Our lesson today centred on Food Security. Food security is ensuring everyone has equal access to food. You can learn more about food security and what we learnt here. We began by doing a quiz from Caritas Australia around who has access to food. A few things in this quiz surprised us especially the fact that we grow enough food to feed the world's population... they just are unable to access it for a variety of reasons. We did an activity where we imagined we were a family living below the poverty line. We had $20 to prepare our food for the week. We used the Coles pamphlets to budget. It was hard and the food we had in the end wasn't fresh or nutritious. Further to this there was not a lot of beef on the menu. In fact the only beef could be found in the canned chunky soup. We talked about the fairness of this. Why don't people have access to beef? Although we talk about this over on our food security page, we discovered that Australians ate the most meat in the world while developing countries had very little access. Don't believe us? Check out the Business Insider article found here. We looked at pictures from families all over the world by photographer Peter Menzel. This opened up a lot of discussion over lunch about equality. We will continue to look at food security next lesson.
As it was refugee week we sat down to a lunch built of rations from a Syrian refugee.Our teacher was completing the Act for Peace ration challenge all week and so we could join her in experiencing what it was like. Our lunch was made from flour, water, chickpeas, red kidney, lentils and rice. We were also lucky to have some black tea. This helped us understand that there are people in the world even worse off then us. We talked about feeling sad and angry about food security. Why can't refugees have access to beef? We are going to explore the inequality in the world further.
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We have introduced silent reading at school. This week our teacher decided to make a giant fort our of blankets for us read our favourite stories from our childhood in. It was quite cosy! Lil' T-Bone was the structural giant that kept our fort standing. Thanks for reading with us Lil' T-Bone
Today we delved into the world of biosecurity. This was a new concept to us and something we had to learn about. We began by watching a video about Pirates of the Caribbean… ok, maybe it was more about Johnny Depp’s dogs. This was a good introduction to biosecurity. We kind of understood what Miss was talking about now. We broke into two groups, or airports – Melbourne and Sydney. Each of us had to fill in a passenger card and declare what we had brought into school that day. We all ticked the question about recent contact with farm animals and farms due to our farm visit in the last fortnight. We discussed the reasons why these questions were asked and began to collect our thinking around biosecurity and add it to the think tank. We had a number of items that needed testing from airport security. These items included a soccer boot (probably because the world cup was coming up), a shell, a wooden bead, a leaf and a quarter of a honey sandwich. You can learn more about our experiment and what we learnt here. This was an interesting introduction that helped us understand the concept of biosecurity. We visited the National Pest and Disease Outbreak website and looked at current threats in NSW. Luckily Lil’ T-Bone had nothing to worry about at the moment. However, bananas in the Northern Territory have to beware of the Banana Freckle! We also discussed how Virginia at Grace Springs Farm (which we have visited) could ensure her property was safe from any threats.
This weeks archibull session was topped off by some fabulous beef sliders prepared by Michaela and John. As it was such a lovely day we took our lunch outside and discussed possible creative ideas for our archi. We also wrote some questions for TIm and can't wait to meat him next week. |
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