Food at MOTEC

      

Since week 1 of Motec we have been learning how to cook delicious food such as  sushi, pizza, wedges, corn fritters, muffins, kebabs. We also made up our own recipes and then made them the following week.

The hard part of food technology is the clean up at the end and the best part is to scoff down your food once you get back to school.

Once we get to our cooking station we have to check that we have all our items. If we don't, the others get to start and we have to go and find the ingredients or we have to borrow some from the teacher.  Next we start getting our ingredients for our type of food, in this case its sushi. We had to get sushi rice and mix it up with sushi rice vinegar and sugar and table salt. After that we start making our divine meal.  Sadly we can't eat it on the bus and have to wait until we get back to school.

Our teacher also teaches us about hygiene, nutrition and how important it is to eat healthily, not just your McDonald's,which is very helpful to some people who need a wake up call from over eating that type of food.

 Personally I think there are no bad stations at Motec but this is the most fun and the yummiest. 

written by Jed

Nikky Nakky Noo

                  Since Week One of Motec, we have been doing a radio show  called Nikky Nikky Noo. 

First we had to learn about the copyright law in our booklets on the computer because if we stole any songs we would have to pay royalties for it with the price range around about $500 to $1000 - even for a Justin Bieber song.  

Next, we started thinking of the qualities of a good radio show.  Things such as good songs, commentary, quizzes and interviews. It was quite hard to get non copyrighted songs that are the same quality as the ones on the top 10 on MTV but after a while we managed to get some songs that are up to standard.

After preparing the list of songs we're going to do, we started doing our parts in the radio show like being the host or doing the quizzes  and the other jobs like music, intro/outro, etc.

Next Zak and Max edited everything and put it together before we shared it with our teacher on Google Apps. She published it on the Parkland School  website with all the other classes radio shows.

If you want to listen go and click this link--Mapua Radio Show 
written by Jed 

Learning about Learning

Since Week 1 of Term 1, we have been learning about our brain - how it functions, the uses of it and how it learns. Every living thing has intelligence. Most people would think that intelligence is how smart you are. Well that's not exactly right; intelligence can be for music, art, sports, problem solving and other stuff other than school work

Everybody is born with intelligence because if you didn't have intelligence would you be alive? No you wouldn't.

Have you ever wondered, if your brain was cut in half, would you survive? We watched a video clip and discovered that you can survive and most likely will have multi-talents such as if you were a right-hander you could write with your left hand.  We also learnt that if part of your brain becomes damaged then the other areas of the brain can help to carry on the task that the damaged part used to. The brain is able to adapt and improve its functions.

You have two sides of your brain ( right and left ) the right and left sides are completely opposite to each other with their different attributes

The right is artistic, creative, imaginative

The left side is logical, mathematical, linguistic ( language ) 

basically the left is for school work and problem solving and the right is for art and music and creativity.

 

So to sum it all up our brain is phenomenal and the most important organ in our precious bodies without our brain we would be a lifeless body. 

Written By Jed

mathletics

We have a Mathletics account to use for maths at school and home. We usually have tasks to do for home learning that you can do on Mathletics. One of the things you can do in Mathletics is to play Live Mathletics, which is a good way to improve your basic facts knowledge and speed. You can compete against others around the world from countries such as Germany, Austria, New Zealand, Australia, USA, and the UK. 

Some of the levels on Live Mathletics are challenging; some of the questions were stuff that I didn't know, like AxR = ? Anyway our class has some very smart kids that can work out those problems and questions. This can help you for school maths without your teacher being there for you, so it's double the learning and this makes you better at maths.

This is a great leaning opportunity for all of the students at Mapua School my favourite part about this is that you can compete against each other from different places which is quite intriguing. 

Written by Jed

Modigliani and Fedro Art

 For art during Term 1 we will be doing portraits of each other using the styles of Modigliani and Fedro.  The differences between Modigliani and Fedro is that Modigliani uses older colours that are less bright than Fedro's.  I prefer Fedro's style because he is more modern. They are practically the same - except the fact that Fedro is alive and Modigliani isn't. 

First we started off with pastels, using white we did our outlines for where our mouth was going and nose and eyes, etc. Next we started colouring our hair or our eyes. Next we  colour our person and last, but not least, edit the mistakes and hang it up on the wall.

I think that using this style and technique was fun to do and a quite easy alternative to painting portraits; its easy but it's not terrible like all the other shortcuts; its effective and eye catching.

Modigliani

Fedro

We think that Fedro has been inspired to be a junior Modigliani who I think is an exceptional artist. I think that he will probably make lots of money if he does the right style - hopefully he will be alive to be successful unlike  Picasso and Modigliani. 

Question: How come Picasso and Modigliani didn't manage to live a good life and Leonardo Divinci did?  

written by Jed 

Harry Potter Fans

  

Here are some Harry Potter activities for you to do.

First of all let's sort you into a House. I'm Raven Claw by the way, so to find out what house you are in do the test at this website link |harry potter house sorter|
Now you have taken the test hopefully you're not slytherin.
To become a true Harry Potter you have to have a wand, right, so here is a step by step guide on how to make a Harry Potter wand (paper).
2. Slightly roll your paper starting in the corner
3. Glue the last third of the roll
4. Then continue to roll as you hold the wand tightly and hold with fingers till its dry 

1. Prepare your paper 

Need help go to this website---- need help click here for the wand ( instructions )

Written by jed