What Happens to our Food?

On our last visit to see Harold we looked at what happens to food once it goes into the mouth.

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 Saliva breaks food down food (making it mushy and easy to swallow).

The esophagus is about 25 cm long and slowly squeezes food through to the stomach.

The stomach stores the food eaten, breaks down the food to a liquid mixture and slowly empties that liquid mixture into the intenstine.  It uses gastric juices to mix all the food into tiny pieces.

The small intestine breaks down food to a thin watery mixture to  absorb all the vitamins, minerals, proteins, carbohydrates and fats into the blood.                                        

Cyber Safety Powerpoints

Isabella's homework on Cyber Safety



Jandre's homework on Cyber Safety

Room16s Flag Homefun

Anise's Flag

Blake's Flag

Kaia's Flag

Our Birthday Calendars using Maori Vocabulary

Maori with Whaea Mary-Anne

We are learning about the months of the year, days of the week and counting to thirty one in Maori. Thank you Whaea Mary-Anne for all you do to help us with our Te Reo and Tikanga. Ka rawe te kōrero Māori.

Harold Says Hello

Food Pyramid Work with Pip & Harold

Stepping Out

Stepping out p 20 (School Journal)  Pt 2 No 3 2006

I liked 4 things about this book...

1.  I liked that it was using emails as the story.

2. I liked  there was a shoe that had springs that bounced to high.

3. I liked there was a shoe that was really fast.

4. I liked how that you could break wood when you walk.

Breanna's Flag

This is my flag I made on the Paint program.  I did it for homefun .

The Light House

One day,  many years ago,  there was an old man called Furious Fred.  He lived  in an old stone light house and when the shiny beam went past, the town yelled out, "Yae"  but Fred just slammed the window.  Then the light stopped!  The people stopped shouting and Fred knew what had  happened, so he ran up the spiral stairs.  He  got his lantern then he heard a boat and  found the light, then tripped and the glass broke.  It smashed into thousand pieces.

"Oh no", he thought, "the boat is going to crash".   But  then he saw a flash of light.  Next Fred ran down the stairs and opened  the door.  He saw the whole town with lanterns. "Come in come in", Fred said. The boat saw the light and sailed away with a loud honk.

Many years back, in 1995, there was an old stone lighthouse. Every time the lighthouse's neon light went round the villagers would cheer. Inside the lighthouse lived a grumpy, mad man named Rufus. Rufus was very mad about this so he slammed the window shut with a BANG.

Suddenly he heard some creaking sounds coming from up the twisted stairs. Rufus ran to the stairs and picked up his tool box with a concerned look on his face.  He ran up the stairs missing every second step so that you could see the lantern through the the three small windows. When Rufus finally reached the top of the staircase, he opened the light to check it, but it was not working.

Rufus took out the light and took a step back and tripped over his tool box. He heard the horn of the rusty metal ship and it sounded like it was coming towards the lighthouse. Rufus stood up with a scared look on his face then he ran down the stairs.

 Rufus opened the door to see that all the villagers had come with their lights and the ship turned safely. Rufus made an agreement saying that he would never be mean to the villagers again.

Summer

Remember that time when I went to the lake.

I ran down to the water and swam

And it was freezing  cold.

The sand was bumpy because the waves had made it that way.

That was  summer.

The Great Plant Escape

Help Detective LePlant  solve the mystery.  Search for clues to find out why plants are an important part of life.

Watch the Time Lapse Photography of the Life Cycle of a Plant

Label the Parts of a Plant

Click on the picture below to label the parts of a plant.

Photosynthesis

Photosynthesis is something that some of us know a lot about and others only a little.  Here is an intereactive game with Ms Frizzle from the Magic School Bus.

Learn About What Plants Need to Grow

Click on the graphic below to learn about what plants need to grow.

Label the Parts of a Plant Game

Click on the diagram below to see if you know the parts of a plant.

Parts of a Plant

Use heat and water to help a plant grow with this fun game. Take care of the plant while learning what conditions work best.  Click on the plant below to play and learn.

Parts of a Flower

Learn about life cycles by sorting the parts of a flower, discovering what each part does and how in contributes to the life cycle of a living thing.  Click on the flower below.

Annie's Gardening With Room 13

On Friday the fast finishers from Room 13 did some gardening with Annie.  They weeded the raised beds and planted broad beans which are going to planted in the gardens  in 2 weeks time.  Watch out for our bean seed progressions  from germination to  fully grown plants.  We are hoping they won't get frosted!!

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Life Education

We visited Harold and Pip at the Life Education truck .  We were so pleased to see Harold again.  We learnt about what foods we should eat 'Lots', 'Some' and 'Little'. We classified foods into food from animals, food from plants and foods from mixed ingredients.  We look forward to seeing Harold and Pip again on Tuesday.  

Sam's Design for a New Wanaka Flag

I used the Paint programme to design and draw a new flag for Wanaka.

Milly's Long U Fun Poem

This poem was written to help younger children learn some long u sounds to use in their spelling.

Long U

Long U’s name is Suzie.

Long U loves stew whenever she's got the flu.

Long U likes to play the ukulele.

Long U’s brother is blue.

Long U now has got the flu!

Long U is never rude.

Charlie's I Phone Cyber Safety Poster

Plants: Nature of Science

This week as part of our plant inquiry we observed grapes closely.  We acted like scientists and used our observation skills  and senses.  We also completed an observational drawing of a grape then used a magnifying glass to look even closer than we could with our eyes.  We then wrote an 'I think a grape is a seed because...' statement based on what we found out.