Takeaways

Yesterday, Whaea Gina came to our class  talk about takeaways. She showed us what a healthy heart looks like and what a unhealthy heart looks like. A unhealthy heart has a lot fat around it and a healthy heart has a little bit of fat around it. She showed us a picture of a big mac combo from Mcdonald's she pulled out a little jar to show how much fat we were consuming every time we were digesting that food. The worst one was Carl's Jr , it nearly had a full bottle of fat. Whaea Gina really made me think about what I eat and that we should eat healthier,

Cross country

Last week,we had our school cross country at Bledisloe Domain. When the first race was called up the tuakana ran beside the teina and supported them to the finish line. We had to wait quite a while before it was time for our race. When the teacher said “Go” I started running hard out, we ran up the hill down the hill and sprinted to the finish line. I had fun participating in cross country and I enjoyed not doing any work at school.

Gaming addictions

Today in Te Ngahere, we filled in a survey to show the gaming stats for our class. We were interested to find out about our gaming issues in our class. We filled in a survey about gaming; we had to answer it honestly. We found out that 46% get irritable when their gaming time is limited, 30% have lied to their parents about the amount of time they spend gaming and 16% report that their school work suffers because of gaming. When I seen our results I was shocked. I think I did well with making my infographic and adding lots of information in it. Next time I think I could add some images.

Beeswax wraps

Yesterday Te Ngahere made beeswax wraps. We were given a small stretchy fabric to design before we dipped  it into beeswax. I had a blue fabric so when it was dipped into the beeswax it turned green. Our purpose for making beeswax wraps was to stop ourselves from using glad wrap or tin foil in our lunch box, to have a litterless lunch.. We could use the beeswax wraps for our lunches and it can be reused over and over again. I enjoyed making the beeswax wraps, my favourite part was when we dipped the fabric into the beeswax.

Basketball

On Monday and Tuesday one of our teachers have been taking us on the court to teach us some skills for basketball.We learnt how to dribble and we learnt what the rules were. We were taught that when you dribble the ball you bounce it as the height your comfortable with and bounce the ball on the side of you . It was really fun to play piggy in the middle using the skills we learnt. Next time I think I could speed up my running because I have been practising more.

Endemic bird, plant and insects.

For the past 2 weeks Te Ngahere has been creating some presentation about insects, trees and birds. My buddy and I made 2 presentations; one about a Weta and one about a Bellbird. I think the best presentation we had was the Weta, because it was very interesting to research and I really enjoyed learning about them.

Bay Bush Action

In Te Ngahere two people from the Bay Bush Action came in and talked to us about the Ngahere and how our school can become pest free.There names were Brad and stella. We talked about the pests and the threats to our native and endemic birds. They then showed us some traps they made to kill pests and , demonstrated how to use the traps. They generously gave us ten rat traps to set off in our school , but we have not yet had any luck with catching pests around our school so far.