Warren Pohatu

Warren Pohatu is an artists that does artworks. We were inspired by his artworks so we thought that we would do the same as he did.

Do you want to make Pancakes?

Do you like Pancakes? Well I know I do, Every Sunday my Family and I make Yummy Pancakes. Wanna know how to make Basic Pancakes? This is the ingredients that you will be needing. 

Ingredients: 
1 cup of all purpose flour
2 teaspoons of baking powder
2 tablespoons of sugar
1 teaspoon or a sprinkled of salt
1 egg that has been beaten up
1 cup of milk
2 tablespoons of vegetable oil

Topping ingredients (if wanted)
Butter
Fruit
Jam
Bacon Strips
Golden Syrup
Melted Chocolate
Ice cream or wiped cream

Once you have all of these ingredients this is what you will need to do.
1. In a large bowl, mix flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Make a well in the center, and pour in milk, egg and oil. Mix until smooth and nice. 

2. Heat a your frying pan over medium high heat or at 6. Scoop or pour the batter onto the pan, using 1/4 cup for each pancake. Brown on both sides and serve hot. 

3. Then you can put whatever toppings you would 👍.

Once you have finished cooking and topping your Pancakes you can now enjoy your Pancakes!

Doing Tapa's

Do you know what a Tapa is? Well for term 4 we are doing art, and my class are doing Tapas. Tapas cloths are traditional artwork that Tongan's design. One of our teachers (Miss Paget) thought that we should make some Tapas of our own. 

We first started off with a brown paper bag and we then looked at a site that had Tongan and Samoan design. So I got a pencil and started drawing some Tonga patterns. I finally finished drawing my designs and got some crayons and started to draw over the pencil. Once I had finished coloring in my designs It got stamped to the wall.

Once we were all finished they all got stamped on the wall once we were done. Here's my own Tapa.

Updated News - Ebola!

Visiting The Auckland Museum

The day after the long weekends the year 7's went on a trip to The Auckland Museum. Also, the year 8's went on their camp, so we were the role models for the week. So we all sat down in the street and the teachers called out what group we were in. Some parents came to volunteer, my Mum Shatna, Shannon, Vili, Barbara, Tamati, Sueanna and Stacey. In my group was Rave, Nikita, Moses, Faaiua, me and my Mum.

The two buses arrived and we went off to the Museum. Finally we arrived at the Auckland Museum. With excitement I was so happy that I couldn't wait until we could enter the museum. So I settled down and we sat down in the museum on the floor. Then we went up these stairs and went into the kai room. Then we left our bag in the cages.

So we ate about 10 - 15 minutes. We all went in our groups and our task was to each take photo's of all types of Art for 40 - 45 minutes. I had the camera first and I went into the Maori section of Art. We had to draw designs that were Maori, Pacific, Asia and more. So we all tried to stay up as a group but things happened differently and we all splitted up. I finished taking my photos and Rave started hers.

Then we all went back to the place we sat down and for a change we didn't eat in the kai room. While we were eating I heard that we weren't going to finish our tour around the Museum we were going to the Auckland Domain, outside the Museum. So again we had a task and the task was to follow the instructions on a piece of paper.

So Moses hogged the camera and started to look around and take photos. After that we had taken all the photos that we needed to and then boringly we waited for our bus to come back. The bus finally arrived and I was thanked. Here are some photos that we took.

My Avatar!!!

All of the students in my class are drawing their avatar. The point is they have to draw what colour house they are in. I am in Matatua as you already know and that represents my house colour. Hope you enjoyed.

Pewdiepie!

Hi, Pewdiepie-Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg my Idol has the most subscribers on Youtube. Felix is Swedish and he plays all sorts of games like horror and action games. He is the definition of Comedy. He also has 30.5 million subcsribers!

He has a girlfriend named Marzia Bisognin she has a Youtube account as well. Marzia Bisognin she is Italian and she has about 3.5 million subscribers. 

Now Bro Fist!

Reading Explorers of the Sunrise

Explorers of the Sunrise

Vocabulary

ancestors - Ancestors means your family before you

navigate - It means to sail on the ocean or the open

voyage - To travel on a long journey on the sea

archaeology - Its about human history

horizon - Its the earth’s surface and the sky join together

What is the article about?

It is all about a waka travelling along the ocean. It also took ten months to travel and the crew used traditional navigation methods all the way. Polynesian people whose ancestors voyaged eastwards from their homeland about 3000 years ago. Rapanui is a very small island and it sits alone in the ocean.

There are different names for this homeland but the common name is Hawaiki. They remember Hawaiki as a place of heroes. These islands were settled about 2000 years ago years ago. While travelling they only got a little sleep. The canoes were over 22 meters in length. Strong crossbeams joined the two hulls. The wind and the sea are very powerful, so the canoes had to be as strong as possible. No knew why the Polynesians started voyaging. Somewhere may have been seeking mana.

Where was the journey to?  Find a map online and draw the journey they took.

What did they use to navigate their way around?  What technology do we use now to help us navigate? A compass and now map

Look at the subheadings in the article and summarise the main idea in each subheading.

From the information in the article.  Use google draw and draw the waka.  Use the vocabulary in the article and label the diagram.

File this in your writing folder.

Sarah Potts Death

                                                                Sarah Potts Death

On Short land Street there is no longer going to be Sarah acting. She died on a programme. She had a very
deadly virus and died. Everyone in her family are praying the best for her and wish her all the best. But now everyone has forgotten about her.

Robin Williams Death

        Robin Williams Death

People all around the world are devastated about Robin Williams death. The famous american actor and comedian died at the age of 63. He was in depression and went to rehab and also committed suicide. Robin also said he wanted a quick death. He played in 44 films. He was a father of four and had a wife called Susan Schneider. R.i.p.

Keis - Peg ball Information

Future Aspiration

This morning all seniors went to the street/class 1 and some special visitors were coming named, Jason, Alfred, Arizona, and Andrew. The Visitor arrived while we were singing Mihi Marae with Shane playing the guitar. A man named Andrew introduced himself to us and he told us what he does in a everyday life. He told us that he was going to America in a week with 12 students from Tamaki College, They are visiting Google, Apple, Microsoft, and lots more..

After everyone's speech there was a particular girl that I was inspired named Arizona Legar. she told us what her Aspiration was. She was just a typical girl that chats all the time., she always got told off by the teacher. She got put at one of the leaders but she didn’t know why? She asked her teacher and her teacher told her that she talks a lot. Then she moved schools and she got put as another leader. Once again she asked the teacher why, because you talk lots. Then she told us the quotes numbers.

1 tahi do your mahi, do your work, 2 lua today you are you, that is truer than true there is no one is alive that is youer than you. 3 to sun. 4 break down the door. 5 strive to stay alive. Then after they all stopped talking and we all left some group of girls went to ask Arizona some questions.

I think that it helped me I think that now I should stop following my friends and do I want to do and meant to do. Now I understand that if you don't want to go with your friends you can enjoy what you want.