Week 9 - Healthy Eating - Healthy Lunch

Kia ora,
In Week 7 we had a visit from the Community Health team based at Starship Hospital: Sione, Hannah, Gina, Brayden and Lynette.

They shared with us about how healthy food helps our bodies to be ready to learn at school. We revisited some of our class learning about nutrients in different foods, drinking water, why fruit and vegetables are good for us, and why sleep and exercise are important as well.

Lynette sang us a song that connected our learning about Matariki to the different foods that can be gathered and shared.

They also brought us a healthy lunch! We could choose different healthy (and tasty) foods to make our own filled roll or wrap. Some of us had special choices because of food allergies, but there was still lots to pick!

We could choose from chicken, tuna, cheese, carrot, cucumber, tomato, spinach, hummus, mayonnaise, pineapple, and apples!

Everyone found something they liked.

Thank you to the team, and sponsors who provided our lunch: 5+ A Day, New World, Countdown, and AP Civil. It was so yummy! We have been busy writing thank you letters to send them all.

What options would you have chosen for your healthy lunch, if you had been with us?

Week 7 - I Spy A Warmer Winter

Have you felt the chill in the weather lately? We certainly have! Ever wished you didn't have to get into school uniform but wear your warm woolly hat and comfy pants all day? Or go to work in your pyjamas? Or break out your onesie with your slippers?

Some of our wishes came true on Friday. Even though it poured with rain, and then hailed, we weren't chilly at all because we had our Wacky Winter Warmer mufti day. For a gold coin donation we could wear whatever warm, wacky or wintery clothes we wanted. Whoopee! Can you spy a unicorn, a giraffe, a dinosaur, a teacher in a dressing gown, and lots of warm kids?

We were raising money to add items to our Winter Warmer Hampers of dry or tinned grocery items, blankets and pyjamas. There is a stack of flexi-buckets in the office all waiting to be filled with donations from our school community. Just a few things have been brought in so far, and our mufti money will help top up what is still needed at the end of term, when they will be given to Mt Roskill families. If you are able to share some warm goodies with others, please bring them to the school office by Thursday, July 4th.

What would make your winter warmer?

Week 6 - Hip Hop

Kia ora! Our class has been learning Hip Hop dance for the last few weeks. This week we focused on isolations.

Isolations are when try to move just one part of your body at a time. It might be your head, or hand, or hips, or some other body part. It's a lot harder than you think! Our faces look so serious because we are so focused on our teacher, Miss Tayla, while we try to work out how to move just our ribcage.

Here we are, trying different isolations to music in this video.

Then we added our isolations to the different ways we travel. We played a game a bit like Follow the Leader where we travelled in a line doing different isolations and using different movements to travel, thinking about the floor patterns we were making too.

Phew! That's a lot to think of at once! At least we can laugh at ourselves when we get mixed up or make a mistake... and we're getting better.

Have you tried Hip Hop? What's your favourite style of dance? We'd love to hear in the comments below.