Reading - Where the children sleep

For the past week we researched information about sleep and why it's important we have enough sleep everyday. We went on a website and were shocked at the differences of amount of sleep these children have. Some children slept outside cold on a freezing couch and some slept in a warm cosy house on a soft bed. We learnt that lack of sleep causes children to not get along with others and get angry, depressed, miserable and may lead to depression. There are also other reasons why people don't get enough sleep caused with different diseases such as sleep apnea and Insomnia. Lastly sleep plays a vital role and it helps the body function, having enough sleep helps restore the immune system and gets you ready and awake for the day.

Careers

Today for Inquiry we discussed what we want to do in the future. We went on a website and picked the jobs we were most interested in. At the end it calculated which career most suits us the most. What first popped up was a navy sailor. You can get 109,000 per year if your a Warrant officer. We all had fun and enjoyed learning about what careers we wanted to pursue. We learnt that a job is something temporary that you do for money an a career is something you want to pursue for the rest of your life.

ASB - Get Wise

Today a visitor from Get Wise ASB came to our school to teach us about savings and how it can impact your life. He talked about saving on the weekdays and spending a certain amount on the weekends. We also played a fun game involving the skills he told us and having something called a budget. We learnt that a budget is an certain amount your allowed to spend. Lastly we played a interesting and fun game, The budget was 1,800 you had to spend it wisely and not spend it over the budget. The bigger things you buy the more entertainment points you gained. We won with 35 point, but spent the exact amount of the budget. We had fun and learn a a lot, but we also learnt a value from this session it was to save some, spend some and share some.

Matariki - Information Brochure

Today for Matariki we worked collaboratively with LS1 to learn about Matariki and to share our knowledge. We have created an Information Brochure with what we know about Matariki and the 7 stars. We added a picture of the 7 stars and Maori traditional foods such as boil up. We learnt that in the olden days they used the Matariki 7 stars in the sky to guide them through the pacific. We enjoyed learning about Matariki and are looking forward to learn more about the stars.

M&M's Presentation

Last week Mrs Anderson and Ms Kirkpatrick left to America for work. We learnt about the history of M&M's and found out many there are in a packet. We made Pie Graphs to see the percentages of the colours in our M&M packet and Bar Graph to see which colour had the most. Orange was the most and Green was the rarest colour. We all enjoyed learning about M&M's and eating them. My group especially liked watching funny advertisements.