Thursday 15 August 2013

Charlotte's Report on Food and Digestion

Food and the Digestive System
Been feeling down lately? Think back to what you had for afternoon tea and how that could maybe affect your Digestive System. Keep reading, it might just help you.

To keep healthy, you need to eat a variety of foods. Go foods are foods from the ground. These foods are wheat, fruit and vegetables. These foods have carbohydrates in them. Make sure you eat plenty of these.

Slow down foods are dairy products, eggs and meat. Meat contains protein and iron. Make sure you have these foods, but not too much of them.

Stop foods contain lots of fat, sugar, salt, oil and preservatives. Another word for preservatives is additives. Some of these foods are cake, chocolate, potato chips and lollies.

When you eat these foods, you chew them with your mouth, taste them with your taste buds and mix them with your saliva. They then enter the food tube called the oesophagus. From the oesophagus they go to the stomach. In the stomach they are churned and turned into tiny bits. From there they travel to the small intestine where they are broken down into tiny microscopic bits. The tiny microscopic bits enter the blood. From the blood they travel all around your body.


I hope you take on board some of these tips and facts to get a healthier you! 

Tuesday 13 August 2013

Writing Paragraphs

We are learning to write paragraphs we use a set of traffic lights to help us!

Green light is the Topic Sentence and is the first sentence in a paragraph, it tells us what the paragraph will be about.
Orange light is the Supporting Sentences which add detail and they need to be about your topic.
Red light is the Ending Sentence which closes your paragraph, it means that your paragraph is finished.

Here are Haley's and Amy's paragraphs:

On Saturday I played netball with my team.
In my team there are 7 girls and 1 girl with a broken  arm. We were versing Willowbank. They were the top of the table and we were second to last.  I played GA, GD and C. I loved playing netball even though it was pouring down with rain and my partner for GA was twice the height of me.


By Hailey

Netball
Amy Adams
On Saturday I played a game of netball. Our team played Willowbank. They were top of the table and we are about in the middle of the table, but the bad news was that we lost. The score was 36 nil. However, I still enjoyed the game.