Thursday 29 March 2018

An Easter Visitor

We had a special visitor in the hub today, making special deliveries to the teachers!

Monday 19 March 2018

Food for thought

We were luck enough to have Mikaela, from the Heart Foundation, visit us to teach us about what foods are going to look after our bodies as we grow up.

We learned about Food Groups. Everyday & Occassional foods. We talked about nutrients - the stuff inside the food that makes it good for us.

The stomach looks like a crossaint. 
The intestine, if we unravelled it, would be 7m long. Fibre helps clean out our intestine & helps us go to the toilet. It also keeps our stomach full. Breads have carbohydrates too. We need carbohydrates to give us energy.

We need to eat 5+ servings of fruit and vegetables a day. In Australia, they aim for 10+ a day!

The nutrients we get from fruit and vegetables are vitamins and minerals. We also get fibre from them. Vitamin C helps keep away colds and stops us from getting sick. Oranges, lemons and other citrus fruits give us vitamin C.

We worked groups to sort foods into their categories. We had to decide how many serveds we should have and which nutrients go with each.
Calcium and protein is in milk and dairy products. Calcium makes your teeth and bones strong. Protein keeps your muscles strong. 

Protein rich food is also lean meat, chicken, fish, seafood, eggs, nuts, seeds, beans, legumes, lentils & tofu. Iron is also in this group. 

There are fats that help our body and others that really don't! -like the fat from our fish & chips. Some foods fit underneath the categories but are occassional foods. A little bit of salt is good for us, but too much makes our heart struggle to pump our blood through the body. 

We talked about preservatives that are in food to make it last longer than it should.


Sunday 18 March 2018

Life skills

Four people learned 5 skills. We split into teams and they then taught their team those skills. To learn them, we had to use our ability to focus and listen... as well as leadership skills to teach it. 

Saturday 17 March 2018

Respect for our Community

KiwiCan says... respect for you, Respect for me, Respect for our community.

We started with a game... 

Giants wizards owls


Giants beat wizards
Wizards beat owls
Owls beat giants

We talked about places we went to in our community in the weekend. 

We talked about people and organisations in our community that help others... and how we might help too. 

Putting ourselves in other people's shoes is about empathy... 
We watched Owen & Katie role play how NOT to behave st the dairy... then some of us role played how we SHOULD act at the dairy! 

Friday 16 March 2018

Drama in the Community

We warmed up listening to music from the lion king. When the music played, we had to move like a certain animal. 

We are learning about communities. We created Freeze frames in response to some news headline prompts:
- "Protesters make final stand before digging begins."
- "Community angry st Minister of Energy"
- "Protestors show what others sources of energy the community has."
-"Community try to save local landmark."

Thursday 15 March 2018

Math

We have been learning how many tens and hundreds in a number...
We made animations to show how to easily answer this:

Life skills

We are learning about control. When we get angry we lose control... We needed to remember our breathing to help keep our self control. 
It's only an insult if we accept it and react, because it means we accept it. If we put it on the ground and walk away, then we're not accepting it and we don't own it.


Wednesday 7 March 2018

Respect for our community

We are learning about Respect for our community.
We talked about what a community is and places in our community.
Kiwican says "Respect for you, Respect for me, Respect for our community."

Our energiser was the Rock Scissors paper game we learned the other day... with a twist. If we lost we had to join as a snake to become a community. 



We talked about places in our community: the hub, shops, nana's, the swimming pool, the library, sports clubs, beach, the park, the hospital, the police, school, dairy. 

There are all these different places in our community, we talked about ways we should act when we are out in the community, like not yelling or running in the library. 

We had to come up with 2-3 ways that we would behave at each station.

A Gold standard in Fitness

We'd spent the morning working fabulously doing our PAT testing. To celebrate our great attitudes towards it, we headed out for a game or three...
The aim of the game is to turn the cones up the opposite way to the other team.
Bibs were turning the cones up the right way... non bibs were turning them up the wrong way. 

The losing team had to do 10 star jumps!