Marakai challenge!

Every year at my school we have a cooking competition called the Maraikai Challenge. They made it up because at matariki people would harvest and share their food. Except this time we just make the food and use the gardens food. I signed up to do it with my friend.

In our dish we have to have 5 ingredients from the school gardens we are using Chives,Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Nastrum leaves. We are making pasta with pasta sauce and berry cheesecake in a glass. We have an 1h and 20m to cook it. If we come first then we go through to the finals. Here is a picture of our dish's.

Winter Solstice!

In our class we have been learning about Winter Solstice. We had to research about Stonehenge, Maeshowe and Newgrange. This is what I found out.

The girl in a jar

One of our priorities is Quick writes a Quick write is a storey that we write in half an hour.
For this one we h a picture of a girl in a jar. You got to choose if you wanted to be the girl or the cat.
I chose the girl here is the photo.

I am a little girl that lives in a jar. I used to be a big girl but an evil wizard turned me into a little girl and traped me in a jar. That was a couple of years ago though, now I live in a lovely house in a girls bedroom. I remember the days like that when I had my own room. They have a ginger and white cat that thinks I’m an odd shaped mouse so tries to eat me. In the jar which I call my home is a wonderful garden if the cat tries to eat me I hide there.

In the garden there is a staircase, that staircase leads down to my house. It is two story and has everything that my old home used to have. It has my bedroom kitchen and everything that I had in my big house. It even has my puppy but sadly my puppy is now an ornament. That’s what the wizard did to him.

One day I decide to find a way to get out of here. The wizard said that if I figure out how to get out I will become my old self again.  I never had thought until now that I would try to escape. It is such a lovely place. I decide that the easiest way to get out was to climb a tree. The last time I tried to climb a tree was when I was bigger and that didn’t end too well.

I find the biggest tree and begin to climb. I step up onto the first branch and keep on reaching for the next branch. After I get up a few I see that the branches form a staircase all the way up to the top of the jar. About an hour later I finally get to the top, and that's when I realise I forgot my dog. I can’t go back know though I’ve gone to far.

I jump and land on the bed, but the room had turned into mine. I heard a barking noise and looked around. That’s when I saw my dog. If I could remember I could find my way t the kitchen because I am starving...