Thank you heaps to the efforts you have made at home to allow your child to be apart of a great cultural experience. A huge thanks goes to Kathleen Kingston and Chris Smith, our Oaklands ESOL (English for Students of Second Languages) teachers, who has been crafted over a week cultural learning for your child. This is a time were your child can celebrate who they are and learn about different cultures.
Room 17 Oaklands Cultural Fun Day! on PhotoPeach <iframe width="445" height="296" src="http://photopeach.com/embed/5rwo2m" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Cultural shared kai
At Oaklands School we pride ourselves on providing our students with opportunities to share their own cultures and experience other cultures through authentic learning experiences. A big part of New Zealand culture is bringing a plate for a sort of pot luck lunch. Student families were asked to bring a plate of food the represented their child's culture or home country ... We had a yummy feast! This is part of our our week long school wide cultural celebrations.
Cultural shared kai on PhotoPeach
Earthquake Turtle Training
This morning we shared our stories from the recent Earthquake. We discovered that a lot of us were scared it would happen again and felt a bit sad (we had a few tears this morning having to leave our family and caregivers). We found out that a few of us forgot to do the "turtle move" when the earthquake happened so we had a practice at school.
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| First we practiced our turtles inside the classroom, making sure that we are on our knees and protecting our heads. |
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| But we never know when an earthquake might happen - we "pretended" to play and practise what we would do in the playground. We need to remember to stay out side and get down to the ground ... |
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| And make a turtle shape! |
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| After an earthquake we wait for a teacher or adult to tell us it is safe to leave the turtle shape. We then meet the rest of the school at the cricket pitch on the back field. |
Healthy Eating
YUM!
Look at all the yummy healthy food choices room 17 brings for fruit (and vege) break in the morning! We will be looking into healthy food choices this term - but our students already know that fruit and vegetables are really important for our growing bodies!
Look at all the yummy healthy food choices room 17 brings for fruit (and vege) break in the morning! We will be looking into healthy food choices this term - but our students already know that fruit and vegetables are really important for our growing bodies!
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| Chloe K and Jack love their corn! |
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| Chloe W is lucky to have watermelon! |
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| Di Di has some cucumber ... |
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| Jesse brought some yummy blueberries! |
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| Kaydence brought some carrot sticks |
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| Harper loves her aporo and Danika loves her Panana!
Lots of yummy ideas for fresh fruit and veges in the lunch box!
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Sun smart!
In New Zealand the sun is really hot! Parents and Caregivers you can help us. Please make sure we come to school with sunscreen on (and also ensure we have a BIG drink bottle ... little ones mean we need to fill them all the time!)
We are learning to be self managers and put our own sunscreen on.
We can do this at home too!
We can put sunscreen on before morning tea, lunch and swimming!
Cosmic Kids Yoga
In room 17 we love to do Cosmic Kids yoga. These video's are found on youtube and tell lots of awesome stories while we act them out with yoga. Feel free to use these at home they are great to get us moving when it is too hot to be outside!
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