Healthy Hearts Workshop

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This week Year 1 have had a 'Healthy Hearts' workshop with Amy from Arena. We were learning why it is important to keep our mind, body and heart healthy. Throughout the day, Amy read 'The Colour Monster' by Anna Llenas and 'My Many Coloured Days' by Dr. Seuss and we participated in lots of different activities to help us with fun strategies to give us healthy hearts and happy minds. We made our own rainbows, painted rocks, participated in pilates and dance, spent lots of time outside, made erupting volcanoes, created rockets and much more! The children had an amazing, fun filled day and learnt lots along the way.

Here are some of the things the children had to say about their workshop;

'We were exercises to keep us fit and strong.'

'I enjoyed pilates a lot. The best bit was being a monkey!'

'We were different animals in pilates.'

'Pilates helps you exercise your tummy!'

'we had to lay down with our cone on our tummy. We had to huff and puff to make the cone move up and down without falling off!'

'My favourite part was the coke and mentos experiment because it made an explosion!'

'We made volcanoes out of sand and we put some stuff in it and it erupted!'

'We had to cover the cup with sand to make a volcano. We put different food colouring in.'

'We played Simon Says - you have to listen carefully to the instructions!'

'We cut and coloured rockets and stuck on a plastic blower'.

'I made two little rainbows with spots on. I made it for my friend.'

'I'm giving my pebble to my mum.'

'We had a story about different colours and how we might feel.'

'I like the colour green - it is calm.'

'I used blue because I'm sad when I miss my Mummy.'

'We made rainbow heart pictures.'

'Rainbows for a healthy heart!'

'We went outside and collected natural things to make a bookmark.'

'I felt happy collecting things for my bookmark.'

'Good food and water make you feel better.'