You are what you eat you reap what you sow

This term for topic we have been learning to eat healthily and why you eat healthily. Now we know that grains, vegetables, fruits, dairy and meats are in the five-food groups. I have learnt about the food pyramid, additives a simple way model of how to stay healthy, exercise and energy
Vitamins and fats, deciding if children if they can choose to eat healthy.

Additives

Room 1 students have been doing food work in topic. One of the things that they had to do was about additives.

We got given a big bag of full of food that was in packets. We had to find all the numbers in the ingredients list. When we had found all the numbers we had a sheet and it told us what all the numbers were.

Into a table we had to put the number, what it was and what the number was.

Food Components

This term for topic we have been learning about healthy eating, at the moment we having been working on food components.
The food components are carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, fat, and protein.
At the moment I had done two work sheets about fat and vitamin.
Here are a few things about them.

FAT=some fats are good for you like unsaturated fat and the bad ones are trans and saturated fat.

VITAMINS=there are different types of vitamins like vitamins b, vitamin a, vitamin c, vitamins d, vitamin e, vitamin k.

Kapa Haka

Room 1 and 2 students have chosen to do Kapa Haka this term to preform at the end of year prize giving.
We warm up before every lesson by the doing Kumara Kumara, we start off doing it in a quiet voice and we gradually get louder and louder until we hold it and then we go back down again.
We then start off by doing a song for everyone in the group and then a song for the girls and then the boys do the Haka, It is pretty much the same as the All Blacks but there are a few different words.

Fitness Training

Our major focus this term is fitness. This is a photo from last term's Jump Rope, skipping is an excellent way to keep fit!

In the Footsteps of an Explorer!!!!

Room 1 students have been doing a series of projects to do with an explorer, this has been called “In the Footsteps of an Explorer”.

One of the projects we did was to combine information from a biography we wrote last term and information we found out about how we would do the same expedition today. Some ideas we got to write this essay were
• From NZ to the start of the expedition.
• Equipment: clothing, navigation, weapons, tools anything else…?
• Form of transport, compare speed, comfort…?
• How have the countries/ objective/destination changed…?
Other information.

Once we had found all the information we needed we set off writing. We had an open range of choices on how to write this essay as long as we had the basics…
Summary of the original expedition, mainly when, who and the objective.
Compare the form of transport, clothing and other equipment.
Lastly we had to have a conclusion.

Lots of people did more than this, like some people wrote them actually doing the expedition and saying the differences as they went through, other people wrote in the first person, writing that they were doing the expedition after their explorer had, after this they wrote titles like Countries or Terrain etc.. writing the expedition differences for each title.

Visual Representation

Late last term Room 1 started on a visual representation of an explorer that they choose, we worked on different activities through out the term to do with that explorer. We also did things like biographies and posters to advertise the explorer’s expedition. They had to be set in the time of the explorers expeditions and needed to be attractive so that they catch the readers attention, colourful and bright and have pictures of the explorer things like their boats and crew.
The visual representation was really fun, there were basically no rules, you could do it in whatever form of art you wanted, some people took a picture of where their explorer explored and recreated the picture by painting it in their own style, some people used different textures to create effect and some people made two different pictures, one of what everyone thought the place looked like and one of what it ended up actually looking like, there was a huge difference. Also, a lot of people made great models about what their explorer’s ship looked like, they were all really great and we all enjoyed doing it!

MANUAL !

At manual we are making some chopping boards.
These chopping boards are helping us to develop new skills and being able to use machines like the poker machine, saws, g clamps, squares, vertical sander, and lots more.

The g clamps are used for getting wood in to a position where it can’t move everywhere when you are sawing on it.

The type of wood that we are using is white pine. The type of wood that we are using is very soft and smooth. Sometimes I do mistakes and break stuff like the handsaw and other stuff.

Athletics coming up!!

Friday next week were having our school athletics, our school Little River is joining with Akaroa, Le Bons Bay, Duvauchelle and Okains Bay school.

All schools participate in lots of events such as long jump, high jump, long distance running, sprints, discus, javelin, etc.
Some of my favourite events are: Javelin, 100m sprint, shotput, discus, high jump and long distance. This year I think I will go great and get into the zone athletics.

We have been practising alot some times after school we go for a run,
At school we try to get in enough time to try out all events.

Room 1's Biographies

Room 1 has been writing biographies these last couple of weeks on an explorer of our choice. Our task was to write a biography of that person. We started out by researching our explorer then we had to write out the biography. In the biography we had to include: first a biographical sketch (a highlight in the explorer's life), second his early life, thirdly what exploring they did, fourthly their legacy (how they will be remembered).
Here are some some explorers that people are doing:
Roald Amundsen, Christopher Columbus, Sir Samual Baker, Thomas Brunner, Abel Tasman, John Franklin, Alexandrine Tinne, Alexander Gorden Lain, Vivan Fuchs, Edumnd Hillary and Ernest Shackleton.

Here is a photo of Caroline's and Claudia's finished novels.

Tom's Book Commercial!

Room 1's Authors

In Term 2 we started writing novels. We chose something to write about eg. dancing, animals, robberies etc. From there we wrote a draft copy and then edited it. We then published them on the computer. When we finished them, we printed them out and Mr Fitch bound them for us, but some people chose to bind them themselves or got them bound at a binding place. Here are the blurbs off Tom, Chelsea and Sophie's books:

Tom's-Little River Shoot Out- When a bank on Wall Street, New York, is robbed, two F.B.I. agents go to New Zealand to get the money back, but a shoot out awaits them.

Sophie's-Dance Diva-Life for Lucy Menlee is pretty ok. Good friends, in shape, but she also has her bad days. No one likes school detentions, and Lucy wasn't enjoying it either, but when she saw the ad, she knew that things were going to get a lot better. Auditions, eliminations and fame all ahead of Lucy, or is it? So join Lucy and find out how all your hard work can pay off.

Chelsea's-Cookie- The Arns family are enjoying an exotic holiday in the Canary islands. But when the family dog, Cookie, goes missing it becomes a race against time to find her.

Written by Tom and Chelsea

On a Course Again!

Late on a Tuesday evening, as the sun sinks behind the Southern Alps, I'm at the College of Ed'on an ICT Course again. What am I doing? I'm learning about blogging by blogging! Room 1 had a good day today and are working hard towards their Science Fair on Friday 22nd June.We wish Tessa, Chelsea and Nicholas good luck for tomorrow when they represent The Lincoln Zone at the Canterbury Cross Country Championships.

Picture of our Senior Playground