Tech

Last week on Wednesday the Year 7/8’s went to technology in Morewa. For the year 7’s it was there first time. The year 7’s did woodwork with Mr E and the year 8’s did cooking with Whaea Dot.  She told us that we were going to make lasagne. We had to choose 5 vegetables to put in our lasagne. We either had to been in a group of 3 or work in peers, my partner was Kingi. Then we choose a workstation to sit at, once we got all our ingredients we chopped them up. After that we put the mince into the pan and cooked it with the veggies and bacon. While the pasta was cooking in the pot I started making the white sauce, I had to be very careful because if I left it on the element for too long it might burn. To make the white sauce we added in garlic salt, butter, milk and cheese we stirred the white sauce together until it became thick, then took it off the element. When everything was cooked we put it into a dish and put it in the oven. Once it was done we got to taste our lasagne, our lasagne was yummy but we had to save some to take home. I think my partner and I did well at working together we were able to follow instructions very well to create a delicious lasagne.

Marshmallow catapult

Last week in Te Ngahere we made Catapults.  Our challenge was to work as a team and see who’s could launch the furthest. For equipment we could only use skewers, rubber bands, marshmallows , masking tape and a spoon. Once we had finished building our catapult we tested it out. Our catapult launched the marshmallow over to the other side of the class. When we went outside to have a competition to see who’s could launch the farthest our catapult started breaking. When it was our turn it didn't launch that far as when we were in the class. We tried to fix it and when we went for another go it went further than our first attempt. I enjoyed making the catapults and enjoyed competing against other groups.