book review

My class has been reading a book every day and once we have read the book we write what the book was about. Here do you want to see one of the books I read.

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

The book was made by Judith Kerr

The main characters are Sophie and the other main character is the tiger.
I recommend reading this book. It is a pretty good book. I like how the tiger ate everything.

Sophie decided to have a tea party one day but then someone was knocking on the door. Sophie's mum wandered who it could be. Once Sophie's mum opened the door there was a big tiger who asked if he could have tea with them. The tiger ate all the tea party food but the tiger was still hungry so the tiger ate all the food in the fridge and all the food in the cupboard. Once the tiger ate all of that there was no more food left in the house so Sophie offered the tiger some milk. The tiger ended up drinking all the milk, all the tea in the teapot and all the tap water. When Sophie's dad got back Sophie told her dad all about what happened. Sophie's dad got the idea to eat at the cafe. Tomorrow Sophie and her mum went shopping and they bought a big tin of tiger food just in case the tiger came back but he never did.

Home made pizza for lunch

Today I made a pizza at home. We always use traditional Italian toppings. The most usual toppings in Italian pizzas are: olives, pepperoni and capers. How to make a homemade pizza; first get a tortilla for the base then get a knife and tomato paste. Spread the tomato paste all over the tortilla. Then get some cheese and lay the cheese all over the tomato paste. Finally put any topping on that you want. Then cook it in the oven for 5-10 minutes until it's crispy and bubbly on top. The toppings I used were pepperoni, olives and capers because I like the taste and we had these in the fridge.

baking cupcakes with my mum

To bake these cupcakes you will need 2 eggs, an orange, a cup and a half of flour, 70 grams of lemon curd and 1/3 cup of caster sugar. The recipe is for making a cake but we put our batter into cupcake moulds and made them into cupcakes. Me and mum also changed the recipe a bit because we didn't have all the ingredients in the recipe. We used 2 lemons instead of 1 orange. We made our own flour by blitzing almonds in the blender and the caster sugar was substituted for brown sugar. Now i'm going to tell you the method of making the cake. Begin by placing the whole orange unpeeled in a pan of boiling water - make sure there's enough water to completely cover the orange - and simmer for at least an hour until the fruit is tender and cooked all the way through. Remove from the heat, drain and leave the orange aside until it is cool enough to handle. Grease and flour a 20 cm (8 in) spring form cake tin, lining the bottom with baking paper. Preheat the oven to 170c. Once the orange has cooled cut it into 8 segments, removing any pips. Put the orange skin and all into the cup of your blender and blitz to a pulp. Add the eggs, followed by the ground almonds, lemon curd then the sugar and blitz again until everything is incorporated into a smooth mixture. Pour the batter into the prepared tin and bake in the oven for 40 minutes. Check the cake is cooked by inserting a skewer - if it comes out clean the cake is done. Remove from the oven and leave to cool in the tin.

Drawing Mr kiwi

On Monday Mrs Minehan came and she challenged us to draw a kiwi. We grouped the kiwi bits together then we made a forest behind the kiwis. The class made the kiwi by first searching brown texture for the body and head. next I had to search for a yellow texture for the beak and legs I had to make the beak long and pointy. After that I made the wings and eyes and then I made a family and grouped the bits together. lastly I made the forest background.

Trees passion project

Triangle Art

Kumara school did triangle art and this is the finished art. You had to make a big one first and colour it we also oiled it to get the white bits out and blend it. Next one you had to colour is a choice of a medium one or a miniature one Then we put them all in place to make a colourful triangle artwork for the office area.

 Today we found an accredited image on Explore and selected it to use on our page. We then put a 5x5 grid on it so we could copy the image and make it original. Mrs Minehan selected the first two images so we could understand the process, then we got to choose our own image.
I found the first one  …..
The second one was ….
I chose the image of ….  because …
Have you ever tried to transform an image using a grid? How did you find the process?
Then add at least one of your images to your blog.