SECRETS ABOUT ANIMALS

                                                            1)   DID YOU KNOW

                                                     

                                                      A frog swallows with it's eyes!

A frog shoots out its long, sticky tongue to catch the insects and  small animals it feeds on.To swallow the food, the frog blinks its bulging eyes. This pushes the huge eyeballs down the top of its mouth, witch squeezes the food into its throat                                

                   
 

                                                             2)  DID YOU KNOW

                             
                                            Hummingbirds weigh less than a penny!

A hummingbird is the smallest of all birds. Some are no bigger than your thumb-and hat includes the billThese tiny birds are also great flyers. They can stay in one place in the air and fly forward, backward, sideways, or upside down. The birds go their name from the whirring sound their wings make as they dart through the air.

                                                           3)    DID YOU KNOW

                                             The blue whales heart is the size of a small car!

 Everything about the blue whale is gigantic. Its body weighs as much as 25 elephants, is as long as three buses, and is as high as a two story building! fifty people could stand on its tongue. Its stomach can hold more than a ton (1.1 t) of food. The blue whale is by far the biggest animal that ever lived

                                                           4)  DID YOU KNOW

                                                    A beaver never stops growing!

                                                      5)   DID YOU KNOW

                                               The basilisk lizard walks on water!

paper jets

Goal to build a paper jet

You will need

One pair of hands and a sheet of
 paper.

Step 1 Fold the corners to the
 centre.

Step 2 Repeat proses.

Step 3 Fold in half.

Step 4 Fold the top of the paper
 to the bottom.

Step 5 Hold the bottom of the

throw.

On Wednesday Mum and I got my drum set for my birthday it's red and black it's from drum shop that's where we get all are musicale stuff.

My Carrot Cake

Ingredients

• 4 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
• 1 ½ cups soft brown sugar
• 1 ½ cups vegetable oil
• 2 cups standard flour
• 1 Tbsp cinnamon
• 2 tsp baking soda
• 3 cups grated carrots
• ½ cup Golden Circle Crushed Pineapple, well drained (optional)
• 
  Cream Cheese Icing
• 125g butter, softened
• 125g cream cheese, softened
• 2 cups icing sugar, sifted
• 2 Tbsp lemon juice
• chopped nuts to decorate

• Tips

  1/2 cup chopped walnuts can be added instead of pineapple, if wished.

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180°C and line a 22cm round cake tin with baking paper.
2. Combine the eggs, vanilla essence, brown sugar and oil in a large bowl and beat until thick and creamy.
3. Fold in the sifted dry ingredients and then stir in the grated carrots and pineapple (if using).
4. Pour into the prepared cake tin and bake for 60 minutes or until a cake tester inserted in the middle of the cake comes our clean. Rest the cake for 10 minutes before removing from the tin to cool.
5. Make the icing by beating the butter and cream cheese together until smooth. Beat in the icing sugar and enough lemon juice to make a smooth icing. Spread over the cooled cake and decorate with nuts.

My brothers keifer and quade went to V8 jets prints and they saw cool boats some had big blowers and some didnt.

Auroa vs Opunake League

Me and my Auroa School league team!

Weetbix Tryathlon

This is me and finn at the Weetbix Tryathlon