Wednesday 14 December 2011

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Here is a simple but tasty recipe for you to make at home, it will take such little time but they will still be delicious.

Chocolate Chip Cookies
350 g/4oz unsifted flour
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1 tsp salt
225 g/ 8oz butter
175g/6 1/2 caster sugar
175g/6 1/2 brown sugar
1tsp vanilla extract
2 eggs
350g/12 1/2 oz dark or milk chocolate

Preparing
  1. preheat oven 190c 375f gas mark 5
  2. use a bowl to combine flower, baking soda, salt.
  3. in another bowl combine the butter, sugar  and vanilla extract
  4. beat the eggs then gradually beat the flower mixture and stir the chocolate
  5. split the dough into 2 halves and roll each piece into a sausage shape approximately 5cm 2inch in diameter
  6. rap in cling film and place into the fridge till ready to use
  7. when you are ready to bake the cookies cut the log into slices 2cm 3/4 inch thick and lay on a backing tray, lay the cookies with a distance between them.
  8. Bake for 9-11 minutes then serve.

Tuesday 13 December 2011

Sunday 4 December 2011

My poems (writing workshop)

These are some poems I wrote during a Writing Workshop which was held by a childrens poet. I hope you enjoy reading them!

As slow as a snail
As swishy as a tail
As long as a rail
As sick as a jail
As sharp as a knife
As sleepy as a fife
As warm as a fire
As flat as a tyre
As upright as a door
As lively as a boar
As loud as a roar
As soft as a snore
As scary as a war

In the wardrobe I keep my dress
That my aunty told me to wear as my best
That little pot full of slime, reminds me of the good times
Also my cool watch, that never stops
My parker pen that helps me when the world never ends
My old school letter that never opened for the better
And my chewing gum that I stuck with my thumb
A model elephant that looks quite elegant
Pots of lice and also mice
I feed them seeds when they are in need
A sharp pencil that goes well in a stencil
A huge whistle that makes my ears drizzle



THAT NIGHT WAS A FRIGHT

IT WAS UNLIKE ANY OTHER NIGHT

IN THE DARK MIDNIGHT THERE WAS AN INVITE

IN THE MISTY TWILIGHT

IT WAS SUCH A FRIGHT AND A HORRID SIGHT

IT WAS NEARLY BROAD DAYLIGHT

DESPITE NO DELIGHT THE HORROR WAS LIKE MARMITE

AS THE MOONLIGHT LIT BRIGHT THAT NIGHT

IT WAS ANNOYING LIKE A PARASITE

THE NIGHT WAS QUITE COLD WITH A HIGH FARENHIGHT

IT MIGHT JUST BITE IF YOUR NOT QUITE RIGHT

Saturday 3 December 2011


Is tap water better than bottled water?
In Fiji a test was run to see if tap water was better than bottled water. The results were, the Fiji bottled water had less quality than the tap water. Bottled water costs more too.

What do the public prefer bottled water of tap water?
In a test across the country people chose tap water over bottled water. Well why is this? If a company wants to grow they have to sell more items, they have tried to make people scared into thinking tap water was bad for you. And that’s how bottled water was promoted. Not only that they also tried to make the water look like it was fresh and better quality by putting rivers, trees, and animals in the packaging.

Where dose bottled water come from?
Believe it or not a 3rd of bottled water comes from taps! Making plastic bottles is equivalent to fuelling 1 million cars.

What happens to the bottles when we have finished with them?
80% of them go to landfills and stay there for 100s of years. Some bottles get sent to India where they are suppose to be recycled but they are down recycled which means they are made into lower quality products. The solution to this is to invest in public water. All this money could be spent on improving our water service.








FACTS ABOUT BOTTLED WATER
Sometimes bottled water is less regulated. Bottled water costs 2000 times more than tap water. People in the U.S.A buy half a billion bottles of water a week. That is enough to circle the globe more than 5 times.