Food Idioms

Everyday people use idioms to express themselves. Food idioms are very common. We have looked at 10 idioms that are used in our daily language and discussed what they mean. Some are very tricky to work out and others are easy.

My favourite is "bring home the bacon" - which means to earn money.
In my family I bring home the bacon. I work to get the money!

Food Containers For Storing Food

Food Containers to store food. 1. Look in your lunch box to see how food is stored or wrapped? Show and discuss e.g plastic containers like Tupperware, glad wrap,packaging etc 2. What is the container or wrap doing to the food? 3. What happens when food is left out without being stored or wrapped? Goes soft, stale etc 4. I then show some special purpose containers and we discuss these . If time - can they think of any others that they have at home?

From Plastic To Clothes

We have been learning about all the things that plastic bottles can be made into. Remember to recycle plastic and keep up the good work!

Composting With Plant To Plate

Room 7 made compost when we went to Room 2 and we have looked after it everyday. 

Today we  where able to make a new compost box, start some new compost and add our compost to the vegetable garden outside of Room 14.

Mid Year Brainstorm

During term 2 we had a big focus on our enviro-schools project. Children learnt lots about what wastage is and ways we can reduce the wastage. At the end of the term we decided that we wanted to keep going with our enviro schools but struggled to find time in a very busy timetable to include it in our week.
We liked the way we rotated around rooms during Read and Feed during book week. We thought we could adapt this idea and once a week on a Monday during Read and Feed teachers will rotate around the classes teaching/sharing/explaining ideas that can build on from what students have already learnt.

Mrs White will look at:

1. Food Idioms - what do you think these food sayings mean
2. Lunch Contracts - portion size/ likes and dislikes

Miss Young will look at:

1. Using Landfills
2. Don’t throw it out if it looks funny

Mrs Staddon will look at:

1. Food containers
2. Seasonal fruit

Miss Tanner will look at:

1. Landfill facts and what goes in them
2. Easy ways to reduce what goes into a landfill.

Watch this space to see what we get up to in Term 3....

What Changes Have Been Made Since ...

• Tom puts food scraps in the class compost container.
• Tama, Taylor and Nate froze their excess feijoas.
• Porscha-Lee built a compost bin.
• Tama's grandparents gave them a compost bin.
• Tama has sliced fruit instead of whole fruit for brain food.
• Riley has a compost bin at home.
• Maia gets less food put in her lunch box.
• Jade's Mum gives her lots of carrots for her lunch box.
• Annabelle has less food in her lunch box.
• Mac has apples instead of feijoas in his lunch box.
• Teagen has more fruit and vegies in her lunch box.
• Room 3 now has a class compost bin.   Finally!!!!
• Xander makes lots of fruit smoothies.
• Ava's family are buying bamboo toothbrushes
• Dominic's family is re-using plastic.
• Jay asked that left overs go in the fridge for him to eat the next day instead of going in the bin.
• Some people now have re-usable bags in the boot of their car.

Brainstorm Of What We Learnt

Room 2 wrote down all the things they had learnt from our topic Waste Not Want Not. Wow that is a lot of learning.