Big Question

This week our big question is around being able to read food labels and understand their importance in both a healthy diet and in managing allergies and illnesses. We practiced reading some labels and then sorted foods from healthiest to least healthy based on one specific aspect such as salt content. This helped the learners to understand that deciding if something is healthy or not is not an easy concept and so we have to think about all foods in terms of balance.

HWB

This week we have been looking at anti-bullying in comprehension and discovery the topic. As part of this I did a demonstration using toothpaste. I said unkind things to Mr Chum (our class teddy) and every time I did the learners squirted some toothpaste on to a tray. At the end I asked them to tidy up and pop the toothpaste back into the tube. Lots of the learners quickly cottoned on to the lesson I was teaching, ‘words, once said, cannot be unsaid’.  We then had a great discussion about the importance of stopping and thinking before we speak so we don’t say unkind things in the moment. We also then discussed the fact that we are human and we will get it wrong some times and so the only thing we can do then is apologise and try to make it right. I forgot to take any photos but as you can imagine fun was had a mess was made!