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:

Mercy Charism Cross

Today this wonderful person was awarded the Mercy Charism cross in assembly.  She has been working hard and helping others.

Culture Day

As a finale to our recent Inquiry unit, we had a celebration of the different cultures of children and teachers that make up our school community.  The children were offered a range of music and art activities to take part in. A performance by some Aurora College students which included traditional Cook Island drum playing and dancing was enjoyed after our 'cultural' shared lunch.  Below are some stories that the children have written:

 

I ate cake at the Culture Day and it was yum.  I did art and it was fun. The name of it was tapa cloths.  To make a tapa cloth we had to draw on a piece of paper and then we had to crush the piece of paper.  We put feathers and grass on it.                                                                                       Alex

Culture Day was fun and I liked the house teams.  The food was yummy and we ate it in the hall.                                                                              Conna

On Culture Day I went to Room 6 to make a paper plane and a jumping frog.  It didn’t go so well.  After that we all went to the hall and ate lunch.  We all went to play for a little bit.  I liked the people of Aurora College and how they kept the beat on the drums.  The girl kept the beat too when she was dancing.

                                                                                       Jade

On Culture Day I liked when we had the shared lunch with the sweet things.  I also liked when we got into our house teams and went around doing different activities. My favourite activity was the gecko painting because we got to put dots around the outside of the gecko.

                                                                                        Robbie

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Before we had a shared lunch for Culture Day, Pompallier went to Room 5 to do a dance.  The dance was on the Interactive whiteboard so we could copy it.  Miss Holland said that we had to get a big kid to help people to do it right.  Then we went to the hall.  The things that we all brought were on tables and it looked like very yummy food.  There were savoury things and there was cake.  There were lots of people there. It was noisy.  We did things in our house teams to get food.  First we had the savoury things and then we got to eat the cake.

                                                                                     Keara

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At the Culture Day we got in our house teams.  We did cool activities.  We had a shared lunch.  Maiya T-Ks uncle came to share his Polyfest item.  The drums were loud.  After that we got free time for five minutes.  Then the big kids did some dancing.

                                                                                      Kyron

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On the 13^th of September, we had a culture day.  The origami activities didn’t go very well for Pompallier.  We had a shared lunch with sweet things too.  There was lots of food because everyone brought something to school to share.

                                                                                            Hunter

It was Culture Day at last and I was very happy.  My favourite activity was the first activity and it was…………..origami.  Then it was playtime.  After that Pompallier travelled on.  The next activity was tapping sticks together.  They were called rakau sticks.  I didn’t like that very much but the next activity was a sort of dance.  We got videoed. Then we had the shared lunch.  Yay!  I had to bring a savoury thing.

                                                                                            Greta

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On Thursday 13^th of September 2012 we had a shared lunch at school.  I made wontons but my mum was late so Miss Swney was the first one to eat a wonton.  She said “Yum” and that it was great that Mum was late because she could eat the wontons.  I loved paper folding because it was fun.  The geckos were great because we got to paint with cotton buds to make spots.

                                                                                      Maiya

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Culture day was interesting because people from a different school played the drums in the hall.  It was funny when the teachers got up on stage and danced with the girl.  I liked when we were in the house teams and I liked the delicious sweet stuff at the shared lunch.  I liked the sweet food because there was lolly cake and it was yummy. 

                                                                                       Danye

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We had a shared lunch for Culture Day on Thursday the 13^th of September.  There were three different things to eat at the shared lunch in the hall.  We had to do three different activities.  The activities were fun.  We did paper folding with Miss Swney and it was hard because it didn’t work out right.  Then we went to Room 1 to use rakau sticks.  We had to get a partner and watch a video about how to use rakau sticks. Then we copied what saw.  After that we went to Room 5 and danced to some music watching the interactive whiteboard.  Then we tried dancing to the music by ourselves in two groups.

                                                                                                         Mya 

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At Culture Day we did Aboriginal art.  We had to dot around the gecko with cotton buds dipped in paint.  We did music in Room 2 and we could dance.  There were two groups.  Some people knew the dance already.

                                                                                    Brooke

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At Culture Day we did Aboriginal art.  It was fun.  I also did music.  My house is Kavanagh.  After the activities had finished we went over to the hall for a shared lunch.  It too was fun.  I liked the savoury stuff because it was yummy.  We did a gecko drawing. We could only put dots on the gecko and nowhere else.                                                                                             Caleb

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Last Thursday it was Culture Day and we got to eat sweet things like chocolate marshmallows and those were just a few of the sweet things we had.  We had lunch and then……….. we got free time for five minutes.  We watched Aurora College do their Polyfest item.

                                                                                     Ben 

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It was Thursday morning and it was Culture Day.  We had to bring something savoury or sweet for everyone to share.  We started in Room 6.  We did three activities and then it was playtime.  When the bell rang, we had to put our food away because our house captains came to collect us.

                                                                                                   Kate 

Badminton

Today we had someone from Badminton Southland come to teach us some badminton skills in the hall.  We were learning the importance of keeping our eyes on the shuttle so that we could hit it more than once. 

First, we threw the shuttle into the air and clapped once before catching it.

Next we got another shuttle so that we had two.  We had to throw one shuttle into the air and catch it with the second shuttle.

Lastly, we were given a racquet to hit the shuttle with.  We had to hold the racquet with the hand that we write with, and the shuttle with the other hand, by the feathers.  Next we dropped the shuttle onto the strings of the racquet and hit the shuttle gently.

Did you know?

• badminton is the 4th most popular sport in the world - BB
• you use rackets and shuttles
• it is an indoor sport - AM
• the shuttle has a cork covered with goat skin at its base. This is the bit you hit with the racket - MO
• the shuttle has 16 goose feathers above the cork - BC
• it takes 2 feathers from 8 geese to make one shuttle - KR
• a shuttle can travel at 420km/hr