Wednesday 2nd August

Health

Last week for health we looked at the food pyramid and how many serves of each food group we should be having. This week we decided to look at our own lunches. We sorted the food in our lunchboxes into 5 groups: Protein, Fruits & Vegetables, Fats & Oils, Wheat & Grains, and Dairy. It was very interesting to see which groups had the most food in them. Everyone had a lot of wheat and grains as well as fruit and vegetables which was great.

Tuesday 2nd August

Sports Activator 

Today we had our first visit for Term 3 from our Sports Activator Greer. Today’s focus was on Netball. We learnt a new warm up game which we all really enjoyed. We all had to run around and find people to tag. Once we tagged them we played a game of rock, paper, scissors. The winner got to carry on running while the other person had to sit down. If the person who got you out lost a game, you got to stand back up and carry on. It was heaps of fun and one of our new favourite games. We then moved onto passing skills. We practiced chest passes, high lob passes, and bounce passes. Finally, we had a game of numbers. We split into two teams with the winning team being the one that counts to 10 first. To do this a player has to catch the ball and place it on the ground and count 1. They then pass to another teammate who would count 2. If the ball got intercepted, the score starts at 1 again. There was a lot of excitement and energy with this game!

These skills we have been practicing will come in handy when some of us participate in the Netball Tournament in Balclutha next Thursday.

Thursday 27th July

Inquiry

Last Term our inquiry topic was ‘What makes a Kiwi Inventor?’ Today we presented our Going Further projects to the rest of the class. Some of the ways we presented these were slides and posters. Some even made a prototype of their inventions to support their presentation. It was great to see the time and effort that went into these projects.

George and Flynn looked at Handpieces. 

Courtney told us about the Gold Coast Theme parks. 

Emily showed us her poster on Bungy Jumping.

Hayden telling us about remote control cars. 

Esther did her presentation on bikes. 

Caitlyn looked into robots. 

Taylor sharing her findings of spaceships. 

James explaining his prototype he made for his invention of a citrus powered clock. 

Rylee told us about headphones.

Bree's presentation was all about cars. 

Nikita telling us all about the invention of T.Vs.

Kordelia made a slide about computers. 

Tristan sharing the slide about computers that he created with Arthur. 

Wednesday 26th June

Healthy Eating

For the next couple of weeks our health topic is Food and Nutrition. This week we looked at the food pyramid. We had to cut out a range of different foods and place them in the 6 food groups on the food pyramid. It was quite interesting to see how many serves we should have of each food group and the types of foods we should be eating more of. This topic is going to link in with our Life Education Bus visit in week 3.  

Tuesday 25th June

Morning Programme

Here is the Morning Programme schedule for Term 3. Morning Programme starts in Week 2. I look forward to seeing all the great presentations you come up with. :)

Monday 24th June

Welcome back to Term 3! The year is flying by and I’m sure this term will be no different. We have another busy term ahead so make sure you follow what we get up to here.

Check out our map below of where we went in the holidays!

Friday 7th July

Class-ified School Kit

Yesterday was the day planned for our Skype session with our school we were matched with through School Kit. Unfortunately, their internet connection at their school wasn’t very good and we were unable to have our interaction. Luckily the Senior Room offered to give us an opportunity to use our skills we had been practicing to locate a mystery school. We each picked a random school in New Zealand and took turns asking questions through a Skype call to narrow down where our mystery school could be. Thanks to the Senior Room for helping us out. It was great to be able to use our questioning and Google mapping skills and it was a lot of fun.

Esther our Ambassador asking the questions.

Our detectives writing down questions to ask the Senior Room. 

Our responders using Google Maps to answers questions about our school.