KiwiCan

Kiwican says 

Whakaute means respect 

Which makes me feel good

Taking care of our community 

Just like we should

We played a game using Maori commands. When the word was called, we had to get into a group and perform an action. 

Maunga     -2 people forming an arch. 

Awa           -3 people. Waving their arms. 

Waka         -4 people in a line, one behind the other, paddling. 

Iwi             -5 people in a circle.

We walked around in between.

Working together to help our community. We got into groups and looked at some questions. Some were easier than others... but the answers needed to start with a certain letter. 

1. A country - Tanzania / Romania
2. A Colour - Turquoise / Red
3. A Name - Teri /Richard
4. Movie - Transformers / Rugrats
5. Famous Person - Teri Urwin / Ru Paul
6. Suburb in Christchurch - Templeton / Redcliffs 
7. Job - Teacher / Roadmarker
8. fruit - Tangerine /Raspberry
9. Sport - Tennis / Rugby
10. A drink - Traffic Light / Raspberry
11. Cartoon Character - Taz  / Roger Rabbit
12. A Villian - The Grinch / Rat King
13. A Book - The lion the witch and the wardrobe / Red Riding Hood
14. Name of a song - Ten / Roam

Respect for our Community

Whakaute means respect 

which makes me feel good

Taking care of our community 

Just like we should.

We played Circle Soccer where we had our feet touching as we stood in a circle, but rolled the ball with our hands. We needed to score a goal (by getting it through someone's legs). If it went through someone's legs, they needed to turn around and race the other way. 

Circle Soccer

A community is the area around where we live. There are lots of things in our community where we visit after school and in weekends. Margaret Mahy Park, Cardboard Cathedral, Pak n Save.

We sat in a circle around a community place and discussed who the people we might need to show respect for in that place. 

We role-played in groups, showing respect for people in those places.

It's important to show respect when we're in our community to show respect for our school our people and our stuff. 

We talked about why it's important to show respect when we are wearing our school uniform because we are representing our school.

Reading is our superpower

Constable Brad shared why reading has been so important to him as a police officer. To read the laws and keep up with them online. People write to the police, with statements needing help. He needs to be able to read them to see how he could help them. When Brad was at school, his mum bought him a subscription to National Geographic magazine because he was really into finding out about the outdoors. Now his kids read them. His favourite book is The Places You'll Go by Dr Seuss. 

Brodie Kane, from the hits radio, She went to Waikiki Primary School then Rangiora High School.  She went to university to learn to be a journalist. One of the reasons she liked reading when she was little was that her mum or dad would read her a story before she went to bed. She wanted to be good at writing, so she read to improve her writing. Her favourite book is The Very Hungry Caterpillar & Where the Wild Things Are.

Stella from What Now remembers Duffy books from when she was at school. (She even knew all the words to the song!) 

Stella from What Now

Stella liked books about mermaids. As she got older, she looked for books about Maoritanga. (How Maori view the world) Her message was to read a book about something you like. She talked about how she copes with doing things for the very first time. If she got to gunge anyone, who would she want to gunge? Mr Wilkinson!

Mr VanOpzeeland from Opzeeland Transport spoke about how you need to read to get you truck and car licences. He spoke about why reading is important in running a transport business.  

Our theme is superheroes. Our superpower is reading! We are going to have loads of fun with reading this year... dress-up days, pyjama reading days... Chris from Scholastic gave us a pack of books per class!  

Kiwi Can

Respect all around, 

it is cool, 

to be proud, 

of your school. 

E hea? Means how many in Maori.

After saying "e-he-a" together each person (in a pair) holds a number of fingers out on their hand. Both race to add up their combined two hands and say the total in Maori.

We are talking about Role models. Role models show five and make good choices do others can always follow their example. A role model shows pride in their actions and shows others how to be kind. Sometimes role models still do silly things. We are learning to think about our actions and how they affect other people.

We role-played example of when older kids do the wrong thing and how younger people copy them, then role-played the positive example.