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. 

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:

 

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.

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!!

Play Day

We had our Play Day at school. We were lucky to have a star DJ in the midst of all the action... our very own James! Sadly the smoke machines cut the fun a little short by setting off the fire alarms. It turns out we're really good at clearing the buildings though. There were plenty of smiles on the field while we lined up ao it didn't ruin the fun!

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

Marsali's Lego Story

Marsali has been outside in her garden, creating a comic.

Check it out and then leave her a comment on her blog!

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.

Working With Miss Rowland

Over the past six weeks, we have had our student teacher, Miss Rowland, in our class with us. 

Friday was her last day with us and she was sad to leave us. But we each made an origami person for her to remember us. 

We have loved having Miss Rowland as part of Manawaroa this term! 

New Beanbags

We are really lucky to get some new beanbags in our space. 

They are for our outdoor area... but while it's pretty miserable out there, we're going to make use of them indoors!

Shjon: "They're really good. Comfortable. I wish all the chairs were beanbags!"

Christina: "They're comfortable. Kind of a little bit hard, but they're also good for relaxing."

Summergrace: "They're comfy, and warm for learning on."

Maddock: "They're kind of comfortable because they're hard."

Celebration Assembly Art

We have been learning about the meaning of our home base name. Manawaroa means perseverance and resilience.

We created artwork to show how we persevere.