Going To Tamaki College Next Wednesday!

Next week Wednesday, the year 8's are going to Tamaki for the whole day.

I heard they will feed us food. Morning tea and lunchtime.

We only go to Tamaki to see what its like in college

No More Cooking.🙁

Today the Year 7's change around. We do not do cooking anymore, instead we  now do graphics. We entered the graphics room and found out that  our first project was to draw our name. Not any standard writing, it had to be creative and stunning! Making patterns or design for your name. It could also be bold and block writing. Sketching or high lighting is a good way to make your model more satisfying. Afterwards our drawing was completed, I showed it to my instructor to see if he will like it or not. I was so thrilled about what I created. It looked like a masterpiece to me. I didn't get enough time to color it in because we had to go.

Making Muffins Again!

As usual, the year sevens went to Mrs Tuipolotu for cooking. I thought we were going to make new desserts but I was surprised. We were making muffins again! Banana muffins, the ingredients were three quarters of milk, a bowl of melted butter, one egg, one and a half cup of flour, three table spoons. Bake them in the oven for 15-30 minutes. 

Afterwards we recited our prayer and ate. Delicious!

Chicken Curry At Tech!

Every Wednesday we go to Tech to cook delicious food. The year sevens went to Mrs Tuipolotu's classroom to cook Chicken Curry! After she  showed us the ingredients, she told us to grab items from the cupboard. Chicken, Curry powder, black pepper, tomato paste, Indian tomato sauce, herbs spices,and brown sugar to make not so sour.

Afterwards we needed to grab our equipment: tongs, frying pan, a pot and a wooden spoon. First step was filling the pot with water and putting the chicken inside. Next,  we put the pot on the top of the stove to heat up. When the chicken was soft and cooked we put it in a frying pan, with the rest of the ingredients except brown sugar. Then we mixed all the ingredients together to make one big pile of tomato paste. We also put in brown sugar to not make it so sour and added the chicken to our tomato paste. Later we mixed it together and we're done. 

Our Chicken Curry was made!

😊Cooking At Technicraft!!!😊

Finally we made it to Tamaki College. As soon as we arrived, our new teacher Mrs Tuipolotu, taught us the basic rules of safe cooking.

First step of keeping safe from cooking is wearing aprons to protect your clothes from stains. If a fire happens we have to yell ''Mrs Tuipolotu fire,!'' and she will grab a fire proof blanket or a fire extinguisher. After we learnt about the safety equipment we had to learn how to organise the cooking equipment.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      As soon as the table was clean, the equipment was ready, we looked at Mrs Tuipolotu who told us that we were making milkshakes!                                                                                                                                        
 We grabbed a mixer with a bowl and Mrs Tuipolotu placed three cups of ice-cream in our bowl and we had to mix the ice-cream until it was creamy. As soon as we all had a turn of mixing the ice-cream, we scooped some of the mixture into our cups and waited in a line until we received our chocolate flavoring. Then we had to walk around in circle for the next round of whip cream. Mrs Tuipolotu sprayed some whip cream for about five seconds and then she'd shout, ''Next,!'' After drinking our delicious milkshake we had to clean all our equipment before we could drink more of our milkshake.

This was the first time making milkshakes in my life!

Week 2 Technicraft

We have come back to Tech and I have to work on my project. The first thing I had to do was write some reasons why we are making our project, who is it for, what it is made of.

I made squares on my design to look more realistic. After I had done my patterns Mr Grundy gave me permission to go through the yellow and black line and show me his piercing machines. He gave me a simple small machine  that burns wood. To make it more safe, we had a plug at the end. It has a bent curve and it will burn so hot it can burn wood very easily.

 With the patterns I have made, I had to burn around them to look more like a giraffe. Afterwards it was time to go. I had a really exciting day at Technicraft.
           
                                                 By the way my project is not completed.