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 

 

Mrs Kings Day off hunt

 Mrs King gave the whole school a day off on the 31st of August as we had all been working so well over the first week of lockdown. Did you know that this is the last day of winter and we go into spring on the 1st of September. I like September as it's my birthday month. I know lots of people born in September my karate teacher Zephyr my mum and it's also the start of whitebait fishing

This whole scavenger hunt made me think 

Mrs King's scavenger hunt has 30 different things we had to find. The sunny day made it nice to go outside and look for things. Mum decided it would be nice to go for a walk so we jumped in the car and we got very surprised when the police officer stopped her for speeding. He didn't give her a ticket but told her we shouldn't be driving to go for a walk in level 4 we could do it tomorrow in level 3 thou. We were right beside the Mananui walkway so we went there instead of the Mahinapua one that Mum wanted to go to.  

Found something unexpected when Mum got pulled over                      this is the same type of police car as we didn't get a photo

I never noticed the Manannui Walkway before. we travel pass this everyday and I thought it was just some bush. It's a walk that goes down to the beach only takes 20 minutes to do the walk. 

These are some of the things we found along the walk we did

This is what I seen up very high 

it was fun walking through the bush 

      

This weka was hiding in the bush                 this is something round a fishing buoy on a round fence post

This is the beach at Mananui looking down towards our place. Mum said the mountain in the distance is Mt Cook or Aoraki. This is something that makes me happy and helps me relax. I can not see anything in the sky and that makes a big change to the clouds we have had for the last couple of days. 

I wonder where the dog came from that made these prints in the sand? I wonder what type of dog it is? 

                 

These two stones have spots on them. I'm going to paint the other side of these and then put back along the track for someone to find.

  

These next photos were a really cool find.

 

Walking along the track to the beach you couldn't see this hollow tree with stones in them you could only see it when walking back to the carpark 

This next find was very hard to get a good photo this is a white striped mushroom we found on the side of the track 

these tiny pebbles i found on the beach I thought the green one may have been a piece of greenstone

I couldn't find all the things on our walk so I started to look around home as well and these are what I found

When we got home it was time for lunch and mum made me a snack of tatties they smell good

Mum has a plant in her garden that has a beautiful flower this is the tree 

this is a magnolia tree the leaves come after it has flowered

 

This has been very intricate to make. there are lots and lots of pieces to make it this far. I'm over half way through it. i hope I can get it finished by the end of lockdown. it has taken me a few months doing it while it rains with the help of my dad

This is the motor for the forklift. I have a remote to be able to move it when it is finished

This is something colourful in my home. These are my karate belts that I have got. 

When we were at the beach we found the sea and that is wet and cold but that was to easy mum said so I had to think a little more and after chatting to mum about different things my dogs nose is wet and cold 

Something soft

Both my cats are soft and make a sound when they purr

This is Naharla

This is Fluffy

these photo's were hard to get and I had to do some research to make sure they were unique to new zealand in the bowl there are wax eyes eating the bread mum put in it. The wax eye was first recorded  in new zealand in 1832 and since there is no evidence that it was artificially introduced it is classified as a native bird

this is marley sitting at the bottom trying to catch a bird that might drop down Mum says she is naughty

This is my last one and it is the best one of all 

Something that moves 

something that makes me happy 

something that smells good 

something that makes a sound 

something i appreciate 

something special 

something symmetriccal or the closet I could find in my search outside

something I could give away but I am not going to 

something that makes me think

All these things are my motorbike 

science experiment

 

flower capillary action

On Wednesday Mum and I were chatting about daffodil day coming up and she said about an experiment that we could do with some of the flowers in the garden. When it stopped raining we went out and picked some for a vase. 

Mum said I needed to get 2 other glasses so we could put some in each. when we had done that I put some food colouring into the water. 

We talked about how flowers need water and how they get the water from the ground or in a vase. This is called capillary action. In flowers, there are thin tubes in the stems and the water goes up these to the flowers. When we put the flowers into the coloured water this is going to be sucked up.

this is a photo of the daffidol up close before we added some to the coloured water

After tea I had a look at the flowers. I noticed that the blue ones were really sucking the water up and you could see the tiny tubes in them turning blue already. The red ones not so much. We decided to add more colouring to the water to see if it made any difference. 

                         

These photo's I took before I went to bed. You can really see the blue coming through.

The photo's below are the next morning 

 

this is all the flowers together I like how you can deffinalty see the different colours and the veins in the petals.

I took this photo before bed on the second night after swapping one flower over to the other coloured water. this is the red flower to the blue coloured water and you can really see the different colours in the petals

                   

this was a fun experiment to do 

Weekly Challenge

Mrs Hickfords Weekly Challenge 

Mrs Hickford gave our class a weekly challenge. the rain has stopped me from getting outside to take a photo so mum and I decided to do the daffodil one. 

We had a look online and checked out how to make paper daffidols on you tube. there were so many videos it was hard to choose what to pick. Mum picked one and we started after looking in her box of craft stuff. We had to get the right colours for the flowers. 2 different coloured yellow and 1 orange is what we found. Mum went to the baking cupboard and got some cupcake wrappers as well for the middle of some the flowers. 

We started by making squares out of the paper and then folded them into a triangle we had to fold them again in half and then into quarters mum said this is using fractions and maths. once we had folded them enough we had to make a cut like a petal. it was really hard to cut the heavier cardboard but mum helped me. we unfolded the paper and they turned out like flower petals. to make some of the trumpets in the middle we cut circles and then cut that in half. cut zigzags and taped them together. WE glued all the petals together on top of each other. Mum used some curling ribbon to wrap the ice cream sticks to make them green for the stems of the flowers. We made two butterflies to go with the flowers.

 

                                                           

These are the flowers I liked the most. The butterfly is in the back I haven't coloured them in yet. I like the different styles of petals we were able to make by cutting the different ways.

We are going to find a vase and put them in it and leave it on the table 

Maths Whizz

       I have been doing maths and I have got 9 progressions so far. I have 79 minutes on maths whizz I like maths. I have learnt some factions, measures, and timed levels. I liked the addition levels. what was your most favorite maths?