Colours in Māori ♡

A couple weeks ago we learnt how to say most colours in Māori, so I made a blog post about it. I hope you enjoy!

Why everyone should learn to swim!

WALT: Swim at QEII

For the next two weeks my school is having swimming lessons at QEII everyday.
So I decided to write a exposition about why I think everyone should learn how to swim.
   
My first reason is that our country is surrounded an ocean. If you ever go to the beach you are most likely to go in the water, which means you will need to know how to swim if you get caught in a rip, or even go out a little deeper than your knees, otherwise you could get in serious trouble. You could get knocked over by a wave, and if your out deep then it won't be very easy to get back up if you can't swim.
      The same goes for lakes and rivers, although they are a little different. Lakes get very deep very quickly. One moment the water could be up to your knees, then you slip and the water is over your head. Rivers can be very dangerous because some of them have very fast and strong rapids, which won't be easy to swim in. So you'll have to know how to swim properly.

Sleep hygiene

Sleep Hygiene

WALT: understand what factors promote good sleep

Today we learnt about what factors help us to sleep well and what factors impede sleep.

Habits & behaviour to promote sleep:

Drink milk before bed
Read before bed
Draw before bed
Listen to soft music
Relax and do something calming
Have the right lit room
Have a regular schedule for sleeping
Leave door open to let heat in
Have a shower or bath before bed (warm/hot)

Habits & behaviour that hinder sleep:

Drinking caffeine
Having a lot of light in your room
Using technology before bed
Full or empty stomach

✰ Christchurch City Council coming into our school ✰

Yesterday Celia and Georgina from the Christchurch City Council came into our class to continue on with our visit a couple of weeks ago. We had a chance to vote for a person we thought that should be the mayor of Christchurch. We also had a fake meeting where Franky, Jesse, Kade and I were skater dudes and had to say to the community board that we thought we should get a skatepark in our area. At the end the community board agreed to build a skatepark even though there were a few people who disagreed with the idea, such as locals who disagreed because of noise and model train engineers who were next door from where the skatepark was gonna be built who were concerned about the security of it, and how the trains were going to get a bunch of graffiti on them. We did a couple other things before it ended, although I don’t have a great memory so I can’t really remember what we did. 

If you’ve got this far, thank you for reading !

Planting ✮

Last week room 1 and 7 went into Rawhiti Domain to plant some plants. :)))

Taekwondo

We have been learning Taewondo. This is a blog post I made about it. Enjoy1

Our field trip!

This post is about Room 1's field trip to the Christchurch City Council and The Arts Centre/Rutherfords Den. Enjoy!