Into the Book

During  reading we decided to go into this site to help us with our comprehension strategies.  We went through the strategy called asking questions.  It helped us delve deeply into the meaning of the story we shared.

Try this link at home.

http://reading.ecb.org/student/index.html

Skyping with St James Aranui

St. James School Aranui

Today Room1 reporters, Ella, Lucas, Jacob and Mekaela, skyped St James Aranui in Christchurch. We asked St James Aranui some questions taking turns asking and answering questions about our schools and ourselves.

 E.g.Ella asked “When you felt the earthquake, what did you think?” and Esther said it was scary and shaky.

At the end the four reporters from St James Aranui who were called Esther, Jonathan, Henry and Caitlin screamed a big THANK YOU!

By Jacob, Ella, Mekaela, Lucas E                            

Joshua used the u tube clip to list these ideas to help his hurdling skills.



How to do the Hurdles

* Use arms to force yourself over the hurdle                   

*use your right leg all time

*split your legs in the air

*leap for distance

*stay focused at all times

Joshua Evans

         

WALT throw the discus

This is a u tube clip that we viewed in our Middle team. It helped us to look at the skills we need for a standing discus throw. We shared and wrote two things we noticed about the video that we could practise during skills sessions.

WALT throw the discus

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