Understanding Migration Theories

 This week for Social Science our class have been working on Understanding Migration Theories, which is about learning about all the theories of where Polynesians originated from, and seeing where we think Polynesians really originated from.

A theory is an idea that may need to be proven with a piece of evidence so that it is accurate.

The three places that many people think or believe that the Polynesians originated from were Hawaikii, South America and Asia.

Many of the Maori people believed that they originated from Hawaikii and many other people believed that Polynesians originally originated from either South America or Asia. A theorist named Thor Heyerdahl believed  that Polynesian were pushed by the wind and ended up in the pacific. To prove this, Thor built a canoe called the Kon-Tiki in order to test his theory and surprisingly, the canoe ended up in a Pacific Island.

Other Evidence that support this theory that Polynesians came from south america is that there has been discoveries that kumara is native to south america and so on.

Many people also believe that Polynesians originated from Asia because there are also many similarities between the Polynesians and Asians, in  the language, culture, food, traditions and also many Polynesians look Asian. There have also been discoveries of Lapita pottery that has been in Samoa, Tonga and a few other Pacific Islands.

They Maori believe that they originated  or originally came from a place called Hawaikii, there have been many myths telling stories that maori people originated from Hawaikii.

But I believe that many polynesians originated from  Asia, because there has been many evidence proving that polynesians may have actually originated or migrated from Asia.

 

Science

 What I have learned in science is about learning all the different equipment's used in science and what they are used for, we also learned about the structure of the earth and all the different layers of the earth and we also were learning about volcanoes and how they are created.

What I found most interesting in science was, learning about the earths structure and learning about volcanoes. What I enjoyed the most about learning volcanoes is because I found it really interesting the way they are created and how they erupt.

What I enjoyed the most about learning about the earths structure is how there are different layers to the earth and how everything works.

Something else interesting is that there is more than one type of science, like how Biology is the study of the human body and so on. 

What I enjoyed learning the most is during science was the Structure of the earth because it's something that I have recently just learned in science and I enjoy learning new things.

Science wouldn't be my favourite subject in school, but I enjoy it.

Nachos

       

                                                                                                               

For Food Tech on Wednesday, we made Vegetarian Nachos, the ingredients that we needed for this recipe was 1 onion,  a few baby tomatoes, corn chips, a can of kidney beans, a can of sweet corn, some grated cheese and some chopped up bacon and some sour cream to garnish.

The first step was to chop up the onions and chuck them them into the pan, next was to cut up the baby tomatoes into quarters and add them into the pan as well and cook them along with the onions. When cooking them we were asked not to overcook them, because we needed to only soften them, but not make them to brown and crispy but nice and tender. Once we were finished with the tomatoes and onions we put it into a small bowl and set it aside for the time being.

The next step was to cook our two strips of bacon, when cooking them we were asked  to make that we cooked them properly and and didn't burn them. When the bacon was finally cooked, we had chopped them up into nice little pieces.

Then the third step was to get our can of kidney beans and drain the brine out, we also put our sweet corn in a bowl to make sure it was ready for the preparation of the nachos.

When we were finally ready to assemble our nachos, we got our individual trays of corn chips and sprinkled on some of the kidney beans, next was to also sprinkle the corn onto the chips, we then put it into the oven in order to cook the kidney beans and the corn. 

When the it was time to being our trays out we finally put our fried onions and tomato mixture on top of the kidney beans and corn, then we sprinkled some of the grated cheese on top our nachos and added our chopped up bacon as well and put it into the oven a second  in order to melt the cheese.

While waiting for our nachos, we tidied up or kitchen and made sure it was spic and span, when the nachos were finally ready for eating we garnished it with a dollop of sour cream,before eating we first took our picture and smiled for the camera, then we got to enjoy our dish.

Made in Taiwan

Hi Nathan and Oscar, I just wanted to say that I really enjoyed watching the Made in Taiwan documentary. What I found interesting was the way everything in the journey somehow was connected to each other in the  tradition, culture and sometimes language another thing that I found intriguing was the way the Taiwanese people have similarities with Maori people. What I learned was that most of the Polynesian or Pacific Islands are somehow all related to each-other in either their language, traditional and cultural things.

Something else that I found fascinating was how they discovered that the Takitimu Canoe had set sail from Rarotonga in the Cook Islands to arrive in Mahia which is part of New Zealand.

What I really liked about this Documentary was the way Nathan and Oscar were so determined to go on this journey in order to find where they truly originated form.

  

Katsu Chicken

                                                         Food Tech - Katsu Chicken

On Wednesday, we made Katsu Chicken for food tech. We were asked to follow the recipe step by step. The first step was to make the Katsu Sauce, which consisted of Tomato sauce. Soy sauce,Lemon juice, Dijon mustard and Worcestershire sauce.

Then we had to cut the chicken into slices, then coat them in flour, egg then breadcrumbs.

Then while someone cooked the chicken, the other two of us had to prepare the salad.

When the chicken was finally cooked, we prepared the rice and then assembled the chicken and salad on the dish. After that we drizzled some of the katsu sauce on the chicken and added a drizzle of mayo for a finishing touch.

When we were finally done with assembling the Katsu Chicken, we each took turns taking our picture with our dish.

Before we could eat, we were asked to clean the kitchen and make sure all our dishes and utensils were all clean and back on our equipment trolley.

When we had finished cleaning the kitchen, we ate.

Maori with Whaea Odie

This week for Maori with whaea Odie, we learnt how to coordinate with poi's, which was really a difficult challenge. Did you know that the Poi is the maori word for 'ball' on a cord. Today we learnt how to do a poi dance and it took a lot of practice which was really challenging. We learnt how to do the poi dance to the song "Rere Atu". Most hardest part, was when we had to hold the with our weak hand which was the most difficult thing.

Fireworks Provocation DLO

Today Nyjah and I, created a DLO about the need to be banning fireworks or not. In our DLO it has the reason for why we should ban fireworks, which the information we got was of the NZ Herald and Kiwi Kidz News and why we shouldn't ban them at all.Then at the end give our opinion of what we think should happen, for fireworks to be banned or not and why.