Discovery

As part of our inquiry, we have been learning about how our body makes energy. So we decided to use our energy this discovery with lots of active learning. We did dancing, climbing, digging, hitting, catching, building, twirling, running, jumping and lots more moving and groovying. Hope you enjoy looking at some of our photos.

Going Further in our Inquiry about the Body

To help us go further in our inquiry about our body we got to meet Harold. He shared with us more information about the Respiratory system and ways to look after our bodies.

Here are some facts.

Food + Oxygen = Energy

We breathe in Oxygen

We breathe out Carbon Dioxide.

Plants take in Carbon Dioxide and release Oxygen.

Our body needs lots of things including shelter, exercise, water, sleep (moe), love (aroha), protection, to be kept clean, food (kai) and oxygen.

We are learning about the skeletal system.

JONTY helps us to identify where the bones would be in our body.

This song helped us learn some of the proper names for our bones.

WALT: share our talents in discovery time.

 During this weeks Discovery we had lots of fun outside. We got to dig in the sand pit, create obstacle courses which we tried to make it through without falling over, bean bag toss, balancing boards (very tricky without holding onto something). We got to take photos of each other using the macro button, which lets us take 'EXTREME' close up pictures.  We also did some building in Room 10.

Cooking broccolini with Patti

Latai, Corban and some lucky friends from Room 9 and 10 got to make a yummy mexican dish using broccolini with the help of Paulina's mother, Patti. The broccolini came from our school garden which we have been helping Mrs Edwards take care of during Discovery Time

 Thank you Patti for sharing your culture and cooking talent with us. It was very yummy! 

A Visit from Bishop Charles

Last week on Friday morning we had a special visitor to our classes.  Bishop Charles came to talk with the junior classes about his special role in the church and find out about what we have been learning as well.
There were some great questions asked by all the children and the one that he had to really think about was "What is your favourite colour?

Room 8 children showed great respect by listening attentively and enjoyed the experience of a special person visit from the church.  In class we have been learning about groups we belong to such as family, class, school and parish.  We are all part of Gods family.

Friday Mass

 On Friday, our class went to mass on the bus. 

We ate our lunch at church and we got to have juice as a treat.