Some Snippets from 2013

Some Snippets from 2013

Room 9

These are the wonderful students in Room 9. They are all stars in their own rights.  I will miss them and all their delightful mannerisms.
All the best to you all.

Enertia,Egg trick

This is a caption of when we tried to do the egg trick.The reson thus happens is because of the enirtia giving the egg the power (force) to stay in the air for a split second with lets it fall straight into the glass.

Amy Winehouse "Free Nelson Mandela" (Treacy version)

Angelas 100 word challenge

Looking into the gloomy window, a shadowy figure stands behind the curtain. The figure suddenly disappears. Julie and Greg are shocked as they tip toe to the front door. Creeeaaaakkk, the door slowly opens. At the top of the stairs the figure reappears. the mysterious character moves towards Julie. A knife travels up her pale thigh,blood drips down her shoulder. The bloodshot eyed figure turns around. its a lonely girl WITH A KNIFE IN HER HAND!!!!! "Runn screeched Julie as they sprint to the front door. A monkey like human asks in a crackly voice "where are you going?”

Each Morning is a New Beginning!!!!

Roller Coaster

I am looking forward to the rollercoasters that Room 9 design.
What things will you have to think about when designing a roller coaster?
What forces are acting on the roller coaster? What effect do they have?

Police Dogs and Handlers Visit Maeroa

Police Dogs Visit Maeroa Intermediate on PhotoPeach

Talent Quest

Maeroa had a fantastic Talent Quest Finals Competition today. There were dancers, singers, instrumentalists...
The winner was Christian with a dance routine, close second was Carl with his awesome violin and Katrielle and her beautiful voice came third. Here is a picture of Christian in mid routine.

Fractions at a Glance

This may help you to make better comparisons between fractions.

Motion - MindMeister

Create your own mind maps at MindMeister

Jingle Hoops

Responsibilities 2014 - Looking Ahead!

Movies as You Have Never Seen Them ...

A Life Lesson

It is the little things that we can do for others that count! What can you do that matters???

Some of the things that we could do is to help our parents out in the kitchen, compliment someone, do a favour for someone, help your neighbour with the garden, smile and say hello, we could pick up the rubbish in the playground.
Give put ups!

Plot Development

Plot Diagram Interactive:  use this open-ended online tool to graph the plot of any story.

Say Something Nice!

What a great idea!! What would happen if we started the day by saying something nice to everyone in the class ?

Haka Hiva Performance

An enthusiastic and rousing performance was put on by the Pasifika boys at assembly on Friday. There was a lot of pride and passion on display.

Maeroa Spelling Bee

Room 9 is proud of the efforts of our two class members, Halavaka and Leon, who competed in the school Spelling Bee held in the auditorium on Thursday night.  They demonstrated a lot of courage, spelling some difficult words that most people would struggle with.
This photo shows the eventual winner,  Shadrach.

Room 9's Goldfish

• Our fish are as yet not named.  What would you name them?  
• The two fish look as though they could be having a conversation.  What would they be talking about?

Mysterious story.

He looks fluffy and cuddly but be warned, his blue and white furry tips are disguising his evil and ghoastly personality. His eyes are blood red and white, outlining his pupils. He is short, only 2 feet tell. This disgustingly, horrifying creature has teeth as sharp as 12 by 12 yellow, unclean knives, set in a row. This mysterios creature that stalks you, remains unknown.

Guess What Day it Is?

Today is Hump Day!!!!!  Enjoy the slide down to Friday.

Shirley Jackson Short Story Contest

How creative can you be?? Create your own ending to the unfinished Shirley Jackson story.

Ritsumeikan Keisho Junior High School

Ritsumeikan Keisho Junior High School students have been at Maeroa Intermediate for the last two weeks. We have enjoyed having them in our school and wish them well on their return journey.

Narratives Structure

Writing Narratives from mungo13

We will be using some of the ideas contained in this slide show to assist us to write powerful narratives that will grab the readers interest.

Motivational Video, Start your day 1 degree ahead of the pack

Maeroa Intermediate Kapahaka Performing at Grandparents Morning

Avondale High School Performance

What an amazing performance!! The students from Avondale High really showed the students of Maeroa Intermedaite what can be achieved if you work hard and enjoy what you do.
Would you go and watch a concert featuring these young people?

Survery - Elearning

Please complete this survey about elearning at Maeroa.

Determining My Understanding of What I have Read.

Use one or several of these ideas to determine your understanding of what you have read.

Flow Diagrams

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These are examples of how to set out a flow diagram.
When designing a flow diagram think about using an image. The correct image can tell a thousand words.
When using words, be very specific. You only want key words which capture the main points.

101 Word Challenge

This is the prompt for this weeks challenge. I look forward to reading your submissions!!!

Transformations

Transformation connor from sams01

Please browse my presentation. Leave a comment about whether I have identified the transformations accurately. Thank you.

Forces

This photo indicates the forces that are acting on the cyclist.  These are some of our thoughts prior to  discussions and other learning that will help us to develop our understanding of forces.

Transformations

Translation, from sams01

This is a presentation on what we learnt in Geometry about transformations.

Reflection, Rotation, Translation

Kayce nikita harmony maths work from sams01

Responsibility

How can you show responsibility?
What could you do to improve your level of responsibility?

THE GREAT NATURE PROJECT

You're invited to join The Great Nature Project—a worldwide celebration of the planet and its wonders!

Click on the image and find out more!  

Maeroa Sports Camp Cheer

Maeroa Sports Camp Cheer from Candy on Vimeo.

Cheer Presented with Enthusiasm 

The Sports Camp Team from Maeroa Intemediate perform their cheer to the other schools in attendance at Totara Springs Sports Camp.

The Tasti Ad

Tree Diagrams

Out Comes using Tree Diagram

Waikato Inter-Intermediate and Middle Schools Rugby Tournament

Vs. Maeroa Intermediate 20/8/13 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Thanks Room 9 from Melville for sharing this with us! Dallas was the student who attended from our class.
Room 9, which students do you recognize ?

Primary Pad - What are the elements (agents ) that change the Earth's Surface?

Time Lapse

Can you identify the changes in the landscape?

5 Minutes a Day to Change the World

S0... what are YOU going to do?  BE the CHANGE!

Word Detective

Word Detectives: click on the icon which will take you to an article titled, "Water is Life".  Read the article and then in your Reading Book answer the, 'Thinking Questions'.
What other questions do you have about the world's water supply?

Te Tira

Planet Warriors

Maths Statistics Learning

In class we have been learning about statistics. We have learned what a histogram is and what it is used for. A histogram records data in groups, it also has no spaces between the bars and numbers instead of words along the x axis.

BBC KS2 Bitesize English

Click on the image and have a go at this activity!

Persuasion Map

We can use this site to plan and write a fantastic piece of persuasive writing.

101 Word Story Challenge!

101 Word Story Competition

The theme of the story is to be, ‘I Made a Difference’.

Students and parents are invited to submit your entries for this to Mrs Bain before August 26^th at 3.00pm.  Please hand your story into the office.

Criteria:

·         Entries may be written either by hand or computer.

·         They must be handed in by the due date and time.

·         Each story must be exactly 101 words long (not one word more or less!)

·         You are writing to communicate an idea to the reader so it needs to make sense to the reader.

·         Each essay must also contain all the following words, used without suffixes or prefixes e.g. ready must be used as ready – not readiness, readily or similar variations of the word family.  The 10 words MUST be highlighted in the text.

determined                                        sudden

                   challenged                                         humbly

deflated                                             bowed

cross                                                  stretched

uncertain                                          definite

Persuasive Writing -

Room 9 has started to learn about persuasive writing.  On Monday our thoughts were collected.  Following are the main points:

Persuasive Writing- What we thought:

Persuasive writing is when you talk someone into doing something for you.

Persuasive writing is when you try to convince someone that your point of view is better.

Persuasive writing is to blackmail someone by making something sound exciting.

It is when you are trying to change someone’s opinion with facts that support your argument.

Persuasive writing starts with an introduction and finishes with a conclusion.  You can use a “fish hook “at the start to grab the reader’s interest.

It contains expression, adjectives and rhetorical questions

It contains proper grammar, descriptive language, interesting facts which are paragraphed.

It needs to be punctuated correctly

Use facts to make the writing easy to understand.

Each sentence needs to make sense.

It will have several main ideas.

It could contain technical language.

The ideas are ordered.

Which points do you agree with and which ones do you think are not really related to persuasive writing?

Word Detectives - Reading

This article relates to the book, "Frindle" and how new words are added to the dictionary as they become common usage.
Once you have read the article on the site; KiwiKids News, then go to the recall question section and complete this work in your Reading Book.
Would your new word eventually get entered into the Oxford Dictionary?
What would you have to do to ensure that it did become common usage?

ROOM 9 P.B.4.L- LINING UP

This morning Room 9 brainstormed how to line up and why.

Kaly Comes Third - BMX

Pay it Forward

Oobleck

Compensating

Kayce - Room 9's First Bronze Koru, Year 7 Recipiant

A Snapshot of Term 2

These are only a few of the many activities that Maeroa Intermediate students were involved in over the term.

Speech Topics

Speech Topics Final

Home Learning

Science Home Learning: Poster and Photography

A Students Guide to the WAIKATO Science Fair 2013

Harmony's

See the full PicLit at PicLits.com

Federation

Created with Padlet

Maeroa Intermediate at the Waikato Intermediate and Middle Schools Hockey Tournament

Waikatio Intermediate and Middle Schools Hockey Tournament from Candy Hart

Well done to all the students who helped Maeroa Intermediate obtain third placing in the annual Waikato Intermediate and Middle Schools Hockey Tournament held at Innes Common.

It was a fantastic day and all Maeroa students represented our school with pride.

What's in a Name?

My name is harmony from Candy Hart

Hmewrk from Candy Hart

Hala homework term 2 dont delete ever 2013 from Candy Hart

Pop Videos

Pop Videos

Orange

What is the message that is being communicated?

What's My Name! {Alyx}

This is about my name. It is for my homework and this is what I came up with! Enjoy my presentation and leave a comment.

Suffix Hangman

Test yourself on your suffix knowledge when adding able and ible to words!! Leave a comment about how you found this activity.  Was it suitable for what you were learning about?

REVOLUTION

A great group with a message.


IMG 0446 from Candy on Vimeo.



IMG_0445.MOV from Candy on Vimeo.

Mobiles

Constructing Mobiles on PhotoPeach



Room 9 is working in groups to create their very own MOBILES!!!
The idea of this activity is to create a way to stimulate the senses.
This activity will test the students creativeness.
The MOBILES will be placed around the school for all to see.

Strike at Maeroa

On Thursday, May 9th ,the percussion group known as !!STRIKE!!, performed an array of feats like playing music with FIRE!!,creating rhythm with Pacific Island log drums and a neat beat with soda cans.

TIGGERS TRIVIA HOSTS!!!

Room 9 Term One Trivia Team: We are from left to right: Ben,Tigger,Connor and Jacob. We did a very hard and scary task THE TRIVIA!!! and we won Tigger!!!

TGFU

TGFU (teaching games for understanding)
Room 9 has to think of different strategies to use to defend and attack in different games. including Soccer, Basketball, Netball and Hockey :)

Find Your Dream!

DREAM BIG

Nouns and Adjectives

BBC- KS2 Bitesize English

This game will determine how well you understand nouns and adjectives. Good luck!!

Term 1 Social

Hello to our Visitors!!!

The students in Room 9 are really excited about having people from around the world view our class blog.
We would like to make a connection with you, especially the person from Mountain View, California, who has been on the blog several times.
Please email us so that we can learn more about life in other parts of the world.

Maeroa Intermediate Glee Group

Making Music

Jacob's Koros

Ormie the Pig

When you watch this, think about your own ideas the Ormie could use to get the cookies.  How is he going to get the bowl off his head?

Holi

Source: boston.com via Artemis on Pinterest

This is the Hindu festival of Holi. Often referred to as "The Festival of Colors," amazing images of this year's celebrations.

What cultural celebrations do your family and friends share? Which celebrations should we acknowledge at Maeroa?

Maeroa Intermediate - Song sung at weekly assembly

Framework for Planning a Biography

Planner for Biography

Balloons over Waikato

Balloons over Waikato!! How exciting! Check out the website: Balloons over Waikato to see what is happening.
If you have photos of any of the balloons, bring them along to school to share!

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Kowhai Team on Camp at Waihi Beach

Trying to Change Something Can Lead to Heartache

Malala Yousafzai, back at school six months after shooting - 

Nouns

Do you know the difference between a common and a proper noun?
This is a quick quiz to check your knowledge of nouns.

Future Wheel

Respect in Room 9 Looks, Feels and Sounds Like ....

Goal Setting

After watching a short video, Room 9 had a discussion around goals. Below are the key points from the discussion.

What are goals?
We think that goals are something that we would like to achieve in the future.
Why is it important to set goals?
Goals help you to reflect on the future and help you to stay focused.
DIFFERENT TYPES OF GOALS
There are different types of goals:
Short term goals and long term goals
For example a long term goal maybe to get fit.
A short term goal relating to this would be:  exercise for 30 minutes 3 times a week.
There are also concrete and abstract goals. Concrete goals are measurable and you know what you have to do to achieve them; e.g By July, I would like to improve my basic facts score by 20. This will help me improve my mathematics.
It is better to set concrete goals.
WHERE TO NEXT?
We are going to set two goals.
One goal will be academic. We will choose one area of our work that we would like to strengthen.
The other goal will be a social goal. This could be making new friends or being more organised for lessons.
We are looking forward to sharing these goals with our friends and family members next week.
We will also have to identify the steps we will take in order to achieve our goals

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Swimming Sports - Superb!!

Let's Go Crazy!!

What do you think?
Could you go crazy to help someone?

What could you do to make the world more awesome?

Be the Change!

Created with Padlet

Famous New Zealanders

Famous New Zealanders

This is a resource that you may find useful when searching for information to complete a biography.

Setting Goals

Goals should be measurable and obtainable.

Biography

What's in a biography? Let's find out???

Cline

A cline shows a graduation from one extreme to another. We can use a cline to compare words.

The Power of Words

Knowing how to choose our words can make a big difference to the message that we are communicating.

How Do We Learn Best?

Learning is individual. Some people like to work at tables, some prefer the floor. Noise can be distracting for some people when they are concentrating however others are the complete opposite. How do you learn best and can using elearning tools make a difference to your learning?
Today Room 9 began to identify how they learn best so that as a group we can create an environment where learning is enhanced.

Shake, Spread and Savour

Christmas in Room 9

Name Labels

Room 9 had to consider the colour, layout and font they used when completing this task.

Maeroa Assembly Week 1

This is how the different teams at Maeroa greet each other. It brings us together and makes us feel proud to be a member of the group.

Talented or Gifted?

Looks like this could be a Little Dude Perfect in the making?  What do you think?

Welcome to Room 9

Me, Myself and I

Me, Myself and I from Candy Hart

The Cornerstones of Maeroa Intermediate