was damp, we poured out the excess water so it was not to wet.Then we got seeds and soaked them in clean water for five minutes. The seeds my group got was Mizuna seeds. After they soaked for five minutes we put them on the mat and spread them out evenly.

Then we sprayed them with water and put them back in the container.

Right now we are looking after our micro-greens by doing little tests on them each day. There is a conductivity test, light test, humidity, and temperature. They tell us about how the plants are.

Watering the mat

Spreading the seeds out

Our Seeds

Our seeds today

Lion Dance

On Wednesday we did a lion dance. We were supposed to do the lion dance on discover china week but they could not be there because of some issues. 

First we partnered up, one person as the head, and one as the butt.

I was with Sammy an I was the butt of the lion.

We learnt some moves then we got into the costumes. There were only 4 costumes so we has to take turns.

There was a orange, red, yellow, and white lion.

When I was in the butt of the lion, Sammy had a rope tied around her waist and I held onto it while I bent down to make the lions back. 

Here is some photos.

(Me and Sammy is the white lion.)

Probability

 In maths we have been learning about probability. We did some work on it and we had to make a slideshow about the scales on probability. Here is mine.

Discover China Day.

 We did a discover china day in class that went on for two days, we 5 different rotations on the course of each day.

On the first day we did calligraphy, fan dancing.

On the other day we did Chinese music, ta quan do, and martial arts.

Here I am doing Chinese calligraphy with ink and a paint brush.

We wrote 4 different words. 

The words were 

thank you

hello

goodbye

you are welcome

Here we are doing fan dancing. We all got some fans and learnt a dance to do. It was very challenging.

When the fans opened they made a big noise.

We did some Chinese music and the instruments were called Guzheng. We listend to some of the history of the Guzheng, and the Guzheng being played. Then we played it. We had two song choices to play from.

We are doing this tai quan do thing. First we looked at some weapons the man had for training then we did some tai quan do. It was fun.

Otaki Youth Space

 On Wednesday KCDC came to our school and they used our class to see what they should include in a youth space in Otaki. They were given an amount of money to spend on making the youth space feel safe and fun.

We did different stations and they split us into groups. The different stations were about where we would like the location, what we would like in it, what feeling we want to feel, how we find out information about things, and what we worry that the youth space might have.

There were lots of different opinions on things.

At the end we were asked what we would like added to Otaki, lots were adding McDonald or KFC and others were about more shops and sport courts.

It was really fun.

I thought that:

 -it should have a bookshelf for reading

-it should be near the countryside

-it might have too many rules.