Tech Reflect | Food

L.I: To understand the process of cooking 

For Food Tech we made Sagwala curry. Our first was to get our utensils. After getting our materials we went to get our ingredients. First we got the spinach. Then we got the tomato and the spices. Finally we got the onions and garlic. 

First we peel the onions and peel the garlic. Then we dice the onion and garlic. We then get the spinach and cut it. After all that we poor the tomato into a measuring cup and the spices into one measuring cup. Next we put the garlic and onion into the pot. We then poor oil and water. We turn on our stove and we start stirring. 

While stirring we poor in water and we put in the spinach. After that we keep on stirring the ingredients until the spinach sucks up all the moist. After finishing our curry we put rice and yogurt in our containers. 

The curry was alright. I didn't really like the yogurt. The sour cream taste kind of ruined the taste of the curry. Overall I think my group and I did a good job creating the curry. 

Tech Reflect

L.I: To understand the process of cooking 

The Year 7's created hot cakes for food Tech. My group gather our ingredients and utensil. One person in out group had to get 1 cup of flour and 1 Tea spoon of baking powder. Another person gets 3 quarters of milk and they have to crack 2 eggs to get the egg whites. The third person has to get the bananas and mash it up. 

I mixed the flour and baking powder. Spelman whisked the eggs and the milk. Farzana grabbed all the mashed bananas and the eggs and milk into the big bowl with the flour and baking powder. After mixing it all up I poured the oil onto the pan. 

We started pouring the mixture onto the pan. After waiting one minute we flipped the cake and it turned out good. We made about 13 hot cakes and spilt it between us. We topped it of with vanilla ice cream and cranberry sauce. When we ate it, it tasted so delicious. 

This is the best thing I've ever made currently. To be honest I would like to create more at home. I had fun creating hot cakes. 

PB4L Bus

L.I: To show examples on how to behave on the bus

This week for PB4L we learnt about the things we should not do while riding a bus, being well behaved on the bus is important because then you are showing respect to the driver and the other people on the bus. Our tak was to create a DLO show the rule you should follow on the bus, some examples are sitting properly, thanking the bus driver, staying in your seat during the bus ride.

For the ancestors

L.I: To understand the reciprocal reading process

Our activity for reading was summarising a text. The text is called For the Ancestors. It's about a girl named Matalena who wanted to carry on her fathers legacy by proving that she a good leader. To show that she was a leader she needed to get a tattoo. In Samoa the word for Tattoo is Tatau. Matalena wanted to get a Tatau called the Malu. A Malu is a traditional Samoan Tatau that is only used for females. The Malu is supposed to represent their strength, caring and softness. In the story Matalena avoided getting a Tatau because she was nervous. Later in her life she started to regret not having a Malu. She then went to get one because her father died and she wanted to carry on his legacy.

Throughout the book our group (Kea and Kakapo) grabbed keywords from the book and put it on a piece of paper. After that we put 20 words from our keyword list and put it on our DLO. Then we had to choose 6 important words out of the 20 words. Finally we made sentences out of our 6 words. Those 6 sentences basically summed up the book.

This activity was quite fun because I could relate to some of the things in the book because I'm Samoan. I think me and my group did a good job with the summarising.

Ko wai ahau?

Talofa lava, my name is Leon. I’m 11 and I am Samoan. My favourite sport is Volleyball. During school I enjoy playing volleyball with my friends and after school I like playing games with my friends. In my spare time I like to watch youtube videos. My favourite youtuber is KSI. I also like watching anime. My favourite anime right now is Jujutsu Kaisen. I like Jujutsu Kaisen because of the fight scenes. My favourite fight was Gojo Satoru vs Jogo. I like eating fast food like McDonald’s, Burger king and KFC. Out of all three I like McDonald’s the most. My favourite holiday of the year is christmas because my family throws big parties to celebrate christmas. This year I want to work very hard and take risks for my learning. I am also going to try to participate in events.

Giant Pandas

L.I: To use our smart searching skills to find information about the giant panda
 

Our activity for today was researching about Giant pandas. We created paragraphs to inform interesting facts and things about giant pandas. In our task we had to write down information about pandas on a note sheet. After writing down our information we wrote down paragraphs. The paragraphs was basically used to sum up our information that we wrote down on our note sheet. After writing everything down we created a DLO which had all the information about Giant pandas. We found this activity interesting and also gave us the opportunity to find out more about Giant Pandas and how they survive in the wilderly. One interesting fact I learnt about Giant pandas is that they consume around 44lb (20kgs) of bamboo.

Virtual Adventure

 L.I: To plan a virtual trip around the world

Today I did an activity. This activity is called Virtual adventure. Basically what we had to do was find places that we like to go to but it can only be a capital city. The three places I would like to visit is Tokyo which is the capital of japan. I would love to visit there for their food. I would also like to visit Nuku'alofa which is the capital of tonga. Its know for the kingdom so I would like to visit the kingdom. The final place I would like to visit is Wellington which is the capital of New Zealand. I haven't visited wellington so I would like to visit there for the sea. I would like to sail there. The places were hard to get because some of the places I would like to go are not even the capital city for that country. I enjoyed this task because I got to choose my dream places. The place I want to visit the most is probably tokyo. Tokyo just looks good and I heard the food there is delicous. 

Tatau

 L.I: To create a DLO that tells others about tatau  

Today I did one of the activites that Mrs Anderson put up for us. I did the Tatau challenge. Basically what I had to do in this challenge was research some information about the Tatau. Some things I learnt about the Tatau was that its name was created by two fijian women. The traditional tattoo represents something that they are resepcted for. Some of them are like status, power, honor and pride. Those are only a few but there's more. The samoan people who have no traditonal tattoo's are called telefua/telenoa which means naked. One of the most used tattoo's are called the pe'a. The pe'a is only used on men. Sometimes on younger kids, specifically on kids who started their puberty. The pe'a goes from the waist to the knees. Each section represnts the person who has the Pe'a, their culture and family. The most popular female tattoo is called the Malu. It goes from the upper thighs and the knees below. I enjoyed this task because I got to learn more about my own culture and the origin of the Tatau.