Learner of the Week - Emeliano!

Our first Learner of the Week for 2017 was Emeliano!

During our first week back we spent a lot of time discussing our classroom routines & expectations. Emeliano contributed heaps of positive ideas to our class discussions. 

Awesome effort Emeliano! 

I wonder who will be our Learner of the Week for week 2?

Swimming Lessons

The pool was closed for the first 2 days back, but luckily our awesome caretaker Brian managed to get it up and running for when the swimming instructors arrived! 

We are really fortunate to have awesome swimming coaches who can get in the water and work with us.

Here are some snaps from our first couple of days, learning how to swim:

Practising how to glide and kick on our fronts.

Learning how to float and kick on our backs.

Practising blowing bubbles and kicking using nice, long legs.

Our swimming instructors will be with us everyday (rain or shine!) for only 2 weeks, so it's important that we maximise this opportunity and
SWIM EVERYDAY!

Welcome to 2017!

The summer holidays have whizzed by and a new bunch of energetic Year 4 students have walked through the doors to become Room 13 students! 

They all are super keen to learn and I am stoked to be their teacher! 

You can read all about their Year 4 adventure by visiting this blog regularly!

Procedural Writing

Room 13 are currently learning to write procedural texts. We have been looking at using bossy verbs. Here are some that we came up with. 

Come back and visit our blogs later this week to check out how we used them in our procedural texts!

Food for Thought - Session 1

Today we had a visit from Adele who is from the Heart Foundation. 

We learnt that we there are 2 really important reasons for why we need to eat good food:

• For our learning - so we can concentrate
• Gives us energy - especially of we do lots of physical activity

We also learnt that there are 4 food groups:

1. FATS
There are some foods that are high in sugar, salt and fats. When we eat too much salt this causes the blood in our veins to stiffen up. When we eat too much fat, it sticks to our arteries and clogs them. This makes it hard for the blood to pump around your body. When the arteries become totally blocked, we can have a heart attack or stroke.



2. FRUITS & VEGETABLES
We should try and eat 5+ a day (3 vegetables + 2 fruit, because fruit has sugar in it). This means 5 servings. A serving size is the size of your palm. 

These give us vitamins and minerals. Citrus fruits (like lemons, limes, oranges, grapefruit) are high in vitamin C, which helps us to fight off bugs & germs.

They also give us fibre which helps us go to the toilet!

If you can't get fresh fruit and vegetables, you can have other types like canned, frozen, juice (without added sugar) or dried.

3. BREADS & CEREALS

Sandwiches, grains and starches, bread (brown is better than white), weetbix, oats, rice, noodles, pasta, crackers, bagel, wraps

These contain carbohydrates which is energy food. They also contain fibre, which fills you up fibre.


4. LEGUMES, MEAT, SEAFOOD, POULTRY (Legumes are chickpeas, beans, lentils, nuts and seeds, hummus, falafel)

We should eat 1-2 servings a day.

Serving sizes:

• Red meat (lamb, beef, pork) - palm size
• Poultry - knuckle to palm
• Fish - whole hand

Don't forget to cut the fat off the meat!

We get iron from these foods which is good for our muscles. If you play sport, you need this to help repair your muscles!

5. MILK & MILK PRODUCTS (Cow’s milk, soy milk, milk, yoghurt, cheese, ice cream)

2-3 servings

These foods contain calcium which is good for our bones. You need calcium to develop your bones.

Caffeine is the ENEMY of coffee.

On our dinner plate we should have:

1/2 salad or vegetables

¼ carbohydrates

¼ protein

To have a healthy lunch, we need something from each group.

What's in your lunchbox today?