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.

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.*

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

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

Goodbye to our Korean Students

At the start of the year we had a few homestays come from Korea to learn more about our culture.
There were approximately 35 homestays in our school, about 3 or 4 split in each class. In our classroom we had 4 their names were Tom, Han-bin, Louis and Simon, we were very impressed with how well they spoke English. They were in New Zealand for a month but were at our school for only 3 weeks. They were very nice and loved spending time with us Kiwi's. They talked about their lifes back in Korea very often. They became good friends to us and to see them go left a tear on our faces :'(
On the last day they were here they left us all a nice little fold up note in our desk which described how they felt about us :)

by: Portia and Lara.