How To Make Afghans.

Lately I have been making Afghans a lot and I also made them for food spec. Here is the recipe on how to make them.

Ingredients

200g butter, softened
½ cup  Sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 ¼ cups plain flour
¼ cup cocoa
1 ½ cups cornflakes, lightly crushed
Icing:
1 ½ cups Chelsea Rich Chocolate Icing
1 Tbsp butter (softened)
1-2 Tbsp boiling water

Method

Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease or line a baking tray with baking paper.
In a large bowl beat butter, sugar and vanilla until light and fluffy. Sift in flour and cocoa, stir thoroughly with the butter mixture until combined before stirring in the cornflakes.
Place heaped teaspoonfuls onto baking tray, squeeze mixture together gently if necessary then press lightly with a fork.
Bake for 15-20 minutes. Cool on a wire rack before icing.

Icing: Mix chocolate icing sugar, butter and 1 Tbsp boiling water at a time until combined, adding more hot water if necessary until icing is a spreadable consistency. Ice biscuits and top with half a walnut.

How the world started.

Have you ever wondered  of how the world started? I have  thought about it a lot  and it really makes me think.

 I get really confused because people tell me that god created the world but if he did then how did god get here in the first place? Some people tell me that monkeys and apes were here before we were but I still get confused. Sometimes I think that the world just appered out of the blue.
But then a  leaf turnrd into a dinosaur and had baby dinosaurs. Although it makes me think because how did the first ever cave man get here everything is really confusing.

There are some things in life that you just can not work out and maybe this is just one of those things.

Sustainability movie!

Ruby, Renee, Be, Arielle and I have been working on a movie about sustainability to enter for the Outlook For Someday movie contest. We have filmed nearly all of our movie and Ruby is working very hard on editing it, so far it looks great!

 Our movie is about water pollution. Me Renee and Be are news reporters. And Renee who is a fish interviews fish about how they feel about the water pollution and how it  is not good for life under water. Then me and Be say some facts about the water pollution.

Making the movie was really fun but it took a lot  of time and hard work. Our first idea was about something different but that did not really work so we had to do it on something else. We had to do all the storyboarding and planning the fun bit was making the fish for our heads to go through then the filming!

 For our whole movie we had to use the green screen and that was really fun. We thought that we filmed all of it but we had to re film most of our movie because we were not very good fish.I 
 think that we have a really good chance on winning this and that so far our movie looks really good and it will look even better when it is finished.

Out look for someday movie reflection:
Something that I learned from this project that I did not  know before was some of the Information about water pollution like:  How long different objects  took to degrade when there dumped in water.

process?
I learned how to work a camera.

The part of this project that was most challenging for me was:
The green screen and trying to see what worked with the green screen and what did not.

The part of this  project I found most rewarding was:
When we were the first group to finished our movie.

Cupcakes!!!

Do you like cupcakes? I love cupcakes there one of my favourite foods. Not only are they fun to eat but to make and decorate to! Some cupcakes look so beautiful even though it is just food you can make food look beautiful to. I love cupcakes my favourite is vanilla. 

Here are some cool cupcake designs.

Chips!!!!

Chips are so yummy!!!!! some burn some are salty and  some are potato chips. Chips  come in all shapes and sizes. My favourite chips are fish and chips because they taste so good.


In the weekend I ate some chips I ate salsa and cheese chips. Chips come from  potatos which get deep fried and they put salt on it. You can pretty much put anything  on chips they are just so tasty. There are also thin cut chips and thick cut chips I  asked some people  in the class what type of chips they  like.



Fish and Chips :11





Potato chips : 2





doritos burn: 4




Corn chips: 1







Other: 0


so look like the winner is Fish and Chips!!



here is a video on how they make chips!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkqBbr7Ewsw

Wavy chips

 Fish and chips.

 Potato chips

I really like chips they are so tasty I just love them.

Moving To Wellington Part 1.

Packing up was harder than I thought. Feeding the bag  squashing everything into it. I look down at the message on the box my friend Hazel gave me it said:


Friends are like stars you may not always see them but you always know that they are there.


I saw all the other stuff my friends gave me A tear fell down my cheek. I look across the room to see Arielle sitting on her bag. 


"Let's go!" I heard mum say cheerfully across the Kitchen. I was definitely not in a cheerful mood. I took my bag and walked through the stench of janola and said 


"Goodbye Christchurch"


Driving all the way to picton was not the most awesome thing to do in the world but I had no choice. We sat down in a little cafe in some little town that if you drive past it you blink and it's gone. I was eating my crepe very slowly. It was a cute little cafe with a pond and it had the sound  of a waterfall as you eat your food. When we finally left sitting back into the car I was in a bit more in  a happier mood than before. 


We drove up to the motel that was in the middle of nowhere. Me my brother and Arielle shared a cabin room thing and everyone else in another. We had a little snack and it was of to bed. I slept like a new born baby. I heard my dad knoking on the door saying penny penny penny he got that of the big bang theroy. I got dressed and of to breakfast.


I was full from breakfast all the pancakes I ate. Seeing the huge ferry and water just made everything worse.

Matariki

Matariki  is the begining of the Maori new year. And we have been celerbrating by creating art. In room 13 we have been creating Matariki panels to celerbrate matariki!

We had to divide our board that we painted black into three sections. Top one represents new growth, secound one you or your whanau (family) and bottom one matariki.

My first section is a sun and a koru growing. My next section is my family the biggest pattern is my dad and the other little patterns the rest of my family my three sisters me and my brother. Finally my bottom one is a marae and a kite flying in the sky. beacause at Matariki people fly kites.

When we had all our designs ready on our paper we had to tape up our board with masking tape. And put all our great ideas on the board. We cutted out our designs and we painted our board bright colours.

I really like my panel I think it looks really creative and colourful and I worked really hard on it.