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Easter Eggs

Chocolate Easter eggs are special treats often received during Easter Sunday. Some people buy these eggs while others make them themselves. Here is a way to make your own Easter eggs.

The only ingredient you’ll need is melted chocolate. You could have white chocolate, milk or dark depending on what you fancy. To melt this ingredient you’ll need to break the block of chocolate into different pieces and place it in a bowl in steaming water. The heat from the water will warm up the bowl which will melt the chocolate.

Secondly you’ll need a mould to shape the melted chocolate. This mould could be any shape including, an egg or rabbit. To make a hollow egg you would need to shift and tilt the melted chocolate of your choice around the sides of the mould to make a scoop sort of shape.

Once both sides are set, carefully take them out of the mould and use melted chocolate to secure them together. Making a hard egg filled with chocolate is the same as creating a hollow egg except you would have to fill the mould with chocolate up to the brim of the mould so the inside isn’t empty and hollow.

After the eggs have are attached together you can wrap them up in coloured foil and decorate them to give to your loved ones this Easter.

Technicraft Week 3

The Year 8’s at St Patrick’s School went to Mr Clark’s technicraft room for our third week at Pakuranga Intermediate. When we put our bags down we pushed all four tables to the four corners and grabbed our chairs towards the centre.

We all sat in a circle and started our class activity with a warm up.  This is a practise that Mr Clark, uses at the beginning of each class.  This particular warm up involved playing ‘Fruit Salad’ and ‘Whiz;. In Fruit Salad we were all given a name of a fruit. I was orange and when the person in the middle shouts a fruit name all the people who were given that fruit name in the circle have to run to a different free seat. They can call two fruits as well and call out Fruit Salad. When they call out Fruit Salad this is when the game starts to get hectic. Every fruit runs around and tries to find another seat that wasn’t theirs in the previous round. After this game we played Whiz and it was a game about listening. I wasn’t very good since I was the first one out during the real game.

Afterwards we learnt about positives and negatives and how they work. When Mr Clark finished talking we grabbed our projects that we started the week before. The project we worked on was an LED frog. When a fly touches the memory wire the LED lights light up. We had to solder on wires onto copper tape at the back of our frog. I had to solder on my wires and attach memory wire into another type of wire for the battery. As I soldered on my wires I accidently burnt a bit of my hand and had to rush to the tap to run cold water over the burn. Once the battery connected and the two wires were attracted to each other my LED frog eyes lit up red. We took turns putting batteries into each others frogs and watched the lights light up. Some lights were red, green, orange and yellow. About the whole class finished their frogs by the end of the lesson.

At the end of the lesson my pink frog with hearts and red LED eyes was complete. I think in the next lesson we’ll be starting another exciting electrical project for our fourth week of technicraft.

Types of Problem Solvers

These are different types of Problem Solvers. Each animal has different points and actions which help them solve a problem. 

The Telephone Booth

Marley was stuck on a deserted and abandoned island trying to find a telephone booth to contact home. When she found the only one on the island she inserted a few coins and punched the numbers into the dial pad nervously. After five rings someone picked up on the other line. “Hello?” were the only words she heard before getting sucked down a hole making the rusty telephone booth collapse and fall after her.

Thud! Marley fell flat and was lying on the cold hard ground looking around her surroundings. It was all white and very bright. As she tried to find a way out she walked into a glass screen. Marley tumbled backwards and leaned back into the broken pieces of the telephone booth that got her stuck there in the first place. Marley tried banging on the glass screen and rolled into a tiny door at the end of a hallway. When she unlocked the door astronauts were floating around the atmosphere. Where was she? Was this space?

“I can’t” Marley choked her words out trying to breathe. A tall man dressed in a suit pushed a fishbowl on the top of her head. “Better?’

Marley nodded and asked the man how she could  get back to earth.

“You would have to find that telephone booth, put it back together and insert a few coins just like you did earlier”

“How did you know that?”

“Stop asking questions unless you want to be stuck here forever” He said then floated off.

Almost instantaneously, the door of the booth flew straight at her with the phone. She grinned and tried to find the other pieces. Near a ship she found the dial pad and the hood. All she needed were the sides of the booth and the coin inserter. Marley saw two aliens driving a space pick up shuttle and in the shuttle was the sides of the booth. She ran behind the vehicle but it was too fast for her dainty legs to follow. “Wait up!” She shouted and the shuttle stopped in front of her tracks. They threw the sides of the booth out which nearly crushed her. Marley mumbled a thanks and picked the pieces up. Now she needed to find that coin inserter then she would be fine.

“Looking for this?” The man from earlier laughed. Marley looked up at him and saw the coin inserter. She nodded and the man handed it to her then snatched it back. “This won’t be that easy” He whispered and chucked the coin inserter to an alien. The alien froze as Marley ran to snatch it off of it. “Yes, of course it won’t be easy” She told the man with sarcasm.

Marley assembled all  the pieces together and it stood up almost straight like the leaning tower of Pisa. Getting out two coins she put them in the booth and dialled away. She got sucked down a hole and she had a sudden sense of  deja vu. When Marley landed back on her feet guess where she ended up? That abandoned island that got her into this mess in the first place.