Another Mercy Charism Award

Congratulations to this fantastic person as she has been awarded the Mercy Charism Award for this week.  We are so proud of her.  This is the third consecutive week that someone in our class has received this award.  We must be doing great things.

Tour of Southland

We are waiting for the Tour of Southland cyclists outside our school

"Share the Road," we yelled as the cyclists from the Tour of Southland rode past our school.  These are our ideas

Things we heard:

• beeping horns of trucks and cars - Robbie
• bangers - two plastic tubes that we blew air into and bang together to make lots of noise - Ben
• people yelling "Share the Road" - Ben
• cyclists racing past - Holly
• chains going around as the cyclists peddled - Brooke  

Things we saw:

• police cars - flashing lights; making sure the cyclists/spectators/crowd do not get run over - Hunter
• motorbikes - Conna
• bangers floating away in the wind when we did not hold onto them - Caleb
• cyclists - one cyclist was in front of all the others - Greta
• pilot vehicles - to let other people on the road know that the cyclists are coming - Cole
• support vehicles - vehicles in case a cyclist gets a flat tyre, warm clothes, food, water - Kate
• ambulance - Thomas
 

 

Share the Road

 

Today Sacred Heart School had a visit from Constable Herrick, who came to talk to us about safety tips when riding a bike.

  
Greg, his trusty sidekick, rode into the school hall on his carbon-fibre training bike wearing jandals, dressed in black, talking on his cellphone and NOT wearing a helmet.  We soon put him right with the things that we thought needed improving.  
He needed:

• a helmet
• high visability clothing
• covered shoes like sneakers or riding shoes

 

Constable Herrick also told us the 2-4-1 rule for wearing a helmet: 

2         The front of the helmet should sit 2 fingers (sideways) above your eyebrow
4         The side straps that sit either side of the ears should be a 'v' shape
1         Only one finger should fit in between the chin strap and the chin

Always tighten the chin strap first before adjusting the side straps otherwise this will affect where the helmet sits on your head. 

Next week the Tour of Southland starts and the cyclists will be riding past our school, twice.  We will be outside, no the matter the weather, shouting Share the Road to support Greg's team.

Measuring - length

Last week, as part of a measurement unit for length, we used to a range of ways to measure the height, width and length of different things around the classroom. We were introduced to the following language: length, distance, measure, tall, taller, tallest; short, shorter, shortest; long, longer, longest.

One person lay on the ground while their partner drew marks on the carpet using chalk.  Next we measured between the two marks using our hands.  We learned that we have different hand sizes so our results were not always the same.

 

Here is someone from our class measuring the height of a table.  We learned that horses are measured in 'hands' too.

Another form of measuring that we used was 'ladybird' steps or placing one foot in front of the other, touching toe to heel.  Again the results were varying according to the size of our feet.

 

Using a metre ruler to measure the door and a table.  We learned that when using a ruler we have to line up the thing we are measuring with the zero mark on the ruler.

Mercy Charism Award

 This wonderful Room 3 person was awarded the Mercy Charism Award again, for the second time in three weeks.  She is a super star!

Nude Food Day - 17 October 2012

Today is National Nude Food Day.  Nude Food Day is about teaching children how their actions can impact the environment and their health. A message that ‘nude food = a healthy body + a healthy planet’ empowered the children to choose healthy, rubbish free food for their lunches and snacks today.  Here are some photos of children from Room 3 with their lunches: