Healthy Lifestyles

This term in Health we have been looking at Healthy Lifestyles. In pairs, students brainstormed all of the things that people do to have a healthy lifestyle. We then looked at each of these aspects.

Most importantly we looked at diet. To have a healthy diet you should be following the 'Healthy Plate" guide. This means you eat the most Vegetables, the next largest portion is Healthy Proteins, then Whole Grains and Fruit. The best thing to drink is water! We also investigated which of our favourite foods are the foods that you should eat most, eat moderately and eat least. We were lucky enough to make some healthy milkshakes one Friday Afternoon. We made Strawberry Surprises, which were milk, strawberries and strawberry yoghurt. Most people liked them, but some people found them a little bit bitter.

Here is the recipe if you want to make it at home.

We also researched why exercise is good for us. We learnt that aerobic exercise is good as it helps to make our heart stronger, which makes pumping blood around the body easier. Strengthening exercises are also important as they help to build our muscles, which help us lift heavy things. We then investigated which exercises were best for raising our heart rate. We did stations of exercises which included skipping, running, sit ups, push ups and burpees. It was pretty fun, but we were very tired afterwards.

Here are some pictures of us exercising and checking our heart rate.

Constable Care comes to Wattle Grove

On Monday, 9th June,  Room 11 went to see a performance by Constable Care. We went with all the Year 2 and 3 classes. It was held in the Undercover Area at school. The show was a puppet show about cultural diversity. It was called Celebrations.

 Before we went to the show we looked at where the people in our class were born or where their families come from. Did you know that in Room 11, 9 people were born in a different country? Also that 13 students have parents who were born in a different country. Cool hey!

In the show the puppets had to research how to have a class party that would include everyone. They went to their class mates and found out what games they liked to play, what music they liked to listen to and what food they liked to eat. We learnt about a lot of different foods, music types and games from all over the world.

At the end Verity, the lady who was in charge, asked us questions about the play. Ariel and Elham each won a prize for getting questions correct.

We thought the play was funny, especially when the puppets tried to dance and to play 'Monkey Run to the Pole.' We couldn't stop laughing. It was interesting to listen to how different cultures celebrate. We think we might like to have a class party to celebrate the diversity in our class!  

Welcome to WA Week!

On Monday we had a public holiday to celebrate WA Day. All week long Wattle Grove classes have been looking at towns in Western Australia and learning about them. Room 11 have been learning about Rottnest Island.

Miss Ruddick showed us a PowerPoint about the history of Rottnest Island and some photos of the beautiful beaches and fun activities you can do over there. We made posters to encourage people to visit Rottnest.

We also wrote a persuasive text to try and convince people to choose Rottnest as a holiday destination. We also researched Rottnest Island on the internet and found facts about it. We typed these up and then displayed them from a giant net in our room.

We were also lucky enough to email the class that lives on Rottnest. We asked them some questions and they responded to us. We learnt that there are only 9 kids in their class, 8 girls and 1 boy, and they range from Kindy to Year 5. How strange!

We also created some Quokkas, the small marsupial that live at Rottnest and hid these around the room. Only two people correctly counted the Quokkas, they were Tyler and Cooper.

On Friday afternoon we got to visit the other classes and find out about what they had learnt this week. Room 10 researched Harvey, this is the home of the big orange. Room 9 learnt about Busselton, did you know that the Busselton jetty is 1.8km long! Room 8 learnt about Kalannie, this is where Mrs Beste grew up. Room 20 focused on Shark Bay, here there is a big area of stramatilites, which are very old fossils. Lastly Room 23 learnt about Halls Creek, this is mostly an Aboriginal township and they did some dot paintings.

We really enjoyed our afternoon of finding out about different towns in WA. It was interesting and educational.