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. 

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!

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. 

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).

Kiwican

We are learning about Whanaungatanga, Positive Relationships. Especially Fairness and Fair Play.

Kiwi Can says... 

We play fair,

Because it's fun,

I'll shake your hand

If I've lost or won!

Today we welcomed our new Kiwi Can leader Steve. 

For our warm up, we played splash. If Owen pointed at us, we duck down and the people either side "splash" each other.

Finished off by our moo-off.

Making Good Choices

KiwiCan Says...

Making good choices

Is up to me

It shows I have

Integrity

We are focusing on Making Good Choices. 

For our warm-up we played a game where Tia would say "Reset" (we put our heads down). When she said "1...2...3...look" (we pointed to someone in the group. If both people are pointing at each other, then you are both out.

Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one was watching.

We had to show integrity when we were pointing at someone but looking at someone else. It's important to show integrity when playing games because if you use honesty and fairness in a game it makes it more fun. If we don't show fairness then people won't want to play with us anymore and will play with other people. Also, little people might follow our bad example.

Integrity

We shared ways that we've helped in the last week...

Ashaswi helped her mum make dumplings.

Orlando helped his mum make dinner.

Kiwican says...

Making good choices is up to me

It shows I have integrity

We played Ninja. With a ninja partner, we had to make one movement. If we got the other person, On the arm, then that hand went behind your back. We had to show integrity and make good choices for everyone to enjoy it. 

We played Dicey Dice (or greedy pig).

As the dice rolls, we add points. We had to make a choice about when we sat down and then would write the points down. If a 6 is rolled then it's the end of the round. That means there are no points for that round for those standing. Those sitting can add their points to their total.

Recapping Resilience

KiwiCan says 

Keep on going

You're nearly there 

don't give up 

Just persevere.

This is our last KiwiCan session for the term.

We started with a game of silent ball.

We had to persevere when it got hard. 

We recapped what we had learned throughout the term. We did it by having a quiz with teams.

We needed to show resilience in our teams by sharing our ideas and the roles in our group (recorder & runner). We sometimes needed to show perseverance when we felt like our ideas weren't being listened to.

Today we earned kiwi for:

Entering

participating 

Effort

Team work

Listening.

We needed to show more kindness in the words we used to others, and improve on the way we talk in between activities. 

Kiwican

KiwiCan says... 

keep on going,you're nearly there,don't give up, just persevere.

We played a game where we had to listen for An instruction and then Do an action.

Level 1

"Walk" means walk

"stop" means stop

Level 2

"Walk" means stop

"Stop" means walk

Level 3

"Walk" means walk

"stop" means stop

"Clap" keep going but clap once

"Name": keep going but say your name too. 

Level 4

"Walk" means stop

"Stop" means walk

"Clap" means carry on but clap once

"Name" means carry on name once 

Level 5

"Walk" means stop

"Stop" means walk

"Clap" means carry on but say your name once

"Name" means carry on but clap once 

Next, we had to silently get in a circle by the time Owen counted down from 10

We played "3, 6, 9"

We had to go around the circle, counting to 50. We weren't allowed to say the numbers 3, 6, or 9 in any way (we had to clap instead). We had to really pay attention to what the others were saying so we could keep up.  We had to pay attention to what everyone was saying as it went around the group. (Sometimes we don't do this during class discussions either.) The highest we got was 30... which was where it gets really tricky! Eventually, we persevered and got to 50. 

Kiwis we got:

Entering

Participating 

Listening

Effort

Teamwork

(We didn't get the improvement or kindness kiwis, because we weren't encouraging others)

KiwiCan

KiwiCan says...

Keep on going 

You're nearly there

Don't give up

Just persevere.

Biddy biddy bot.

If you're pointed at and Owen says "Biddy Biddy" you have to say "bop". If Owen says "Bop", you say nothing. 

We had to persevere because it was hard to think on your feet sometimes. We just sat down when we got out, rather than complaining.

We needed to show teamwork for our activity. Mystery Path. We had to work together as a team to figure out the mystery path.

Owen or Tia will say yes or no. You can only go forwards or backwards, not diagonal. We needed to pay attention while waiting in line do that we knew where to go and where not to go. 

KiwiCan Week 8

In Kiwican this term, we are trying to earn kiwi's which have skills and values on them. 

KiwiCan says if I got a problem

Yo I'll solve it

Think of an idea 

And I'll resolve it

Our warm up involved us walking around silently for 30 seconds... we had to come and sit down when we thought it was 30 seconds. We were between 20 & 37 seconds. 

Then we tried to guess 1 minute. Hridayman was counting... but got the timing a little out throughout. Some of the challenges were losing count or distracted by other people counting out loud instead of in their head. 

Last round was 2 minutes. 

The last people were at 2 minutes 25 seconds. It required a lot of problem-solving. 

Our big topic is resilience, with our smaller topic being problem-solving. 

We played Boggle. There were 9 letters on the board and we had to try and spell words with it. We could only use each letter once. 

Some of the things that were challenging was communication, listening to each others ideas, spelling the words, finding words with hard letters. 

Today we earned kiwis for:

Entering

Effort

Team Work

Participating

Kindness

Improvement 

Listening

Respect

If I got a problem

Yo I'll solve it

Think of an idea

And I'll resolve it

We started off our session with a game of "Giant Wizard Dwarf". It's like a larger than life game of 'Rock Scissors Paper', except instead of individuals doing hand signals, we had to work as a team and do a full body action together. 

Giants defeat Wizard

Wizards defeat Dwarves

Dwarves defeat Giants

It was really impressive how well everyone talked and came to a decision. 

We then played a game of 'Splash'. If Tia pointed to you, you had to bob down and the people either side had to turn to each other and say "splash". The first person to say it stays in, while the last to say it is out. If it's not your turn to say "splash", you are also out. 

The best part was the "Moo off" to find the winner at the end!

Resilience means never giving up. We showed resilience in our games by going out with a good attitude and waiting patiently for a new round to begin. 

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.

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.

Kiwi Can

You listen to me,

I listen to you,

Co-operation 

Is the thing to do.

We had to co-operate to build cup pyramids. It also meant we had to remember to use positive communication too. 

The teams that did well were the ones that talked to each other throughout the game. Some were quiet or negative and that meant they struggled.

Kiwi Can

The focus of This term is Positive Relationships 

We are starting to look specifically at positive communication first.

"Kiwican says communication say the word,
Use your words so you can be heard.
No need to Arthur, listen and see,
clear understanding is the key."

Our energiser was a game of Ninja. The game started with all group members saying "Ninja Ha!". To coincide with that, each person made a ninja stance. They then freeze.

One person starts and makes one movement to try and tag another person's arm. They can make a movement to dodge it. Each movement must freeze afterwards. If you're tagged, you put that arm behind your back. When both of your arms are tagged, you sit down. The winner is the last person standing.

If there were problems, like someone getting carried away and hitting a bit too hard... we needed to use respectful communication by using our manners to ask them to settle down. 

Everyone has different points of view, meaning that we all have different perspectives and opinions. We need to listen to our friends and come to an understanding.

To practice listening to other group members, we played "Wizard Giant Dwarf".

Wizard beats Dwarf
Giant beats Wizard
Dwarf beats giant

Resilience

We are beginning to learn about Challenges for the remainder of this term. 

Challenges... we manage themWe take them on and tackle them.

Our energiser was All in Tag. Some of the challenges we faced were:

- people being over-exuberant in their tagging

- goose guarding

- timing for rock scissors paper

- getting tagged as soon as you are free.

We needed to deal with those challenges and move in. This is the same in real life and at school. Sometimes we say we'll do something to help, but we don't realise how difficult it was going to be. 

In the playground, we might be nervous on a new playground because everything's bigger. It can be challenging when everyone wants to use the same equipment. 

Challenges with our friends.

Making decisions about what we want to play. We don't want to upset them by not doing what they want to do.

We role-played some scenarios. We thought about what the long term effects of the choices made might be.

1. Everyone had different ideas about what they wanted to do. They started arguing and then came up with quick ideas to solve the problem, but then cheated. Long term, they might not want to be friends anymore. These problems get taken back into the classroom and it affects your learning. Others choose to get involved.

2. Two people wanted to stay inside and get their work done at morning tea, but their friend wanted to go outside and play. She was impatient and trying to get them to go out too. The teacher wanted them to solve the problem themselves. We need to go to the teacher with solutions rather than problems all the time. 

3. Two people wanted to play fight but the other two weren't interested. They tried to physically force them to go. When that didn't work, they called them jerks. They were trying to peer pressure them into doing what they wanted to.

Self-control

We are looking at resilience, in particular self-control.

Kiwi Can says self-control, it's up to me,

Keeping calm with strategies.

Energiser: Paper Scissors Rock War

We had to jump into each hoop with both feet until we met the person from the other team. We had a paper scissors rock war, then the winner continued until they met another person. If you crossed onto the start dot, your team gets the point and another person starts.

We practised mindfulness to calm ourselves down after all the excitement. Slowly we came back together as a group on the mat.

We got into groups of four to solve a problem. We had to sit with our bottom on the floor and our feet flat on the floor. We weren't allowed to use our hands. Our feet needed to stay flat on the floor.

We needed to show self-control by waiting to discuss our ideas without jumping in and doing it. We also had to focus on other people's ideas and not just our own.

We need to recognise when we need to regulate our emotions and calm down. Practice our mindfulness. Then think about how we react.