Health Road Show - Term 3, Week 9

Learning Community 9 and the Kiwi Team were lucky enough to have the opportunity to have this awesome Health Road visit us. We learnt so much about many things: - Dr Phil talked to us about Germs and Bugs - Safety and Washing Hands -Road safety - bikes and train crossings - Safety with Dogs - Foods with fats and sugar -Civil Defence - Fire Safety. We washed our hands and then put them under a special machine which lights up and shows us which parts were really clean. Gee did we get a surprise to see the parts that were not washed properly. We have been learning how to wash our hands properly in class so this was awesome. We know now to cough into your elbow, that way all the germs don't get spread around the room. If you cough into your hand you could touch something and Oops!! ... the germs have been spread more. We kinow that having a bike helmet on that fits properly is very important. Brice taught us how to keep ourselves safe with dogs, it was great. We were shocked to find out how much fat and sugar are in some foods. Kathy had a stand with all the things a family might need in their survival kit if there was an emergency, for example an earthquake. We want to learn more about this, it was really interesting. Some of us want to help our families to make a survival kit. Ms O'B said we could learn lots more about Civil Defence next term. We had a fantastic time being firemen helping Tim. Did you know there are three colours of fire engines. Red ones are used for Fire Service (buildings), Yellow are for Rural - (vegetation fires) and Lime Green are Airport (aircraft fires). They have different equipment for different types of fires.