Book Bash: Boy On the wooden box

This Term for book bash I am reading The boy on the wooden box.   I think that these characters go through some horrible times and  it will teach us not to take what we have for granted. I think the boy is quite young judging the cover of the book. I love the way he worded the back of the book by not giving to much away but just enough.

I also think that his town gets bombed and he will leave the country. He might  go somewhere else where he is safer.  I hope nothing bad happens to him or his family, but I think something bad might happen.  I can't wait to read this book because it looks really interesting. 

Art Mural Reflection

Last Term for art we did mural focusing on our family and culture. Starting from the left I have the southern cross recognizing where I am from. The boat is for fishing with my family and the kiwi is driving because it is New Zealand's icon. I have the plane representing  World War 1  with poppy's flying out the back. The truck represents what my family does for a living and the hill is Mt Te aroha. The crosses represent all the soldiers lost in the war. On top of the hill the tent represents camping, because that is one of our favorite thing to do as a family. The flag is the New Zealand flag which is also  a netball hoop, the earth is the netball. I love how my Mural turned out it was really hard to water colour but I love it. 

Current events:Woman donated $26,000 to Salvation Army by mistake

An elderly Australian woman has lost $25,000 au (NZ$26,000) in cash after accidentally donating the cushions she stored the money in to charity.The 76-year-old returned to the South Fremantle Salvation Army store in Western Australia last month after realising her mistake, but the two pale printed cushions were gone.“I’ve got a little bit of money in the bank which I use to pay my bills but this money was my security to help my kids if they needed anything desperately,” she said. She said keeping a portion of her money out of the bank was something she had done since the global economic crisis.

Opinion: I think that it is rather sad that all her money disappeared and she hasn't gotten it back. I am hoping that she get's it back and the person who brought the pillows brings it back. 

Source: Kiwi Kids News

Osten’s Holiday Adventures

In the holidays Osten’s family from indonesia came over to the beach in Whangamata.  They went fishing and caught some impressive snapper for dinner. They went for walks on the beach and found shells. They saw the BFG at the movies.  They went fishing a lot and went to the Shaw cup in Ngatea and lost all their games but Osten scored the most tries for Hauraki . He was annoyed he had to come back to school but enjoyed the holidays.

4 things I learned/ enjoyed this week

This week was New Zealand Maori week so we decided to do some traditions that they have.

• My first favorite was making fry bread. Imagine pita pockets well that's what they are like. It was quite fun kneading the dough. 
• My second favorite was making poi's. Morgan and I made 4 poi's for the class and it was quite simple.
• My third favorite was doing house team challenge. I was in  name objects in Maori. We got 9 correct and tied 2nd with orewa. 
• My third favorite was writing my pepeha. I liked writing it because you could personalize it. 

Making fry bread

Today at school I made Fry Bread. We had to put in all the ingredients, mix,knead and cook. They were really yum!!!

Fry Bread Recipe (enough per pair)

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¼  cup of warm water

½  teaspoon of sugar                       

½  teaspoon of yeast

½  cup of plain flour                    

½  teaspoon of salt

Cooking oil

Add sugar to water and dissolve, then sprinkle the yeast over the top.

Mix the flour and salt in a large bowl and stir in the yeast mixture (can add more flour if needed). Roll out on a floured board and knead.

Leave to rise for about 10 minutes, or till it doubles in size. Return the dough to a floured board and knead a little pressing with your knuckles. Cut into small diamond shapes and shallow fry in hot oil until golden.

Pepeha

Pepeha

Ko  Mt Te aroha  (mountain) toku maunga

Ko  Piako   (river) toku awa

Ko Firth of Thames  toku (sea/harbour) Moana.

No  Ngatea (place where you are from)

Ko Ngatea Primary School (school) toku Kura

Ko     Graeme (father) toku matua

Ko  Charlotte  (mother) toku whaea

Ko   Alyson  (your name) toku ingoa

No Reira, Tena koutou, Tena Koutou, Tena Tatou Katoa