Kiwi Can Reflection

This week for Kiwi Can this term, our theme was positive relationships and our topic was positive communication. First we got into two groups (Mr M and Ms Grace's group)and did an energiser called Up and Down, which included using positive communication. For this activity, one group flipped the cones up, while the other flipped the cones down. The group that had the most cones flipped either up or down, would win. After the energiser, we talked about positive communication. As a act, Mr M asked Karlos to help him set a scene. In the act Mr M told Karlos that he was rubbish at basketball, the goal was to get Karlos to be cheered up, by saying positive things. Nextly, we moved onto our activity called Street Fighter, in this activity we had fighting actions from Mr M and Ms Grace. In our groups we competed against each other to see who could do a combinations of moves the fastest. I really enjoyed playing these activities and look forward to going next week.

Kupe & Captain Cooks Journey

This week for Inquiry we are learning about explorers and adventurers. So a group of us collaboratively created a map that showed the journey of Kupe’s and Captain James Cook’s discovery of New Zealand. This took three of us, Fau, Victoria and I to research about Kupe and the others Chris, Sulia, and Giovanni working on James Cook. We were able to locate where their Journey began and finished, and also making it interactive.

Tech Reflection | Pewter Casting

This week for tech at Tamaki College, we carried on with our 16 designs for our 4 recipients. We made sure that we didn't have any skinny and detailed parts of our designs. After we completed finding designs for our recipients, we chose one designs we wanted to create for a recipient. We decided to chose a Micky mouse designs that wasn't too difficult. Once we chose a design, Mr Grundy printed it out, so we could create it. Mr Grundy showed us the first step, of how to carve out our designs, so we were ready for next week. 

Kiwi Can | Reflection

Today we had another session with Kiwi Can. The theme today was positive relationships and fairness and fairplay. For our energiser today we picked a partner and a cone was in between us. The kiwi can teachers told us the magic word and said it in a sentence. If we hear it we grab the cone and the other person had to do a push up or star jump for the practice round. When it came to elimination round the player that didn't grab a cone would have to sit up on the steps. After the final players played we all gathered up so we could listen to the next instructions. We were talking about giving things a go which is when you have the courage to do something even if you're afraid. The next thing we did was 1v1 which is when we show our partner whatever the action was like dramatic crying. That activity was about trying something new when you're scared. The last activity we did was GKQ, which was boys vs girls, which the boys won. The questions were all random like what was Mr Crabs enemies name. I really enjoyed this weeks kiwi can. 

Tech Reflection

This week at Tamaki College we did pewter casting with Mr Grundy. Today we finished our designs we would like to put on a necklace and the 4 recipients we would like to give the necklaces. If we chose any images that had skinny features or holes they could not be used since it is to hard to make. I have had a great time choosing designs for the necklaces.

Tech Reflection

This week was our first session of tech with Mr Grundy. Today we looked at pewter casting to make jewellery. First we planned our designs and who our recipients were. Mr Grundy showed us the steps of creating our designs, so we could have a clear understanding on how we make it. There were a few designs we were thinking of making. On a google doc, we wrote 4 recipients we would give our necklace to and some facts about what they like.

Treaty of Waitangi Collaborative Summary

LI: To identify key words in a text and use these words to collaboratively summarise the events in the text. This week for reading, we created a collaborative summary about the Treaty of Waitangi. First we read a story about the history of the Treaty of Waitangi and made some notes for our summary. We then answered the learning conversations and created our own questions for our group. Something I found interesting was how over 500 Maori chiefs had signed the treaty.

Kiwi Can

LI: To include and engage others by being sensitive to their feelings.  This week was our first session of Kiwi Can with Mrs Mac and Ms. Grace. The theme for this term was positive relationships, fairness, and fair play. We started with an energiser, called Change Places. For this activity, Ms Grace called out some things that we might like and if we liked it, we would change places with a different person. After we did our energiser, we talked about words related to empathy, which were courtesy, common sense, and consideration.  Some examples to show courtesy with words are having manners, being kind, and being polite. Some other examples to show courtesy without words are hand gestures, facial expressions, and body language. To show common sense, you make wise choices and trust your instincts. Some ways to show consideration is thinking about others and how people may feel. Lastly, we talked about some ways to show empathy which are, being kind, supportive and being considerate. After that, we did an activity, where we acted out the positive or negative ways of showing empathy. In our group our play was about someone crying because she was bullied, so we decided to cheer her up.

Why is plastic pollution a problem for our coastlines?

Why is plastic pollution a problem for our coastlines?

Did you know that over 1,000,000 sea animals lose their lives each year due to the huge amounts of plastic waste into our oceans and coastlines? Mistaking it for food, the animals will eat the plastic...but as it takes years to break down, it stays trapped in their body and they will eventually die. From our actions, they are forced to suffer and we create a bigger problem for ourselves in the future...How would you feel to be swimming in plastic?

Plastic makes up 90% of the pollution on the ocean’s surface; a large majority of that ends up inside our sea animals or wrapped around their neck, and intoxicating the waters. The plastic we leave lying on pathways and throwing on the street ends up in drains and leads to the sea. About 97 percent of New Zealanders have admission to plastic facilities, but why aren’t we doing anything about it?

Plastic is biodegradable but it takes around 1,000 years to break down based on the type of plastic it is. Plastic NZ says that every New Zealander takes in about 31kgs of plastic packaging a year, but only around 5.8kgs get recycled. “Love Your Coast” is one of the many projects that is taking action by bringing together groups of people to help clean the shores of New Zealand. This project decides to clean the shores of New Zealand as they want the next generation to be cleaner.

We should take action now for a better and healthier future!

Victoria, Haylee, Florence, Sakina

This week Victoria, Florence, Sakina and I worked together to make a explanation about why plastic is effecting our oceans. Above is the writing we did and it explains what is happening and why its happening. A fact I found interesting was that only 5.8kg gets recycled from the 31kg we get.

Kiwi Sport | Cricket #1

Today we had a lesson with Brian who is a cricket coach from Howick Pakuranga Cricket Club (HPPC). We were separated into two groups and had warm ups which were batting and bowling. My team first went to the bowling side. Brian made teams of 3-4 people and he explained what we needed to do. The first person in line stood behind the wickets and caught the ball when someone hit the wickets. If you hit the wicket you put one cone on the wicket from the four cones. The first team to put all the cones on is the winner. After that we went to the next side which was batting. All the batters hit the balls then the fielders ran after the ball. Everyone had a turn each at batting. The skills we used for today was batting, fielding, bowling, scoring, teamwork and communication.  

Ordering population numbers

Today in Maths we worked in our thinking teams to find the answer to two maths questions. In the photo you will see our group, The Math Maniacs working out the number value of our group name. To do this we used additional strategies in our place value knowledge. In the second activity we worked as a group to put the population numbers in order. To do this we used our place value knowledge.

National Current Events

This week as a group, we explored the national current events. In my group were Pouvi, Afa, Makaili and Sakina. Not only did we explore the current events, but we also learnt the different types of current events. Together we read articles about national news and which articles matched the best with each type of current events. On a google map, we plotted the locations of where the current event stories took place, with a short explanation of the article/story.