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. 

Self control

KiwiCan says Self Control is up to me, keeping calm, with strategy.

Just a couple of rules: we had to be on our knees and we weren't allowed on the other teams side. We were only allowed to throw one piece at a time. When Owen says "freeze" we drop any paper in our hands. The team with the least "rubbish" on their side wins!

Owen showed us the jar of glitter he made. He talked about how we sometimes get all frustrated (shaking it up) and that it's okay but like our emotions, it takes time to let them settle.

We made a chatterbox that linked to our zones of regulation. We put emotions on there and then wrote strategies to go with them. 

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. 

Origami Art!

We have been learning how to make origami in art with our student teacher Miss Rowland. Origami means paper folding in Japanese.

This week we made cups and lanterns.

It takes a lot of patience to fold the paper just right. But it is a lot of fun. After, we all decorate our origami!

Next, we will be making new shapes and trying new types of paper! Can't wait to share our work!

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!