The Life Education Caravan visits May Road

Healthy Body, Healthy Mind

We had two sessions in the Life Education Caravan with Misty & Harold.

We learnt lots about how to keep a healthy body and healthy mind.
There are 9 things that we can do in order to keep our bodies healthy. They are:

1. Food  - including meat, fruit & vegetables, grains.
2. Water - 5-8 glasses a day. Water helps us hydrate our muscles.
3. Sleep - 10-12 hours a night. If you don't get enough sleep, your brain can't work properly.
4. Exercise - 1 hour a day.
5. Hygiene - clean yourself everyday.
6. Shelter - home.
7. Oxygen - goes into our blood.
8. Safety
9. Love

Here is a  google presentation that was created by Vasiata to share her learning from the Life Education Caravan:

What are your tips for keeping your body and mind healthy so that you can be the best learner that you can be?

Sign Language Week

4th -10th of May 2015 was Sign Language Week. Did you know that sign language is the third official language of New Zealand? (English and Maori are the other two languages).


We learnt how to sign the song "Islands" and then signed it in assembly. The first time we listened, sang and signed altogether. The second time was really challenging because we had no sound and weren't allowed to sing - only sign! This gave us a better understanding about what it's like to be deaf (or hearing impaired). 

Mrs Tamarua (in Room 9) helped us with the song and she also taught us how to sign the alphabet!


Can you sign your name using this chart?

Welcome Back Mrs Whiu!

This term, we welcome back Mrs Whiu who is training to become a teacher. She is studying through the University of Auckland and will be working in Room 13 for 6 weeks.


What have been some of your favourite moments with Mrs Whiu?

ANZAC Day

April the 25th 2015, was the 100 year anniversary of the ANZAC's landing at Gallipoli, Turkey. Some of us didn't know much about ANZAC Day, so we did some reading and brainstormed what we learnt using padlet. 

After completing our research, we wanted to know more, so came up with these questions:

To commemorate this occasion, we held a special remembrance ceremony at school. It was very moving and really made us think about those people who went to war and their families.

We baked some ANZAC biscuits for maths and used our measurement and fraction skills. Our biscuits were pretty delicious! 

We also did some drama around what it would be like fighting a battle in the trenches. Here is some of the writing that Nathan and Ali created using booktracks. You will need headphones to listen to the soundtracks... be careful with the volume... some of the noises are quite loud!


The War by Nathan

World War 1! by Ali

Welcome!

A little bit about Room 13's teacher! 

Term 1 Highlights

WOW! 
What a busy year its been so far! 
I can't believe we're nearly halfway through term 2 already!! To get you up to speed on what Room 13 have been doing, here's a quick video showing some of the exciting highlights from term 1.