On the last day of term last term our school had a house sports day with Turbo Touch and Netball. For the whole day different teams played each other in Netball and Turbo Touch. The winning house overall was Nagata who won both Turbo Touch and Netball. Overall it was a fun day and it was fun to everyone. During the day we had a sausage sizzle with drinks for those of us that payed. Later that day everyone sat down and we announced the places for the top three houses but we all had a good time which is the main thing.
Last week was Maori Language Week. During last week we had a variation of activities such as the fishing competition, poster competition, translation competition, and the Hangi. The poster competition was taken by Jade and Ana who had a cool design. Leotisia won the translation competition and won a Te Mahi Kai t-shirt and stickers and a Te Mahi Kai t-shirt. And room 13 won the class mufti. On the Friday a big Hangi was held to celebrate this years theme of food and lots of people got to school at 7 am to help cook it including me.
PINTV (Pukekohe Intermediate TV) has just come out through my school and is very cool because its just like 3 news and 1 news. So far only two people are working behinde the scenes and yesterday at my my three way conference the teacher gace me some top secret news that im going to be behinde the scenes and so will my friend Liam. And this means i have a better chance of getting the ICT cup or the outstanding service cup. And this TV station needs a bit of work on the sound front and camera work but i think we will get there in no time. Every Tuesday from now on we will be having Te Reo Tuesday which will help us to learn more Maori language. And get us familiar with our other cultures.
Lately my class have been working on a news paper competition that we found off a website called http://www.nieonline.co.nz/ which has the competition. What we have to do is make a good front page design for a new newspaper which we are basing around our school. The newspaper must in include a unique masthead, Top boxes, News stories , An Advert, Editorial, and an inforgraphic. The front page also must be on the a sheet of A2 and if you win you get $1000 dollars. You have to get your teachers signature and the principles signature. Entries have to be in by 21st of August, Which is in a couple of weeks.
I have been on mathletics a lot lately trying to get a lot of gold bars. So far I have got 59 out of 93 on the second hardest level. To get a gold bar you have to get 80% or more on an activity that you have not already got a gold bar from. On my live mathletics i have smashed my old high score on level 1 which was 59 and now its 67. On level 1 the questions are for 1-10 and that's it and you have 1 minute to score as many as you can. Once you have all the gold bars for a level you move up a level. On the certificate front i have 3 bronze certificates and 1 silver certificate. Every time i get 5 bronze i get 1 silver and when i get 5 silvers i get 1 gold. By the end of the year im hoping to have a gold certificate. And have moved up a level.
Today we handed in our science fair projects and everyone got to see my model of my eco house and it was a big hit everyone was was looking at it for ages, which is a good sign for me because hopefully the judges will like it just as much. I am also entering in the Franklin science fair, which i have high hopes for getting a placing. For my model i have a Eco house which is two stories high with a windmill on top as well as solar panels so it can run by itself on the power front. And for the water i have to get water from a tank or water main, and to heat it i will use the fire place. The fire place will also heat the house. It does produce carbine dioxide but if you get the wood from your property it will be fine because your not getting wood from rain forests but your on back lawn. And a little carbine dioxide is good for the environment. My house also has a full glass front to let in light so you don't use as much power and it will heat the tiles and feel like under floor heating.
When was the last time you had popcorn? Most of you would say at the movies or at Home but have you ever wandered what Popcorn does to you or how it effects your Health. Because you will think twice Having popcorn at the movies after what I'm about to tell you,
Because there are definitely things about Popcorn that you need to know that you Don’t know, I'm not saying you shouldn’t Eat popcorn I'm just going to convince you What makes air popped popcorn better than All the others.
So you can make the wise and healthy Choice. The fist thing I'm going to tell you Are the methods of cooking popcorn. But just some facts, the first popcorn machine ever invented was a steam driven machine that cooked the popcorn kernels in hot oil.
But that is the past and I am focusing on the more modern types of popcorn. The first and most common way of cooking popcorn is micro-wave popcorn. I think the reason most people like it is because they like the buttery flavour which is fine but quiet unhealthy
But heir is a solution to make tasty buttery popcorn that is a lot healthier. This is air popped popcorn which is cooked in hot air not fat or oil, which makes it healthier. But to get the nice buttery taste you just melt a little bit of butter and pour on top of some air popped popcorn is just as tasty and is healthier.
But then you have the unhealthiest of them all
The popcorn you buy from the movies. Its is extremely unhealthy because it is cooked in fat and oil the two things you should try and avoid when cooking popcorn. And the last way of making popcorn is pan cooked popcorn which is cooked in hot pan oil.
This next bit is going to be a bit shocking to those of you who love popcorn if you always eat the movie popcorn or micro-wave popcorn. Because the movie popcorn has 50% more fat than air popped popcorn which makes it very unhealthy and it would have 62 calories which means that is a lot for one cup of popcorn because we normally have about 6 cups at the movies in a medium size popcorn which is 372 calories in a movie and children our age should only be consuming an average of 1500 calories
Per day so it’s over 1/3 of your daily in take of calories. And then you come to air popped popcorn again which only has 180 calories in 6 cups so its you choice on what type of popcorn you eat. But the healthier option is air popped popcorn.
And for those of you who think I'm going bonkers using funny words calories which is pretty much energy fat which means that they give you energy and fat.
So the next time you are at the movies you can be healthy or unhealthy its your choice I just hope I have convinced you to start having air popped popcorn instead of micro-wave popcorn or movie popcorn.
