making hot cross buns

MAKING HOT CROSS BUNS
INGREDENTS:

To make the yeast mixture

1 tsp of yeast

1/3 cups of warm water

1/2 tsp of sugar

Other ingredients:

2 cups of flour

½ cups of raisins

½ of warm milk

½ tbsp of mixed spice

1 beaten egg

20 grams of butter

½ tbsp of cinnamon

Method:

1.) Combine yeast, warm water and sugar together. Leave in a warm place until frothy.

2.) Then get a big bowl and add the dry ingredients and fruit. Make a well in the middle and pour the warm milk, melted butter, beaten in egg and yeast mixture.

3.) Mix well then turn onto a floured bench and knead it for 10 min.

Divide evenly into pieces and roll into buns.

4.) Place on trays till double in size (1 hour)

5.) Bake in preheat oven for about 20 min

6.) Then you eat them (yum)

and they are yum

by Cara

Room Fives Camp Cooking

Today we made spagetti bolognese to take on camp with us.
The ingredients were:

canola oil

onion

garlic

beef mince

tin tomatoes

water

oregano

diamond spaghetti

celery.

 

I was peeling the carrots and Jen was chopping them.

We put the mince in the saucepan and stirred it until it was no longer red.   We added the tomatoes,water,stock,salt and oregano.then we added the carrots and the celery.we stirred the extra vegetables until they were tender and no longer crunchy.we stirred them until the delicious concoction was complete.

By Jen and Rebecca

MAKING SUSHI

Room 5 are learning about Japan with Mrs Williams.
We are learning the language and we sing as well.

This time when she came in we made same sushi.  It was heaps of fun. We made vegetarian, tuna and salmon sushi.  We learnt how to say the ingredients in Japanese.  These are the ingredients:

gohan-rice           kyuuri-cucumber
nori-seaweed      stukemono-ginger
ninjin-carrot        supuun-spoon
sakana-salmon/tuna  nafiou-knife
su-vinegar            satau-sugar

Eeling

One dark  evening my dad and I went eeling. We went down to a friends house. I got five eels with my new line and we put them in the bucket.  It was awesome when the eel was hooked.  It rolled around like a crocodile.  It was difficult to get into the bucket because it was too big.  At home we gutted them, dried them and smoked them.  I took some to school to share with the class. 
By Jayson

Making sushi with Mrs Williams

Last Thursday Mrs Williams came to make sushi with us. It was really fun.

Things you need:

Grease proof paper,
Seaweed(Nori) ,
Rice(Gohan) ,
 Vinegar(Su),
Carrot(Ninjin),
Salmon/Tuna(Sakana),
Sugar(Satou),
Cucumber(Kyuuri),
Ginger(Tsukemono),
A knife(Naifu),
A spoon(Supuun)

Method:

First you lay down a piece of grease proof paper on a chopping board, then you put a piece of Nori on top. You then you have to lay down a 1cm layer of rice but leave a small line for sealing up later in the process.Next you put on sakana,(unless you want to have vegetarian)kyuuri and ninjin.Only stick them on down one end and make sure you spread out the vegetables so that the person who has the piece of sushi on the end gets some too. Once all of your fillings are on you can start to roll it up.
To roll it up you grab the end of the paper and roll it.When rolling tuck the paper under then pull it out. Repeat that until you're almost done. The little line you left when sticking the gohan on should still be there so that you can get some water and then press it down. And there you have it SUSHI!! 

Weet-Bix triathalon 2010

On the 21st of March the Weet-bix triathalon was held at Narrow Neck beach in Auckland. Seven people that go to Tomarata School participated in it. We had to get up at 5 o'clock and we left the house at 5:40. After a long car trip we arrived at the triathalon. The park was crowded because there were 2200 kids participating: The biggest Weetbix triathalon in history. After a race breifing we went down to the beach to start the first leg of the race. We had to swim about 200 metres and then run to the next leg of the race. We had to bike about 2 kilometres and then tag the runner so he could start the next leg of the race.We had to run about 1 kilometre before running to the finish where we got our gold medals. all the Tomarata kids did very well and all got at least top ten in their age groups. After the races we had time to have a rest and get our t-shirts signed by some mayor athaletes including Anthony Borok, Tony Woodcock and Temepara george.Then we had a raffle and went back into the cars for another long trip back home.

By Luke

ATHLETICS DAY

On the 17th of  March Tomarata School went to Centenial park for Athletics day. We competed in all the activities.
Michaela enjoyed the sprints Cara enjoyed the high jump and Holly enjoyed the relays. Tomarata won all three of the relays. 
The five and six year olds did activities like egg and spoon races and running races. Tomarata School did really well and we think that the whole school enjoyed it.

By Holly, Michaela and Cara

Japanese words we know

We have been building up the number of words we know in Japanese every week and now know many greetings, instructions and numbers.

Mangawai Beach Ed

On the 3rd of March Room5 and 6 went to Mangawai Heads beach to learn how to be safe in the water and sun. We met Nick and Raquel,  two life guards from two beaches in NZ. They told us how to spot a rip.  This is how: look for calm bits in the water and sometimes it has foam. We played some games in the water and on land and we had a great time.