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.



Award of Merit

Tino Pai Simon! This weeks Award of Merit went to Simon for showing great sportsmanship, a willingness to have a go and encouraging others around him.

Swimming Sports

On Friday we had Swimming sports, we were very lucky with the weather as we had such a fantastic day.

The day began with our whanau chants, Cooper's chant was pretty impressive and went well with their Hulk theme and the Ngata whanau all looked pretty in pink. It was great to see all of the teachers dressed up ready for the day ahead.

This was then followed by some fun events such as barrel and rope races, before we got into the competitive swimming races.

Well Done Mansfield, the winning whanau and Congratulations to Brittany, Portia and Neil who have been selected for SEZ swimming.

Swimming Sports by Slidely Slideshow

Homework

 



Reading - every night children should be reading for at least 20 minutes,  20 minutes might not seem like a lot but it really does add up. Regular reading helps children to improve their comprehension, spelling, vocabulary, writing as well as general knowledge and questioning skills.
Children should be reading something that interests them and that they enjoy. We spend time in the school library every week where children can check out books to read at home, in the classroom we also have a range of books that relate to our inquiry topic that children are able to borrow to take home with them.

Basic Facts - These should be practised daily at home. Remember math is everywhere, it is when you tell the time to figure out how long you have on the computer or how much longer til your favourite tv show is on, when you are cooking dinner or baking, when you are figuring out directions, deciding how much food to buy and paying for your groceries.
In the classroom we also have activity sheets that students can help themselves to, these relate to what we are doing in class as well as revision. Each child should do at least one of these a week. This website is also great for practicing basic facts http://www.prototec.co.nz/maths.html

Spelling - Each Monday children come home with a new set of spelling words that relate to their inquiry topic for them to practice during the week. We have a spelling test each Friday on their words for the week. The aim for this is to encourage students to begin to use the language of their inquiry topic, so they need to understand what their words mean and how they can use them.

Inquire - Talk about your day at school share your learning and findings with people at home. Continue to research; check the news, articles, internet and as always continue to ask questions. 

Organisation - In Room 19 we are independent and responsible for ourselves, this means that we need to be organised and prepared. This means that each night children need to make sure in their school bag they have everything they need for the day ahead; school diary, PE uniform, swimming gear, books, hat and lunch.

Swimming Sports

Swimming Sports tomorrow! At swimming sports there will be races and fun games so that all children can get involved and have fun.

The students will wear their full uniform to school and then get changed into their PE uniform with their swimming gear underneath. At the end of the day the children will go home in their full uniform as well.

The children are allowed to accessorise their PE gear with Mansfield (our whanau) blue.

We will be spending the whole day outside and it is forecast to be a sunny and hot. So make sure you have sunscreen, water, and a hat. We need to be sun smart.

There are no lunch orders but there will be a sausage sizzle, which will cost $2. The tuckshop will also be coming down to the pool for students to use at morning tea time tomorrow.

Da Food Fighters Survey

Da Food Fighters have had a go at using Survey Monkey to create an online survey around False Advertising. If you have 5 minutes they would love it if you could click here to take survey.

This website will also help the students to analyse their data as well as collect information from the wider community.

Thanks

Da Food Fighters

We are the Food Fighters group from Room 19 at Howick Intermediate School.

Our HOT question this term is to identify fast food restaurants that use advertising to appeal to customers; investigate the popular burgers nutritional values to promote conscious consumerism.

This term we have decided to create a blog as part of our social action. We are also going to create a healthy burger with less calories than your everyday McDonalds Big Mac, to do this we are going to compare and contrast home cooked burgers with the fast food franchise burgers in order to understand which burger would be the best to eat.

Visit our blog at http://dafoodfightersofroom19his.blogspot.co.nz/

We were inspired by Martha Paynes' Blog Never Seconds

Award of Merit

Ka Rawe Vivek, who received this weeks Award of Merit for working well as part of a team and considering consequences of his own actions and the actions of those around him.

Research

In Room 19 we have been putting our research skills into use at the library.

To research we know that we must first plan what we would like to find out about, to do this we have been using a KWHL Chart.

This chart shows what we know, what we want to know, how we found out the information, and what we have learnt. By using this we are able to spend our time researching effectively.

Botanic Gardens

Botanic Gardens 21/02/2014 by Slidely Slideshow