Middle Team Food Experiment (Alana)

We made a pyramid on our floor and all the middle team filled it with food in the three areas of the food pyramid.

1. Eat lots
2. Eat some
3. Eat less

We had lots of wonderings about where each food should go and applied some of the new knowledge that Mrs Joblin had shared with us.
Lucas said he wondered how such a small packet of peanuts could have so much sugar and salt in them.

Big Question: How Do your food choices impact on your body and health?

WAL about our first deep understanding which is:

How do food choices help our bodies to develop and grow in a healthy way?

• Mrs Joblin is a health nurse and she came to help us find out which foods are healthy. Arahi
• Healthy food gives us strength and energy.  Cain
• Vegetables and fruits are good for us.  Erika
• We only get energy from food.  Anneliese
• Bright coloured food makes us want to eat it.  Diego
• Mrs Joblin helped us inquire how many caloires are in some food.  Mekaela
• A small packet of salted peanuts has the same amount of salt as a large bag of chips.  Mat
• Coke can help stop diahorrea. Ella
• 
  Food with only natural sugars such as apples are healthy.  Lucas
• We learnt that without healthy food our muscles wouldn't be strong and our brains wouldn't develop well.  Dominic

Rapunzel Retell.

 This morning we worked in five groups to retell the events from the u tube clip we watched called Rapunzel.

We used the thinking hats to think about how our learning went.

• Yellow hat: Joshua liked seeing the clip.  Anneliese's group worked in unity.  Erika liked sharing ideas with others.
• Black hat: Our group didn't listen to each other and all wanted to talk at the same time.  I heard a lot of arguing. Ella.  We could have thought of better words to put in our sentences.  Dominic.
• Green hat:   Make a table group s we don't have to move around. Gabi. Split our writing book into a storyboard and write the series of events on our own. Zavier. Use the storyboard for an animation.Jack. We could do a donnut.Mekaela.

Class Learning Goals

This week we decided to brainstorm six goals that would help improve our listening and learning.  These are the ones we voted to focus on;

1. get ready for learning
2. don't talk when the teacher is talking
3. show respect to adults in the class
4. don't distract others from their learning
5. don't be distracted by others
6. look for ways to help other students in class time

Our next step is to link these to the key competencies and our SUPER Gospel values.
Watch this space.

How has Maori culture helped form our kiwi culture?

WAL how Maori culture has helped form our kiwi culture?

During tuning in, we watched a clip of the haka on you tube.

Next we organised our thoughts about the haka using a graphic organiser called Think Boxes.

See it:

• We drew an image of the haka

Feel it:

• It makes me feel excited because it makes me want to watch the game and do the haka too.  Alyssa
• It makes me feel prickly.  Jordan
• It makes me shout with excitement.  Elizabeth

Ask it:

• Why can’t girls do the haka? Arahi, Ella, Katie, Joshua.
• Who invented the haka? Mat, Thomas, Gabi, Lucas
• Where would be the most suitable place to do a haka and why?Zavier
• Why was the haka invented?
• What do the actions mean in the haka? Jack, Joshua
• Are there any other types of haka? Jacob, Fletcher

Show it:

• We drew symbols like the koru, kiwi, silver fern, rugby ball, rugby world cup trophy, All Blacks top.

Plus Minus Interesting

We are reflecting about our inquiry into energy:
Plus:

• We now know how we can save energy.-Anneliese
• We know which forms of energy are renewable.-Alyssa
• We know that we should do something about saving electricity such as turning off the light when we finish reading. Gabi
• We know which elements can generate electricity.-Mat
• We used our prior knowledge to begin our sorting out.-Alana
• We now know how we can make a difference.-Mekaela
• We should try to use only renewable energy.-Joshua
• We now know how the energy sources make electricity.-Diego
• We made a paper windmill that is a symbol of wind power.-Jordan
• We learnt how important energy is to us and that the sun is the most valuable energy source for us.-James
• Solar energy will nevenr run out.  Elizabeth
• You can cook food on solar dishes.  Dominic
• Hydro electric power is a highly effiecent example of a renewable energy.  Mat

Minus

• If windturbines are in too many places they can disturb the animals and birds. Joshua
• When will people stop trying to use fossil fuels?  Zavier
• Some types of electricity harm the environment.  Ella

Interesting:

• How can we save energy? Cain
• There can be wind turbines in the sea-Arahi
• Why is wind a source of energy? Jack
• Why do the solar panels trap the sun's energy source? Fletcher
• Why are the wind turbines blades 4 buses long? Jacob
• The first solar panel was made in 1860.  Lucas
• Solar panels were first made by mistake.  Anneliese
• The first person to invent the solar panel waas Willoughby Smith.  Clementine and Lucas.