How to make Coconut Cream

Coconuts are a key ingredient in Samoan cooking. Every part of the coconut is used. You can eat the flesh raw or use it for cooking, you can drink the juice, the shell makes a handy cup or, together with the husks, you can fuel a cooking fire. The most widely used product from the coconut is coconut cream, so let me describe how the cream is traditionally made.  

You will need

1. Coconut/Popo
2. Knife
3. Scraper
4. Coconut husk
5. Bowl

Method

1. Gather all your equipment
2. Using the back of your knife strike the coconut in half. Rotate the coconut as you strike it. But remember to strike it in the middle.  Be careful.
3. Pour the coconut water into a bowl
4. Get your scraper and start scraping the coconut. As you scrape it rotate the coconut.
5. Get your husk (tauaga) and put your flesh in the husk. Get your leftover water and put it into the husk too. Close the husk and squeeze tightly. Now you have some yummy cream.
6. If you have leftover coconut you can feed it to the chicken or give it to the pigs. With the leftover coconut shell you can use it in the in the fire as wood.

Now you can make coconut cream for samoan language week.

Year 4 school camp

Dear Mrs Ritchie

I am writing to you to express my opinion about why year 4’s should also go to camp.

You may believe that year 4 students are too young or immature to go to camp. However I disagree because activities such as archery and kayaking will help us develop and practise skills

For example an activity such as archery would develop our aim for sports like dodgeball and it will also help you be safe around sharp objects.

Kayaking will also teach you to be water safe and will teach you not to give up.  It will also help you practise your swimming skills in the sea if your kayak tips over.

As you can see if year 4s go camping they can learn a lot about the outdoors.

Please consider these ideas carefully and I look forward to hearing back from you

Kind regards

Sanah

Room 10

The soldier

The soldier

Here I am standing in a field of poppies.

Lots of soldiers being killed.

Other soldiers go and take them to the hospital.

Then I hear the whistle and quickly put on my mask.

I see someone looking like they’re drowning in the sea.

Then suddenly he falls down.

I am very solemn because one of my friends died of the poisonous gas.

Photographer Letter

Dear photographer,

I am writing to you to you to express my opinion about the way you take and arrange the class

photographs.

Obviously I really admire the red background with the boys and girls seated or stood. I like it because we stand out against the background.

I like how you organise the children in size, such as tallest to shortest because it looks like you have thought about how to make the photo better.

Most people like the hall of fame setup in the hall on the display board because if parents come, they can see their children in the photo.

Ofcourse I admire how you make the children say a word to make them smile for the photo.

I’m absolutely certain that you should read my ideas before you reply.  You might or might not agree about my opinion. Please reply soon.

Yours sincerely,

Sanah Raniga

A letter from Gallipoli

A letter from Gallipoli

27th April 1918     

Dear Mihir,

Here I am in Gallipoli and not very comfortable.  My war will start tomorrow at dawn.  The soldiers have  rifles in their hands that make me scared,  but I remember what you said "It may look scary, but I know you are very brave, come back home".

There are a lot of flies around here and it is very hot. By the way thank you for the delicious  biscuits.  Hopefully a lot of people will not get shot tomorrow.  I have a very big gun that can shoot miles away and I carry lots of extra bullets in my bag in case I run out of bullets while I’m shooting.  At night I hear a lot of creepy noises like people getting their guns ready for war.  Tomorrow I am going to hide behind a trench so I don’t get shot like you said.  Hope to see you soon.

From your loving sister Sanah