Home Economics- Reflection

In Home Economics last week we cooked Breakfast Muffins ( if you want to see the recipe just click on the "Home Economics" label at bottom of this post or click this link)

Our cooking class last week was nice everyone was working together well , we cooked and cleaned, the teacher didn't have to cook some of the ingredients for us.

What I have learnt from cooking this meal is that it makes a good snack.

What I think next time my cooking partner and I should turn on the oven because we forgot to turn the nob to 'Bake'.

Here is what they look like


rating out of ten....I rate it a 10 out of ten in general
Food Presentation: 10
Taste: 10
Easy to cook: 10

Home Economics- Breakfast Muffins ( recipe)

Breakfast Muffins

Ingredients:
1/2 Tbsp Olive oil
1/2 Sliced onion ( diced)
2 Slices of ham
4 Cherry Tomatoes ( cut them in half)
1 1/2 Cups of Self-rising flour
1 Tbsp Pasley ( chopped)
2 Eggs
1/2 cup of grated Cheese
1/2 tsp Smoked Paprika
1/2 cup of Milk
( also if you want some more seasoning/taste you can add pepper and salt)

Directions:

1. Pre-heat the oven to 180C on fan bake.
2. Spray your muffin tins with cooking spray
3. Dice your onion and your sliced ham and cook it with oil until it's ready
4. lightly beat your eggs with the milk.
5. In a large add your cherry tomatoes, your Self-rising flour, Pasley, Eggs with the milk, grated cheese, smoked paprika, then your cooked ham and onion ( also add the seasoning if you want)
6. Then when you're mixing the ingredients together you do this folding technique where you fold the mix quarters then turn the bowl again but don't over mix the mixture because it will no longer ganna be a muffin outcome.
7. Once you're done get two metal spoons and evenly distribute the mixture in your muffin tins.
8. Cook for 15 or 20mins until it looks golden.
9. Then take out of the oven clean up then enjoy your food/meal.

Anaerobic Respiration- Science

Aim:
To demonstrate the effects of anaerobic respiration (muscle fatigue).

Hypothesis:
I think what will happen is when I'm closing and opening the peg my muscle will get really tired ( how long I think I'll last is a good 5 minutes)

Equipment:
 A spring-loaded clothes peg.

Method:

1. Hold the clothes peg like so
   
2. Relax your fingers so that the peg close all the way.
3. Squeeze your thumb and forefinger so the peg is fully open.
4. Repeat step and 3 as quickly as you can until you experience muscle fatigue. ( don't do it too hard)

Results/ Observations:

My muscle was all goods at the start (I lasted at least a good 2 mintues/1min and 50secs) and then my muscle got tired at 1 min so I keep going until I gave completely.

Conclusion/ Discussion:

The reason why are muscle gets tired is because of the muscle in your body is working but, the oxygen in your lungs is trying to keep up and that's how you get sore and tired. In conclusion, I think I did well but I should have last longer.

Evaluation:

What would I do the same?: I would keep going until I give up

What would I do differently?: Maybe lift my other three fingers up ( because I touched my fingers in and the hurt a part of my hand)

Gym Class: Athletics

Shotput:

Shotput is a sport/ event that I can/ cannot do well. The reason why I can't do it properly is because when you leave the circle you're supposed to exit the back of it BUT somehow I manage to exit from the front of the circle EVEN THOUGH in my mind I constantly say " exit from the back".

So you might be wondering what is the proper way to do shotput because you didn't understand what I said in the first paragraph.
Shotput is a type of game/event/sport where you through the ball BUT this ain't any old ball it a heavy one which is 4kgs. The idea of it is to ....

1. step in a circle, 
2. go to the front of it,
3.  Put the shotput ball on your fingertips like you are holding it, 
4. Put it against your neck, 
5. Put one foot back 
6. lean back and bend your legs too, 
7. then just push/through it as far as you can so it can get measured 

BUT they only measure it once you exit from the back of the circle BUT IF you exit from the back you are disqualified.

( there will be a video later of me showing you)

Have I improved in this event? Why or why not?:
50/50 because I think I have improved on my shot-putting BUT I just keep forgetting to exit from the back of the circle.

How could I have improved more?:

Practicing to shotput the ball and then leaving from the back.

What is another event you would like to work on/improve?:

Another event I would like to work on/ improve is high jump.

Social Studies- Slave Trade

In Social Studies we have been studying about slavery. This week we are studying about the Slave trade.

The link to the work

Home Economics - Reflection

In Home Economics last week we cooked Chicken and Rice Patties ( if you want to see the recipe just click on the "Home Economics" label at bottom of this post or click this link)

Our cooking class had it easy because the teacher did the cooking of the chicken, rice and grate the cheese for us so that left us to some mise en place.  Mise en place is a fancy word for "putting in place" it means to prep your stuff /ingredients before you cook.

So all that was left for us was to preheat the oven, shred the chicken, Grate the carrot, beat the eggs, slice your spring onions, put all the ingredients in a large bowl, Mix it around, spray your muffin tin with cooking spray, put your mixture in the tin and bake it for 15mins then pull it out.

What I have learnt from cooking this meal you can add diffrent type of meat to it, If your vegetarian you could add veggies instead of the meat.

What I think next time we cook this meal or another meal we could learn how to preheat an oven without anyone helping/showing us ( by us I mean me and my work buddy) but other than that I think we did well with our first meal of the year.

Here is what they look like

rating out of ten....I rate it a five out of ten in general
Food Presentation: 5
Taste: 5
Easy to cook: 10 ( probably because we didn't need to cook the chicken and the rice)

Overall I think it was a good meal but it was tasteless.

Drama- Animal Show

What does a children's show need?
we are doing a 20-minute show appealing to 5-7 year-olds. What we got so far is...

Focus - be nice to animals,

Actions - Comedy/Interaction - kids up/dancing; questions

Roles - Animal (real); costumes, masks; tricks - hoop jumping

Time - 20 minutes

Tension - Hurt, SPCA stories of abuse -> Rescue

Space - Auditorium, need to look at the bookings.

some idea's we got were these...

Jakita said:

1. Get a volunteer from the SPCA to speak about how to care for animals 

2. educate people on story's of cruelty of the animals then tell them how they/we helped/ rescued.

Logan said:

We could do a bunch of short stories

We could make a play where we get the audience to interact and help us create the story

An anonymous person said:

"Rent" some animals

Home Economics.

Chicken and Rice Patties

Ingredients:
2 cups cooked jasmin rice
1 Chicken Breast
1/2 Tablespoon Olive Oil
1/2 Large Carrot
1-2 Spring Onion
1 1/3 Cup Grated Cheese
1-3 eggs

Method:

1. Precook your rice
2. Preheat oven to 200 Celsius.
3. Slice Chicken breast in half widthways, so it will cook quicker.
4. Heat the oil in the pan and start to cook the chicken breast until it begins to be brown.
5. Shred chicken with a fork.
6. Grate the carrot until it fills up halfway.
7. Slice the spring onions.
8. Lightly beat the eggs.
9. In a large bowl add your cooked rice, Chicken, Spring onions, eggs and 3/4 of the cheese and mix it well.
10. Spray the muffin tin with cooking spray and distribute it evenly into the muffin tin.
11. Pop your tray in the oven and leave it for 10-15 mins ( maybe less) ( but if your cooking it in a pan just cook it for 5-7 mins on each side)

Drama ( update every time)

In drama this past week we are learning about different learning skills. Here is a video about what we have learned so far. ( i'll download it later)

Social Studies

In Social Studies we are studying Human Rights

We had two tasks to do . A poster and Rank the important rights. Here they are....

1. Article Two: Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.
2. Article Thirty: Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.
3. Article One: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
4. Article Three: Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
5. Article Nineteen: Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
6. Article Twenty: Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association. (2) No one may be compelled to belong to an association.
7. Article Seven: All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.
8. Article Twenty-Three: (1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment. (2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work. (3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection. (4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.
9. Article Eleven: (1) Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence. (2) No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.
10. Article Twelve: No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

English

Tarzan:

In English, we are doing a movie/ Book review. We are studying the movie Tarzan. Here is some of my thoughts about it.

“ Two Worlds, One Family”

In my opinion it means people are live in different parts of the world but we are all the same because we are humans and we should be treated the same like a family.

What ideas/ messages are present in Disney’s Tarzan

• That everyone should be treated the same.It doesn’t matter if you live in a different worlds we should all be treated as one.
• Treat nature with respect ( such as animals)
• Family is not determined by blood.