FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Today room 11 began exploring their inquiry topic for term 4 'Food for thought'. We begun our first session by discussing 'What things help us to achieve in life?', some of our responses included...

• Friends and family
• Motivation
• Physical activity
• Food
• Goal setting  

We then honed in on food and talked about 'What does eating healthy mean?', some of our responses were..

• Eating a balanced diet
• Making good choices about the types of food we eat
• Eating food that gives you energy throughout the day
• Eating food that puts you in a good mood
• Eating healthy means that you won't die
• Eating healthy helps you learn at school and helps you play sport

After that we watched a video clip about the differences in the amount and types of food that students eat before and at school, at a decile 1 and decile 10 school. Check out the video clip

Lunchbox differences in decile 1 and decile 10 schools 

 We finished our session by discussing 'What helps people to eat in a healthy way?', our responses included the following...

• Good parents with a good education
• Money to buy fruit and vegetables
• Only buying the food you need from the supermarket
• Making good choices when buying food
• Getting into the habit of eating healthy