Spoonful of Aisya

The Media Cubs Logo. Usually at school, I go to an after school club on a Wednesdays called media Cubs. It is run by a journalist who is also my friends mum. At the club, we debate, share our point of views on news, create our own news reports and write our own newspaper too! It is something I really enjoy taking part in. When the school shut down we could not meet each other like we used to before but that did not stop us getting involved more. On a Wednesday afternoon, the teacher/leader (us Media Cubs like to call her 'Big Boss')of the club came by to talk about some questions I wrote a few days earlier that I would like to ask Boris Johnson himself and to talk about the breaking news of George Floyd's story and what people are doing about it. We decided to take a walk in the park together (which was only a house away) and talk about it there. We talked about how I felt about George Floyd and I said that it was heartbreaking to see that people are doing nast...

Me with the game Two days ago, my mum had a fantastic idea to create our own Harry Potter Monopoly to play as a family. 😀We printed the paper for the board that I cut it out extra carefully. The next day, we got some unused cardboard and turned it into the gameboard. We printed the money and the title deed cards and cut them using the slicer. We used a recycled box to make the place to put the game and figures inside. Then, we printed the bottom for the box and stuck it on. After that, we wanted to print the top of the box but we unfortunately had no ink left!😞 At night, after we had iftar and salah, we played the Monopoly and it was AMAZING!!! We all were so into the game that we played until midnight!😅A few days later, the ink finally arrived and we printed the top of the box to complete everything. The game turned out to be spectacular. Instead of regular chance cards and chest community, there were potions and spell cards. E.g. One of the potions cards said to go directly ...

On Thursday the 23rd of April, my sister and I were doing English with Holly on Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery genre. The video included tips on writing a fantastic mystery story. Some of these tips were to include: Foreshadowing - hint to the readers to expect something (don't make it too obvious) Obscure Hooks - enough secrecy Mysterious identities - what they look like Subvert Expectations - a twist Urgency - give it a limited time What to make sure of: The detective needs to be notable. The criminal needs to be a worthy opponent. The crime needs to be significant. These are important key features and it must be included in the story: Witness - Someone who can provide valuable information. Suspects - The people who may have been involved or may have taken part in the crime. Victim - Someone who has suffered because of the crime. Detective - A person who attempts to to solve a mystery by gathering clues. Red Herring (optional) - A false lead or false s...

Happy Ramadan!!! For those who know what Ramadan is, are you fasting this year? Tose who do not know what Ramadan is, Follow this link below to find out more about Ramadan. https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/23286976 Because we are fasting, we have a meal before sunrise called Sahoor. It is at four in the morning. I had rice with chicken for Sahoor and some yoghurt separately. After sunset, we would have another meal called Iftar and that is when we break our fast. Usually, we would eat dates first and pray then eat our main meal.😋 Last year, I was in Malaysia with the rest of my family for Ramadan and I also was at home too. We had fasted for about 18 hours in the UK and in Malaysia it was 14 hours. It would normally feel the same as fasting in the UK because Malaysia is a hot country. Iftar is a big meal we would eat because we had fasted for a long time. Imagine not eating lunch, having a really early breakfast and having a late dinner! Last year, we also bought some calendars ...

Today, I did an english lesson with Holly and today was about the qualities for a poem. I had to chose a fruit and write a peom about it after discussing the qualities. The qualities for a poem Alliteration - The first letters of a word being the same with the naxt after it. Eg. pointy pants, sugar sweet. Onomatopoeia - a word sounding like a noise. Eg. Crack! Smash! Personification - describing a thing with an action a human does. Eg. trees dancing, the cherry laughing. Sibilance - repetition of the 's' or 'sh' sound. Eg. the slithering snake swept into the spooky skeleton house. Assonance - the vowel sound repeated. Eg. the fair pear in my hair, the slime crime takes time. Similes and metaphors - comparing something to something else. Eg. Simile - as fast as a cheetah, light as a feather. Metaphor - she was a long river, a boulder he was.  My poem As I sat down on the front door steps, Longing to taste the juicy, tropical fruit, I felt my mouth wa...

Recently, I made a homemade periscope and I wanted to share how I made it. For those who do not know how what a periscope is, it is an object that enables you to see above you without having to look look yourself. Normally, submarines include them. What you will need: Cardboard Coloured strong tape (colour of your choice) CDs Bucket Hot water (but not boiling)  Paper template A sharp knife Very strong glue Instructions 1. First, find a template online and print it out. 2. Cut the template out as you want it to be. 3. Then, trace the outline of the template on the piece of cardboard. 4. Next, cut it out. 5. Fold the cut out cardboard as the template shows to do or along the lines. 6. Get the two CDs and, with the knife, cut out rectangular pieces (mirror). 7. After that, glue the cardboard and mirrors (at a 45૦ angle) to make a periscope baseline. 8. To secure it, add the colourful tape all around it. 9. Finally, decorate it and it is finished. It should ...

Basic Facts For Newbies Harry Potter is an orphan. Voldermort is the Dark Lord (the bad guy). Harry goes to a magical high school called Hogwarts. There are four houses in Hogwarts: Griffindor, Slythrin, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff. There are ten subjects taught at Hogwarts: Charms, Defence of the Dark Arts, Dark Arts, Flying (a broomstick), Potions, Care of magical Creatures, Divination (Fortune-Telling), Herbology (magical plants), Alchemy, Ghoul studies. More facts for intermediets The animals for each houses are: Griffindor=Lion, Slythrin=Serpent, Ravenclaw=Eagle, Hufflepuff=Badger. The actor for Harry potter is Daniel Radcliffe. Draco Malfoy bullies Harry because Harry did not want to become friends with him in the first place. Draco's bodyguards are Crabbe and Goyle The workers from the Knight Bus are called Stan Shunpike and Ernie Prang. Facts for devoted fans Harry Potter broke approximately 80 wands when filming because he used them as drumsticks. Harry Pot...

Today, I have an online piano lesson with my piano teacher - who normally does lessons with us every Wednesday so I decided to practise today. I am hopefully going to have an exam in July (grade 3 piano ABRSM). One of my pieces/songs I have to play in the exam it is called Blues in the Attic and it is a very jazzy.  How the exam works. There are three lists of pieces you have to pick one from each one: List A, List B and List C. List A: I chose Bransle De La Torche (It is in a different language so you may need to search that one up) List B: I chose Allegretto Grazioso (again it is in a different language). List C: Blues in the Attic (the piece I am going to play for you today). Then, you need to play the scales (not on the fish) of the piano. If you are confused about this, scales mean playing the piano from white key to black key or white key to black key depending what note you start on. After that, you need to play a sight reading piece, which is a short song you h...

Yesterday was my birthday and I had a lot of fun. Two nights before my birthday, my family made a surprise cinema outside: watching the movie of my choice. I chose Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban because it is my favourite Harry Potter book and it includes a time turner - which is one of my favourite magical objects in the world. Halfway through the movie, we all were absolutely freezing cold so we carried in watching it inside. We also ate my homemade birthday cake which was a tiramisu coffee cake (it was delicious, in my opinion, although I slightly wished that there was a bit more coffee). On the day of my birthday, I played the game of riddles with my Grandma, uncles, aunties and cousins that is on the other side of the world - Malaysia. My sister and I were one team and we were second overall. my cousin was first place. Here is one of the examples of one of the riddles. Question: What is more useful broken? Answer: Eggs. Our cinematic experience in our garden. M...

A few weeks ago, I created a book review on request for it to be posted on a magazine . I chose to do it on the Boy of the Back of the Class. Here is my review.↓ Introduction The Boy At the Back Of the Class is a great book by Onjali Q. Rauf because it reveals the hardship of people escaping the war in Syria and a strong connection between two people. Summary A refugee boy came to a school where the narrator and her best friends go to. The narrator became friends with Ahmet (the refugee boy) and Brendan-the-bully was being mean to him so they had a fight. Ahmet won and so Brendan got revenge by putting a can of baked beans into Ahmet’s red bag. He tries to wash it off but the smells and stains stayed. The narrator learned more about Ahmet’s background story and how he got into the school and country. Ahmet and his family were running from a war in Syria and they all got separated. Unfortunately, Ahmet’s cat died whilst going on a boat to Greece. They had to move to many differe...

Today, we all decided to make some thing about rainbows to put at our windows as a sign for hope. A hope to make covid 19 disappear. In our neighbourhood, there are more than 40 rainbows that my friend said when she was jogging! I wanted to make an origami rainbow hanging on a piece of string to stick on the front door window. My brother, sister and my mum painted a rainbow with sunshine and flowers on my mum's middle window in her room. My sister did the rainbow, my brother did the sunshine and my mum did the flowers and greenary. Instructions to make a hanging rainbow What you will need: Coloured card (white, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple and pink) Scissors Clear tape Double sided tape Stapler White pom poms Srong string 1. First, cut out strips of card from each colour and not the white card (all the same size). 2. Second, fold them so that red is not folded, orange is folded a tiny bit and yellow is folded 50%       more than orange ...

Today, my mum suggested my sister and I make 3 mini pizzas for lunch. She also asked my brother to make brownies with her. We all woke up and opened our home school (I knew that I would have a lot of fun today because we had so much fun yesterday).  I decided to draw a greyscale (black and white), shaded picture of my blue, metallic hydroflask. I think it looks very realistic. Share what you think of my drawing in the comments. After that, my sister and I made the pizzas. Me with my drawing. I had to be very careful with the shading and I really did not want a single line out of place because I want it to look neat. I also put the shadow of my bottle to make it look even more realistic. Instructions to make a mini pizza Serves one person. 1.First, preheat the oven to gas mark 5. 2.Second, mix in a cup of flour with a half-cup of water (ratio from flour to water is 2:1). 3.Flour your surface and knead the dough on that surface. Place the dough into a circula...

My name is Aisya and I live in Manchester, UK. As you all know, covid 19 is spreading and we are all on total lockdown so we are being homeschooled and having fun at the same time! We are doing a quantity of things to uplift our knowledge and to learn more about the outside world. Yesterday, I read an artical about sloths in Central America and South America.and I also learned that they hold Ironman sloth games annually. Did you know that they do a 1 meter 'dash', how fast a sloth can consume up a hibiscus flower and how long a sloth can hold onto a branch before landing on soft ground. I also sewed a cupcake trinket box my friend gave to me as an early birthday present. the Lego challange yesterday was to build a rollercoaster so i built a funhouse with a rollercoaster included in it. It took me a day to sew this. wikipedia                                            ...