Hanging with Harold

We are learning about our brains with Life Education.

Today we learned about WHAM attacks. We had great examples of when we have them because we've all had them!

WHAM attack

Waiting

Hard

Angry

Mean

The Head Hustler takes your learning and your fun away from you. This sets on when we have a Fixed Mindset. He makes us think "just give up", "why try", "you're rubbish at this". He's not telling the truth... it's a wham attack stealing your learning from you. 

The Mind Master is our growth mindset and helps us make a great choice.

GRIT

Give it your all.

Resolve your problems -communicate

You are important. Know your worth.

Be tenacious - don't give up.

Take the time to do it right -have pride in what you do.

Ignore the temptation to give up! 

Redo if necessary - improve.

Planting Day

Korokia tree - it will come out in yellow flowers and red berries. (You can eat them, but they're not tasty like other berries we eat.)

We needed to tease out the roots out so that they would grow to spread out rather than bound up.

After placing it in the hole, Cayden held the tree while others filled soil into the hole. 

Next we "firm" the soil, by standing on it and "firming" it. 

We'll need to water it weekly. 

Apparently, trees don't like rock music... it's actually been studied!

Nutrition

Sophie from Food for thought came in to teach us about nutrition.

Today we met Harry. He helped up to see where the muscles and bones are in our bodies. There were lots of great questions:

If that was a woman, where would the womb be?

What is our saliva used for?

Do we have bones in our heart?

What does the kidney do?

We can strengthen our heart by exercise. We can also strengthen our body with healthy food. 

Everyday foods.

Dairy products help our bones. It has protein and calcium. 

Fruit and Vegetables come in all different colours. The different colours do different things for our bodies. They all work together as a team to give us different vitamins and minerals. 

Lean meat, seafood, eggs, nuts, beans, legumes and tofu. These foods are really high in protein, which helps out muscles. Iron is also important. 

Grains & starchy vegetables give us lots of energy and give us carbohydrates. the whole meal variety is even better. We can also get fibre from our grainy food. It is great for our intestines and helping to push food through them. If we stretched them out, they'd be 6m long. 

All of these foods are really good for our brain. 

Sometimes foods

Good to have now and then, but not every day. 

Lollies, flavoured milk, ice cream, burgers & fries, pizza. 

We looked at how much fat is in the different chips we eat. Even potato chips! It can get stuck in our arteries.

(Photo of lines and going through)

If we have lots of sugar it can damage our teeth. And fat can damage our bodies.

An advertiser in our midst

Orlando has given his Mum's Faceshields a plug on his blog. Listen to his spiel which does a fantastic job of explaining their features and then head to his blog here, and give him some feedback. (He was experimenting with Screen Castify). He does a better job than some of the infomercial people on TV!!!

Here's another video that shows him closer up...

                   

If you would like to get hold of one for yourself, you can click on the link below, which will connect you with his Mum's Facebook page.

If any essential workers or workers would like to source ppe face shields for themselves or their children going back to...

Posted by Leigh-Anne Baird on Tuesday, 28 April 2020

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.

Kiwi Can

Last week we talked about feelings and did an anger map to talk about how we deal with that emotion. 

This week we are talking about unmanaged emotions. Everybody has emotions and that's ok, but we need to be able to manage those emotions.

KiwiCan says...I have emotions and that's okay, when I deal with them, in a positive way. 

We played "Switch".  Somebody stands st each of the 5 cones. When you hear the word switch, you have to try and get to one of the four orange cones (not the yellow cone in the middle) if it's close, we do paper scissors rock. If you don't make it to an orange cone, you sit down and watch. The new person always starts at the yellow cone.

It was really frustrating and some of us were finding ourselves in the red zone. We were under a bit of pressure.

For our next activity, we had to complete a puzzle. The timer wouldn't stop until 5 puzzles are completed.

Some of our pieces were missing... and we had extras of others! We needed to go and ask other groups for the missing piece. It took us 3mins 59secs to complete all 5 puzzles. Ngakaunui did it in  3mins 25secs. We had to work as a group. Some people had more experience with jigsaw puzzles than others. We needed to show resilience.

Kiwi Can

Last week we talked about emotions. Emotions are how people feel. Feelings and emotions can change, especially when people cheer us up. 

Kiwi Can says, have emotions and that's okay,

as long as I deal with them in a positive way.

We played The Cone Game. Owen called out heads/shoulders/knees etc... When he called "cones" you had to grab the cone. If you both grabbed it, then paper scissors rock for the winner. 

We swapped partners and went again. We felt a lot of emotions: happy, excited, frustrated, annoyed, focused, competitive, sad, serious. Some of the triggers for feeling those emotions were: Owens voice tricking us, people cheating, rubbing it in.

Sometimes we feel angry because: people don't say nice things; they don't play fair or they cheat; when they rub it in. 

We filled out an anger map, to focus on how we react to feeling angry. 

Kiwican

We are learning about resilience. Never giving up. We are looking at emotions. 

Kiwi Can says...

I have emotions and that's okay. 

When I deal with them, in a positive way.

 We listened to the song Happy... when we heard the word "happy" we had to do star jumps or push ups. When we heard the word "happiness" we needed to do a sit up. We had to listen really carefully. That became difficult as we got more tired from busting moves.

Examples of different emotions we have were: sad, confused, happy, emotional, ridiculous, depressed, joy, emotionless, angry, proud, tired, super excited, chillaxed. 

We got into groups and then were given a card with an emotion on it. We had to act out that emotion, including what had happened to get to that emotion. 

(Thankful, guilty, impatient, cautious, delighted)

Delighted

Cautious

We have been focusing alot on emotions this week. In mindfulness, we have been recognising our emotions as well as learning to accept our emotions. We talk about emotions being like the weather. They change... when it is stormy, we can be sure that in time the sunshine will come back.

Life skills

We were lucky enough to have Nigel revisit us and teach us some more life skills. 

We were practicing self control, remembering that we can't control what other people do but we can control what we do and how we react to it. 

Life skills

Four people learned 5 skills. We split into teams and they then taught their team those skills. To learn them, we had to use our ability to focus and listen... as well as leadership skills to teach it. 

Life skills with Nigel

We were lucky to have Nigel back, teaching us life skills. 

We had to be really good self managers to learn new skills.