Week 10 Term 2

Finally, it's the last week of school! We haven't done anything major this week because we don't want to start anything new before the end of term. I finished all of the maths work and I handed in my draft persuasion writing.

At the gym festival and I was in flyers which is the second group. Their are three groups springers, flyers, and twisters. Springers are the least advanced, flyers are a bit more advanced, and twisters are the most advanced. Each groups had to compete at the vault, beam, and floor. In the end a lot of people got placings and I came 4th=. Their was a lot of waiting, but I had fun.

I didn't have tech arts on Tuesday because I went to the marae. Our class was going on Wednesday, but we were at the gym festival so we went with the other classes. We went on the buses and when we arrived we had a powhiri then got straight on with the seven activities. The first one we went to we learnt the school haka that matua po had made for us last year. t the second activity we made fried bread, and we learnt and write down the traditional recipe. At the third activity we learnt a new song and what the words meant. At the fourth activity we had a crayon and we had to lightly trace over a carving onto the piece of paper to make a pattern. At the fifth activity we had a partner and practiced using rakau sticks. At the sixth activity we had a direction in Maori and we also had a place in maori. We had to then use that direction to get to the place. The seventh activity was my favourite. We had a large stick and when the person said mahue we had to swap to the stick on the left and when they said matau we had to swap to the stick on the right. If the stick dropped you were out, and the last one standing wins.

It was the last lesson of extension food and we made Sticky date pudding with toffee sauce. It was delicious. In the pudding all you needed was pitted dates, water, baking soda, butter, brown sugar, eggs, flour, and vanilla extract. For the sauce all you needed was cream, brown sugar, vanilla essence, and butter.