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!!