Project energize - Food groups

Today Fui came to our class from Project energize.

She talked about how our body is kind of like a car.  If we didn't put petrol in our car it won't work.  But we also need to make sure we put the right fuel into our cars.

This is the same in our bodies.

We then learnt about 4 main food groups (and 1 extra group).

Vegetables & Fruit
Red (Apples, Tomatoes, Strawberries).
Yellow (Banana's, Capsicums,
Green (Lettuce, Broccoli, Apples)\

These have vitamins and minerals. - These help you get stronger and stronger and make our brains work (waiahi).  They make our brains smarter (Tyler)

They are like SUPERHEROS - these vitamins are high in fiber.

We need HEAPs of servings of these each day.

We call this the GLOW group.  (We need 5 or more helpings of this a day).


Milk and milk products
These foods have lots of calcium.  This makes our bones and teeth strong.

We call this a GROW group.  (We need 2or 3 servings per day)


Meat  and meat alternatives
These have proteins - this makes your body stronger.

We also call this a Grow group.  (We need 1 or 2 servings per day)


Grains
These give us the energy that makes us go.

We call this a GO group (we need 5 servings per day)

These include things made from wheat.
(bread popcorn, Weetbix



There is also a SLOW food group (we should only eat these SOMETIMES)
These are high in sugar.

Chocolate, fizzy dring, Chips, Chewing gum.

Strep Throat & Rheumatic Fever

Today we had visitors in to our school to talk to us about how they come into our school to do throat swabs on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays.  They reminded us all of the importance of washing our hands and coughing into our arms to help prevent the spread of nasty bugs and also of the importance of taking all the medicine if we need to have them.

Here are some photos of us at the assembly.

Swim Safe with Tracey

Today we had swim safe with Tracey.  We got to practice making huddles and forming lines so we could learn how to work together to stay safe together and look after each other in the water.

We got to practice these on dry land, and then in the water with life jackets on.  It was fantastic to be able to play in the water with life jackets on as this is very different to our normal swimming.  But just as important.

Here is a video that a group of children made up following the session this afternoon.  Thanks Colin, Waiahi, Taysia, Jemima, Nakita and Beau for taking the time at the end of the day to finish this for us.

Smoothie Day

Today in Room 4 we were learning to read and write recipes.

We had so many delicious bananas and apples we decided to make smoothies. 

First we wrote a recipe for our smoothie. 

Then we washed our hands. 

Next we cut up the bananas and apples and put them in the blender. 

After the fruit we poured in the milk and turned on the blender. It made a very loud noise! Finally we poured the smoothie into cups and drank them!

Here are some photos of our smoothie moustaches! 

       

School Triathlon

Today was the day of the School Triathlon.  Our kids did SOOOOOOO well.  Watch this space for examples of writing that the children do on their Triathlon experience.

Sorry no other photos as I was too busy helping the kids transition with the bikes!  We had a parent kindly take photos and movies so when we get these we will share them with you.

Visit from Bev the Public Health Nurse

Today Bev our public health nurse came to visit Room 5 and  6. Bev showed us all the sugar that was in different drinks like juice and fizzy. Did you know that 400mls of Just Juice has 9 tps of sugar?

We also talked about how important it is to drink 4 glasses of water every day to help our bodies feel good. There is no sugar in water. Here is the video Bev showed us about why it is importanat to drink water.

Our Walk up Te Ahu Ahu

Here are some photos Grace took on our whole school trek up Te Ahu Ahu. We have been learning about the maunga around our community. Matua Ken and Hone shared their stories of our local area with us. We want to find out which maunga is the tallest and what the circle collection of stones were on Te Ahu Ahu, (Mrs G has a photo). The kids are also interested to know if any whanau have footage of the dog trials that have been on Te Ahu Ahu?

Keep an eye out on our blog to see some more photos of the kids from Room 5 and 6 as they climbed up the maunga with Mrs G's Go Pro that we will be posting soon.

Well done to our healthy lunch box winners 

Ariana, Joe, Frank and Arbey! 

Look at their delicious snacks for our trek up Te Ahu Ahu. They all used reusable packaging too. All the lunch boxes last week were so outstanding we had to have a second draw this week.

Mrs Gardiner and Mrs Stevenson are very interested in the recipe for Frank's home made muffins.

Healthy lunch boxes

Today we were meant to go for a walk up Te Ahu Ahu Maunga, however it was way to wet and we had to postpone it.  We plan to go Thursday 25th Feb.  As part of this day we were organised to have a healthy lunch box competition.  Check out the video below that shows how clever and healthy the children in room 5 & 6 are.

There were so many fantastic lunch boxes that Mrs S and Mrs G struggled to choose just one winner each.  So they ended up putting the names in a hat, to draw out the winner.  They talked about how some lunch boxes even had lots of re-use-able plastic containers, some of us even talked about how this was better for our environment.