My Chinese zodiac animal

 This week for Chinese language week our challenge was to draw your own Chinese zodiac animal.  My zodiac animal is a tiger so I drew it on a piece of paper. Fun fact I actually have the same animal as my great grandma.

Chinese greetings

 Today my task for Chinese language week was to say some greetings in mandarin. 

Sorry I was a bit awkward.

Making dumplings

 Today for Chinese language week I made Dumplings. Though I think that dumplings aren't the only food that resembles the Chinese culture. But I think the teachers are just saying dumplings because you can't seem to make all of the Chinese dishes. Though I still think we should also be able to make different food that  Chinese people eat because after all it is a week for Chinese people.

Things I have learnt during the level 4 lock down

 During the level four lock down.

 I have learn't where  a annoying boy from my neighborhood lives. 

I have also gotten better at writing from creating lots of blog posts for people to enjoy. 

My cooking skills have improved and I can also make very delicious lemonade.

As well as learning how to cook I have learn't about how to stay resilient during lockdown and how to maintain a good attitude.

Overall my lock down has been quite smooth and I think having to experience some problems also makes life in lock down more interesting.

A cooking challenge

 Today my challenge was to cook some food at home I did it by myself since the family members were busy and here are some pictures my dad took.  Also these were two times I cooked so that's why I'm wearing different clothing. Sorry about my strange  face expressions. 

My comfort monster

 Yesterday my school task was to make a monster that you would go to when you were upset we had to draw the monster  as well as make a comic out of it so here is a picture of my monster.

My egg challenge

 Today my task was to make a outer covering for an egg so it doesn't crack. What I learn't from this experiment is that even if you make the outer covering very stable it still has a chance of cracking. For this experiment my dad guided me through what he thought was the best way to make a outer covering for the little round egg.  I used a zip lock bag, tissues, sponges, and rubber bands. Here is a video of my experiment.  

My Tongan week presentation

I know it's a bit late but a few weeks ago was Tongan language week but I forgot to share my presentation with you guys so here it is and please leave me a comment on how I can change it or whether I have any mistakes or not.

Calling family members

 So right now it is the mid Autumn festival which is celebrated in some Asian countries. My family is in Taiwan which also celebrates  the festival,  yesterday we called them to see what they were up to and it turned out they were having fun making moon cakes without us. They were also setting up for a barbecue in front of their house which in Taiwan is a tradition to do a barbecue in your driveway. It looked super exciting and made me want  to go back to Taiwan to celebrate with them. But instead I'm in New Zealand watching them have fun and eat lots of food. But though they are having fun I'm sure they probably wouldn't want to send us any moon cakes.

Update on my life in lock down

 I've gotten quite used to lockdown now, but not just because of past experiences because of the lockdown we are having right now. It's a shame I don't live in another island in New Zealand   because otherwise I would be in school right now instead of watching rain fall down from my window at at home.  Other than the loneliness, distance learning is okay and it gives you an opportunity  to experience what it's like to be in a worldwide pandemic and in the future I'm sure you will still remember the time we had a world wide pandemic and had to go into lockdown.

My story about an oat

 I couldn't give you guys access to the doc so I copy pasted the story I hope you like it .

Olly was an oat who loved his life. He successfully  went through all stages of growing  and now he is an oat living in a box of weetbix. Olly got along with everyone and was loved by everyone  so he thought his life could not possibly get better. Well he was right on that point, his life did not get better in fact it turned out to be a total disaster and I will talk about his disastrous life starting now.

On this day Olly was more excited than usual because he had a feeling in his gut something was going to happen. Like I said Olly did not expect his life to go any better because he was already living a dream but he never had a thought on whether his life could go wrong or not. He had a nightmare the night before but he thought nothing of it, the nightmare was about how everything that could possibly go wrong went wrong but he brushed it off and said “it’s just a dream”. Little did young Olly know this wasn’t just a dream and he was about to get hit with a lot of deja vu.

 Now Olly woke up the next  day to find his beloved teddy had been stolen, he cried all night and dreamed about his soft fluffy coating hoping teddy would come back. After a week he thought things had gotten better but boy was he wrong that was only the start of his bad luck.

 Later on in the day everyone in the box of weetbix were celebrating because they were the only box who were purchased off the shelf in countdown. While on  their ride to their new home expecting a welcome party Olly suggested that they should be extra nice and help set up what they thought would be a welcome party.

 But when they arrived they were confused and they thought where the surprise party was but they sat  patiently waiting in the box. Finally!  they all thought after feeling someone pick up the box to go into the house. Meanwhile inside the house the young lady carefully opened up the cardboard cereal box and cut open the packet. Every grain and oat cheered as loud as they could but the lady couldn't hear so they gave up, but instead of picking them up she poured them into a bowl and later on poured cold fresh milk on top of their heads. For everyone this was quite frightening but only Olly found it entertaining. He cheered for more milk while others looked him up and down as if they never even knew him. Suddenly out of nowhere plopped a silver spoon and it scooped Olly up and put him in a big chomper. Luckily he escaped while trying to realise that this wasn’t a dream. He ran outside the open window and prayed that his friends would be safe as well. Soon he couldn’t bear to stay anymore and leaped off the window frame into the great universe that he had never even taken a glimpse at before.

Not long after Olly had escaped he found himself lost, I mean who can blame him he had spent his whole life in a cardboard box.  But, he stayed resilient and kept walking until he arrived in a patch of grass. The insects living inside that patch of grass were all friendly and willing to take him in as a new friend and he gladly accepted and he continued the rest of his life in the patch of grass with his new friends never to see his old friends again.

                                                        The end                                                            by Priscilla

  

My Pepeha for today

 For Maori language week's second task I did Pepeha I hope you like it .

Learning a Maori Karakia

 Today for Maori language week I did a Screencastify  on myself saying a Maori Karakia which is basically a prayer before you eat.

Tongan language week

 Today our reading activity was to go on a presentation that was talking about Tonga I chose to read about the Tongan flag. I also learn't that Christianity was introduced to Tonga from Europeans.

 

What if my soft toys came to life

 This week our writing task was on what would happen if our soft toys came to life so here is my writing.  I hope you like it and leave me a comment on how I can improve.  

 

Washing my fish tank

 Yesterday my sister and I washed our fish tank, we had to figure out a transportation system for the fish and we ended up putting the fish in a bucket. When I started to wash the blue chunky textured gravel from our fish tank. My sister and I got a whiff of a very stinky smell it smelt as if a whale farted into our bathroom. But I told my sister I would do it and she went on to wash our fish tank. After a while the water got really dirty so I decided that I would use a clear plastic cup to scoop up the dirty poo water and throw it outside. Meanwhile when I was outside my sister went to check on the gravel to find the sink had been unplugged, we quickly scooped up the gravel and brought it outside to wash when we were finished washing I suddenly saw a spider and my instincts were to kill it. So I threw a handful of gravel "oops"  I said as I slowly picked  up the tiny bits of gravel that had fallen onto the mossy  ground. 

                                         Update on my fish 

In one of my recent blog posts I talked about my pet fish, right.

 Well before I was washing the fish tank and transporting the fish I came to realize the fish really had gone missing I searched the gravel and the pots but it was nowhere to be seen so I guess we are left with three fish now. 

Finding old soft toys

A few weeks ago I opened up a cupboard to see that there was a box. I dragged the box out of it's cold mysterious place and opened the box up. The contents of the box were my old childhood soft toys that I thought my parents had given away, I flipped around the old dusty toys and found the biggest bear I owned. It's face was still covered with the blue and green paint that I had splotched on his face when I was younger. Then I spotted my old hot pink purse, inside the purse held a little stack of cards and some hair ties. Though I wanted to take all my old toys out I figured it wouldn't really fit everywhere so I only took the mini stack of cards.

Ups and downs of lock down

 Throughout lock down I have come to realize the ups and downs of lock down. 

Firstly I will talk about what is good about lock down. First of all you can eat any type of delicacy in your house like snacks or full course meals made by your family. Secondly you have no limit to the amount of food you can eat. Thirdly you are able to do things that you normally are not able to do during school breaks.

What I don't like about lock down. Firstly, you can not meet any of you're friends in person and if you don't have their contact you will feel very lonely, especially if you are a only child. Next a lot of school activities most likely will not go on like the APPA choir festival because of the mass gathering. Also, it is kind of hard to concentrate when all the work you do is on a device and if you have a bad internet connection  you would not be able to do any work apart from activities that don't require internet.

I hope you agree with me and leave me a comment on how I can work on this.