Commonwealth Games 2014!!

5 Facts that I already know about the Commonwealth Games:

1	There is 71 countries who compete in the commonwealth games.
2	Winners earn their own gold medals.
3	There are 17 sports in the Glasgow Commonwealth Games.
4	The Commonwealth Games is simpler than the Olympics
5	Scotland is hosting the Commonwealth games 2014.

Useful links:

http://www.glasgow2014.com/sites/default/files/attached-files/Glasgow%202014%20Factsheet.pdf

http://www.gameonscotland.org/glasgow2014/

http://www.hie.co.uk/regional-information/2014/100-facts-about-the-games.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-2290636/Commonwealth-Games-2014--Facts-Figures.html

10 new facts that I found out about the Commonwealth Games: (include a link to the site where you found your information. Your information needs to be in your own words)

1	Netball has been the only female sporting the commonwealth games 2014
2	. In the commonwealth games it has been the first time that women boxing has been included in the commonwealth games.
3	New Zealand and Australia have attended every games
4	Between 1930 and 2010 India has 4352 athletes that have competed in the commonwealth games.
5	New Zealand have 230 athletes competing in the commonwealth games.
6	Oceania has 14 countries competing in the commonwealth games.
7	America only have 6 countries competing in the commonwealth games.
8	Originally the games were called British Empire Games.
9	50% of people in the commonwealth games are under 25 years of age.
10	The first commonwealth games took place in Canada, 1930.

Echolocation.

Brain Storm:

Echoing

Sound Waves

Bounces

Clapping

Reflection

Clicking

Echos

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Writing. . . .

Echolocation what does it mean? Echolocation is something that some blind people use to move around the place. Some animals use echolocation such as dolphins, bats, whales and even dolphins.

As for  bats they use echolocation in the darkness. For some bats they use echolocation with their noses and mouths too. Most bats use echolocation in the darkness to look for their prey. When the sound bounces off an object, it comes right back to them and it makes an echo. Usually bats use echolocation in the darkness and to find their food.

Ben Underwood had eye cancer when he was 2. When he was about 3 years old he had gotten his eyes removed . He became blind but he could move freely as a normal person and he doesn't bump into anything where ever he is going. When moving around, Ben makes clicking sounds with his tongue. When he makes clicking sounds, the sound rebounds off an object then comes back with an echo which he notices and knows where he is going . Ben doesn't use a cane or a guide dog either. Ben is not like us.  He is blind and he can still move around like a normal person. Ben can play basketball, ride rollerskates, and he can even ride a bike. WOW!. That’s just amazing. Sadly Ben died at the age of 16.

Carrot CupCakes.

Ingredients:

4 medium carrots ( Grated) 1 ½ cups

¾ tsp table salt

¼ tsp cinnamon ( Ground)

¼ tsp ginger ( Ground)

¼ nutmeg

2 tbsp plain yogurt

¼ tsp vanilla

1 ½ c self raising flour

1 tsp baking powder

½ tsp baking soda

1 ½ sticks butter (  Melted)

1 c light brown sugar

1 large egg

Method:

In a bowl siffted all of the dry ingredients together and make sure that you do not just put the dry ingredients in just like that or you will get a lumpy mix. In another bowl add your 1 and a ½ cups of your butter sticks that are melted and 1 cup of light brown sugar and make sure that you whisk your mix.

Add 1 egg into the mix and 2 tbsp of yogurt and your ¼ tsp of vanilla and mix good until you think its lovely and it tastes nice to your taste. The mix that you have done add in 1 and ½ cups of grated carrots and add in the dry ingredients then fold carefully until its combined.

Grab a patty cases and 12 patty cases a muffin tin. Scoop a tbsp of the mix and out that scoop into every patty cases and then repeat that skill again until the whole patty cases are full and making sure that they are the some amount of mix in them all else some of your cup cakes will be resin high and will be resin the right amount it suppose to be.

Pop those into the oven for about 25 mins and cook them until they are nice and moist inside. When you check the cup cakes pock a knife into the cup cakes and if it comes out clean, but first and always ask an adult to help you will this because this can get a little dangerous so always ask an adult whenever you are baking by yourself.

Anyways take those out and put them on the side to cool. Serving the cup cakes nice and warm it tasty and moist inside . If you want something to make it sweet well then make a sweet icing that will give it that sweet taste to the cup cake. Then if that's done then you can eat and ENJOY!! :)

Peanut Brownies.

Ingredients:

125g butter

1 cup sugar

1 egg

1 cup ½ of self rasing flour

2 tbsp cocoa

1 cup peanuts

1 tsp salt

Method:

First get a bowl and put in your 125g of butter with your 1 cup of sugar, as well as your 1 egg and makeing sure that you mix well. Mix until smooth and mix carefully just incase you spill some of your mixture and you will make a mess.

When that mixture is done then you can add your 1 cup and ½ a cup of self raising as well as your 2 tbsp of cocooa and 1 tsp of salt. Mix into the creamed mixture. When that is done then add some peanuts and you can add as much as you want. But if you do not like peanuts then you can use choc chips or walnuts whatever you like. Add that into the already creamed mixture. Mix that all in together, Mix well.

Grab bit by bit from the mixture and roll that into balls. If that is done then you can flatten it with a fork and do not flatten it too much all you will have thin as brownies in the oven that are not eatable to eat. Bake the brownies into the oven. Bake at 180 oc for about 15 mins so they can really cook in the oven.

After your brownies are cooked for enough time then pop those brownies out of the oven then you can leave those on the side to cool down. Make sure that the brownies are cooked to perfection not runy in the middle that means its not cooked enough.

As those brownies are done cooling then you can put them onto a plate . The brownies can be siffted with icing sugar to give it a nice sweetness to the brownies. Or you can just leave them plain with nothing on top of them. Incase they are already sweet inside. When you bite into the brownies it should be moist inside with a little texture of that peanut.

Sound Animation.

Sound Nikita from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.

Niue!.

Niue is the most coolest place you should ever be. People say that Niue is the smallest pacific island. Well it is. The ocean in Niue is amazing and it can be relaxing in the cool ocean but there are some living animals in the ocean. Like for example....... coconut crab, sea snakes, fruit bats, giant moray eels, giant clams, giant sea crabs, land crabs and other living creatures in the ocean.

In Niue we eat so many dishes that are made by hand and skills too. For example at Niue we eat Takihi which is a dish made with paw paw, coconut cream and taro. We eat Crab, Pitako it is traditional bread, poke loku made with coconut cream, papaya and peaches, Lu, Coconuts, Taro, bananas, paw paw, limes and lemons and other lovely meats and fruits. We eat meats that are not very nice to eat and those meats are bats, pigeon and pig.

There are so many villages in Niue like Lakepa, Tamakautoga, Avaselea and the capital of Niue is ALOFI!. There are so many villages from Niue and they are all lovely ones. I am from Lekapa, Avasele and Tamkautonga. They are lovely villages and Niue has a lot of villages. In Niue it can be a little lovely island. I wish I couls travel to Niue but unfortunately I can't. But I love NIUE!!. And I am proud of my country.

Tech At Tamaki College.

On Thursdays we go to tech every morning. We go with some year 7 and 8 students from other classes, the classes we go with are class 4, class 2 of course and some of class 1. There are 3 things that we can do in tech. Like Food tech, Graphics and Hard Materials.

Mr Grundy does Hard Materials. Some times if you do not listen to the instructions, he gets a little angry because you might be chatting or mucking around. Because if you do not listen you will not get your product done. Our teacher has teached classes for other schools. He makes something into a bright and not cheap at all, its more like jewelry. He does his jewelry with pewter.

Pewter is a type of metal which is more like gold but it is sliver. First of all Mr Grundy shows us how to cut the MDF, how to sandpaper your product, how to file and how to polish the final design to finish it off. If you need help then he is always there if you need any help. Hard Materials can be a little hard sometimes but you need practice. 

There are so many types of of metal like copper, lead, gold and other cool metals. Some metals can burn you like for example pewter. Pewter can burn your hand and it will stay there for long. Even if there is a small drop of pewter on your hand then it will get stuck onto your hand forever. And it will really hurt your skin.

Being in Hard Materials is really fun. Hard Materials entertains us and we can learn and create a lot of things. We can see new things and we can create new things. It is lovely to have the chance to be at Tamaki College to make things that we have not made before.