Science Class

Last Thursday, my class and I all went to the bus to go to Pakuranga Intermediate. In term three, the year eight’s are in science (Mrs Gaweth) and the year seven’s are in cooking class (Mrs Plows). When we arrived at Pakuranga Intermediate we all hopped off the bus.

Year eights and sevens went to their classes. For science there were three groups. I was in a group with boys (Kryzjon, Carlos and John). The teacher introduced herself, she is very hilarious. She talked over some rules and then we started off with sketching how a scientist looks like. She gave us each a piece of paper so we can record what we are doing. There was container (shaped as a rectangle), water and food colouring (maximum two) on each of our tables, which was part of our experiment.

We went straight into it, by pouring the water into the container, adding the food colouring on each corner and we went around doing the same thing to each of the groups. When we got back to our table we were watching and trying to figure out what the food colouring was doing to the water. I wrote on the paper that it was changing colours.

We went off to interval and came back. We did another experiment that involved two blocks of ice, hot water, cold water, two beakers and thermometer. We got the cold water put it in the centre placed the thermometer inside the cold water and recorded the temperature that was shown on the thermometer we did the same thing to the hot water. Then we added the two blocks of ice into each of the beakers. The temperature for the hot water with ice rose up but for the cold water with ice rose down.

We saw our teacher standing outside and that was the sign that we had to go. We packed up and went to our teacher. I really enjoyed the experiments that we did. I can’t wait until next week.

Food Technicraft

On Thursday Room 7 and 8 headed to the bus to go to Pakuranga Intermediate. I am always comfortable sitting at the front with Agnes. We both wondered what was going to happen, at food tech.

We all lined up and our teacher told us to walk inside. We got to choose a partner, I was partnered up with Agnes. “Hello, my name is Miss Plows”, she said. We went over some safety rules and she showed us where the kitchen equipments were. The bell rang for Morning Tea.

After morning tea we went back to class. Miss Plows gave us each a copy of the recipe. “We are making toasted canopy”, Miss Plows said. Agnes and I were very excited, we got out our equipment and put it on the bench.

Agnes grated the cheese, onion, and chopped up the ham into tiny small pieces. While she was grating I was cutting the crust off the bread and placing them on the muffin tray. Agnes put the ingredients on top of the  bread.

We put the tray in the oven, during that time Agnes was cleaning the table and I was washing the dishes. I checked the oven and it was ready we bought it out and placed it on the bench. I really enjoyed baking and it was delicious.

Technicraft

“Hey everyone come get your scrapbook that is in cupboard number 5”. Today I was so excited that I forgot my scrapbook that had my homework in it. I told Mr Nair (our technicraft teacher) that I forgot my scrapbook. Few minutes later, Mr Nair called out the roll then he gave us a mini cupboard and he gave us instructions about what we have to do with our mini cupboard that we are going to draw our characters on it. Agnes, Asia and I started drawing our characters. My character is Benson and he is on Regular Show (cartoon network.) He is the boss of the park and he has a really short temper. I drew him because he is really easy to draw. Time went really fast and it was almost time to go back to school to have lunch. It was a really fun but exhausting day today.