Tongan Language Week

 Today I will be sharing with you what I have been doing in Wananga. So in Wananga I have been working on Tongan slides as it was Tongan language week last week...

Here are my slides...

Eyeball Dissection : Recount and Reflection

 Hello fellow readers and welcome back to another blog post. Today I will be sharing with you what we did yesterday in physics. 

Recently we have been learning about different parts of the eye. Here are some of the parts we learned about. 

Cornea ~ The protective outer layer of the eye.

Pupil ~ The pupil is where the light enters the eye.

Iris ~ Controls how much light enters.

Lens ~ Focuses light onto the retina. 

Retina ~ Converts light to electrical impulses. 

Optic nerve ~ Carries the impulses to the brain. 

Humorous ~ The liquid in the eye that gives it its shape. 

Steps

~ To start off the dissection we got given a cow's eye and a scalpel, tweezers, and scissors, and a metal container. We put on gloves and rolled up our sleeves. 

~ The next thing we did was cut off the excess muscle and fat. 

~ We stabbed the cornea with the scalpel and cut around it with scissors, the humorous leaked out of the eye. 

~ After that we were then able to see the lens and a gel-like substance surrounding the lens.

~ One of the people that were in my group flipped the eye inside out revealing the tapetum which helps them to see at night. 

Personally, I did not enjoy dissecting the cow's eye but both of my other teammates Nici and Hayley both enjoyed doing the dissection. The only reason did not enjoy doing it was because it was slimy and I didn't want the humorous to go everywhere. 

Here is a photo of the eye being dissected. 

Q + A

 Kia Ora fellow readers and welcome back to another blog post. Today I will be answering questions about the book that I have been reading for English. 

How long have they been on the island?

 They were on the island for 48 days. 

What does Phillip do to help Timothy when he is sick?

Puts a wet cloth on his head. 

Why is Phillip ready to climb the palm tree?

Because he didn't want to let Timothy down. 

Why is Timothy teaching Phillip how to survive?

He is teaching him in case he dies or something happens to him.

What do you think Phillip meant when he asked " are you still black"?

He was asking because he always thought of black people as mean but he was figuring out that timothy was kind. 

Home Economics ~ Learning From Home Acitvity

 Kia Ora fellow readers and welcome back to another blog post. For today's blog post I will be sharing with you something I made for dinner about 2 days ago. The dish was called Chermoula Chicken Tacos this was one of the hello fresh meals that I made. 

The Ingredients used were :

Red Onion, Garlic, Green beans, Carrot, Lettuce, Chicken breast, Chermoula Spice blend, Greek-style yoghurt, Dill and Parsley mayonnaise, Tortillas, and parsley.

The equipment used was:

Large frying pan, cutting boards, 3 bowls, and a knife. 

The finished product tasted really good and the different textures in the taco made the experience even better from the crunchy green beans to the soft tortillas. In the process of making this meal, all the different smells made me very hungry. 

Unfortunately, I was unable to take photos but here is what the finished product roughly looked like.

Home Economics

 Kia Ora fellow readers and welcome back to another blog post. For today's blog post I will be explaining what we did in our practical lesson for Home Economics. So at the moment, we are learning about Nutrients and what they do for our body. For our lesson on Thursday, we made a chicken stir fry, we were put into groups of either 3 or 4 and as our teacher, Miss Hindson went through the instructions we were to complete what was said. 

 Here is the recipe...

Chicken Stir Fry

Ingredients:

1 Chicken Breast

1 Carrot - julienne strip

1 Onion - diced

3-4 pieces of Broccoli - small florets

1 Zucchini - sliced

Other Vegetables - capsicum, mushrooms, peas, corn, celery, chilli etc 

2T Sesame oil

1 pkt 2 min Noodles

Method:

1. Cut chicken into strips

2. Place chicken in a glass bowl with sesame oil. Mix together

3. Prepare vegetables 

4. Sauté chicken and onions together. Sauté means to cook quickly to brown. 

5. Add broccoli and carrots and stir fry (cook) for five minutes.

6. Add the remaining vegetables and cook for a further 5 min

7. Bring a pot of water to the boil

8. Add the broken noodles into the boiling water and cook for 2 minutes

9. Drain noodles in a colander and add to the vegetable and chicken mixture. Mix together lightly 

10.  Serve 

The food that we made smelt really good as we were making it, and when we put the chicken into the pan the sesame oil that was with the chicken was very overpowering and same with the soy sauce when that was added. The end product tasted amazing the sweet chilli added a much-needed spice. The texture of the food was alright but as a group learned if you cook the noodles for too long they will become slimy. In the end, the food looked presentable.

The nutrients used in this recipe were fibre, carbohydrates, protein, fats, and vitamins.

Overall I believe that my group worked really well together and we were done with what we needed to do before the next instructions were given.

Here is a photo of all the ingredients cut up...

Today in History

 Kia Ora fellow readers and welcome back to another blog post. Today I had to create a D.L.O about something that happened today in history, I chose Marilyn Monroe's death which occurred in 1962. I used this site to gather the information. Link 

Here is my D.L.O....

I used canva to create this D.L.O

Physics

 Kia Ora fellow readers and welcome back to another blog post. For todays blog post I will be talking about what I did for Physics. I haven't been at school a lot recently but was here today to create a animation on how a project went last lesson about energy. I was partnered with Nici to complete the animation. 

Here is the animation.....