My pepeha

For wananga we got to to our pepeha i used the app "Create your pepeha"  so here it is. 

Reading plus

Here is some of my progress from reading plus today:)

Reading Plus Progress Report 3/9/21
My name:	Hollie
What went well today:	My first story
What I found difficult today:	My second story that i only got 2 points below %80
What my goal is for next time:	Earn another combo

Coding update

Hello, i'm going to be telling you about what I have been doing the past few weeks in coding. I'm on lesson 10 part 1. At the moment we have just been learning how to do speeches and asking questions also playing around with the behaviours and the sprites. 

I have made a little game asking some questions about yourself its just something little so its not the best. But here is the link in case you would like to try it out.

My game

Hurumanu update

For keeping up with the hurumanus in lock down we have just been doing the same reading plus and math which has been pretty easy to handle during lock down and of course still keeping track with coding. For math we have been learning about adding and subtracting in columns which for me has been pretty easy when you get the hang of it.

 And for reading plus I have just been focusing on my stories and getting more combos although I did complete my goal in getting into level G so now i'm just working into level H. At the moment though I have read 127,039 words in reading plus. 

Reading Plus Progress Report 3/9/21
My name:	Hollie
What went well today:	Punctuation tasks
What I found difficult today:	Some of my stories
What my goal is for next time:	Earn another combo

 

And for coding I have just been working through my code.org tasks. 

Lock down p.e adventure

 So for p.e during lock down we got the task to do some active activities. We got the choice to either record yourself doing a sport or walking,running ect. Or go on a walk and track how long and where we went walking so i used the app alltrail to record my morning walks. I had already been doing quite alot of walks with my family anyways so it was pretty easy to track .

We also got the task to make a slideshow about Sophie Pascoe the new Zealand Paralympic swimmer so I learnt quite alot about that. 

I quite liked seeing the sunset during my walk that was probably my favourite part but its kinda surprising how early the sun comes up now.

date scones

So for cooking in lock down i decided to make date scones .The first thing i did was find a good recipe to use 

I changed some things about it to make it better but here is the recipe i used. 

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3 cups plain flour

5 tsp baking powder

3/4 tsp salt

3 dessert spoons sugar

1 cup plant based milk mixed with slightly under 1/3 cup lightly flavoured oil

 (don’t quite allow the mix of milk and oil to come up to the one-cup line)

1 cup chopped dates

Sift dry ingredients then whisk together to mix.

Add chopped dates (use a pair of kitchen scissors to cut them up. It is much faster this way).

 Mix the dates in, again using the whisk (the whisking adds lightness to the scones).

Stir first then add the milk and oil mixture (Vitasoy is creamy enough to use half and half with water).

Mix until the ingredients are just combined—over mixing them will make the scones tough.

 After a little bit of stirring, pick up the slightly sticky dough (add a little more flour if it is too sticky) 

and gently turn it in on itself a few times to finish the combining and tidy up all the bits.

Place dough on a floured baking tray and gently pat down until it is about 1.5 centimetres thick.

 Cut into scones and bake in a hot oven (approx 200ºC) for around 12 minutes (or until they are turning a

 light golden brown).

Lay a clean tea towel on a cooling rack, on which you place your scones to cool, then fold tea

 towel over to cover

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It didn't take to long to make and i thought it was pretty easy. Here is the final product

To make it have some extra flavor I put some jam and butter on it which i thought made it better. The texture was 

Quite light and soft which was nice mixing with the taste of the dough and dates in it. Have you ever made 

scones before?

Water colour flowers

So for art we have been making flowers with water colours. We learnt all about water colour and how to layer and all it. We did a quizlet of the types of water colours like layering , glazing dilution and more and learnt what they meant and how to do them.

We started off just draft drawing our flowers looking at different types, we looked at some other peoples flower drawings to give us some ideas . Then we started painting and getting the hang of water colouring and layering. After we had gotten the hang of it we started to create our final flower.  

I have to to say though before this i didn't really know how to layer or use water colour but now i think i do.

 I decided to make my flower a tulip. For my tulip i used brown for the pot green, and used some different shades of red for my flower. So here is some of my designs that I made hope you enjoy.

My final