Meerkat Slide

Hi everyone. One of the tasks that I had to do during lockdown was to make a slideshow about my favourite animal. So, here it is!

My Flag

Hi everybody, this is my flag that I created. It is a new flag for New Zealand to help spread hope in these uncertain times.

Blue- To represent the sea that surrounds us 

White Fern- To symbolise goodness 

Black Kiwi- to represent Unity- We're all in this together.

Anzac Biscuits

Hi guys. For Anzac day we made Anzac biscuits and here's how to make them.


125g butter (or margarine if using dairy free recipe)

1 cup sugar

2 1/2 tbsp golden syrup

1 cup plain flour

1 1/2 cups rolled oats

1/2 cups coconut

1/4 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

                                                  Method:


1. Preheat oven to 170 degrees C. Line a large baking tray with baking paper
2. Add the butter, sugar and golden syrup to a medium saucepan over a medium-low heat. Stir until the butter is only just melted, then remove from the heat. You don't need to wait for the sugar to dissolve. Add the flour, oats, coconut and salt, and stir to combine. 
3. Boil the jug. 
4. Add the baking soda to a mug. Pour 3 tablespoons of just-boiled water into the mug, stir and immediately add to the biscuit mixture. Stir to combine evenly.

5. Place large heaped tablespoons of the mixture on the baking tray, about 7 cm apart as the biscuits will spread while cooking.
6. Bake in the oven for about 17-19 minutes. 

7. Allow to cool on the trays for five minutes, then use a metal spatula to transferred into a while cooling rack. 

                       ENJOY

My recycled art

Hi everyone. One of the tasks that I could do during lockdown was make a piece of art using recycled materials. 
I decided to make a funny mask out of a paper bag.  I used the paper bag, a toilet paper roll, paint, star sequins and bottle caps. First I cut off the handles and put the bag on my head to see what it looked like. Then my mum marked where my eyes are. Mum helped me to cut out circles for the eyes. 

Then we cut little slits on the toilet paper roll and fold them out.  I decided to paint it green because I like the colour green. Then we we sprinkled the star sequins on the wet roll. 
Next I used the hot glue gun to glue on the roll to make the nose. Then my mum had a great idea, she thought that we could use the handles to make hair. I thought it was brilliant. I paint each hair a different colour, red, blue, yellow and orange. Finally I glued on the bottle caps using the hot glue gun on the sides and this is what it turned out like...

Anzac Slide

Hi everybody. Here is my Anzac Slide. Hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed finding the facts. Blog ya later.

Family Tree

Here is some interesting information I discovered about my ancestry while researching my family tree.

Benfell

Great Grandad = Raymond Walter was born in Invercargill (d)

Great Gran = Beryl Elizabeth was born in Wellington. She was known as Betty (d)

Grandad = Paul Raymond was born in Auckland

Paul has an older sister, she did not meet her dad until she was 18months old as he was away in the navy. 

Banyard 

Great Grandad = Peter was born in England (d)

Great Nanna = Vera was born in England (d)

Nanna = Linda was born in England

Vera moved to Wales when she was a child

The whole family (Linda has two sisters) moved to New Zealand in 1963

Anderson

Grand Pop = Charles Alexander Frank Anderson was born in Hokitika. Everyone called him Charlie(d)

Great Grandma = Pearl Stratford  was born in Nelson (d)

Nana  = Wendy Anne was born in Takaka 

Wendy is the eldest of 5 children 

Charles is of Ngai Tahu descent 

Miller

Poppa = Clifford Allan was born in Te Kopuru. He was known as Cliff (d)

Great Gran = Dorothy Doreen Dovell was born in Thames. Dot is still alive and is 91

Grandad = Graeme Henry was born in Auckland

Graeme has 3 brothers (he is the second eldest) 

Cliff and Dot met when he moved into her families boarding house in Ponsonby 

Our family

Richard Paul Benfell  was born in Auckland

Sarah Maree Miller was born in Rotorua 

Floyd Tiare Miller Benfell (ME!) was born at Birthcare Auckland

Malachi Dixon Benfell was born at Auckland Hospital 

Mum gave me the middle name Tiare as it means Charlie, and my great grandad died when she was pregnant with me.

Hieroglyphics Code

Hi everyone. Can you solve my code? Blog ya later!

A-Z Bubble Alphabet

For this task, we had to create an alphabet about our life in our bubble. 

What have you been doing through Lockdown?

Enjoy!

Hang On Writing

One day I asked my Dad if we could go on a trip and he said sure. So we start driving to the train station. We sit down and wait for the train. “Ummmmm… Dad, can I go to the toilet?” I said. “OK,” said Dad. “But we only have 5 minutes until the train arrives.” So I go zooming to the toilet. 20 minutes later I come back but my Dad has a feirce look on his face. I asked him why he was so angry and he said that I took too long and we missed the train. So we had to wait for an hour until the next train arrived. A couple of minutes later, Dad decided we had to go home because he was sick of waiting. When we started walking back to our car, a train came in to say hello and it looked like it was travelling at the speed of light. Somehow my hand was sucked onto the side of it like there was an invisible magnetic feild. I was flying like Superman!  The magnetic feild was about to steal Dad’s new camera but I grabbed it in the nick of time. Then I realised the train was our train and I was hurtling down the track like I was on a crazy roller coaster ride. Well, it looks like I’m going on our trip but without my Dad!!!!!! 

Kahoot

Lately Iv'e been doing a Kahoot about Ancient Egypt. Kahoot is a website that you can make your own quizzes and people can answer your questions on your quiz. Here is the link to Kahoot. the code is: 330802. Try this with your friends. Have you made a Kahoot? If you did, tell me the code in the comments. 

                                   Thank you for reading my blog post! 😁

Tomb Tour

Lately I've been learning about Ancient Egypt and my mum found a virtual tour of a tomb belong to a Queen from almost 5000 years ago!! 

You can move around the tomb and see close ups and recreations of some of the carvings and things. You can even go down the stairs to the burial chamber. 

Here is the link to the Tomb tour

There is also a youtube video you can watch that tells you more about it here

Do you know why there was a false door? if you found the answer, post it in the comments below.

Egyptian story

Hi bloggers.
This is a storyboard I made all by myself. Hope you enjoy.