Room 5 Art

We were inspired by the work of Californian artist Lee Anderson to work together as a class to create an art work to brighten our walls for the start of the year. We used a variety of patterns and chose groups of colours from a selection we were given.

Life Education

Our school had a visit from Carmen and Harold in the Life Education truck this week. Room 5 learned about healthy eating and also about how to read the information on food packaging.

One thing we learned was all the different words that are used for sugar: dextrose, syrup, fructose, glucose, lactose, corn syrup...

A highlight was when Isabel was x-rayed and we could all see her digestive system! That helped us to find out how our food is digested and how all the nutrients in our food get into our  bloodstream to feed organs like our brain and heart.

Isabel's Digestive System

We read the labels on food packaging to find out how much fat, sugar and salt the food contains. We were looking for 10g or less of fat and sugar per 100g, and
400 mg or less of salt per 100g.

Swimming Sports

Awahono's Visitors

Earlier this week Miro and Solly brought two young hedgehogs to the school for everyone to see.  They had found them on the road the night before when they were out in the car. One of the hedgehogs had rolled itself into a ball and was rolling along the road to try to get itself out of danger quickly. When the two hedgehogs were in Room 5 they were both asleep, then one of them woke up and we watched as it ate some cat food.

We all gather round to look at the hedgehogs.

The two hedgehogs are sleeping.

One hedgehog is eating some cat food.

Successful Learners

Swimming

We've been practising hard for our swimming sports in Week 6, which will be held at Awahono School this year as the Greymouth pool is being renovated. We've had lessons once or twice a week since the start of term to help us to improve our strokes. Recently the lane ropes went up so we've been doing lots of racing practice.

Summer Learning Journey

Twenty Awahono School students took part in the Summer Learning Journey during the summer holidays, and thirteen of those students came from  Room 5. Blake and Sophie B were two of the three top bloggers and Solly was one of the winners of a spot prize. Allie C, who read all the blog posts and wrote comments, came to our assembly to present the prizes and she also presented every participant with a certificate. Well done to all our participants, and a super well done to our prize winners!