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Mrs Daub's Dudes and Dudettes from Canada have also helped us with our Global Table.  They answered our questions and also sent us some great photos. Where do you eat your lunch?  We eat in our classroom at our desks. Can you order lunch at your school?  Yes, we can order a fast food lunch once a week and a ‘hot lunch’ twice a week. Fast food lunches are hotdogs or from restaurants like Boston Pizza, Dairy Queen, and Subway.  Hot lunches are usually healthier. Some examples are lasagna, macaroni and cheese, chicken fingers, grilled cheese sandwiches, pancakes and sausages and perogies.   We usually get fruit or vegetables with it and a milk or juice to drink. What’s you favourite food to eat at lunchtime?  When we bring food from home, we like sandwiches, apples, bagels, cold pizza, soup or ravioli in a thermos, fruits and vegetables and dessert snacks. Do you eat hot or cold food at lunchtime?  Our lunch is usually cold unless we order hot lu...

We have loved blogging and learning from lots of other classrooms around the world so being able to nominate blogs we like for an award is great. Room 14 has taken the nominating incredibly seriously and so after much discussion our nominees are... Best Class Blog - 2KM and 2KJ at Leopold Primary We enjoy looking at their blog and seeing their learning. The class culture the teachers have created with commenting and quality posts is fantastic. We really like that they ask you questions in their blog posts that get you thinking about what they have shared. We think they have interesting blog posts that use a range of tools - photos, video, web2 tools and that they link to other blogs and websites. We also love the way they celebrate their learning and events within their class and school.  Best New Blog - Room 16 at Hamilton East School Room 16 have just started blogging this year. We are really impressed with the way they share their learning with the world. They use photos and...

We have made friends with a blog in Greece. It is a bilingual blog which means it is in two languages.  We like looking at the Greek on their blog but we can't understand anything until we look at the English part. They also took photos of their lunch for us.  Room 14 thought that their lunches looked delicious. You should take a look at their PhotoPeach on their blog.  You can click on this photo to take you there. Effie, their teacher also shares some helpful information about lunch in Greece.  In Greece we leave school at 2pm. We have  lunch at home, where our parents or sometimes grandmothers make delicious food. The  traditional Greek dishes are pasta cooked in many different ways, fish, seafood and pulses. We also love souvlaki or gyros. We buy it at one of the many souvlaki restaurants near our houses and it is brought to our home.

Our friends at Greenpark School also sent us some photos of lunch at their school. Take a look at the PhotoPeach to see what lunch is like there. Lunch at Greenpark School, UK on PhotoPeach

We emailed our Mystery Skype Call school and asked if they could help us with our Global Table project. They emailed us some photos and also shared some information about their lunch time.  Today's menu offered a choice of a Tex-Mex snack (spicy cheese enveloped with a flour-based wrap) or  "broiled" chicken on a bun.   It is mandated by law for schools to meet dietary requirements in the lunches. Vegetables, fruit, and milk are required.   Other choices often include ice cream, yogurt, lettuce-based salads, and cookies.   Thank you Coal City Middle School for helping us with our learning.

Room 14 had a taste test of food from different countries.   We tasted danish salami on rye bread.  We also tried carrots without peeling them first. We knew that our friends in Denmark have salami for lunch because they showed us on their blog. You should take a look at 1A Vonsild Skole's blog. Here are some of our thoughts about the Danish Food -  - I liked tasting different food. (Makki) - The salami tasted like garlic and I liked it. (Liz) - The rye bread was nice and fresh. The carrots were hard to bite into. (James) - The salami looked like a sausage but tasted like ham. (Robert) - The carrots were crunchy. (Tremaine) - The carrots were kind of sweet. (Lacey) - The carrots were nice and fresh. The salami tasted a bit like sausage. (Rebecca) We also picked some lettuce we had grown in the Kitchen Garden to have with our salami and rye bread.     Next we tasted Dulce de Leche from Argentina on crackers. It is caramelised sweetened condensed milk.  We...

Our friends at A peek inside blog took some photos of their lunches for us so we can see what lunch is like at their school in Australia. Their teacher Ms Dowling made the photos into a PhotoPeach for us and also added some extra information about when they eat. We also think you should check out their blog. They are doing some great learning in K/1D. They even made an ant restaurant to find out about insects. Take a look at their photopeach of lunchtime.  Make sure you watch the whole thing because they have a cheeky cockatoo who is a problem at lunchtime. K/1D's Lunchboxes on PhotoPeach A special thank you to K/1D and Ms Dowling for helping us with our learning.

Anna knows some students from New Zealand who are currently overseas on an AFS exchange .  She got them to email a photo of their lunch to us.  One of the students also sent photos of their breakfast and dinner.  Photo A Photo B Photo C  Photo D   Photo E Photo F Please leave us a comment with your guess about where you think the food comes from. A big thank you to Chayla, Caroline and Brittany for emailing these photos to us. We will write another post soon explaining what the food is and where it is from.

Before the Japanese students left we learnt origami . We made a balloon,camera and a fortune teller. One of the Japanese students made a flying crane.    The balloon was pretty difficult. But we figured out how to make it. The fun part was when we got to blow into the balloon.    Anna had a competition with one of the Japanese students Rei. The competition was to see who was better at origami. Because Rei kept on asking the other students so he took ages, and Anna won the competition. Then we skyped Room 8 at Melville Intermediate to show them what we had made. Did you like our origami? Did you get some tips on how to make some origami?   Written by Georgia and Rebecca

We had a performance from our   Japanese   students .  They performed a traditional dance from Japan. After they finished dancing they taught it to us. We didn't really get it but we had fun learning it. Here is a vimeo of the Japanese students dancing and at the end you can see us trying to do their traditional dance.  Did you like the dance? Written by Rebecca and Georgia

Today is Nude Food Day .  Room 14 is celebrating it by not having any wrappers in their lunchboxes.  Instead we are using containers or nothing.     Here is a lunchbox without wrappers. It just has a container to put the food in. We are trying to help care for the environment by having less packaging.   By Tarn and Eva

Our friends at St Hilda's School in Buenos Aires, Argentina  emailed us some fantastic photos of lunchtime at their school. We loved seeing the different things they have for lunch. We were also really impressed that they got to have dessert. Take a look at our PhotoPeach to see what our friends in Argentina do for lunch. Lunch at St Hilda's on PhotoPeach

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 Take a look at how our friends in 1A at Vonsild School in Denmark are helping us with our learning. They took photos of their lunchboxes for us so we can see what they have for lunch. Take a look at their great blog to see how our lunches are the same and how they are different.

Here is a sneak peek into our lunches that we bring from home.     We also drew our lunch in kidpix and labelled it.  Take a look at our presentation about our lunches.

Today we had a surprise for the Japanese students.  We skyped Room 8 at Melville Intermediate School because Mr Webb let us know that they also have students from  Ritsumeikan Keisho Junior High School Our students talked to  Takuto and Asuka who are in Room 8. Take a look at our vimeo of the students talking to each other.   The Japanese students laughed a lot and looked very excited about talking to their friends.  We found out the students at Melville Intermediate had been doing music that day. We thought it was cool to hear them speak Japanese to their friends. We think Skype is a great way to talk to other people.

What did you have for lunch today?   Here are some of our lunchboxes. We pack our lunchboxes at home and bring them to school. We eat our lunch at 12:30pm before going to play. Now that it is summer we eat our lunch under the oak tree with our friends. This means we can be nice and cool in the shade. This is what some of our lunchboxes look like after lunch. We try and have healthy lunches so our bodies are strong.  We created a wordle about the things we had for lunch today - 

Recently Anna has found some other great blogs from New Zealand for Room 14 to follow. Here is some information about them. You can click on the name of each blog and it will take you to their blog. View Blogs in a larger map   This blog is from Room 6 at Point England School in Auckland. The students share their fantastic stories with us. They have a photo or an illustration and then you can see the student reading their writing to you. Mrs She is so lucky to have such amazing writers and readers in her class.   Room 7 is from Vardon School in Hamilton. They share their learning in lots of different ways. It looks like Room 7 and Mrs Natusch have a lot of fun learning together. Room 1 is from Grants Braes School in Dunedin. We really enjoyed hearing Room One's e-books.  There was quite a lot of laughter from our class because the students have such great expression.