Fruit and Vegetables

We have been learning about eating fruit and vegetables.
We played a game where we had to sort the pictures into fruit or vegetables.
Most of them were okay but we got stuck on tomatoes.






We also found out about serving sizes and learnt that a serving is the size of our palm.
We learnt that you need at least 2 servings of fruit and 3 of vegetables each day to be healthy.
And you need to eat your colours too.

Room 1 Juniors

Our Rubbish

On Friday Mrs Wilson tipped out our rubbish bin and we were surprised by the amount of rubbish we had, and the smell was something else - yuck!
Some of us had to go out for fresh air because we felt sick.
We found old sandwiches, apple cores, banana skins, plastic wrappers, chip packets, half eaten pies, yoghurt pottles and paper.
Because we are just a small school we didn't have alot of rubbish but we think we can reduce the amount of it by half.
We are going to look at ways of recycling the food waste and reducing the amount of paper waste from the hand towels. We already put our old cardboard and plastic milk bottles out on Wednesday with the blue recycle bin.
We are investigating the use of composting, worm farms or recycling through Envirowaste.

Healthy Eating

We have been learning about the Food Pyramid and healthy eating. We found that by eating healthy foods like fruit and vegetables we can have healthy bodies and be healthy people.
Eating fruit and vegetables is good for our planet too because you don't need packaging like plastics and the skins and rubbish can be recycled by composting which makes new food for the plants.

Our Lunchboxes

On Thursday 23 August we had a shared lunch with a differences. We had to design and make our own healthy sandwiches. We could choose any ingredients from the 'Eat lots' and 'eat some' sections of the Food Pyramid.
Most of us chose ham, cheese, lettuce, tomato, pineapple, salami, chicken, coleslaw, beetroot, and carrot - but not all together!
We put all our fillings on our plates and then had to assemble the sandwiches ourselves. Yum!
We also had apples and bananas as afters.

Some of us went back for seconds.

We didn't realise that it was so easy to eat our 5 + a day, or that veggies could be so tasty.

Earth Wheel

As part of 'Tuning In' for our Inquiry we did an activity called an Earth Wheel. We had to work by ourselves to begin with using words and pictures to put our ideas down for
- things on earth that are abundant
- things on earth that are scarce
- ways we harm the environment
- ways we help the environment

We then came back as a group and share our ideas and made a large chart for the wall.

Written by Dillan and Ethan

Healthy Lunch boxes

Last week we looked at healthy lunch boxes with Mrs Odgers. This was because of the new rules from the Ministry of Education about healthy canteens.
We found out that we need healthy food in our lunch boxes to help keep our bodies healthy and give us brain energy for school.
We wrote letters to the Board of Trustees suggesting what food we could have in our canteen.

Written by Reuben S, Blake and Jade

Term 3 Inquiry

This term we are involved in an Inquiry Unit that involves several schools in our ICT Cluster.
The overall theme is Saving the Planet in 10 years.

Our Big Idea is 'Healthy People make a healthy planet'.
Our key understandings are: - Healthy people are healthy in mind, body and spirit
- Our actions impact on the lives of others
- Changes in any part of the environment affect the
relationship between the plants and animals that live
there
- We can do many things to reduce waste

Over the next few weeks we will be posting blogs showing how we can all make changes that can help save the planet.

We are looking at ways to be healthy and to protect world. Instead of polluting it, saving it.
So far we have found out that we can stay healthy by:
- fitness
- lots and lots of walking
- eating fruit and vegetables
- drinking fresh water
- having plenty of sleep
We also know that some of the things that make people healthy also help the planet to be healthy too.

Written by Tamara, Kendra, and Brooke