Year 8 Formal

On Tuesday the 7th of December the year 8 students at Rawhiti had formal it started at 6:00 but Nogo said a a lady arrives late

so once I got there I found all my friends and went straight to the 

photo booth here are some of the photos we took 

After that we had dinner and then did some karaoke and then went home.

 End OF Year 

It is coming to the end of the school year and whaea Jas has got doing a reflection this year so here it is Click me

How Far Have We Travelled In Space?

For the past week Ata Hapara year 6,7&8, have been working on space students the made groups of 2 to 4.  In those groups, they had to pick a question about space they wanted to learn about, my group was Naquita, Kahu, and Jade. How Far Have We Travelled In Space? was our question, here is our finished work.       |                                                                                                                 |                                                  click to see work

How To bake a chocolate cake

Kia ora for the past week I have been working on an Explanation peace of writing, here is an example of my work

How To bake a chocolate cake

Today I will be teaching you how to make a chocolate cake,

but first you must know what a chocolate cake is made from.

What is a chocolate cake 

To make a chocolate cake you need things like cocoa powder. 

Cocoa powder is made from dried and ground cocoa solids, it also needs a thing called

baking powder. If you add this into a cake the result will be that the cake will rise.

You can also use self raising flour.

It is nearly impossible to make chocolate cake without these things.

Ingredients

To make a chocolate cake you need the following ingredients 

1 3/4 Cups Plain White Flour, 225 gram, 1 3/4 Cups Sugar, 3/4 Cup Cocoa Powder, 67 grams, 1 1/2 teaspoons Baking Powder, 1 1/2 teaspoons Baking Soda, 2 Eggs, 1 teaspoon Vanilla Essence, 1/2 Cup Oil, 1 Cup Milk, and 1 Cup Boiling Water, 250 mlsInstructions

Preheat the oven to 160C. Once you have done that, prepare a cake tin that is 25 x 25, spray well with cooking spray or line. Then put flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a bowl and mix well until completely combined.

Add eggs, vanilla, oil and milk to the mix and blend well. Finally add

the boiling water, then Pour into your prepared cake tin and bake in the oven for 35-45 minutes.

 

Icing 

We will make a chocolate ganache icing to do this. All you need is 400 grams of Dark chocolate, and 250ml of cream. Put the cream in a bowl with boiling water under it, this is called a double boiler. Once the cream is 

Hot add in the chocolate, and mix until it's all melted then put it in the fridge to thicken. 

Putting together

To put together the cake you should cut the top of the cake to level it. Get the icing out the fridge, heat up a butter knife, and ice the cake.

(you can whip the ganache for a light and fluffy effect) 

Then Enjoy

Conclusion 

In conclusion a chocolate cake is an easy food to make and ganache is yum on its own. 

Inuit!

This week we have been learning about different types of cultures. My group was Inuit Inuit is a very interesting culture. I had slide 01 about Traditional Clothing, this is what I wrote about it (In the Arctic, temperatures are below freezing for most of the year therefore, Inuits clothes are made from animal skin.  Pants and mittens made from caribou or sealskin. One or two layers of pants and mittens depending on the temperature and up to four layers of footwear.    

In my group I had Mailli, Nate, Makaia and Arihana.

<---Inuit

There is power in small things

 

Today we learnt a whakatauki about how little thing can be powerful. Whaea Jas then had as say what that whakatauki ment to us. I thing that whakatauki means that little things such as baby sharks are so powerful that your scared to try new things. Things that you can forget about and take a leap be careful and know that they are there and that you cant get rid of them.

here is the Whakatauki we learnt with the translation 

He iti hoki te mokoroa nāna i kakati te kahikatea  

Waka Taua

 Waka Taua is one of the five wakas Ata hapara have been learning about.  We were split into groups in my group I had Nate, Makaia & Arihana.  We had to find information about waka Taua click here to see our work -> Link

I also found a song about waka called Nga Waka E Whitu if you want to see that click here -> Link