Kiwi Can

Our term focus is integrity...

"We are role models through and through, 

Everywhere we go and everything we do."

One group lined up in a line. The remaining people lined up opposite. One line turns around, then the other line changes 3 things (hair, order, shoes etc) then the team turns around and tries to guess what's different. 

Some of us got a bit carried away and made extra changes, which ruined the game because it made it harder and more distracting.

Today's activity was called role model bingo because were looking at role models and observing the qualities of a role model in other people.

Happy birthday Mr Wilkinson

We welcomed Mr Wilkinson into the hub today, to present him with cards and a book about why we think he's the greatest!!!

Kiwican - Integrity

We have been learning about integrity.

 "Making good choices is up to me, it shows I have integrity"

Five Finger Fling

Everyone is playing with one hand. You're not allowed to talk, or change your hand, because we need to use integrity.

Our kiwican leaders call a number eg 7... everyone has to put their fingers out and it has to try and be the number. We had to think really hard about the number of people in our group because more people meant less fingers were needed. 

We played a fun game to practice making rescissions, called "would you rather". When given the question, you had to vote with your feet... then someone would be chosen to share why they chose what they did.

Some example are:

- live in the ocean or in space.

- eat at only McDonalds for a year, or KFC for a year.

- have 4 feet (no hands) or 4 hands (no feet)

- have to go to school 4 days a week for 8 hours or 5 days at normal time.

Author James Russell visits

James Russell came in to visit us to talk about his books. 

His main characters are Flynn & Paddy, which happen to be the names of his sons. 

He told us a great story involving frozen crumpets and a hunting knife 🙄. Followed by a story of him putting his leg through a deck.

When he writes a novel, his brain works really fast, but with his hand bandaged up... his one hand typing couldn't keep up with his brain. 

He explained what derrière meant by waving it about. 

He doesn't have a dog named Coco... or a dragon!

He has lots of really good ideas in the shower! 

The Dragon Defenders Series is set 3 years after the picture books.

He shoes us how you can use an app with the books, to show augmented reality.

He introduced us to the Pit Bull, the bad guy in the book... through the augmented reality app. The bone he crushed was a leg of lamb, which didn't make much noise... so he had to get the real Flynn to snap a stalk of celery next to the camera! 

Integrity

Kiwican says making good choices is up to me, it shows I have integrity.

Integrity is our term focus

In our first game, we were in 3 teams. We had a card. We had 5 coloured cards... we were only allowed to move one card at a time. We had to use integrity, by not cheating (telling our team members; peeking etc) only  one colour at a time.

Mastermind

We are learning about making good choices. Some of the good choices we can make are listening to instructions; not talking in class etc.  We talked about why we make poor choices. Risk v reward.

For our second activity, we sat in a circle with a piece of paper. When Owen rolls a dice you write down the numbers. You can choose to sit down and bank the numbers you have. If Owen rolls a 6, and you're still standing, you lose all the numbers you have. It's like greedy pig. 

Risk v Reward