Compass - Tech @ Tamaki College

Today at tech, we were making shapes with compasses. We made flowers, stars, and cubes with circles. It was fun and difficult since it was hard getting the perfect circle. I think I have improved with using compasses because I know that I should hold the black top to control the compass. 

Mince And Cheese Pies - Tech @ Tamaki Collage

This week for tech, we finished our mince and cheese pies. Last week we made our pie fillings, today we added our ingredients together into our pastry. We added our mince, and cheese. We were able to create some very cool icons for the top of our pie. I would defiantly make these pies at home, because they turn out delicious. 

Tech @ Tamaki College - Potato salad and salmon kebab sticks

Today my Tech group (Zahra, Oh Hsen, Sa Kae, and me) made fish kebab and potato salad. We started off by grabbing all our ingredients, we first grabbed a bowl with some potatoes and spring onion. We then diced these and cautiously put it in our pot with boiling water. We then took the bones out of our salmon. We then put our salmon on a kebab stick with some vegetables. The end result was delicious. 

Straw Rockets

Last week on Friday LS2 spent the whole day at Tamaki college to learn and make rockets. We learnt how to make straw rockets. This is my procedural writing for making a straw rocket. After making rockets, Ms Ferguson flew her rocket 'Carrot' that she 3D printed, it flew up perfectly, but dissapered! It was very fun! I also added a collage of what happened at Tamaki college. 

Thank you to Ms Ferguson, and Mr Dunn for putting so much effort for Friday!

Rocket Learning at Tamaki College

Last week, on Friday LS2 went to Tamaki College to build paper models of rockets. We first tried making the straw rockets, using drinking straws, tape, and scissors. Our teachers Ms Ferguson and Mr Dunn taught and guided us through the process. For the first straw rocket we had no fins to see our distance, we then added more and more fins and saw that there was a difference since we added fins. I learned that the more fins you add, the further it goes. 

3D Shapes

Today for tech, we were learning about the different 3D shapes, we learnt how to make a cube. We made a cube using an isometric paper to make a cube with the lines. The trick is to get a piece of white plain paper and put it on top of the isometric paper and make a cube with it by simply adding three lines together to make a diamond shape, then adding four lines together so that it can be a 3D cube. 

Upside Down Mango Cake at Tech

Today for tech we made upside down mango cake. We had to get all the ingredients, (maple syrup, mago, flour, egg, butter, castel sugar, icing sugar). We then had to slice the mango into length wise. We had to add them to the cooking pan, but before that, we had to grab some cooking paper so that the cake doesn't stick to the cooking pan and then we had to add maple syrup at the bottom. We then had to add the mango slices on top of the maple syrup. Then we had to mix the castel sugar with the flour and add the 2 eggs later on. We had to mix for until it was creamy and soft. We then added the mixture into the cooking pan and finally Mrs Hekka cooked it into the oven. When it came out it was delicious!

Tech - Fruit Salad

Today for tech we made yummy fruit salads. We used grapes, oranges, kiwi fruits, apples, pineapples, chocolate chips and dark chocolate pudding. We also learnt how to pass a knife and also talked about knife safety. We cut the fruit in small pieces and put it in our measuring bowl, we then cut the chocolate chips into halves and added some chocolate pudding and it was complete! It was the best fruit salads. Everyone was happy to feast, it was so fruity and scrumptious.

Smoothies at Tech

Today at tech we made smoothies. We went to the classroom T9 because Mrs Hekka was away so we had a different teacher. We first had to get some frozen berries and get a cup of milk and also a flavored yogurt. We had to put everything inside the measuring bowl and steer everything together. We then received a blender from group number 3, we put everything from the measuring bowl into the blender and waited for 5 minutes. We then put all of it in our cups and drank, fruity!

Tech - Milkshakes

 Last week on Friday the  year seven's had their first ever session on tech. Everyone was excited and curious on which classroom we will be going to. We arrived and our teacher lead us to the classroom, everyone knew that we were going to be cooking. We made chocolate milk shakes. Everyone had turns in getting the equipment like ice cream, the syrup, and milk and more. In my group I have Zahra, Sa Kae, Oh Hsen and me. Then we received a blender and we mixed the ice cream, the syrup and milk and chocolate powder. We received cups and finally we got to drink the milk shake. Yummy!!