A Dietician comes to school

Mrs Pennington, a Dietician and parent at our school,kindly agreed to talk to the Junior classes about 'Healthy Eating' and the range of food we should be eating to stay well.

She talked about eating 5+ fruit and vegetables a day.Last week we tried eating lots of different chopped up raw fruit and vegetables-they were delicious!

Mrs Pennington also told us that our body is like a car-it needs fuel to keep it going!

Breakfast is probably the most important meal of the day as it helps to keep our bodies working during the day.

Mrs Pennington had to study at university and take some science subjects to learn to be a dietician.

Tracking tunnels

This week we set up our home-made tracking tunnels in Ngahere Reserve.
We put peanut butter out to lure in any pests that might be in the reserve.

Can you see the fresh tracks?

What do you think has been walking through this tracking tunnel?

Planting seeds in recycled cans

Room 3 children each planted a couple of dwarf bean seeds this week.

Although the weather has been cold we hope with sun and water they will grow on our windowsill. Mrs King had lots of old cans to recycle for our planting.

Soup making

Near the end of Term 2 the Enviro-Gardening Group at school got to make soup.
We used a soup mix but also added some vegetables from our school garden.
The children who made the soup were from Rooms 4,7 and 10
Gee it tasted great on a cold winters' day-yum! Well done kids and Ms Brunton.

Baking vegetables

Studying healthy lunches meant we all got to eat a baked vegetable at school.

Most children had potato or kumera to eat. We found out that these vegetables have hardly any fat in them and are good for you. They tasted delicious on a cold day!

Tupare Walk

Rooms 1,2 and 3 had a Winters' day walk to Tupare gardens recently.
We saw lots of beautiful trees like the native rimu and kauri-but also lots of decidious trees as well. The Junior classes saw and heard the Waiwakaiho River in the distance.

Children enjoyed walking up the zig-zag pathways.It was a lovely afternoon!

Making a bird ball

To attract more birds to our school grounds Room 3 made a 'bird ball'.

We needed dripping,breadcrumbs,some bird seeds and a pinecone to wrap it all round.

We needed to put it in the fridge over night to harden. We had fun!

It is fast being eaten by silvereyes but have a look in the kowhai tree by Room 4.