Reading Create

This week I am going to share my reading create.I had to pick out of reading four articles they were Holi, Christmas in Columbia, A traditional Irish Sport, Scotland, Hanukkhah I choose to read  Christmas in Columbia. We had to reflect on this by answer some questions like -

What I already know about this topic - In Colombia Christmas is a big thing.It’s probably a lot different then here in New Zealand.

 My new understanding - Christmas in Colombia is more about the religion  as in Colombia, 90% of the population is Christian. The Christmas period is one of the longest times to celebrate in the world.On the night of the first festival they usually light candles and lanterns in the streets and outside houses.The cities are also lit up by fireworks. Nine days before Christmas majority of families will meet up in prayer and have traditional  foods and sing songs.

New questions I have - What songs do they sing? What traditional  foods do they have? Why do they start nine days before? What traditions do they do 

Answers to my questions -

What songs they sing  Traditional Foods  Why they start early traditions they do

Do you know the answers to my questions ?

 

Holiday Recount

Today I have a free choice blag so I decided to share a holiday recount, I made.I wrote about a sleepover I had with some of my friends.Just keep in mind this is a draft so there might be a few mistakes.

(PS I know it's late)
What did you do in the holidays
I hope you enjoy - 

I jumped in the car and we drove around the corner to pick Maia up.As we arrived I unbuckled my seat bullet and wondered up to the door.I knocked and out she came, we hoped back into the car and went back to mine.When we arrived we made a plan of what we were going to do.Some of the tings were Watch/make tik tocs,get lollies for the night and make a  place to chill.We started to make some tik tocs while we waited for Ella.When Ella arrived we showed her the list.Then we started to talk and eventually we ended up braiding each other hair.When my mum got home we asked her if we could go and get some stuff from the supermarket and she said yes, only if we got my sister something.

We headed on our journey, down the road and crossed at the lights.When we got there we headed straight for the lollie isle and there was our destiny.We looked though almost every opinion there.We ended up leaving with some mentos packets for my sister and her friend, I called them a gold coin donation.For us we picked some sour patch kids and skittles,Ella then picked some chocolate,Maia got high chews and I choose licorice.We walked back though Marshlands/Prestants as we thought it would be faster, that was wrong. While we were walking we stopped at one of the parks and took some pictures with seagulls.When we got home we had to hide the lollies so we didn’t eat them.

We then planed our chill place, we started to build it on the tramp with sheets and pegs.We cleaned off some of the leaves that had fallen off then got the sheets and started pegging. Maia and Ella had to do this as I couldn’t reach, they called me the peg ladie. We found this a challenge and ended up putting my tent up.This was a task I laded it out and stated to up the poles in I struggled as Maia and Ella laughed at me.I finally got it up but then found out I did it wrong.This time with the help of Maia and Ella we got it up.We laid the inside with two duvets so it would be nice and comfortable.We sat in there and talk and went on our phones then talked so more.

While we were on our phones Ruby called and said Sienna happened  to be over and asked it we wanted to play together.We said yes and went down the road. When we got there Ruby and Sienna told up about the retirement village that had be left and we could go in it.We decided to go in it, Zach told us about the open door they found yesterday.We walked in the village and looked around we were all a bit scared but ensured each other it was fine.We found the door but did not dear to go inside.We left then Maia,Ella and I left we headed home to find dinner was ready,we had pizza and sundays for desert.Then headed back to the tent were we let Ruby and Sienna know we were ready if they wanted to got back put together.

When they were ready we meet again but this time we play last to leave the island and tried to see who could get the most waves.No one was leaving the island so we all went on the same one.The loser had to do a dear that the winner thought of, Ella was the loser and Ruby won. Ella pulled out of the dear so Ruby and I did our own one. We decided to ding dong ditch my neighbor, we tried to cheek no one was home we thought no one was home so we did it.I am not going to speak of what happened next.Sadly Sienna had to get dropped off so they left and we went back to mine.We grabbed the lollies,my chrome book and our phones so we could watch a movie.I was the lollie gard and made sure everyone got the same amount of lollies.When the movie finished we went back inside and got ready for bed.While we dozed off the sleep we talk and did would you rathers.That was when a great day had come to an end.         

Yum Recipe

This weeks task was to create a recipe from the country we picked out of a hat.From some of my other blogs you would know about this. as i shared my instructions with you.Just a reminder I have picked Italy. For my recipe I made is....

How to make macaroni con pomodori 

This an Italian dish that is good for last minute winter dinners with the family 

Ingredients

• 2 Tbsp of oil 
• 1 onion finely chopped
• 2 garlic clovers  crushed 
• 1 small chilli pepper finely chopped and seeded 
• 4 streaks of bacon chopped 
• 1 425g can of peeled tomatos 
• 1 tsp of sugar 
• 1 tsp of salt 
• 250g of short macaroni 
• ½ cup of grated cheese

Equipment  

• Saucepan and lid  
• Pot and lid 
• Wooden spoon 
• Colander
• Can opener 
• Vegetable Knife
• Chopping Board   

1. Preheat the oven to 140c
2. Add oil to a heated saucepan 
3. Tip in the onion,garlic,chilli pepper and bacon 
4. Fry for 10 mins occasionally stirring  
5. Pour in the tomatos with there juices then add the sugar and salt 
6. Leave to let is come to that boil and simmer for 20 mins
7. In another pot cook the macaroni in boiling lightly salted water until al dante 
8. Drain the pasta over the sink using a colander
9. When finished arrange the pasta evenly  in an oiled oven proof dish 
10. Tip the sauce onto the pasta evenly and sprinkle with the grated cheese 
11.  You may have it like this or cover and put in the  preheated oven for 20 - 30 mins 
12. After the time is up take out and enjoy 

Is this recipe helpful for you?

  

Camp

Week three the whole of 7/8 had the opportunity to Wainui YMCA  school camp. We spent three nights and four days.We had to write a reflection on camp with the questions on, Something I found challenging,My favourite part,Something I learnt and What I am grateful for.

This is my refection -

This is what I found challenging,I found the tramp to camp a challenge as I would not normally choose something like this. But since I could do this with my friends it was a lot of fun and they were all really encouraging.

Something I have learnt is you may have to look a little harder if you want to find something. I have taken this away from orienteering as some of the targets were harder to find then others.I have also learnt how to survive if I has to ever get lost in the forest. I learnt this from outdoor living as we learnt about plants that are safe to eat,How to make a fire and what is needed to build a shelter.I thought I'd add the girls shelter as the best.

Something I am grateful for is all the people that gave up their time to come so we could enjoy the camp.I am also grateful for the teachers that made us food so we could eat. Finally I am grateful for this opportunity as it was a great one and I have taken away a lot of memorises.

I have many favourite parts but one of my all time favourite part would have to be kayaking I enjoyed this as it reminded me of when I go to kaiteriteri and camp with my family, I also enjoyed being around the water as I am very comfortable around open sea water.Another one of my favourite parts would have top be coasteering because I liked climbing the rocks and swimming in the open water. 

These are all of the activity's  we got to do -
- Kayaking
- Coasteering
- orienteering
- Search and Rescue
- High ropes
- Outdoor living
- archery
- breakout edu/ school led activity
- Raft building

Have you been on camp if so what was your favourite part ? 

This is not my group but this is were we went kayaking

       

Reading Create

This blog is about my reading over the week.We had to do it on our book that was based on culture.As you know my culture that I picked out if the hat is Italy.I did a Italy country shaped flag with links to my understating.

This is my learning feel free to look at it -

Have you learned about culture?     

Italy

Have you ever learned to play a sport or game from another country or city? If not I have the blog for you, instructions on how to play the "Fruit eating wolf!" This game has come from Italy and is a popular game they play in school, and all you need is you and your friends 

These are my instructions - 

How to play Lupo mangia frutta

This game is needed to be played on a field or court.

At least 5 - 8 players max 

This is a traditional Italian game most people will get to know it as “Fruit eating wolf”. For this game to work you will need at least five players.Four of the players will be the fruit and the fifth player will be the wolf, make sure you pick this fairly. The fruits are only be able to reveal there fruit to the other fruits. All the fruits need to be different fruits so they don’t get confused.

1. At the start of the game all of the fruits line up side by side with the wolf at least 20 steps or more 

2. Once you are in position and ready to play the wolf yells out “Knock Knock”

3. All fruits reply with “Who is it”

4. The wolf then says “it’s the fruit eating wolf”

5. Then the fruits say “ What fruit are you looking for 

6. The wolf will then name a fruit and if one of the fruits is that fruit then they have to run free from the wolf without getting caught.If the fruit gets caught it then becomes the wolf if they do not get caught the wolf stays the same.   

Sorce  

Would you play this game and were my instructions helpful? 

 

Back into it

Welcome back, I can't believe it is all ready term 4! I hope everybody had a great holiday.This terms PBL driving question is "How can I celebrate who I am?" A big part of this is culture, we have all ready started to talk about this topic.Many people assume culture with race this is not the only thing that makes your culture. Culture is made from your personality, character then race and background beliefs. We are going to have two topics this term one being based on music and the other more about us and who we are. I will post more updates on PBL with more information and detail but this is an over all view of PBL this term.

What is your PBL topic?