This week we are coming to the end of our inquiry about Healthy Food.
Our small questions that the students asked were:
What are the names for fruit in Te Reo Maori?
What is a serving?
Is it healthy if it's got fruit in it?
The students took photos of their Brain Food and then we found out what their fruits were called in Te Reo. We have learned lots of other names for food as well.
We have learned how to ask for a particular food, find it and reply, here it is.
"Jackson, homai te aporo?"
"Anei he aporo"
Each mahi group has made a poster with photos they took of their Brain Food and the Te Reo word for their fruit. They stencilled their word on and laminated their poster.
We have learned about the kaitiaki (caretakers) for cultivated food- Rongo-ma-tane and Haumiatiketike the kaitiaki for wild food, Tangaroa the kaitiaki for all kaimoana that live in the oceans and Tanemahuta, kaitiaki of the forest and all the life that lives in the forest.
We have created some art work about the kaitiaki using pastels and a technique called scumbling.
We discovered a serving is the size of the palm of your hand rather than a plateful. This was confusing for the students because you serve a person a meal which was on a plate.
This means a small person with a small hand has a small portion and a bigger person with a larger palm has a larger serving or portion.
We discovered that fruit that comes in a mixture like zucchini cake or carrot cake or muslie bars has lots of added sugar and fats so is not healthy and should be only eaten occasionally.
