Vegetable picture art:
On Tuesday 10th of May Red house and Yellow house went in a group to Waihirere to learn about some wild kai/food you can collect in the wild. We found some lemon balm and kawakawa on the way, we collected that so that we can make kawakawa tea on our Hobo Stoves. I really liked the kawakawa tea.
My favourite part was boiling the water on our Hobo Stoves to make kawakawa tea. By the way our guides name was 'Sam the trackman'. He was showing us all the stuff that you can eat in the bush, he also told us that if you eat the light green coloured fern, it's going to stuff up your day, (the stuff up your day part to me is meaning that it is like food poisoning and you will die). My favourite food there was the Pekopeko.
Here we are on Tuesday 11th of May at 10:00am. Our whole school reported to Kaiti Beach to learn some more for Immersion week /(food topic). When we got there we went to the rock pools, to see if we could find any crabs and octopi. We thought that we had a chance of finding an octopus because the last group found one. We actually did find an octopus, Koka Maddie caught it on camera. When we got there we found a Hermit Crab. Brooklyn said she found the octopus first (but I still don't believe her).
Today I started my Term 2 2021 maths grids. I am nearly getting 100, I just need to work on my 8 times tables. I am now starting to get speedier. Wish me luck, for this term!
Yesterday our house groups went to the envirocentre. We went because the topic our school was working on for this year was food and the envirocentre has a whole garden full of food. My favourite food there was the chilli. Even though I didn't eat the chilli, I still LOVE chilli's. Kirsty was talking about how to get seeds out of each different plant. With Katy we planted some plants, and with Steph we sorted out some seeds into a bucket. It was REALLY fun, we even got to take the plants we planted back to school!
By Max
On Wednesday the whole school went to the hall and were told to sit in our house colours. Then Mrs Hall told us that we were making homemade Hobo Stoves, I was getting really excited because she also that that we were going to be making pancakes on the Hobo Stoves as well. When we started making them I was a bit nervous because the first step looked a bit tricky because we had to cut out strips of cardboard and roll them up to put them into a small little tin cup. Then we put the wax and the wick in the small little tin. Then once the wax had dried up we put the tin into a karicare sized big tin. Then Mrs Allan (incharge of Yellow house) went into the staff room to go make the pancake mixture. Then we put a roll of tinfoil over the top of the big tin and lit the candle. Then we put the pancake mixture on the roll of tinfoil on the top of the big tin. I think I was the best pancake flipper and I also think that Kane was the best at holding down the tinfoil. The pancake were so good that they even tasted better then my Mums, even though my Mum hardly makes pancakes they yummy.
By Max
