The Best Hot Chocolate Recipe

How to make a hot chocolate

Here is a recipe to make the best hot chocolate

Ingredients

2 cups of fresh milk

2 tbsp of sugar

¼ teaspoon of vanilla extract

Whipped Cream(optional)

Marshmallow (if you want to put some)

2 cups of Chocolate chips

Utensils

A mug

A saucepan

Teaspoon
Cup

Procedure

1) Mix the sugar and milk in a saucepan and put it on the stove over medium heat.

2) While you are waiting for the milk to heat, place the chocolate chips in the microwave for about 30 seconds. Take the chocolate out of the microwave and stir it. Do the same process until the chocolate is completely melted. 

3) When the milk is starting to reach its scalding point with some bubbles on the side, turn off the stove and put the melted chocolate in. Mix them together and add the vanilla extract.

4) Put the mixture in a mug and top with whipped cream or marshmallows if you like. Enjoy!

My Dream Meal

In ESOL, we are writing a blog post to describe our 'dream' three-course meal; entree, main course, and dessert.

Conservative Week

In ESOL, we had to make a blog post about New Zealand Conservation Week. We have to explain what Conservative Week is and explain why it is (or isn't important). We also have to list 3 things about how we can help serve our plants, animals, and the environment.

Conservation Week/Te Wiki Tiaki Ao Tūroa is about encouraging people to help conserve nature. This year we celebrate the 50 years of Conservation Week and it happens from 14 - 22 September 2019. Conservation week was originally launched in 1969 by The New Zealand Scout Association. Every year, the Department of Conservation(DOC) works with the community across New Zealand to spread the conservation message.

Unfortunately, our native animals and plants are threatened at risk. Conservation week helps us to bring everyone together to help to create change. This is important to our society because if we don't help to protect our nature, there's a chance that we can't save it at all.

As apart of young New Zealanders, we need to do as much as we can to save our environment for a better future. One way to get involved during the conservation week is to plant a tree on our own backyard. Another way to help during this event is to volunteer to clean in the community. Lastly, we could help by using the 3 r's Reduce, Reuse and Recycle to prevent landfill space. Creating change can be big or small, but if we all help each other, we can make a big difference.

Willow bank Trip

Trip to the Willowbank

On the 23rd of May, my ESOL class and I went to the Willowbank Wildlife Reserve. We had to choose an animal to write about for our research project. The animals that I chose is the deer, the horse, and the kiwi.

Fallow Deer
Description
A fallow deer is one of the small breeds of deer. They are mammals which belong to a group called 'Cervidae'. The fallow dear has a range of different coat colors, from brown, black, white and reddish-brown, with white spots on their skin. A male fallow deer is known as buck and a female is called doe. A young fallow deer is also called 'fawns'.
Bucks are known for their impressive antlers, but a female deer don't have one. However, reindeers are the only breed that can grow antlers in a female's head. 

Habitat & Lifestyle
Fallow deers are sociable species. They roam freely in the forest with two divided groups - doe and fawns in one group and the buck in the other group. They only converge during the breeding season. Originally, fallow deers are mostly scattered throughout Europe and regions of Asia. Some of them are found in New Zealand, Australia, and some few areas in America. They live in a range of climate from cool to humid to warm and dry areas.
Diet
Fallow deers are herbivores and they eat varieties of vegetation. Such as barks, herbs, buds, leaves, and plants.


Clydesdale Horse

Color & Hair
The most common color of a Clydesdale horse is called bay. They can be brown or black. Some of them can have a white face or have white patches on other parts of their bodies. One thing that they all have in common is the long hair in their ankles. This helps the horses to survive in winter.

What they eat
The Clydesdale breed is herbivores, they eat grass and hay. They can eat about 25 to 50 pounds of hay a day. A mother Clydesdale can produce up to 100 pounds of milk which helps the babies to gain 4 pounds a day.
Size
They can grow over 6 feet or 72 inches. This means that they are taller than an average man. They also weigh about 2,000 pounds which are one ton. Clydesdales feet can be the same size as dinner plates, and their horseshoes can weigh about 5 pounds for each. This is much as carrying a bag of sugar for each foot.

Kiwi

Kiwi is one of New Zealand's native bird. They are flightless birds which belong to a group called ratites(a group of birds that cannot fly). Interestingly, kiwis are nocturnal which means they sleep during the day and active by night. They mainly sleep in burrows or hollow logs. Kiwis have very long beaks which help them to dug worms underground. Most birds have nostril near their head, but kiwis have them at the tip of their beak. They have brown feathers to help them blend into the ground at night. Predators can easily hunt them because they have a strong, musty smell. Though the birds are nocturnal, they can't really see well in the dark because of their bad eyesight. Instead, they use their sense of smell.

A female kiwi can lay the biggest egg than almost any other birds. In fact, the kiwi egg takes 20 percent of the mother's body/weight. However, an ostrich holds the world largest bird egg but, it only takes 2% of her body weight. While in humans a baby can take 5% of the mother's weight.