I am a year 8 student at Saint Patrick's School. I am in Room 8 and my teacher is Mrs Dines.
Thursday, 16 June 2016
Thursday, 9 June 2016
How to make Apple Crumble
Today, Ingrid and Ella made Apple Crumble. I tasted some of it with my classmates and our teacher, Mrs. Dines. The recipe below is the things you will need and how to make Apple Crumble.
How to make Apple Crumble
Ingredients:
-for the apple
- 4 apples
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- Water (enough water to cover bottom of pot
- Cinnamon(Tablespoon-optional)
-for the crumble
- ½ cup of flour
- ¼ cup of sugar
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- 3 tablespoon butter
Materials:
- Pot
- Peeler and Knife
- Chopping board
- Hand blender
- Bowl
- Round pyrex dish
- Microwave
Procedure
-for the crumble
- Blend butter and flour together
- Mix in baking powder and sugar into the flour
-for the apple
- Peel, core and chop apple. Add to pot with water
- Put on stove, on high until it boils. Take off heat, add sugar and cinnamon
- Put back on heat. Stir and let it cook until soft
- Scoop into pyrex dish. Sprinkle crumble over
- Put in microwave, cook for 6-7 minutes.
Labels:
Apple Crumble,
Procedure,
Writing
Wednesday, 8 June 2016
Informations about Spiders
Wahlt - Identify key ideas and use them to write an information report.

Some spider species are Tarantulas, Black Widows, Funnel-web spiders, Wolf spiders, Camel spiders and more. But when you are bitten by a spider, you could be sick or have a fever and the wound where you have been bitten, it could rot or it would make it worse. There are also spiders that are very dangerou to other people.
Informations about Spiders
Spiders have eight legs and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom, they are air-breathing arthropods. There are over 45,700 spider species and have 114 families. Unlike any other insects, spiders don’t have antennae. When spiders hunt for food, they inject their venom into their prey.
They mostly eat insects and other spiders, large species eat millipedes, woodlice, small lizards, frogs and birds. Spiders can be seen worldwide except in Antarctica. Female spiders can lay up to 3,000 eggs but unfortunately, there’s a chance that they will die after that. The smallest spider was the ‘Patu Digua’ that can reach up to 0.37 mm but the largest and heaviest spider are tarantulas that can reach up to 90 mm, there are small and big spiders.
Some spider species are Tarantulas, Black Widows, Funnel-web spiders, Wolf spiders, Camel spiders and more. But when you are bitten by a spider, you could be sick or have a fever and the wound where you have been bitten, it could rot or it would make it worse. There are also spiders that are very dangerou to other people.
Labels:
Information,
Spiders,
Writing
Sunday, 22 May 2016
Wordfind - Puzzle Maker
In this word find, I used puzzlemaker to create and complete this word find. the words have come from our spelling set 8 in list 12.
Labels:
Puzzle maker,
Set 8,
Spelling,
Word find
Thursday, 19 May 2016
How to make Weetbix and Banana Parfait
How to make Weetbix and Banana Parfait
A healthy and delicious parfait
What you need:
- Weetbix(Mashed)
- Banana(Chopped)
- Low Fat Vanilla Bean Yoghurt
- Stewed Apples
- Cup or Glass
What to do:
Step 1. Put some stewed apples in the cup/glass
Step 2. Then put the mashed weetbix on top of the apple
Step 3. Then put some Vanilla Bean Yoghurt
Step 4. And lastly add some chopped bananas
Step 5. Eat and Enjoy
How to make Crayon Art
You will need:
- A blank canvas
- Crayons
- A utility or Exacto knife (for peeling crayons)
- Hot glue gun
- Heat tool or a hair dryer with a diffuser or low blower setting
What to do:
- Cover your work surface in newspaper
- Take the wrappers off all the crayons you are going to use
- Lay out the crayons along the top edge of your canvas until you like the sequence of your color looks
- Glue each one down right next to each other with the tops flush to the top of the canvas
- When the crayons are glued down, prop your canvas up at a gentle angle
- Turn on your heat tool or your hair dryer (When using a hair dryer, put it on a low blower setting or use a diffuser)
- Focus the heat on the crayons. They will quickly turn sweaty, then start dripping down the canvas
- When you are done, let it cool for a few minutes and hang it up.
Labels:
Art,
Crayon Art,
Writing
Thursday, 5 May 2016
Milk, Food Colouring and Detergent Experiment
Goal: At the end of this procedure, the food colouring will explode and change colours.
Milk, Food Colouring and Detergent experiment
Materials:
- Plastic dish
- Food colouring
- Detergent
- Beaker
- Eyedropper
Method:
Step 1 : Put 200 MLS milk into a plastic dish.
Step 2 : Carefully put 5 drops each food colouring in each colouring.
Step 3 : Using an eyedropper, add by a drop of detergent and observe.
Labels:
Experiment,
Science
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