Conservation Week Bingo

For conservation week we have a bingo board to fill in. This is my something down low. It was to wet to go outside but I found this or mum found this first.

Yesterday while Mum was in my room she found a honey bee on the window sill. It probably flew in on the weekend when the windows were open. It looked pretty sad so we gave it a sugar-water drink and then put it outside on the porch by the kitchen. Mum said the water should give it some energy to be able to fly away back home.

It was really cool to see one up close. I was reading a book yesterday with my reading group about a man who photo's bugs and insects in his garden. This reminded me of that.

Boys Brigade

 Boys Brigade Lockdown Activities 

August 25th 2021 By Toby and Mum

I wasn’t too happy to hear Mum had contacted John while I was out with Dad in the truck to find out about activities for brigade but when she said John had said no we would wait until Friday to see what happens and sort it next week It was ok. I was a little upset I might not get all my stars to carry on to the gold section but mum said im sure there will be a chance to do something to make these days up if and when we can. Then Charlotte messaged Mum and said she was happy to hear I wanted to do some extra things that she would send them to Mum. They weren’t too bad and I got to choose what ones I wanted to do and if I wanted to do them. 

The three tasks were

1. Identify 5 native plants and take a leaf or bark rubbing. 

2. Prepare and cook breakfast, lunch or tea

    Extra star for setting the table

3. Create my own obstacle course and time myself doing it

I thought really, I’m not cooking I can’t do that but after talking to Mum and deciding that it could be an easy one like chicken wraps, Yes that was going to be the first thing I’ll do.

Below are the photo’s Mum took of me preparing, cooking and plating the chicken wraps I made. I really wasn’t into cooking the chicken. I’ve been in the kitchen when the pan has spat at mum and didn’t like it. Mum said she wouldn’t let that happen to me so we started prepping. I first started with cutting up mushrooms and putting them into a pan with some butter. These were for mum’s wraps, I don’t like mushrooms.

I cut the chicken up watching the sharp knife. It was hard to get used to cutting something like chicken but I got there. I put it into a bowl with oil and the crumb mix. Mixed it all around. Mum got the pan hot and I put the chicken into the pan to cook. It didn’t spit but I was still afraid of the pan and dropped a piece right after mum took the photo of me placing the chicken on the pan. We rubbished that piece as you can’t cook it after it’s been on the floor. Yuck 

Mum carried on cooking the chicken after this as I was not going to do it anymore. While mum was cooking the chicken I set the table for us. Placemats knife and fork a glass for a drink and a paper towel for our hands afterward. Yes the knives and forks were just for show as we used our hands to eat these

Once the chicken was cooked she put it into a dish with a paper towel to drain any extra oil off of the chicken.

We put the wraps in the microwave to warm them up I spread mayonnaise onto them added cheese after that to mine and lettuce first to mums ones. Mushrooms for mum’s sour cream for both of them the chicken on top.

They were really easy to make and really yummy to eat. Making them myself I felt really good and if mum lets me I’d do it again. I might even have a go and try something else next time.

Now I have to choose my next activity to do and get more stars 

 

Reciprocal Reading

In Reciprocal Reading  we use a card which tells us what order it goes in.  The first one is the leader. The leader needs to keep the group moving. The next one is predictor. The predictor uses information from the page. The Questioner asks Questions to a chosen person in the group. The Clarifier asks if any one has any hard words that  that they don't understand. The summariser collects information from the text and summarises the page. I am working on the summariser because I am finding it hard being it cause you need to identify the important information on the page.

This is cheese

I was doing some reading on study ladder and learning about cheese and how it is made.

Mum said she had some different cheese in the fridge if I wanted to taste it.

Double cream blue cheese 

                                           This is the cheese out of the wrapper and this it double cream blue cheese and on the outside it has black wax all around it. The wax on the outside of the cheese helps to stop mould growing on it.

                                        This is me eating the cheese. I thought the cheese tasted gross and I had to spit it out after trying it. Mum laughed at me she thought it was really funny. She likes this cheese on crackers. 

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