Making Hanawiti - Making Sandwiches

Room 10 have been learning about making balanced choices with food for a healthy life.  Today we made hanawiti (sandwiches) to show how easy, balanced and filling healthier choices can be.

We made sandwiches with ham or luncheon, tomatoes, lettuce, cucumber, carrots and wholemeal bread.  Our oils and fats group was mayonaise and butter.

Some of us grated carrots for the first time today!  Some others tried to sneak in a sandwich with just the tiniest bit of lettuce, so we were challenged with our taste buds as well as our thinking about nutrition!

Check out some of our creations below...he namunamuā ā mātou hanawiti!

Here is Kīra's hanawiti!
Here is Lovey's hanawiti!
Here is Constance's hanawiti!
Here is Ricky's hanawiti!
Here is Kauri's hanawiti!
Here is Teresa's hanawiti!
Here is Perenara's hanawiti!

Sam the Honey Man!

Today Kia Manawanui syndicate welcomed Sam Tu'itahi, who likes to keep bees as a hobby, to find out more information about how honey is made.  We are investigating honey production as part of our inquiry into food and also to help us with explanation writing.

Kia Manawanui asked many interesting questions and we can't wait to share our finished products with you!

Here are some photos from our time with Sam!

Preparation for Explanation Writing

This morning, room 10 worked together in small writing groups to construct paragraphs that were suitable for writing an explanation.

We worked together to get a better idea of how we could organise time in assessment conditions and we are all feeling very confident for our Writing test tomorrow!

Here is our class explanation:  How to develop Manaakitanga in your classroom.

It also has added tips for writing an explanation!

Good luck to all students taking part in their writing samples this week!

Honey Tasting in Room 10!

This morning in Room 10, we were tasting honey as part of our Term Two topic looking into healthy eating and fuel for living!  We will be exploring where honey comes from and how it is ends up from Bee to Bottle!  We tasted four different types of honey:  Mixed, clover, Pohutukawa (from Miss Kyla's own back yard!) and Manuka.

It was interesting today as we discovered the different tastes and textures of honey and some of us realised we actually don't really like honey that much!  It was a fun session with funny faces and reactions to the honey tasting!

We look forward to sharing our upcoming explanations about honey with you!

Ode of Remembrance - Te Reo Māori

Room 10 learnt about the Ode of Remembrance in both English and Te Reo Māori.  They were asked to show their understanding by selecting images that reflected the words.  They were then asked to record themselves reading the Ode of Remembrance.

It has been a challenge to learn how to pronounce Māori words and read them out loud, but with practice makes perfect!

It was interesting to see how poetry and words can be meaningful in any language.

Lest we forget.

Here is Constance's rendition.

Here is Curtys' rendition.

Here is Cerenity's rendition.

Compass Poppies

Today Room 10 created circles with different radius lengths using compasses to create ANZAC poppies.

We found it challenging to construct the circles.  Some found that if you moved the paper around, that made it easier.  Some found the bigger circles were easier to construct than the very small ones.

We had to make poppy flowers that were small, medium and large.

The small poppy had an outer circle with the radius of 5cm and an inner circle of 1cm.  The medium poppy had an outer circle of 7cm and an inner circle of 2cm.  The large poppy had an outer circle radius of 10cm and and inner circle radius of 3cm.

We learnt that poppies are significant symbols of remembrance during ANZAC commemorations as they were the first flowers to bloom on battle grounds, so for us left behind, they can also represent a new start or new growth and that we should try our best to live as our soldiers fought so hard to give us our fresh starts and freedom we enjoy today.

Lest we forget.

Here are some photos of our learning:

And here is our final class wreath, ready for our memorial on Thursday: