Haiku Poem

 

Limerick poem

 

Matariki

 

Since it is Matariki for the past 2 weeks we have been doing learn, create, share tasks about it. This is one of the create tasks, we had to research how different countries celebrate New Years.

Matariki Acrostic Poem

For the past two weeks we have had to do a series of different Matariki activities, I did an acrostic poem.

M - Maori New Year

A - Amazing view

T - The cluster sparkles

A - An awesome celebration

R - Rises in the sky
I - In the middle of June
K - Kites flying everywhere
I - Incredible memories to make

Descriptive writing

 WALT: write a descriptive piece.

*Write to describe this setting, imagine you are there

*Starting with a brainstorm of your senses could help you.. For this task we had to describe a picture that Miss Power gave us this was the picture

This is how I described the picture

On a cold snowy night as I sit by the warm fire, the smoke pouring out of the chimney I roast marshmallows on my open fire whilst drinking a nice warm hot chocolate with 4 marshmallows bobbling on top. The cold draft comes through the cracks in the bottom of the door and it feels like I'm walking in snow. As I sit in my chair rocking it creaks like the floorboards do when I'm trying to sneak some chocolate. The moon shines through the clouds and the snow falls ever so carefully and as they float past the window It gives me shivers because it reminds me how cold it is outside. I snuggle into my covers and fall asleep.

Camp story

 We went on camp on the 2nd of June till the 4th of June. I had so much fun but the best activity was tree climbing. We wrote a descriptive piece describing our favourite thing on camp, this was mine.

Hanmer Springs camp 2021

As I am tightening my harness around my waist I can feel myself getting more and more excited, the butterflies in my stomach fluttering less. The wind is blowing the trees about and it looks like they’re dancing about in the breeze. I walk up to the biggest tree with a buzz of excitement then I look up to see how tall it really is. I see Skylah go up and she goes up in a blast and my turn is coming faster than I thought and before I knew it I was clipping the carabiner onto my harness climbing the ladder up to the tree. When I feel the bark of the tree it spooks me but once I start climbing the tree it feels like I belong. Then I get to the top as fast as leaves blow on a windy day, as i'm coming back down I think to myself how difficult it would be to climb up blindfolded, so once I made it to the bottom feeling like I accomplished something big I get curious and ask to go up blindfolded and as I’m putting on the blindfold it goes pitch black, and as soon as I climb the ladder to the tree it feels like I belong I fly up as fast as a monkey and I feel proud because  made it without falling and on my way down I can't get the smile off my face.

How to bake a chocolate cake

 How to bake a chocolate cake

Ingredients

• 1 3/4 cup Flour

• 1/2 cup cocoa

• 2 tsp Baking Powder

• 1 cup White Sugar

• 125g Butter

• 2 Tbsp Golden Syrup

• 2 eggs

• 1 1/2 cup Milk

• 2 tsp Baking Soda

• 1 tsp vanilla essence

Icing ingredients

• 50g Soft Butter

• 2Tbsp Water

• 1Tbsp Cocoa Powder 

• 1 1/2 cups Icing Sugar

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 180°C

2. Mix your flour, cocoa, baking powder and sugar

3. In a different bowl add the butter and golden syrup and melt in the microwave for 1 minute on high

4. In another bowl whisk the eggs and stir in your milk, baking soda and vanilla extract 

5. Add the butter mix and milk mix to he dry ingredients and beat on medium speed for a minute

6. In a lined 20cm cake pan add your mixture put it in the oven at 180° fahrenheit 

7. Cook for 50-60 minutes and let it cool before you decorate it

ICING

1. Whisk Butter and Icing Sugar together. 

2. Add water and cocoa powder. 

3. Whisk together (add water slowly to make sure that the icing is the right consistency). 

This is a great cake and tastes great I rate it a 4.5 stars