My family getting free food parcels!

Yesterday we went to Otara to pick up our free food parcels, I was so excited! It was a long drive but we got use to it. When we got to Otara we saw that the line was very long. My aunty's best friend's brother was working there giving out the free parcels.  Waiting in line we were very bored so my aunty played some cool music and recorded me while I was dancing. It took seconds, minutes, and HOURS!! Finally we were the next one to get our food parcels which took a long time. I call my aunty's bestfriend friend aunty because they are very close. Her younger brother came with a clip board, my aunty and him were laughing and talking. He opened our boot and put two heavy boxes and three bags with veges and fruits in it. When we got home we gave one box and bag to my aunty's bestfriend. Our cupboard was so full when we put the food in and we put veges in the fridge and fruits in the basket near our eating table. 

Our family was very happy and we also got more masks. 

By Laura <3

Fudge Pudding

                                              Fudge Pudding from Mrs Agnew.

At dawn I was shopping for ingredients for a desert called fudge pudding that Mrs Agnew gave us the recipe for. There was a few things to buy because it was a simple desert and I was so excited! My aunty and I went to the supermarket to get the ingredient and the excitement made me so hot I had to take off my super warm jacket I was wearing.

I put some blue gloves and started to grease butter on the casserole. I realised that I put too much butter on the casserole so I got some paper towels and wiped some off. It was super fun to make, following the recipe that Mrs Agnew gave me. When we finished putting all the ingredients in we poured the coffee over the mix that was inside the casserole. As soon as we finished we put the fudge pudding in the oven and put the timer on for 40 minutes. 

We doubled the recipe so we could feed our whole family. The fudge tasted so good and we did whipped cream using the electric beaters. I enjoyed the pudding, it was fantastic and a master piece of mine!

My Auntie braids my hair!

                                 My Auntie braids my hair!!

One night my favourite aunty asked me if she could braid my beautiful hair, but she said it would really hurt! I said "yes" so she started from the top of my hair. The first one was ok but when she did the second one I WAS HURTING IN PAIN!!! It felt like a bully of mine was pulling my hair so HARD that my hair would all come off but, it didn't! A lot of time went past and it felt like ages! finally she finished one side so i looked in the mirror and i was so shocked because it looked so nice and magnificent on me! My aunty asked me if i wanted to braid the other side of my hair. I still said yes and even though it hurt I just wanted to braid my hair. The other side was just like the other side but 10 TIMES WORSE!!! My eyes were teary and red but at least it was almost finished! When I finished I looked 10 times better than I looked before! I was very happy and i show my nana who said it was gorgeous and beautiful! After that I watched a movie with my aunty and went to sleep!

My Pepeha

 This is my pepeha to celebrate Te Reo Maori Week

Lemonade Scones Recipe

                                     Lemonade Scones Recipe!

Ingredients: 4 cups of standard high grade flour
4 tsp baking powder 1 cup of sprite 1 cup of cream 3 caps of vanilla essence Recipe: 1. Preheat oven to 160C 2. Sift flour and baking powder into large bowl 3. Add sprite and cream and vanilla essence to mixture and fold well 4. On clean bench top or baking paper, add a little flour. Also cover hands with a little flour and take Dough out of bowl 5. Kneed dough so all ingredients are mixed in well. Add flour as you go to hands and bench if needed (flour helps dough not stick on hands too much) 6. Fold the dough into a square shaped and cut into small pieces 8. Place pieces with spaces in between on an oven tray and place in oven 9. Let scones cook for 35 mins 10. Take them out to cool and settle

This is the recipe i followed to make my scones I hope you like it!

DURING LOCKDOWN

                                            DURING LOCKDOWN:>

Today was a very cloudy and windy morning, the sky was grey, but still it was a beautiful day! I woke up late at 10:00 to do my school work and I tried to catch up. I laid my school work out and set my nanas google meeting because she didn't know how. I started my work and worked very hard to catchup and complete different tasks. 

I had a few breaks and learning was super fun and it comforts me!

I practiced my addition maths and I found it quite easy! I did only half of it so I could save some tomorrow. When i finished all my work I watched StoryOnline and drew this picture I am holding. This picture is of Alma and a duck. I got the idea of drawing these two characters from the 'how to draw' link.

 I really enjoyed My homework because it was fun!

During LOCKDOWN

During LOCKDOWN

Today I was woken up at 7.00 in the morning by my aunty to go for a walk. She said to ask my Nana if she wanted to come with us and she said yes.We brushed our teeth, got ready and off we went.  I was wondering where were we walking too but I just had you wait and see. I was excited and my right leg was aching and it felt like my leg had fallen asleep. The sun hasn't rose yet and it was pretty chilly outside. 

As we were walking, my aunty was ahead of us and stopped at a path on our left and she started walking down that track. The path was filled with beautiful tall trees and lots of nature. It was quite long and the cool morning breeze made me feel relaxed too. 

When we got out of the path I saw a beautiful ocean on the opposite side from us. We saw other people walking who had umbrellas because it was starting to spit and this freaked me out because we weren't home yet and the clouds were turning grey.

Finally, ww were almost home with my aching leg and I felt very happy about this. When we got to the drive way, we stretched our legs and it felt very good. We all got in,  had some water and cooled ourselves down.