Mr Wilkinson turned into a spider!

 Today we wrote some fun silly stories. There were loads of crtazy ideas!

Canterbury Cricket

Rebecca from Canterbury Cricket came to teach us some skills.

We played Snowball tag, where two taggers had a ball. When they tagged someone, that person gets a ball to tag with as well. 

We played again, but we had to skip.

Our next game, we had to pretend we had a laser to aim at the wickets. When we hit the wickets, we took one out until all 3 were out.

Next, we practised batting. We needed to use the flat side. We had two shots then swapped over. 

Summer learning journey kicks off

The first activity is to make something that flies. Students were given 3 plane designs to investigate.

Life education

Why is having a growth mindset important?

How can we show resilience?

We need a really strong Te Whare Tapa Wha to have good overall well-being. 

We remembered the 4 pillars that make our house (our Houora) strong.

Taha Hinengaro

Neuroplasticity - you're brain is able to be trained. You can learn new things and make new connections.

KiwiCan

We are learning about positive relationships. part of that is Positive Communication. Today in Kiwi Can we are talking about using our manners to suit the situation.

KiwiCan says communication say the word,

Use your words so you can be heard.

No need to argue, listen and see, 

Clear understanding is the key!

Today we were lucky to be able to head into our new teaching space for our KiwiCan lesson. This was the first time we got to go inside to have a look.

For our energiser, we had to use positive communication to keep balloons in the air. When we hit it once, we had to touch a wall before we hit it again. We needed to not let them hit the ground.

We had an activity where we had to choose a greeting (wave, bow, or handshake) that is most appropriate for the situation. 

First swim

We had our first class swim of the Summer.

The pool is a balmy 28 degrees, so it's warmer in the pool than out!

Day 2 Lockdown Learning

Today we had to get creative and build a snowman, even though it's like a beautiful Spring day out there!

Here's mine:

 

Team Work

KiwiCan says...I do my part

I am responsible 

helping the team 

overcome the obstacle.

Our first activity was to work together as a pair to act out a chore or task that we mingle do at home (e.g. doing the dishes, packing our school bag). We had to show teamwork by collaborating to act out the action in a way that our class could guess what it was.

Our next activity was to create a figure (monster or person) from a pipe cleaner. Once we had made our figure, we needed to draw it.

The challenge to the class was to look after their monster for the next week. They are going to present their monsters next week at KiwiCan.

Today's certificate went to Essence!

Smart Media choices

We are learning to make smart media choices. Ms Raisin is terrible at looking at her screen to check emails etc when she is on the move. She has walked into signs, lampposts and other people doing this! She gets really easily distracted! It's a wonder she hasn't been run over!

We played Twalkers which reminded us how distracting the screen can be. 

Learning to be smart with images

 We have been learning how to be smart with the images we post online

Animation 101

 We have been learning how to make a basic animation in google slides.

Skate School

We were really lucky to have George from Skate School teaching us how to ride.

He brought two different types of boards. One for cruising and one for tricks. I really liked the cruise board.

It was really great to see everyone choosing a really positive attitude and giving it a go, even though it threw some of us out of our comfort zone.

Easter Baskets

 

For Easter, we made baskets on Google drawing. 

We had to learn a few skills, like holding down the shift key to make sure the shape is a square. SOme of us found that if it wasn't a square, our basket was lop-sided.

We also needed to source images that we were able to use and how to make sure they were png images.

Anne and Veronica from the library visit

We were lucky enough to have a visit from Anne from the library van and Veronica from our local Hornby primary.

Ngakaunui joined us for this session.

Anne talked about the different types of books she brings, along with where we will find them in the van. 

Younger fiction chapter books

Older fiction chapter books

Picture books

Non Fiction

Anne read us 'Wordy Birdy'. She had a fabulous expressive reading voice!

We're really excited to be going to the can to get some books out later today. 

Recreating the Americ'S CUP

 We have been exploring the tools from the America's Cup DLO.

Thomas created this on Co-Space:

Violet created this on Chrome Music Lab

Welcome back to KiwiCan

We're back to KiwiCan but not as we've known it... it's coming to us, instead of the hall (because we watched our hall get demolished last week!)

We're learning about Respect this term. 

We recapped what Entering, Integrity, Compassion, Listening, and Respect look like.

Someone will get to pick a character to climb our points ladder. 

KiwiCan says... 

I have respect. 

I also have pride.

These will effect, 

those by my side. 

We played the name game to help Steve and Connor know all our names. When someone said your name, they crossed the circle to stand in their place. That person then said someone else's name and crossed to their spot.

We came inside and came up with a treaty for KiwiCan.

Kiwican

We are focusing on positive relationships (whanaungatanga) this term at Kiwican.

We can argue,

To no end,

But that won't stop us

From being friends 

We played a game where we had to choose a way to look. Owen would point in a direction and if we were facing the same way as he was pointing, we were "out". If we didn't move our head, we were also "out".

We had to be honest and show integrity. Sometimes we were too slow to move our heads which made us go "out". 

We were practising being a leader by: 

- going down when we were supposed to. 

- leading ourselves and showing honesty.

We split into teams and played Scattergories. We get given a topic and then each need to say a different word for that topic. If there is a double-up then the person is out. Each person has 3 lives.

It was hard to remember which colours had been said after a while. Sometimes people were confused about what were colours or flavours. Many people confused vegetables with fruit. 

We needed to show being a leader by showing self-control and not talking. 

A Quick Dip

We hit the pool for the very first time this morning. It was a warm 28 degrees in there and a few of our learners made the most of it, while the rest looked on from the new tiered seating in envy. 

The bees seem to like the warm water too!!

Kiwican

Kiwican says...

We play fair, 

Because it's fun,

I'll shake your hand

If I've lost or won!

We learned to play Capture the Flag, (but with a rugby ball).

CSO

Peach, apple, rest, 

We created a pattern... 

We said the pattern. Then we clapped the pattern.

We split into groups (percussion numbers).

Reading through the sheet music and clapping the beat. 

We are learning FOGUE for untuned percussion.