Banana Loaf recipe

Ingredients
120g soft butter
1 cup caster sugar
2 eggs
3 bananas
2 cups of flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup of chocolate chips

1. Mix butter and sugar.
2. Add eggs one at a time and beat well
3. Add mashed bananas and mix well
4. Add the flour, baking powder and baking soda and mix well with a spoon.
5. Pour batter into tin
6. Add optional topping: sprinkle brown sugar and walnuts on top of mixture before putting into the oven
7. Preheat oven to 180 degrees.
8. Bake for about 65 minutes, until a tooth pick comes out clean.
9. Allow to cool for at least 10 minutes before eating time!

Things I learnt today:

1. I learnt how to bake
2. I learnt that it takes 4 x quarter cups to make 1 cup
3. I learnt how to make a video with mum's phone and also how to edit it.

My tupuna and why I will remember them

During ANZAC weekend I learnt about my tupuna.

My great granddad, Tiaki Parata, was a Lance Corporal and part of C Company of the 28th Māori Battalion.  C Company was one of five companies within the 28th Māori Battalion. C Company was formed by volunteers from Tōrere around the East Coast to Muriwai taking in the tribal groupings of Ngāi Tai, Te Whānau a Apanui, Ngāti Porou, Rongowhakaata, Te Aitanga a Māhaki and Ngai Tamanuhiri.

My great granddad is from Te Whānau a Apanui, which also makes me Te Whānau a Apanui.

My great, great, great granddad, Henare Mokena Kohere, was a Second Lieutenant and part of the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces and Maori Pioneer Battalion.  On 14 September, while taking part in one of the night raids during the battle of Somme, Henare was wounded.  Peter Buck, a major in the battalion, visited him, asking 'Kei te pehea koe, Kohere?' (How are you?) 'Ka nui te kino' (Things are very bad), Kohere replied. He is buried in France.

My Papa Henare Mokena Kohere was a man of dignity who was held in high esteem and greatly respected by all ranks of the armed forces. A great tangihanga held by Ngati Porou mourned his passing. He is honoured by many marae throughout Ngati Porou. A waiata tangi composed by Sir Apirana Ngata for the Maori soldiers of the Pioneer Battalion refers to the East Coast contingent and to Papa Henare Kohere; it became very popular throughout all tribes:

E te Ope Tuarua,	The Second Party
No Mahaki rawa,	Came from Mahaki,
Na Hauiti koe,	From Hauiti also,
Na Porourangi.	And from Porourangi,
I haere ai Henare	When Henare went
Me to “wiwi.”	And his “wiwi.” (“Wiwi,” a Ngati-Porou colloquialism, meaning a party of young people.)
I putu ki te pakanga,	With misfortune they metPAGE 79
Ki Paranihi ra ia.	On the plains of France.
Ko wai hei morehu,	Was any left to bring
Hei kawe korero,	News and message
Ki te iwi nui e.	To all at home?
Taukiri e!	Alas! alas!

For ANZAC this year, I created paper Poppies using coffee filters and food colouring and paint to dye the paper.

After I made the poppies, I wrote a few of my favourite words from The Fallen poem by Laurence Binyon and I wrote my Papa's names and their rank and which World War they fought in.

I then decorated my room with the poppies so I can remember my Papas. 

 

My Ultimate Pepeha

My Pepeha on Biteable.
Hey bloggers my amazing cybersmart teacher made us write about our Pepeha here is mine it was fun to make with biteable.

The Fanatic Story Web

During reading my class had a book and made a story web my book was called Spider Soup.

My story was about a spider named Webster he got bubblegum from a boy named Micheal and well he was eating bubblegum he got his legs stuck and mum put him in the dishwasher and he suffers but he was alive Micheal was in tears but one day his mum had soup than Webster came out of it.

We had to write out the Characters,Setting,problem,Outcome,Actions in our story. 

I thought i did well but the book was hard.

Can you tell me what would you have done if your pet died would you do the same thing as Micheal?

My Awesome, amazing super weekends

This week our awesome teacher made us write a fabulous recount. We had to add are descriptive tools. Alliteration is a letter together like Fabulous, fantastic, frizzy it all starts with F. There is more than that tho like noun adjective, verb metaphors,adverb,similes and more. 

My writing was about my weekends and what we did. 

Can you find my descriptive tools and also rate me out of 10.  

Describing Jungle Writing

Hey bloggers my class was using writing tools called Verbs,Adjective,Adverb,Similes,Alliteration,Metaphors,Nouns they are different meanings. This is are class photo we were describing.My writing about this photo is going to be at the bottom.

I saw a giraffe with a Long Neck,Spotty,Short legs, Short body. There was a Stripy, Short,Shiny Zebra. Then the trees started to move what I saw was a Long tail,Banana peels falling,Brown fur Soon i noticed it was a monkey cause who would love bananas

Samoa National flower Teuila

Hey Bloggers today and yesterday we were learning about flowers my flower was Samoa's favorite flower  called teuila if you want to know more look at my photo.