Shake Out

Prsuasive Writing

This is a Prezi made by me and Tim from room 5.

The Legend of Matariki

Maths Popplet

This is a Popplet to aswer to questions to: http://robertkaplinsky.com/work/how-many-hot-dogs-and-buns-should-he-buy/

Maori DLO

MAORI DLO by Mengchun on GoAnimate

Plagiarism & Refrencing

Plagiarism

Dictionary: an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author.

My Own Version: Copying someone’s work without stating the source of the information.

Referencing

Dictionary: an act or instance of referring.

My Own Version: Stating the source somewhere on the piece of work.

Dictionary Source: http://dictionary.reference.com/

Plagiarising: http://everydaylife.globalpost.com/can-happen-student-found-guilty-plagiarism-4283.html

If you plagiarise, it might affect you finding a job, and in university you might be down graded or worst, expelled.  Writers that were find plagiarising had their books taken off the market.

Holiday Reading #3

Title: Harry Potter (Philosopher's Stone)
Author: J. K. Rowling
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy

Pumpkin Pastries/ Pumpkin Pie?

Ingredients

• Chilled pie dough for one single-crust 9-inch pie (Pie crust recipe here)
• 3 large eggs
• 1/2 cup (100 grams) granulated sugar
• 1/3 cup (65 grams) light brown sugar
• 1 (15-ounce) can pure pumpkin puree or 2 cups (440 grams) fresh pumpkin puree
• 3/4 cup (175 ml) heavy whipping cream
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
• Method:
• Prepare Pie Crust: Roll out dough so that it is two inches larger than your pie dish. Gently press dough down into the dish so that it lines the bottom and sides. (Be careful not to pull or stretch the dough). Trim dough to within 1/2-inch of the dish edge.
• Fold edges of dough underneath itself, creating a thicker, 1/4-inch border that rests on the lip of the dish. Crimp edges.  Refrigerate while you make the pie filling.
• Make Pie Filling: Whisk eggs and both sugars together until smooth. Add pumpkin puree, cream, vanilla, cinnamon, ginger, cloves and the salt. Stir until well blended.
• Bake Pie: Heat oven to 425 degrees F. Transfer pie shell to a baking sheet. Pour pumpkin filling into the pie shell. Bake pie at 425 degrees for 15 minutes. Reduce the oven temperature to 375 degrees and bake 35 to 45 minutes or until a toothpick or thin knife plunged it into the pie, about 2 inches from the edge, comes out clean. Rotate once or twice during baking. If, while the pie bakes, the tops of the crust becomes too dark, cover with a thin strip of aluminum foil.
• Cool Pie: Cool on a wire rack for 2 hours or until room temperature. Cut into 8 wedges and serve alone or topped with whipped cream.
• Link/Source: http://www.inspiredtaste.net/24962/pumpkin-pie-recipe/
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Moon Festival

Our family celebrates the Moon Festival, or the mid-Autumn festival, every year.  As its name implies, it is celebrated in mid Autumn.  Or more specifically, the 15th of the 8th of the Lunar year.  During the Moon Festival, people gather with their families and friends, or anyone they are close to.  Most Chinese families eat moon cakes, my family also have a traditional Chinese lunch and dinner.  We start off with a normal breakfast.

In the morning, my family eat toast with chocolate, peanut or butter spread for breakfast, and my sibling’s eat it with cereal.  But my dad likes to eat rice with any leftovers from the day before.  We don’t have any moon cakes the morning because my mum says it’s too sweet.  Sometimes I make instant coffee for the grown-ups in the morning (mum, dad and me), or just tea for myself.  We start eating moon cakes in the afternoon.

My brother and sister eat moon cakes in the afternoon for snacks at around 12 or 1, but not so many.  We have mooncakes in the afternoon thanks to my mum buying too many deluxe packs (which she does every year).  For lunch we usually have homemade dumplings or noodles in the fridge made by mum from yesterday.  One time my baby sister tried to make it, it ended up in a mess.  The dumplings are filled with eggs, bacon and beans it is delicious!  After some time after lunch, the sun begins to set, and it’s time for dinner, and more moon cakes.

When dad comes home at night, the tables are probably already set.  Dinner is the most important meal of the day to us.  We have fish, pork, vegetables, and of course, moon cakes!  Last year’s Moon Festival my mum’s friends came to New Zealand to take a tour.  They dropped by our house a day before the Moon Festival.  We had chicken wings, sweet and sour soup and fried rice.  After dinner, if we’re not full enough, we have a lot of moon cakes for dessert.  We get candy afterwards, and it’s always the brand that mixes a lot of candy together.

The Moon Festival is important to many Chinese families.  Where they are, they always gather at one place, home or restaurant, to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival.  The lunar year calendar is different from the calendar we’re using, so the date changes every year.  This year’s Moon Festival is on the 8th of September, so the mooncakes are in stock in supermarkets.  My mum always buys the deluxe pack at the local Chinese market.

Mengchun

How to Play President

President

President is a type of card game that you can play anywhere with a pack of cards.  It is recommended for 4 players or more, but it is also possible to play with two players.  The rules are easy, and it is a good way to pass your time if you are bored.  Once you find your cards, start with setting up the game.

Set up the game by dividing up the pack of cards evenly between the players you have.  When you’re finished there should be no cards left except the jokers.  The person with the three of clubs starts.  That player needs to put down the three of clubs.  The order of who will put down their card next will always go clockwise.  The next part is how to actually play.

After the person has put down the three of clubs, The person on his left(clockwise) will put down a card.  Their card needs to be bigger than three, for example four, six or queen.  The suit in the doesn’t matter.  Here is the order of the cards:

Smallest: 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - Jack - Queen - King - Ace - 2 :Biggest

As shown above, two is the biggest number.  I suggest that you save your 2, for it can win the round automatically.  If you don’t have any cards to put down, say pass, then you’re out of the round.  The next person puts down their card.  If no one in the group can put down a card bigger than the one on the table, the person who owns the card on the table wins the round, and gets to start.  If you have two, three or even four of the same number, you can put down a double.  Lets say I have three Jacks, I put down the three Jacks to start, the next person needs to put down three of either Queen, KIng, Ace or two.  This is a great way to play your cards since it uses a lot of your cards, and other players might not have doubles or triples.  The first person who finishes using all of their cards is the president.  

Rankings are one of the special rules of this game.  President is the winner, vice president is the second, if you have 4 players then you won’t have neutral (or citizen).  The scum is the loser, vice scum is the player before scum.  Order 0f the rankings:

Winner : President - Vice Pres- Neutral(As many as you like) - Worker - Rubbish Picker ; Loser

Also, if you put down three cards in order in a row, then the next card and the next needs to be in order.  If I put down a 4, the next person puts down a 5, and the next a 6, then the next needs to be 7.  This only ends after the round is finished.

Also, in the next game, the rubbish picker gives his two best cards to the president, the president gives his two worst cards to the rubbish picker.  The worker gives him only one of his best card to the vice, and the vice gives him his one worst card.

I really like playing President, and I hope you do too.  It is a great way to pass your time with your friends or family.  The main point with President is luck.  With some good cards, even a rubbish picker can become a president.  I hope you have fun playing this game!

Mengchun

Telling Where

The sparkling beach is crowded with people.  Toddlers are running, as if there is something invisible chasing them.  The shining sun sometimes turns dim, but brightens up again a few seconds later.  The smell of waffle cone ice cream’s wafted across the beach.

The Greenhouse Effect

The Earth is getting hotter by emmision trapping the heat and buncing it back to Earth.  Emmision is producted by vehicles, farm animals and factories.  If icebergs (Northpole, Southpole) melts by the heat caused by emmision, little islands will get covered by water.

Why do we celebrate Waitangi Day?

Waitangi Day is a public holiday on the 6th of January, 1840.  It has been a public holiday since 1957, first officially commemorate in 1934.  For Maori, the day was for reflecting on the treaty.  It is to remember that the day that the Maori and the Pakeha signed the treaty and shared privileges.  Everyone gets a day off.

You might have wondered why they have a treaty?  At first when the early settlers came to New Zealand, they wanted to live here.  But the Maori didn’t want them to live on their land, and so an idea of a treaty came along.  The British Governor made laws that Maori can follow and be protected, while the British can come and live on their lands.

It is signed by Maori chiefs and European settlers in the Treaty house (which belongs to James Busby), in the Bay of Plenty.  William Hobson was the co-author of the treaty, with the help of his secretary James Freeman and James Busby, owner of the Treaty house.  The first chief to sign the treaty was Hone Heke, along with some 40 other chiefs before the day William Hobson planned to start signing the treaty.  Afterwards about 530 - 540 chiefs signed the treaty too.

My favourite part about Waitangi Day is I get to have a day off!