Room 6 - Kahikatea, Mrs Ipsen.: May 2012

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

EASIYO Results...

Well done to Room 4 at Maeroa Intermediate School...Through hard work and commitment we have achieved a satisfactory result.

A special thank you to Mrs J and Ms Libby for their amazingness, help and ideas.

Thanks to all of the people who VOTED for our entry!

Voting has now ended and we are pleased to announce the winners of the EasiYo 2012 Create and Cook School Video Challenge.

We were delighted with the response and quality of the videos and thank you all for participating.

· FIRST prize $1,500: Henderson North, 13,490 votes

· SECOND prize $1,000: Maeroa, 2,518 votes

· THIRD prize $500: Dawson Primary, 1,048 votes

· The EASIYO SPECIAL CHOICE AWARD also goes to Maeroa for their fantastically creative and entertaining entry. We’ll reward this entry with another $500.

· Plus, we decide that Limehills terrific effort deserved some recognition too, so we would like to reward this with a bonus prize of $250.

To see the winning videos, visit this link http://www.easiyo.com/timeout/video-winners-2012.php

Monday, May 21, 2012

Some of you are involved over the next few weeks in the University of Waikato online classroom. Where you will be discussing the following key questions.

Good luck and remember you are in a classroom, so no text spelling, not too many emoticons and be the best you can be.

The following key questions should serve to get our discussion started:

How is ICT used in schools to promote and enhance learning?
How is ICT used outside of school to promote and enhance learning?

Later in the week we can move on to explore:

How can teachers help children to learn through ICT?
How might teachers and students learn together?

Remember that the classforum is a confidential learning environment. Don't let anyone add a comment from home, keep your discussions private and keep in mind that the adults are students too.

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Just a little science we did today...

Today we were looking at colour changing milk.

Through this experiment they discovered the chemistry behind the tiny drop of dish washing liquid. The structure of the dish washing liquid weakens the chemical bonds that hold the proteins and fats in the solution (milk).
The soaps nonpolar or hydrophilic (water loving) end dissolves in water and its hydrophobic (water fearing) end attaches to a fat globule in the milk.

The molecules of fat bend, twist and roll in all directions, which the students observed.