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

Computer work at Tomahawk School

On Monday Mrs Odgers showed us how to email and make slideshows as a part of our ICT. We have been sending emails to each other. We like emails because we find out things and we get to write to people. We also like to get comments. So leave us a comment and we will write back.
Written by Timothy, Ethan and Reuben S

Stars on Stage

Stars on Stage is about an idea or theme that schools use to make into a dance. It involves exiting songs and dances. You can come watch every second year. They use unusual constumes. We did it this year, we did Goldilocks and the Three Dudes, which is a take off of the Goldilocks and the Three Bears. In it Goldilocks is turned into a dancing queen. Our whole school of 24 children was involved. We went to Nova. It is a restaurant and o ur whole school got a hot chocolate.
Written by Brooke and Emily Rose

Visit from Amadeo

We had a visit from Amadeo the Otago Museum as part of our Dinosaur Inquiry.
He bought fossils with him. We got to look at fossils of a Plesiosarus paddle, a tooth from a mammoth, shells and a fern.
He showed us how to make a fossilised footprint in mud and made a Tamarasaurus footprint.
It was really great talking to a real Palentologist and getting to hold real fossils.

Written by Kendra and Tamara