Award of Merit - Week 6

Tino Pai Sela, who received this weeks award of merit for the effort she has been applying to her numeracy learning.

Ka Pai Neil and Jimmy who received certificates from Ms Watson for their excellence in the cooking extension program. They are posing with some of the fantastic art work that has been taking place around the school.

Science Roadshow

This week some students went and visited the Science Roadshow. The Science Roadshow was lots of fun, the children got to trial a whole range of different experiments as well as try to figure out the reasons why certain things worked the way they do.

Paige and Michelle trying to figure out how this experiment with rotational gravity worked. 

Jasraj and Aomi

Codi and Ethyn 

Even the teachers learnt lots too. 

 Codey, Aomi and Jasraj

And we sat down to learn about some different topics, such as how muscles work.

Aomi even won a pen with a caliper attached, which is used to measure the distance between two sides of an object.

Reminder: Science Fair projects should be coming together now, they are due next Friday.

Parent - Teacher -Student Conferences

Notices have gone home to all students, the conferences are coming up next week. Please return notices as soon as possible in order to book an appointment.

It would be fantastic to meet with you and discuss your child's learning.

Science Fair

Science Fair Projects should be underway at home. This year the science fair projects can be around a topic that interests the creator. At the beginning of this term students took home a timeline to follow to finish their Science Fair Projects, their finished projects are due on the 20th of June.

At school we have been through the process of completing a mini science fair, as well as discussion around what makes a good science fair. The students have information on the science fair process in their school diaries as well to help them.

Here are some sites that we have looked at in class and might be helpful at home as well:

This website has some ideas of science fair topics that can be done - http://www.sciencefair-projects.org/index.html

This website goes through the process of the science fair - http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/science_fair_projects_coach/science-project-coach.html

Diet Water Presentation!

As part of their Cycle One presentation Diet Water created a video to help share their message of the importance of a healthy lifestyle.

Award of Merit - Term 2, Week 4

Teno Pai Michelle!

 

 

 

This weeks Award of Merit went to Michelle for her fantastic work in helping to create a video for her inquiry groups presentation. 

Award of Merit - Term 2, Week 3

Ka Rawe Jireh! This weeks Award of Merit went to Jireh for the effort he has put into his narrative to promote the benefits of wearing helmets.

 
Well done to Tailena and Ceyan, who received certificates this week for their participation in soccer this year.

A moment of life and death

Oh no, Jack had a crash! On his bicycle a couple of days ago. Jack is in his 40s and still cycles to work and home 3 days a week a round trip of 28km.

Jack was a semi-professional rugby league player until he was 35 years old, he still trains regularly. Therefore he has a body that has taken much physical abuse over the years but he is quick, fit and strong.

Jack was cycling on a cycle path going downhill and banking to the right at about 50km/h. Jack drifted a little wide on the riding line, and the bike went out from underneath and came into contact with some leaf litter and other rubbish on the cycle path and the bike turned me quickly.

Jack lost most of memory of the crash with the force when his head hit the path. Luckily the cushioning effect the helmet provided meant it was like falling into a pillow.

Jack suffered the usual scrapes to Jack lower leg, upper leg, hip, arm and also the shoulder as well as some trauma to Jacks right shoulder due to the force of it coming into contact with ground.

However if it were not for the helmet Jack has no doubt he would have died.

Jireh has written this story to help promote people to make the right choice and wear their helmets.

Award of Merit - Term 2, week 2

Teno Pai Aneesha! This weeks Award of Merit went to Aneesha for the excellent effort she has put into the procedural writing process.

 

 

 

Ka Pai Geraldine! This week Geraldine received a certificate from Ms Watson for her fantastic work in Food Tech.

 

 

 

Well Done Girls!

Food Tech 8/05/14

The Diet Water group were called to Food Tech to make a healthy alternative of a wrap plus some extremely delicious healthy banana muffins. There were in total 9 of us. We had our ingredients which were lettuce, coleslaw, onion, tomato, cheese, chicken, cucumber and a variety of sauces. We washed our hands and started grating the cheese, tossing the lettuce and coleslaw, chopping tomatoes, cucumber and onion. Some were sent to chop and cook the chicken, some were sent to make the muffins, and some were sent to do the wraps. The ERO (Education Review Office) Team were here and they got to try the wraps and muffins, which they said were delicious.


Muffins:
They were extremely good, delicious and warm. They turned out better than expected.We gave a muffin to each teacher in the school, and all came back saying they were delicious.


Wraps:
They were a mixture of tastes with the honey and mustard sauce plus the sweet and sour sauce. The wraps were both tasteful and good-looking. With a mixture of salads, and healthy 5+ a day ingredients.

Award of Merit

Ka Pai Alex!

 

 

 

This weeks Award of Merit went to Alex for the fantastic effort he put into his writing last term.

Well Done!

End of Term One

Today was the last day of term one. Room 19 successfully filled their marble jar, so as a way to celebrate this Miss Brownsey brought in cupcakes for everyone.

 

 

 

 

I hope everyone has a safe and happy holidays, and I will see you all next term.

Fair testing!!!

 

Fair Testing Science!

Purpose- Describe what is needed in a fair test.

We watched a scientific variable video to answer a set of questions, about all the different variables you can have in a science experiment.

First there is a independent variable, in order for a experiment to be fair we can only change ONE thing.

Next there is the controlled variable, the things in the experiment that need to be the same are the controlled variables.

Then there is the Dependent variable, the things in the experiment you are trying to measure are called the Dependent variable.

 

 

We used this video clip to help us prepare for the upcoming science fair

Mufti day

On Tuesday the 15th of April our school had a mufti day but this was no ordinary mufti day, it was a no cost no theme mufti. The P.T.S.A (Parent Teacher Student Association) thought that our performance on the cultural festival was spectacular and they awarded us a no cost, no theme mufti day which meant we could dress up in whatever we wanted to wear; as long as it was appropriate. The day went fabulously and almost everyone participated. It was great to see what everyone decided to wear.   

- By Portia Baylis

Award of Merit - Week Eleven

Tino Pai Michelle!

This weeks Award of Merit went to Michelle for her positive attitude and enthusiasm towards her learning.

Cultural Festival

On Wednesday the 9th of April our school had a Cultural Festival to celebrate the diversity here at Howick Intermediate. About 3-4 weeks before that our school started sending each student to a culture they chose to learn more about to practice. Every weekday  at 12:00pm the students will go off to their practice around the schools. 
Some groups had whanau of students come in and some teachers worked together. On the day of our dress rehersal at 11:00am all the students got dressed-up, makeup on and dance moves ready to perform in front of the rest of the school and staff. As each Cultural festival group went by Mrs Koroua directed them and helped them to be a bit more pleasant. It was really interesting watching the dances and seeing what each group had came up with. On the night of Cultural festival everyone was ready to perform and the hall just kept getting fuller and fuller.
The night was great nobody wanted it to end and the dances were full of energy.

By Portia Baylis

Award of Merit Week 10

Tino Pai Tristyn! Tristyn received this weeks Award of Merit for being a kind and considerate class member who is always willing to help out others.

Mathletics

For the rest of Term 1 Howick Intermediate has a trial for all students to be involved in Mathletics. Each child has a username and password to access the site through. On this the children are able to compete against others from around the world as well as practice and revise what we have been doing in the classroom.

http://www.mathletics.co.nz/

 

Have a go.

Yr 8 girls self-defence course

On Monday the 31st of March the year 8 girls from Room's 19, 20 and 21 took part in a self-defence course that teaches young girls how to keep themselves and their bodies safe. We went straight after assembly to the multi-purpose room where Rana our self-defence teacher was waiting. To start off she introduced herself and we all got to know who and what we will be working on. We set down the ground rules and we talked about being safe, and "confidentiality".

First we learnt our stance, we spread our legs apart and one in front of the other with the back one slightly angled out yelling "BACK OFF".

Then we started with kicks practicing on foam pads such as:
-shin kick: you bring out your knee up and flick your legs lick a whip of a towel with your toes flexed to hit the shin
-knee kick: similar to the shin kick but higher and stronger to the knee
-ballerina kick: you point your toes and swing your leg to the groin and hit with the top of your foot
-stamp: if they're behind stamp back on to the top of their foot using their heel braking their foot bones also front
-knee to groin: if their close grab their waist or shoulders, bring them closer and pop your knee into their groin turning your head for safety

On Tuesday we moved on to punches. To do a proper punch your fingers must be folded over with your thumb ON TOP of your fingers securing them tight with your wrist strong.
The punches we did were:
-nose: punch the nose to make it bleed
-neck: aim for the Adams apple and punch real hard
-guts: punch towards and just above the bellybutton
-nuts: punch to the nuts
-hammer: with the side of your fist punch to the side or on top of the nose

Types of elbowing:these practically explain themselves
elbow to:
-guts
-nose
-chest
-nuts: bob down and elbow down there.

Remember don't be afraid to confront them publicly by telling them off !!!

Overall we had a great time, lots of fun, and at the end of the course we received a certificate, pencil, wrist band and poster.

Spotty Day

This Friday was Spotty Day so we came to school in dots to help raise awareness for Melanoma. This day was organised by the class councillors and groups from rooms 6, 7 and 9. Ka Pai Ying, who had the most dots on her clothing!

 

At the end of the day Room 19 went outside for a game of basketball, this was lead by the students. They explained how to play, gave advice as well as referred and led the teams. The class had a great time.

Award of Merit - Week Nine

This week our Award of Merit went to Lara. Lara has been doing a fantastic job helping to lead her learning group, Da Food Fighters.

Codey and Codi were this weeks Red Card winners, well done.

Statistics

As part of our learning we have been working on statistical investigations. To do this we conducted a survey after first deciding what we needed to find out. We are now working on presenting and decoding the information we gathered into.

This week we have been working on creating pie graphs. To do this we had to convert our tally marks into percentages of the pie graph. We had to make sure we used a ruler.

 

 

Next we use a protractor to measure the areas of the pie graph.

 

 

Then we used a ruler to go from the centre of the graph to the outside, making sure we divide our pie graph correctly.

Da Food Fighters - Food Technology

Today for the whole first and second block we were in fantasticchnology with Miss Watson, to cook up a storm.
The group that I was made Spaghetti Bolognese, in this group was Portia, Ethyn, Roger and I (Lara). The other groups were making baked potatoes and healthy hamburgers. In the first block we chopped vegetables, added ingredients and started to cook the food. Whilst we were at morning tea Mrs Watson let the food slowly cook on medium-low. In second block we served up and ate ,then well the worst part... CLEANED!!

Gordina and Michelle chopping onions "electrically"

 

Our group hand chopping carrots and onions, and the onions definitely made us cry

 Waaaaa!

 

 They had made the patties and they were ready to cook! YUMMY

 

 We had to stand there for ages stirring 'round and round and ROUND!

 

Gordina, Codey and Shreya chopped and mixed onions and cheese ''''CHEEESE''''

 

  The Spaghetti Bolognese was so good and served 7 people.

 

 Hamburgers were a treat that topped the day.

 

 "Stuffed, Baked potatoes. Delicious!"

 

 "Yum! These are really tasty" says Michelle  

 

It's like we are one big happy family at dinner.

 

"No! don't take a photo of me" -Ethyn

       "It's of the food" -Lara          

 ''Oh'' -Ethyn  

*A big thanks to Miss Watson for the fantasic photos.*

Award of Merit - Week 8

Ka Rawe Pinder! This week our Award of Merit went to Pinder who has been applying excellent effort to his reading as well as displaying a positive attitude towards his learning.

Community Contacts - Da Food Fighters

On Thursday 13th March our advertising group and nutrition group met up with a chef named John, who has worked at lots different restaurants. He told us about his restaurant and gave us some tips on how to make healthier lunches. we had lots of questions to ask and he was impressed with what we had come up with. We had a great time learning about his job.
Now here's where you can help us! We would really like to make another community contact, if you know someone who works in a fast food franchise or knows about nutrition and would be interested in speaking to the majority of our class please email our class teacher at paigeb@howickint.school.nz

Award of Merit - Week 7

Ka Pai Johnny! This weeks Award of Merit went to Johnny, who received it for taking responsible risks and applying fantastic effort to his swimming and reading.
Ka Pai Alicia! who received an award for her effort at the SEZ softall tournament.

Diet Water

Our focus this cycle is food and nutrition.

HOT Question:

Identify foods found in students lunch boxes and explore the nutritional value of the most popular foods to recommended healthy foods for lunch boxes.

 

 

The BrainFreezers

We are the BrainFreezers group. Our HOT question is to determine Howick Intermediate student's perception of how people receive head injuries and explore how people can avoid injuries in different situations and implement a campaign to encourage people to wear helmets.

For our social action we are going to make a picture book for Islander children to encourage them to wear helmets. We will be focussing on narrative writing to tell the story about the consequences of not wearing helmets. We are going to work with Miss Haag the art specialist teacher to make pictures for our up coming book.

by Jireh and Tristyn

Diet Water - Food Technology

As part of their inquiry focus some of the Diet Water group have been spending time with Mrs Watson in the Food Technology room. They have been looking at measurement and different ways to measure volume, so that when the time comes they are able to follow recipes and turn out some tasty food.

I will never forget the time when I was at school and a group got mixed up between a cup and tablespoon when adding salt to their chocolate chip cookies. Yuck.