Nutrition

Last, last week, a woman came into our classroom and her name was Sophie. Sophie was there to teach us about nutrition and about the food that we need to keep our bodies healthy and strong. On the first lesson that we had with her about nutrition was about our bodies and why we need to keep them strong. On the second lesson we had with her about nutrition was about the different food groups that would keep us healthy and fit. After, we went into groups of three's or four's and we had to try to figure out which food goes into a food group. At the end she also told us about the different drinks and how many sugars that they have in them.

On our third lesson we got to go to the supermarket and went into groups again and checked the different foods that they have there and if some of them are healthy to eat or some of them are not really healthy to eat. After we earned some free new lunch boxes and got a 60 dollar voucher for free to share for everyone in the class.

Last Monday we spent our voucher on some healthy food to eat for lunch. We also got to pick which kind of food we would like as a class, and everyone got to vote which food that they would like to eat for our healthy lunch. The food that huge amount of vote was chicken with rice and fruit kebabs. The food was so delicious that there was only a few left at the end.

Also last Monday, while other people was helping to get the food ready, others was working on some work about nutrition. What we had to do was to make a DLO showing what we have learnt about nutrition and some of us worked with a buddy and some of us worked by ourselves.

Here is a slideshow showing what I have learnt:

New in the City

   WALT use 'i think that means' to understand the ideas in the text.

This week for reading, the reading group that I am into is reading a story called Lost in the City. It's about a girl called Sarah that visited a city for the first time. She was with her grandfather until she got lost. There was a huge crowd around her but she couldn't find her grandfather. So she remembered what her dad told her about going to high places to search where you are going if you are lost. It helped her and saw her grandfather talking to a police man anxiously.

One of the reading task that was on the activities that we had to do was to make a poster about visiting a city for the first time, and we could rather do it digitally or on paper, so I decided to do it digitally and made a poster on canva.     

Here is the poster I made, showing you what you could also do when visiting a city for the first time:

Island in the Sun

WALT use 'I think that means' to understand the ideas in the text.

This week for reading, the reading group that I am in is reading a story called Island in the Sun and its about an island that has lots of trees in it and when the people saw the island, they started living there. After, they started to cut the trees down and they didn't care how much trees they were cutting down because there were lots more. They used it to make houses, gardens and lots more. Then after few years later, there were no more trees left and a ship sailed to the island and left.

One of the reading activities that I have to do is to draw a map of the island showing where the action happened. So I drew it on my computer and I kind a work and I've put my best in it so I hope you like it.

Here is the map of the island that I drew:

First Time Going to Tech

It was my first time going to Tech and it was the same for some of us. Some of us from last year went to tech too with the other Year 8s from last year, but this year, the Year 6s from last year gets to go to tech this year, including me. For tech we get to go to Hornby High School which is a high school near our school. We went on this bus that had very comfortable seats with seat belts on it, then I tried putting the seat belt on but it seems like that it was stuck so I decided not to. 

When we arrived it was raining outside so we quickly got in then sat on this staircase inside next to a door that leads to outside. Few minutes later a teacher came in to talk to us and his name was Mr Health, he was our science teacher for the day or for the rest of the term and he lead us to this laboratory with cool science stuff in it. We did a test and tried this electric magnet thing, and it was fun.

After we went to a workshop and we got to choose if we could make an ID Tag or something to put on your bags or car keys or something like that. Then we did a whole tutorial to do it and everyone finish in time.

What I enjoyed was making an ID tag and doing a test in the science lab.

What I found hard was cutting my ID tag the right shape.

What I would differently is to make it easier and just do a particular shape like a square or something like that to make it easier.

Biscuits for the Teacher

WALT Use the "deep five" to unpack the text.

This start of the year was really awesome and it was fantastic. This week, the second week of Term one, for reading we have been doing kind a like the same thing we did last year but a little different. This year with Ms Wilton, we made a slideshow that we will add into every week and that is where we will put our reading activities. Also there are four reading groups and they are named the four different planets in space, there is Mars, Saturn, Mercury and Venus and I am in Mercury.

We got to choose five of the activities we had to do in my reading group, so one of the activity that I choose to do was to make a poster about how to make Ms Thomas happy and the Biscuits for the Teacher is about this boy called Stephen and Stephen's teacher, Ms Thomas is leaving to another school and Stephen really like his teacher so he decided to give her a special gift before she leaves so he decided to make biscuits for her.