Exploring the benefits of exercise...

As we continue to look at ways to 'sharpen the saw', we have been learning about the benefits of exercise and how hard we need to be exercising. On Monday we learnt how to find and calculate our heart rate and what our target heart rate should be for exercise, (220 - age) X 60 to 80%. We then headed outside to explore how different exercises affected our heart rate. We discovered that after 1 minute of doing burpees, most of use hit the upper level of our target heart rate!

One minute is a long time when you are doing burpees!

Tasty Science

At Life Education, we learnt about the importance of water in our diet. We decided to find out how much water there was in raw fruit and vegetables. We talked about what a fair test was; we had to make sure that what we did for one fruit or vegetable, we did for all of them.

Interpreting the scales was one of many skills we worked on.

Check back in a couple to days to view our results. We are also keen to create tasty new juice recipes, (do you have a favourite combination?)... will keep you posted.

Clever Characters in Room 19

Over the past three weeks we have been creating cartoon artwork of ourselves, to show what makes us unique.

Firstly we designed cartoon bodies, of ourselves doing something we loved. Next we created a background to compliment the activity we were doing. Then we brainstormed words that other people would use to describe us, and used these words to create a frame. Finally we put it all together, building our bodies and heads up to create a 3D effect.

Our classroom is starting to look pretty cool with the addition of these lovely works of art.

Sharpening The Saw

We have started talking about what we need to do to 'Sharpen our Saws' so that we can perform at our very best. Yesterday we briefly spoke about the benefits of exercise on achievement and focus. We will explore this more during the term. The diagram below illustrates this. Interpret the colours as you would a weather map, with red being the good stuff!

Make sure you have suitable shoes for exercise at school each day! How do you find exercise impacts your life? Please leave a comment (parents and children).

Underway for 2013

We have had a fabulous start to the year in Room 19. What a great group of learners! This week we have been making bonus coupons on the computer, learning how to create block letters in boxes, writing some holiday poetry, creating 3D cartoons of ourselves, and finding out about each other. We've done a few more things too!

Thanks for all of the fabulous letters, I am enjoying reading about you all.

Top Team

What a fabulous afternoon everyone has had at Top Team. They'll be tired tonight! Great teamwork, persistence and an apparent love of water from Room 19ers...

What we got up to today...

Well done to everyone who competed at Zone Athletics today. Even if your placing was not quite what you wished for, giving it your best shot was the most important thing. Congratulations if you were one of the 32 people who qualified for the Canterbury Tournament to be held in Ashburton on Wednesday December 5th.

Those of us who remained at school worked on a cartoon enlargement project, using a grid. Precision and accuracy lead to impressive results for many.

Joe's finished result. He started with a small 5cm square cartoon from the paper.