Air to Live

Last week the Life Education Caravan came to school. The Life Education lady brought Harold the Giraffe along to help teach us about how we need air to live and about how we breathe.

We learned we need air to live.  Our body needs air, food and water to make energy. Our body gets oxygen from the air we breathe.  We breathe in oxygen to our lungs. Then our blood carries the oxygen and food around our body to where the energy is made.

We learned we get oxygen from the air we breathe. We have lungs to breathe with.
We learned fish get oxygen from the water they breathe. Fish do not have lungs. They have gills to breathe with.

We learned that we need clean air to keep healthy. Clean air makes our lungs happy.
Dirty air makes lungs sad and can make us sick. We learned about things that make air dirty, like smoke. When air is dirty we call that air pollution. Air pollution is bad for us to breathe. It is unhealthy.

We all got an activity book to take home so the grown-ups at home can help us learn more about Air to Live.

Check out the website www.lifeeducation.org.nz for more ideas and learning from the Life Education team.


Life Education on PhotoPeach

Swimming Lessons

This term we are having swimming lessons once a week with Fulton's Swim School at Patumahoe School  Pools.  Rooms 3 and 4 swim with us too. We work in groups and each group has it's own instructor. We are learning lots and you can tell from the photos that we are having fun learning to swim.

Swimming Lessons on PhotoPeach

Cross country Day

This week we had our cross country Day at school. We ran around the field and raced to the finish line.

Cross country Day on PhotoPeach

Words we have been learning in Weeks 1 - 5

These are the words of the week we have been doing in weeks 1 to 5 of this term. Please keep practising reading and writing them at home so you can know them all off by heart.

Tennis Lesson 1

We are having some special tennis lessons at school. Here are some photos of our first tennis lesson. We had a lot of fun.

Tennis Lesson 1 on PhotoPeach

Beautiful aquarium fish at Kelly Tarlton's

Look at the beautiful colours and patterns on these aquarium fish.
Beautiful aquarium fish at Kelly Tarlton's on PhotoPeach

Kelly Tarlton's Antarctic Adventure

At Kelly Tarlton's we went on the Antarctic Adventure ride to see the penguins. It was so good that some people went through twice!
After we saw the penguins, we saw  the killer whale catching a seal. It looked real but it's a fake. Blake's Dad worked on making the Killer Whale. We think he did a great job because it looks like a real whale and seal. Isn't he clever?

Click on the arrow on the picture below to join us on our Antarctic Adventure.  Enjoy the ride!

Kelly Tarlton's Antarctic Adventure on PhotoPeach