Fun Facts about Calcium

Calcium is an important nutrient that everybody needs to consume. It is important for kids to eat enough calcium so that they can build strong, healthy bones for the rest of their life. If you do not get enough calcium, bones will become fragile and will break easily. It is important for EVERYONE to have enough calcium.1herding-australian-shepherd

Kids need to have this much calcium:

  • 4-8 year olds: 700mg/day
  • 9-11 year old: 1000mg/day
  • 11-18 year olds: 1300mg/day

So how can I eat enough calcium?

To get enough calcium you can eat:

  • 4 cups of milk
  • 4 cups of soy milk
  • 7 cups of broccoli
  • 1.5 cups of canned salmon
  • 487 almonds
  • 13 cups of cooked spinach

Or you can just eat a mix of all these foods and more as a part of a healthy balanced diet

There are also some other things that you can do to keep your bones strong:

  • Do a little bit of exercise every day
  • Make sure you spend a little bit of time in the sun every day (although not too much because you will get sunburnt!)
  • Don’t eat too much salt or salty foods

Garden 5B Group 2.

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We (Daniel P, Daniel M, Devon, Poppy and Ashlee) are proud of our garden we have carrot lettuce, edible flowers, tomatoes. growing they are mostly companion plants. The data we collected was

– Soil Temperature 25 C 5 degrees less than air temperature.

– pH 7 we know is neutral

-moist 5 (not dry, not wet but , moist)

 

 

White Cabbage Moth

OrganicGardening.InMySanctuary.Net   A fabulous website with lots of organic gardening tips.

At the moment we are studying how to get rid of the White Cabbage Moth. We have got many great tips from this weblink – http://organicgardening.inmysanctuary.net/wordpress/2013/05/white-cabbage-butterfly/

This is a female because there are two spots on each front wing and the male has one.

White Cabbage Butterfly

 

 

 

Schools Tree Day 2015 – Get Outside and Grow!

Schools Tree Day 2015 – Friday July 24th

Bialik will mark this special day by expanding our indigenous garden (IG).

This will be our first Tree Day event. Students enthusiastically investigated how the Aboriginals harvested and used these plants. Hence the students selected the plants based on their

-suitability for the IG location taking into account, weather, soil conditions, available space an water

-smell, texture, edibility, medicinal properties, suitability for tool making and weaving