Home Economics - Fruit Crumble

 Fruit Crumble                             Serves  4   

½ c Flour                                                           

½ t Cinnamon                                              

½ c Brown Sugar (not packed)

65 g cold Butter (cut into small cubes)                                                                           

½ c Rolled Oats (Wholegrain oats)

1 – 2 medium sized Apples (preprepared)

1 D White Sugar                                

1 T Water

Method    

     * Preheat oven to Fan Bake 180°C).

1. Put flour, cinnamon and brown sugar into a medium bowl.

2. Rub butter lightly into the flour mixture.

3. Add rolled oats and mix with a fork.

4. Peel and quarter the apples. Cut core out and slice each quarter  into thin slices. (we used prepear apples)

5. Place into a greased pie dish.

6. Sprinkle with white sugar and water.

7. Spoon this mixture evenly over the apples to cover them.

8. Bake on Fan bake for 10 -15 min or until the edge is going brown.

Remember to prepare the crumble topping first before preparing the apples. 

Work quickly to lightly rub in butter so the mixture stays as cool as possible.

Place prepared apples in cold lightly salted water to stop it going brown. Drain well before putting the apple into the pie dish.

You can use other fruit: pears, fresh or frozen berries, peaches, cooked rhubarb etc.

Cooking times can sometimes vary from 15 -20+ minutes.

Allow the cooked Apple Crumble to sit for about 5-10 minutes before serving.

Serve with custard, yoghurt or ice cream. 

The uncooked crumble topping freezes well in a bag for later use.

Remember you can use stewed, tinned or frozen fruits.

Connected Creativites - Forensic Sciences (Group A)

 For all of this week we've been learning about Forensic Science and the scientists, the evidence they collect and so on.

After doing this research we had to made a DLO or some other form of presentation about this.

One thing I'm excited about learning about in this class is learning techniques to discover things, like brushing powder over fingerptints.

This is my DLO about Forensic Science (about what we've learned so far.

Connected Creativities - Fairytales and Fables

In fairy tales and fables we spent our first lesson learning about Myths, Legends, Fairy Tales and fables, and what the difference between them is.

A fable is a short story about morals, it has talking animals and inanimate objects, for example in the fable of the wolf and the Sheep, a wolf dressed in sheep's clothing was able to infiltrate the sheep's paddock. (Moral of the story is that appearances can be deceiving.)

Fairy tales are children's stories, a story with magical things like dragons, princesses, fae (another name for fairy) and centaurs (half horse and half human normally). Brothers Grimm story 'Cinderella' a fairy tale published in 1967, is a good example.

Legends are over exaggerated stories in short, they may carry the truth but still have falseness to them. Stories like the Lochness Monster, the Yeti, Bigfoot, and King Arthur are examples.

Myths are known as folklore genre, they concern the early history of the world, Greek Mythology is an example.

Wananga (late blog post)

In term three we had a Mental Health awareness week. Miss Bancroft set up a few tasks each week that we had to do. At least two a week. On day one I did the 'Reconnect with someone: Find a picture of someone and share a happy memory.' With that task I featured my best friend of 5/6 years. 

 

Home Economics : Rice Paper Rolls

In Home Economics this week we made Rice Paper Rolls! It's basically fresh spring rolls, in my opinion the Rice Paper was salty, sticky and the texture was like eating a balloon but sticky.

 (I don't have preparation photos sadly)

Ingredients

 

Carrots 

Capsicum 

2 Rice paper sheet per person

Cucumber

Lettuce

Parsley 

Method

1. Dip the rice paper sheets in cold water and lay out on a clean bench top and let them soften for a minute

2. Place your selection of fillings in the middle of the softened sheet

3. Fold two sides of the sheet towards the middle

4. Roll into a cylinder shape

5. Serve immediately or refrigerate until ready to serve.

 

Things to remember when making these spring rolls

• You don’t need to soak the rice paper sheets, just wet them, they will soften after a minute

• Use predominantly vegetables and herbs as fillings

• Try to use a combination of ingredients that balance flavour, texture and nutrients

• You can use any combination of ingredients for filling so just use what you like and have available

Gym / PE - Gymnastics

For the past few weeks we've been doing Gymnastics in PE, using the beam, mini tramp, trampoline, horizontal and parallel bars, as well as doing things on the floor.

One challenge of mine was using the mini tramp, it wasn't easy, I managed to do a straight jump and jump full turn, I'm now able to do a Dive Roll as of Thursday (our last lesson)

My achievement was climbing to the top on the high ropes when they got out, it was fun but sort of scary.

PARALLEL BARS Lower arm walk Swing Back Dismount Forward Dismount Forward roll	MINI TRAMP Straight Jump Jump Full turn Tuck Jump Dive Roll Somersault to land on feet	FLOOR Forward roll Backward roll Headstand Handstand Cartwheel Bridge
BEAM Side Mount Jump over Cone  Forward roll Straddle Dismount	HORIZONTAL BAR Toe Shoot B/wd Hip Circle B/wd Hip Circle Mount	TRAMPOLINE  Controlled bounce  Straddle jump  Full Turn  Seat Drop  Front drop

English

 Martha example:

Martha shows hope, proof of this is

-thinks about her sister coming back
-that scott can contact her
-that scott will be her friend
-that scott would see the sign on the fence.

Scott:

Scott shows Creative, he shows that by thinking outside the box multipul times to help Martha.
He shows Perserverance, by never giving up even when things got hard.