Our Pacific Neighbours - Oceania Mapping Games

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Oceania_Geography.htm

The great ANZAC biscuit bake off!

The year 6's in Room 2 split into 3 teams and used three different ANZAC biscuit recipes they found online to have a grand bake off competition to finish their technology unit on cooking.

Kai's i movie about raising his chicks

Kai's Chicks

Room 2's Motueka River Poem - our Sense of Place

Motueka River Poem

A mountain stream, water rushing down it,

Slamming against rocks, like stags clashing antlers.

Crashing waves of white water like flying fish skimming.

"Shhhh!” goes the waterfalls, slamming against the rushing water of the Motueka Gorge.

Underneath the beach trees rapids run down, water clashing against the bank.

Animals footprints left behind on the riverbanks.

Water rushing down the waterfalls.

Birds singing on the manuka branches as the blue duck hunts for food.

The cows are drinking from the river, making it brown, muddied.

This river is too murky for passerby swimmers.

The farmer chases his herd away, getting ready for another day.

The river runs through the hops, making them grow strong.

The river flows on, for the fishermen, for the fish.

Trout swerving through the crystal clear water.

The trout pounce and eat the bait off my hook.

I wind it out of the water. 

Out of the swimming hole, on my hook, swirls a huge trout!

I kill the fish with my shimmering blade.

Mmm, it's going to make a nice dinner.

Ahead, people jump off into freezing water,

Making a colossal splash, Midwinter Celebration!

Frozen frost sticks to the Peninsula Bridge, 100 years old this July,

As cars glide past at snail’s pace, over the bridge,

Passengers glance, then stare, at the amazingly brave swimmers swimming against the powerful current,

No buses and trucks allowed on this single laned bridge.

Swimming holes all over the valley.

Which one to select? There’s so many!

Tinpot, Peninsula, Blue Hole and Jenkins,

They’re all great swimming holes for the kids to swim in.

Whitebait swim in unison down to the river mouth.

The slick silver leaves slide down the rapids.

Grey gravel pits line the river's edge.

Whitebait fishers, waiting for their feed.

Fast-flowing fresh water mixing with salt.

Seaweed and driftwood washing up into the out-coming river.

The trout are stretching back up the river away from the ocean,

As fast as their tails take them.

Sea life is greeting the river, weaving over the sandbar.

Water making its tidal way in and out.

River water sliding over ocean water.

By Room 2 Ngatimoti Primary School 2013

 

Roasted Tomato Sauce

Roasted Tomato Sauce

Ingredients

1kg of ripe tomatoes

Salt and pepper

IT olive oil

Herbs to taste     

Method

1 cut the tomatoes in half and place in roasting dish, cut side up.

2 drizzle oil over tomatoes.

3 sprinkle salt, pepper and herbs for taste.

4 Bake in an oven for 30 minutes until skin browned and crispy on the bottom.

5 let them cool. Blend until smooth-

6 serve with pasta or as a pizza base. Freezes well.

Kiwiana Quiz

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/stuff-quizzes/3190975/The-Mega-Kiwiana-Quiz

Maori language Week Quiz

http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/quiz/maori-language-week-quiz

ANZAC Day Quiz

ANZAC Day quiz

NZ Quiz

NZ Quizzes

Homework Week 11 Term1

Homework Sheet              Due Date: THURSDAY 18^th April

My days for presenting news are _____________

 I will be presenting__________________

Remember to ...

- Learn your spelling words by finding each word’s root word e.g. competition - compete

- Practice doing your maths certificate in 5 minutes

- Read each night for 20 minutes and get your reading log signed, (4 times)

Activity 2 – New Zealand Quiz

To finish up our Sense of Place unit, let’s find out what we know about our country, complete the NZ quiz at

http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/nzealand/quiz.html

(If you can’t use the internet, the quiz is on the back of this page)

Extra for Experts: There are also links to other quizzes e.g.ANZAC Day, on our class blog at rm2ngatimoti@blogspot.com

Activity 2 – Why do We Commemorate ANZAC Day?

ANZAC day is coming up, on the 25^th April. It means lots different things to different people.

1. Write down your opinions about ANZAC Day.

2. Then, interview 5 different people  and write down what ANZAC Day means to them. (Try to get people of different ages and interests).

Baking Stuffed Apples

Baked Apples With Walnut and Date Stuffing

Stuffed Baked Apples with Walnuts and Dates

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Cook Time: 45 minutes

Total Time: 50 minutes

Yield: 11 stuffed apples

Ingredients

• 11 Apples, cored
• a little Lemon Juice
• 25g butter
• 1/2 cup (60 grams) Flour
• 1/4 cup (30 grams) chopped toasted Walnuts
• 6 dried Dates, pitted and chopped into small pieces
• pinch of fine Sea Salt, ground Cinnamon and ground Ginger
• 1/4 cup (57 grams) Maple, golden Syrup or Honey drizzle

Optional Toppings

• Heavy Cream
• Dried Fruit

Serve With

• Ice Cream
• Frozen Yogurt
• Greek Yogurt

Method

• Pre heat oven to 350 degrees F with the rack in the center.
• Core apples and squeeze a little lemon juice into each one.
• Melt butter in a small pan.
• Stir in flour, walnuts, dates, salt, cinnamon, ginger and golden syrup.
• Heat for a few minutes over medium heat. Carefully stuff apples with the mixture.
• Place apples in muffin pans or on a bake safe dish.
• Cover loosely with foil. Bake for about 45 min or until apples have softened and split.

anzac biscit 3

1 cup flour

1 cup shredded coconut

1 cup flattened/rolled oats

1/2 cup sugar

1 heaped teaspoon baking soda

around 60 grams butter if ya like clogging the arteries you can use up to 125 grams of butter)

1&1/2 tablespoons of golden syrup.

Combine flour, sugar, oats and coconut in a large bowl and mix em up a bit.

In a small saucepan, melt butter and golden syrup. Stir mixture so they are combined.

Put baking soda in a cup, and slap in enough boiling water to dissolve the baking soda (about 2 tablespoons worth).

Add baking soda solution to butter and golden syrup. Make sure the golden syrup/butter is still hot, but not quite boiling, else it will foam up and over your saucepan.

Pour the contents of the saucepan into the dry ingredients and mix well.

Place spoonfuls of the mixture on a greased oven tray. Bake at around 180C (350F) for 15 minutes, or until they are light brown. Makes about 20 biscuits.
Cross your fingers and hope it works

You can play around with the mixture if you want adding and subtracting of more of what u like.

Look out they are highly addictive.


anzac biscit 2

1 cup flour

         1 cup caster sugar

         1 cup desiccated coconut

         2 cups rolled oats

         125g butter

         2 tbsp golden syrup

         1 tsp baking soda

         3 tbsp boiling water

1. Heat oven to 180C (160C fan bake). Line two baking trays with nonstick baking paper. Place flour, caster sugar, coconut and oats in a bowl and stir to combine. Make

 a well in the centre.

2. Place butter and golden syrup in a saucepan to melt, or microwave in a bowl to melt. Dissolve baking soda in boiling water. Add melted ingredients and dissolved baking soda to dry ingredients and mix to combine.

3. Roll spoonfuls into balls and press onto prepared baking trays, allowing space for biscuits to spread while cooking.

4. Bake for 15 minutes or until firm and golden brown. Remove to a wire rack to cool, and enjoy!

Cooking tip: Stored in an airtight container, Anzac biscuits will last well for up to a week.

anzac biscit 1

Ingredients

1 cup plain flour

¾ cup brown sugar

1 cup rolled oats

¾ cup finely chopped dried apricots

3 tbsp golden syrup

¾ cup Extra virgin olive oil

½ tsp bicarb soda

Method

1.Preheat oven to 175°C.

2.Sift the flour into a bowl. Add the sugar, rolled oats and dried apricots.

3.In a second bowl, mix together the golden syrup, extra virgin olive oil and bicarb soda. Add the dry ingredients to the liquid and mix well until the preparation is sticky and doughy. If it’s a bit dry, add a little water, e.g. about 1-2 tbsp water.

4.Place walnut sized balls of the mixture on a flat biscuit tray lined with baking paper. Flatten the balls to a thickness of about 1cm using a fork, and leave a little space between each one.

5.Bake the biscuits in the preheated oven for about 15 minutes.

6.When cooked, leave to cool on a tray or wire rack. Store in a biscuit tin.

Homework Week 10 Term 1

Homework Sheet              Due Date: Friday 12^th April

My day for presenting news is ___________________________

I will be presenting_________________________

Remember to ...

- Learn your spelling words by writing a synonym, (similar meaning) for each one. Hint – use a thesaurus, online or book.

- Practice doing your maths certificate in 5 minutes

- Read each night for 20 minutes and get your reading log signed, ( 4 times) Giving your book a rating out of 10 and why you gave it that.

Activity – Know Your Place!

1. Look at and free hand draw a map of NZ into your homework book, inside the border.

3. In red, bullet point and label our capital city.

4. In blue, bullet point and label our main cities.

5. In green, label the Four main Islands with their English and Māori names.

6. Find and label three volcanoes, a mountain range, 3 lakes, a strait and a glacier.

Extra For Experts

2.Learn the cities of NZ by playing Our Games New Zealand at http://www.geography-map-games.com (select NZ) or use the link from our class blog.

The top class score so far is Bryn’s on 73,997, see if you can beat it! Take a screen shot/print a copy to prove it!

Activity 2 - Cultural Quiz

Use the word bank at the bottom of the page to help you answer these questions in your homework book.

1. The main islands of New Zealand are generally, (although not always) known in Maori as ?

2. The first occupation of Europeans in New Zealand was?

3. Lots of people migrated from Europe in the 19th century because of?

4. The New Zealand Wars were about?

5. What is nationality?

6. Chinese immigrants had to pay a special tax to enter NZ. It was called a?

7. What is ethnicity?

8. The names of the countries that many Pacific peoples immigrate from are?

9. Which government department decides if a person can come from another place and make their lives in New Zealand?

10. How many countries in the world accept refugees?

Wordbank:          14         Catching seals for the fur trade         Te Ika a Maui, Rakiura and Te Wai Pounamu         Arguments between Europeans and Maori over who owned the land         Famine and poverty

Belonging to a nation         A group that have some of the following in common: language, ancestors, heritage, religious and physical characteristics                  A poll tax         The New Zealand Immigration Service         Samoa, Niue, Tonga and the Cook Islands

Extra For Experts

Remember you can only do this when you have finished the above activities, but you don ‘t have to do this, it’s just an extra challenge if you would like to accept it.