Mitchell - WLJ - Day #7 - Keep New Zealand Beautiful!

Hey bloggers! Today is Day #7 of the Winter Learning Journey! Unfortunately today is the last day of the Winter Learning Journey! Noo! I will miss doing the Winter Learning Journey. I wish there was another week. Anyways let's begin!

Activity 1 : Beautiful Neighbourhood

While in Taupo, I go for a walk around the lake and see little bits of rubbish floating! I also notice that there is Rubbish on the footpaths, and also on the environment around me. With this on mind, I think about some ways I could Keep New Zealand Beautiful! 

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I have been asked to come up with 3 imaginative ideas on how I could change my neighbourhood and make it more beautiful. Here is my list of ideas:

1. I could make my neighbourhood beautiful by taking a walk around my street and picking up 10 pieces of rubbish each day/ or daily.
2. I could make my neighbourhood more beautiful if I and some others raked up everyone's leaves on their front lawn.
3. I could also make my neighbourhood more beautiful by mowing neighbours lawns with others.

Activity 2 : Relax

After I have finished up in Taupo, I decide to travel to Rotorua! - a town where you will have the great chance for some much needed rest and relaxation. When we arrive we visit the Tarawera Bush Pool, a geothermal hot pool which is located in the middle of a forest. That's pretty weird! Speaking of relaxation - 

I have been asked to post up a picture of me doing something I find relaxing in life! Here is a picture of me reading a book:

This is one of my favourite books!

So here is my picture of me reading a book! It's one of my favourite books! I also love to read because it takes my imagination to another world and it's really relaxing!

Bonus : Reflection

After relaxing in the Hot Pools, I decide to think a moment about what I have learn't about in the Winter Learning Journey so far. I have the option to either post a video or write a description about what I have done so far. I have decided to write a description. To earn full points I must talk about what I learned, what I liked, and what I liked about the Great Kiwi Road Trip. Here's my description! : 

I am so excited to have done the Winter Learning Journey and complete it! What I learned about the Great Kiwi Road Trip was that New Zealand is a beautiful country with it's beautiful people, animals and so much more! New Zealand is one of the best countries in the world! I also learnt that New Zealand can be dirty with it's environment sometimes but we can always clean it up!  

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What I liked about the Winter Learning Journey was that we learned about heaps of things I didn't even know about New Zealand and it was a great topic to choose for the Winter Learning Journey. I also liked how we travelled around in a shuttle van and got to explore heaps of different places! I even adopted a Brown Kiwi on my blog!

What I didn't like about the trip was nothing at all! I loved the whole experience!

What surprised me was that I found lots of interesting facts along the days of tourist spots, native animals, famous people and heaps more! It was really fun!

Well today is the last day of the Winter Learning Journey! Also a big huge fantastic shout - out to Rachel Williams for making this possible! This wouldn't have been possible without you. Thanks so much Rachel for creating this wonderful fun blogging programme! You are awesome!

Thanks for reading!

By Mitchell.M

14/07/17

P.S : See you soon bloggers! I will also blog tomorrow about my fun experience at Rainbows End for my sisters birthday party! See you then! 

Mitchell's Tech Dish - Blueberry Muffins

Hey bloggers! Today was the last tech dish I made. I hope you guys liked all my other dishes I made. On the last day of cooking we mad blueberry muffins.

Here is how we made it: First of all I put 200 grams of icing sugar in a bowl. Next I put 200 grams of Self raising flour into a medium bowl. Then my buddy chopped up some pieces of butter. Then we put the butter into the bowl with the icing sugar and mixed it up with a electric mixer.

Then after it was mixed we put the self raising flour with the icing sugar and butter mixture and started to mix. Then I ran to go get the muffin liners and put them inside the muffin holders.

We put the mixture in gently with a spatula. Then I added blueberries into the muffin liners filled with the muffin mixture. Then we gave it to Miss Heka to put in the oven to bake.

While we were waiting we were cleaning up and washing the dishes. After waiting it was finally ready to eat. We put the muffins in a brown paper bag and packed it away.

Thank you to Miss Heka who helped and taught us how to bake and cook yummy and delicious things. She is the best baker/cooker I know. She should own a restaurant or a bakery. Hopefully I get to be in Food tech again next year.

Here is a photo of the muffins I made : 

Thank you Miss Heka!

Thanks for reading!

By Mitchell.M

18/05/17

Mitchell's Summer Learning Journey - Prize ! || 2016 - 2017

Hey blog viewers! If you didn't know I came 1st equal for the Summer Learning Journey. It took part from the 2016 holidays in December until January 2017. If you have been reading my blog posts over the holiday you are Awesome! It took alot of commitment. It was a fun experience learning and visiting Japan! It's a really cool country. So I won a prize and I took this picture on the day I received the prize: 

Thank you so much to Rachel for this prize. It was really awesome. Here is a list of the things I used that was included in this prize: 

Washable Markers

Colouring Book

Crackers

Kimchi Ramyun - Noodle soup

Japanese Udon noodles

Chocolate

Mobile phone 

Corkboard

I just need to listen to that David Bowie album. His music must be cool!

Thank you everybody for reading.

By Mitchell.M

6/03/17

P.S : See you on the next blogging journey! Which I think is the Winter learning Journey.

Good Bye for now.

 

Mitchell - New Zealand Holiday 2016/2017

Hello bloggers. I had a very fun experience up North with my family. We had an amazing time! We drove all the way up to Tutukaka which is very close to Whangarei. We also spent New years there and it was so cool. Heaps of fireworks banging and sparkling in the air. It was very fun. We camped at Tutukaka Holiday park  and it was a really good holiday park which is really cool and recommended. 

Here is a picture of us going to Tutukaka. At Tutukaka we went to some really cool beaches such as Sandy Bay. There was very big waves and really Sandy sand! Here are some pictures of it. 

We also had a awesome Christmas and we had really cool gifts from family members. Here is some pictures from our Christmas eve lunch. Me and my sisters also took a picture with Santa at the mall. 

On the way back from Tutukaka we decide to stop off at Mangawhai heads to see our cousins who were also having a holiday. They stayed in a bach. Here are some pictures. We also went to the Mangawhai Heads reserve beach. It was really fun too. 
Here is a picture of all of us at the bach our cousins and other family were staying at.

Yesterday we said bye to our Fijian cousins who came to visit. We said bye to them at the airport last night. They also flew in the morning at 2:00 am. Here are some pictures: ------------------------------------------->

Thanks for reading
By Mitchell.M
8/01/2017

Mitchell Peter and Erin thank you card 2016

Dear Peter and Erin,

Camp Bentzon,Kawau Island

Auckland

New Zealand

Its me Mitchell from PES. I would just like to say thank you for making this year's camp for the Year 6's amazing. It would not have been fun if it wasn't for you. Thank you for letting us use your Kayak's, Raft equipment,Boats and heaps more of fun other things. Thanks for letting us have this awesome opportunity. My favorite activity to participate in was the Orienteering and the Confidence Course. 

Kind regards,

Mitchell 

Walt: write a letter using the correct format

Walt: summarise some of our camp highlights into succinct paragraphs