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This week's task is to create a type of food from the country you picked out of a hat. If you have read my other blog posts I have mentioned writing instructions on how to play a game from Netherlands. So here is my recipe I wrote on how to make Poffertjes Dutch Mini Pancakes. How To Make Mini Dutch Pancakes Poffertjes Poffertjes are mini pancakes made from Netherlands with Yeast being a key ingredient. They are cooked on both sides until golden brown. They are usually served with powdered sugar and butter on the side. Ingredients: *2 ¼ Teaspoons Of Active Dry Yeast *1 ½ Cups Of Lukewarm Whole Milk *1 ½ Cups Of All-Purpose Flour *2 Tablespoons Of Granulated Sugar *A Pinch Of Salt *1 Egg *Butter For Greasing Pan For Serving *Powdered Sugar *Butter Materials: *Poffertjes Pan Or Normal Pan *Spatula *Plastic Or Towel In a small bowl pour milk in and sprinkle the yeast. Then stir to combine, now allow it to sit for 10-20 minutes until f...

This week for my reading workshop we are looking into different cultures and countries. Our task was to read a journal and make a google drawing of a picture from that country. Then we would put links on the picture leading to a doc with the goals and answered. Here is mine: Have you done a task like this before?

This week we got to draw a piece of paper out of a box and that would have a random country on it. With that country you had to do some research about it and write some instructions on a skill or game from that country. Next week we will be picking a type of food and making it then bringing it to school so there will be a whole assortment of food for everyone to try from all over the world but I will only be sharing my instructions maybe next week will be about the food. :) Here is my instructions on how to play Hul Gul: How to play Dutch Hul Gul Materials: *Buttons or any large quantity of small objects. *People to play with ( Any amount of people except by yourself) Gather buttons Give each player 10 buttons Each player places any amount of buttons up to 10 in their hand. Player 1 then holds out their hand face down with the buttons in hand so the other player(s) can’t see. Player 1 now asks another player (Player 2) how many buttons do I have in my hand. ...

This terms P.B.L driving question is " How can I celebrate who I am?"  One of the subjects we talked about was what is culture. Many people think that culture is race but it's not. It is made up of personality, character and yes race is in there but it is not the most important. We are going to have two projects for this term on being based around music and the other is up to us. I'm sure I will post more about our P.B.L in more detail but that is the main idea of what our P.B.L will look like the rest is in discussion. Do you have any ideas that we could possibly include  this term?