Hiwi the Kiwi

This week we had a special visit from Hiwi The Kiwi. Mr and Ms. Minstrel (Hiwi The Kiwi) came to teach us about respecting the fish and sea. They also sang songs that were related to the topic. The rules of fishing is to pick a fish with a wet towel, let the breeding fish go, let the little fish go, so it can grown, bring salt ice and water to keep the fish cold and always wear a life jacket just in case the boat flips over. Pick up rubbish so the sea animals and sea birds don't eat it, because they'll think its their pray.

Kiwi Can

At Kiwi Can today our theme was integrity and our topic was reliability. First we had a energizer. In the energizer we had to find a partner and one of us had to be blindfolded and protect the other person from getting tagged from the other partners. After we played the energizer we talked about our topic reliability. Reliability is when you trust someone to do something. One example is when someone tells you a secret and they trust you to keep it a secret and not tell anyone. After we had a talk about reliability we moved onto the activity. The activity was to find someone that is kind of the same height as you. The activity was to try and balance by doing the different exercises we were given and the main focus was about relying on your partner to keep you balanced. Lastly we did a GKQ (General Question Knowledge). We sat in a circle and there was a master who went around the circle and answered the questions the teacher gave us. 

Tech at Tamaki College

Today we went to Tech at Tamaki College and we were with Miss Ferguson. Today Miss Ferguson told us to think of a game or board game that can be made in 3D and we could think of 4 games. I thought of tic tac toe, checkers, connect 4 and a puzzle. I thought of these games because I thought that they would be the easiest to create my own design with. We made the game into our own version by making it with different colors and shapes. Instead of x's and o's for tic tac toe, I used emojis and instead of normal checkers pieces, I used fruit. I made different designs for the games I chose. Once we drew and colored our designs we chose one design for next week.  

Fish For The Future

Do you find fishing fun? If you do there are some rules that you need to know about before you set off. You need supplies and safety gear like life jackets so in an accident you are safe. I’m going to tell you about some things that you might not have learned or heard about so listen up adults and kids. For further information visit Hiwi the Kiwi website.

Before leaving your place you may need things that might be needed before going fishing. Things you need is salt ice, fish ruler, salt water, wet cloth or towel and normal fishing gear. Salt ice and water is for your fish because the fishes natural habitat is the sea and the water and ice will keep the fish fresh for longer. You need a wet cloth or towel for picking up a fish because fish have a protective coating on them so they don’t die as soon as you let them go.

This is the reason why we have less fish in our sea’s and less food to eat. Later on in the future there won’t be as many fish as we have seen today. We have to deplete our plastic waste so our sea’s won’t be a garbage patch in the future. You also need to measure the fish before you let it go because the fish needs to be a certain size so you can either keep it or let it go. If it’s undersized place it back in the water gently and the same goes for over sized fish, because they are breeding more fish for the future and if it is the perfect size you may take it home.

We have to respect the sea as it is a life and food source. Try and look at it in a traditional way. We’re are taking their delicacy and it will no longer be a traditional dish. If you don’t follow rules you’ll have to face the consequences like facing the harbor patrol are sea police.

The message I am giving you is to keep our ocean cleaner and we will have more livestock living in the future. Did you know that 100,000 marine animals have died from plastic? Well if you didn’t now you know.

Ballet with Chloe

In the middle block LS2 went to go for a ballet session with Chloe from RNZB ( Royal New Zealand Ballet). In this session we learnt step by step of 'Black Swan, White Swan' based on a famous ballet dance 'Swan Lake'. 'Black Swan, White Swan' is currently performing in some places around New Zealand. While we were picking up the movements we got to work collaboratively in our groups using the movements that we learnt. Most of our movements were on the floor because the dance sequence we were performing was the entrance of 'Black Swan, White Swan'. We learnt the movements quickly and got through a few practices running through the dance sequence and got better and better every time. The music we were performing to was classical music by Tchaikovsky.

A huge thanks to Chloe for teaching us ballet and for taking time out of her day to come and teach LS2 ballet. Also another thanks to Mrs Jones for preparing the ballet session.

Waltzing Matilda Summary

This week our task was to summarize the poem Waltzing Matilda by Banjo Paterson. We unpacked the literary devices and language. Banjo Paterson was one of Australia’s best poets who wrote some of the best poems. The main idea of this poem was to explore about what life was back then in the 1880’s. This poem tells us about a swagman who finds it hard to apply for a job then one day steals a jumbuck from the billabong. In this task Nidhi and I defined a few words that we found in the poem that we didn't know. 

Definition:

• jumbuck - sheep
• swagman - seasonal worker
• billabong - waterhole
• troopers- policemen
• waltzing - walking on foot
• matilda - swag bag