Food For Thought

How healthy is the food we eat every day? Our trip to New World on Tuesday helped us work this out. We read the labels of everyday food items and occasional food items to check out the amount of sugar, fat, sodium and fibre that was in them. Using the rules we learnt last week (less than 10g of sugar, less than 10g of fat, less than 400mg of sodium and more than 5g of fibre) we could clearly see how healthy or unhealthy different food items were. We left New World with a new lunch box, a bag of apple slices and a wealth of new knowledge about food. Hopefully we can remember the food rules to help us make better choices about the things we eat each day.
Thanks to the parents/grandparents who provided transport to New World and who helped with label reading.

Living Springs

The Year 4's had a very busy and exciting three days on camp at Living Springs. It was so cool to see everyone challenging themselves, trying new things and working together with different people in the Year 4 team. I'm sure there were plenty of children, teachers and camp parents who were in bed early on Friday night! Here are some camp pictures.

Yr 4 Camp - TOMORROW!!!!

Dear Parents,

Camp tomorrow and the kids are super excited! Below is another copy of the gear list, with requirements regarding clothing and sleep gear etc.We noticed that there are not TSHIRTS on the list... sorry about that. PLease pack 3-4 t-shirts!

PLEASE ensure all your child’s clothing is named. 

Please remember that the children are not to bring ipods, Nintendo’s, etc. to camp.

Any medication your child requires should be handed to the classroom teacher in a named bag on the day we depart.

October 23^rd  – Departure Day

On the morning that we leave for camp we would like the children to arrive at school at the usual time and providing the weather is fine, take all their gear and place it outside their classroom (if wet take the gear into their own classroom). 

Parent transporters/ helpers are asked to drive into school after the 9.00 bell and park on the netball court ready for loading up, then assist in loading up with their passenger’s gear. 

We will have a brief meeting in the hall before departing about 9.30 for Governors Bay.

We will be met by the camp staff who will guide us starting from Governors Bay School/Jetty This is expected to take about 2 hours with talks from the staff and lunch along the way.

Parents providing transport

Thanks to those parents are helping us with transport,  please make sure you are at school by 9.05 tomorrow The transport list is below and shows who is travelling together.

See you in the morning

Kind regards

Louise, Jodi, Thomas, Ros, Trish and Joe

Transport To and From Living Springs Camp

Rm 23 Jodi BOTH Bella, Libby, Akki

Judy McArthur Caleb, Kairau, Quillan, Olly,Swastik

Karl Kitchingham Josh, Nikau, Beau

Dalwyn Sinclair Emma, Charlotte, Jada-Lee

CAMP GEAR LIST – LIVING SPRINGS

**  PLEASE NAME EVERYTHING CLEARLY **

PLEASE CHECK THIS LIST WITH YOUR CHILD AS HE / SHE PACKS FOR CAMP

ENSURE THIS LIST GOES WITH THEIR LUGGAGE TO CAMP, SO THAT IT CAN BE CHECKED OFF BEFORE RETURNING TO SCHOOL.

General Gear

• Pillow and warm sleeping bag
• Toilet gear: toothbrush, toothpaste, soap, towel, suntan lotion, hairbrush/comb, facecloth, and handkerchiefs.
• Towel
• Two plastic supermarket bags (for dirty clothing)
• Light day pack (school bag)
• Pencil case, paper.
• Torch
• A board game/ Pack of cards
• Reading book

Clothing:

• 3-4 Tshirts
• Pyjamas
• Underwear (several changes)
• Socks (4 pairs at least 2 of which should be woollen or polyprop
• 2 Pairs of shorts
• 2 pairs of long pants (one of these must be warmer than jeans – e.g. track pants)
• 1 skivvy or warm shirt
• 1 warm woollen jersey
• 1 warm sweatshirt, rugby jersey or similar.
• 2 pairs of shoes (1 of which must be sturdy and suitable for hiking)
• 1 sunhat
• 1 warm woollen hat
• 1 pair of woollen or poly prop gloves
• 1 warm jacket, polar fleece or bush shirt
• 1 waterproof parka/jacket with a hood
• Swimming togs and 2 towels

 **Cut lunch, morning tea and a large water bottle for the first day**

NO LOLLIES ETC ARE TO BE BROUGHT TO CAMP.

CAMERAS ARE PERMITTED BUT TOTALLY THE CHILD’S RESPONSIBILITY.

LEAVE ALL IPODS, MP3 PLAYERS, NINTENDOS ETC AT HOME!

And in Sports News. . .

Our "Adopt a School" mate Belgium has left Canterbury rugby for a while and is back to playing 7's for the All Black 7's team. He was at the tournament that Ms A went to see in Australia during the holidays. He was pretty excited that his team won, especially since they beat Australia in the final. He says hello to everyone at St Albans!

Food for Thought

Today we had our Food for Thought classroom lesson. The first part of the lesson was about sugar in drinks. It turned out the the drink with the most sugar was lemon, lime and bitters! Of course Coke and V came next. We learned that the caffeine in drinks like V actually stops kids' bodies from absorbing calcium from milk and dairy products. So that's a big fat no to energy drinks.

The second part of the lesson was to do with the food pyramid. We knew heaps about that already, which was great.

In the last part we learned how to read the labels on packaging to find out if it is healthy or not. Healthy food has less than 10g of sugar, less that 10g of fat, less that 400mg of sodium and more than 6g of fibre per 100g. It's important to make sure we read the "per 100g" column when we look for the nutritional information.

After all this we checked out our lunch boxes and put each food item on the food pyramid. It turns out that most of our lunches are really healthy. It was great to see that there were not many packaged foods in Rm 23.

Next week we get to try out our label reading skills at a real supermarket. Then we get a $60 voucher and we can plan a healthy lunch for our class to eat. Awesome!

Kids Can Cook Kitchen

Last week Chris fro the Kids Can Cook Kitchen came along to show us some healthy eating tricks as well as some cooking tips. He made french crepes (yum!) and put grated apple and chopped silver beet in them! Believe it or not, nearly everyone liked them. It was Nikole's 10th birthday so she was chosen to be the Sous Chef, which is like the second in command. Everyone got to be a taste tester. Delicious!

Celebration Assembly

Yesterday we had our arts celebration including an art exhibition and a performance at both celebration assemblies. We have heard so many positive comments about the quality of the art work produced and how well the children could explain the art techniques they were learning about. And the singing was absolutely beautiful! Here it is for you all to hear.

What Talent!!!

Today was the Talent show finals. We had two groups in the finals that included room 23 children. Emma and Olivia (Rm 22) were doing a dance to Trouble Maker by Olly Murs and Grace, Niamh and Monique (Rm 27) also did a dance to Girl Next Door by Massad. Grace, Nimah and Monique got 3rd in the Senior School group and Emma and Olivia got first in the Middle School group!!! How amazing are they? They will be performing to the whole school on Friday afternoon.

Kiwi Kids News

Caleb and Charlotte were part of the team that made this episode of Kiwi Kids News. Well done to you both.

Strike Percussion

Wow, today we saw the most amazing show! A group called Strike Percussion came along to school to perform for us. It was three guys (Spud, Cookie Monster and Mr T!) who played normal drums, wall drums, Cook Island drums and a giant marimba. They also had some songs that they played with fire and with cans of Fresh Up!! It was incredible. Below are a few clips to give you a bit of an idea of how cool it was. They are a bit dark but it's the sound that matters. We certainly hope that this group comes back again some time.

Athletics Day is Fast Approaching

The Senior School Athletics will be held in Week 3 of next term. Here are some tips to help you with your practices. See if you can get down to school in the weekends or over the holidays to get in some extra practise.

Shot Put and Discus:

• Point your front arm and your eyes to where you want to throw
• Use the power from your legs to push the shot put further

Long Jump:

• Have a fast run up to the pit
• Practice jumping off one foot and landing on two feet
• Throw your arms up in the air as you jump to help push you forward

High Jump:

• Run up from the side of the mat, not straight on to it
• Kick your toes up high, leading with your front leg
• Remember to land on your feet
• You can practice your scissor kick at home. Try it on a trampoline!

Sprints and Relays:

• Look straight ahead throughout the whole race
• Pump your arms and make your hands slice straight through the air
• Lean forward at the finish line

Remember:

You can't throw without your legs and

you can't jump without your arms!!

Poetry Performances

We held our Yr 4 class poetry competition on Monday. I was glad that Mrs Pelham was judging because it was not an easy task. Everyone did a fantastic job reciting their poems. But, winners had to be chosen. The results were:

1st - Bella with "Do Not Read This Poem".
2nd - Quillan with "The Animals of Tane Mahuta" that he wrote himself!
3rd - Caleb with "My Shadow".

Josh, Akki and Swastik received a highly commended for their efforts as well.

Congratulations to all of the Year 4's. Bella and Quillan also did a splendid job in the Yr 3/4 Poetry Finals this morning. Well done to you both.

Football Festival

On Tuesday afternoon English Park held a Female Football Festival to encourage girls to get into football. Since we are just next door, we got to take our girls and boys over to have a few games. It was a beautiful afternoon packed full of non-stop football. It was hot and thirsty work but heaps of fun. Hopefully after this, as well as the football lessons we have been having, we will have some girls and boys keen to get into football clubs. 

Rugby Visitors

Last week we had our second visit from Marcel Cummings-Toone and Belgium Tuatagaloa. They have "adopted" St Albans School for the 2013 ITM rugby season. Marcel used to go to school at St Albans! How cool is that? This visit, senior school children who weren't busy with Kapahaka got to have a game of dodgeball with Marcel and Belgium. They loved it, and so did we!

Fav Books!!!

On Wednesday RM23 brought their favourite books to school.

Great choice Rm23!!!

Cat in the Hat, Capt. Underpants! WOW!

The Hobbit, Fidgety Fish Amazing!

Have a great book week!

PS: Make sure to check out the book fair in RM1.

Jenny Cooper Visit

Today we had a visit from illustrator Jenny Cooper. She has been an illustrator of children's books for over 20 years. Jenny talked us through the massive amount of work that goes into illustrating a book. Then she did some drawings of different faces in front of us. Finally she picked one of the children from the audience and within 5 minutes she had drawn him! She was incredible. We were so impressed that we had to try drawing some of the faces ourselves back in class. It was very cool.

Designing a book cover

From painting to book

More originals and the matching book page

Different faces

5 minute drawing of Teariki

Book Parade

Today we launched book week with a dress up day. We had a wide variety of book characters in Room 23 including Star Wars Jedi's, Dorothy, Little Red Riding Hood, Things, Cinderella, Harry Potter, EJ 12, Richie McCaw, a Blind Mouse and many more! Everyone looked fantastic, yet the best had to be chosen. Best dressed our class was Thing 1 and 2 (Maddie and Grace), Pirate Darkwhisker (Jordyn) and The Cat in the Hat (Jada-Lee). Best dressed boys were the Blind Mouse (Toby) and King Bill (Swastik). Here are some photos from today.

Best Dressed Overall 

Best Dressed Boys