Healthy Living Day

Today we had a day full of events to do with healthy living.

We started making fruit salad and smoothies with our buddy class Room 13.







Then we went to the hall for a super short assembly before going around different stations that had different activities.

We started off at the rheumatic fever station and learned that rheumatic fever can start with a sore throat.  We also got reminders about noseblowing and handwashing.



Next we went to Sport Auckland, where Michael did soccer with our class.

After that it was Crossfit and another soccer station.  Our awesome seniors Safanati, Dylen, Joshua, Petera, Ahmed and Natan helped us learn some new skills.


It was getting quite hot when we got to Adele from the Heart Foundation.  She had lots of skipping ropes for us to use and try to skip or do some tricks.  Some children hadn't tried skipping before so it was pretty tricky but we persevered and Adele was pleased with our efforts!





Last, we went to the workroom to talk with Angie from KidsCan.  She was talking to us about nits and how they can be spread if we are touching heads with someone else, sharing hats or sharing brushes.  People know a lot about nits as they are quite common and it's no big deal.  Angie was pleased everyone know so much and also had lots of questions.



In the afternoon we thought about doing Go Noodle but everyone was exhausted.  Rest is also an important part of healthy living so that's what we did in the afternoon! :)

Healthy Living

We're getting excited about Healthy Living Day this Friday.  We're already doing lots of things in our classroom and school that keep us safe and healthy, like:

Wearing sunhats.


Keeping fit through Tae Kwan Do.




Making healthy smoothies.


Harvesting and eating carrots from our garden.

Road Safety

We have a bunch of new and excited learners this term!  What better way to start it off than by making sure we can all get to school safely?

We've been lucky to have Constable Jamison and Ronald McDonald coming to visit us.  The key things they said:

• STOP, LOOK and LISTEN before you cross the street, use your eyes, use your ears, before you use your feet.
• Look out for sneaky driveways!!
• When you're in the car you need to Make it Click!! (Put on your seatbelt!)

Constable Jamison also took us around our school and explained the dangers of carparks, and how to cross safely at the lights.  Here are some pictures of our learning.

Stopping and checking there are no cars coming out of sneaky drive ways.

Crossing at the pedestrian crossing to school.

Here's Ronald, with one of our awesome road patrollers.

The Peace Child

Last night we had our whole school production of The Peace Child.  Here's what the children wrote:

• Molly: I was the leader of the elephants.  Room 8 and 9 we danced the Sotongi Strut.  My mum and my dad were proud.
• Merion: I went to my sister Atita's production and I did my production.  I was a buffalo.  I felt shy.
• Fatafehi: In the production it was fun.  My dad was proud at the production.  At the production I felt happy.
• Ilisapesi: It was fun.
• Ehmarze: It was fun last night at the production.
• Francis: I had fun last night.
• Abdifatah: I went to the production last night.  It was fun.
• Tiara: I was a little nervous and it was a little fun.  I was standing still when it was finished.
• Kapi: It was funny at the production.  My family was proud.  I was great.  It was night.  There were 100 people.  It was cool so many people came.

Hands on

Today we replenished our play dough supply.  We recently found a fabulous cooked play dough recipe that we have been using.  The children help to cook it and love adding the dye!

Tongan Language Week

Look at the gorgeous Tongan children from our class getting ready to go to assembly.  Molly is wearing an outfit that her mum used to wear when she was little!  So special to be able to share the amazing cultures and traditions of the children in our school.

A very busy day

As well as the usual learning we do in Room 8, today we had a SNAG golf lesson in the morning.

  
In the afternoon, Ahmed, Natan and Joshua from Room 15 taught us soccer skills as part of their Genius Hour project.



  

When we got back to class, everyone was exhausted!



But after a little rest and a couple of songs, we found the energy to carry on making colourful squares for a class tivaevae or practise reading and writing numbers. :)