Sunday, 13 March 2016
Kapa haka
Kapa haka - At Kapa haka on Friday Mr Brown and Mrs Baker were in the hall foyer whilst we were doing Kapa haka, this meant that Matua Rhihari took us. We practised, Whakataka Te Hau and He Honore before he asked us what songs we would like to sing. Someone said that they would like to sing Pa mai, we went through this once and then Matua decided that we needed some people to show us the actions. A few of the seniors went up onstage and we're doing the actions to pa mai the next two times we went through it. After we had practised this someone said that they wanted to sing our school song, Tai Tapu. We went through this (with the senior up onstage) a couple of times and then moved onto Tahurihuri. We're meant to do poi to this song but we didn't have any poi with us so we had to shadow poi, this is where you pretend that you've got a poi and still do the poi actions to it. I could barely remember the poi to Tahurihuri but I tried my best to anyway, I got used to the actions by the end of the song. Once we had finished I had to race out to put my shoes on as I had to get to Te Hapua strait away!
Wednesday, 9 March 2016
Technology
On the bus to Technology - On the bus to Technology on Tuesday I sat near the back next to Samara. I sat next to the window and she sat next to the aisle. On the way there we were just talking about netball, as we had just found out our new team for club netball. On the way there I would've said that the noise level was good but there were some people playing with the windows. The bus I was on (bus 1) arrived shortly before the other bus (bus 2). We were at technology untill lunch time and then got back on our buses again. The bus I was on (bus 1) left after the other bus (bus 2). I sat near the back again with Samara. On the way back I thought that the noise level was louder than on the way there but was still alright. Also on the way back people weren't playing with the windows this time. Next time if there was something I could improve on it would be talking quietly to the person next to me as I was probably talking to loudly to Samara.
Leadership meeting
Leadership meeting - On Monday the 2016 leaders had a meeting with Mr Ladbrook at morning tea. We talked about how we thought we have been going so far this year. I said that I enjoyed swimming sports and can't wait for our next event. Mr Ladbrook has had everyone arranging an event that each house captain or heads etc had been in charge of. Since I'm the Miro house captain I have been arranging a charity with Xanthe, the other Miro house captain. We have decided that we will do a charity where everyone brings in clothes to donate towards the cyclone that had hit Fiji, we will then go through the clothes and select the blue ones that we could use to make banners for Miro. After we had talked about this at our meeting Mr Ladbrook said that we could go and enjoy the rest of our morning tea.
Friday, 4 March 2016
Skipping with the year 1's
Skipping with the year 1's
4.3.16
Today we did games with the year 1's. In the first block we planned our game. In my group was me and Samara and we decided that we would do skipping. We had a planning sheet and we had to go through and fill this sheet out. We were looking online for ages deciding whether we would pick one of those games or come up with our own. We decided that we would pick one of their games and that was skipping. We needed cones for this because we were going to have races between the little kids.
Here is a picture of the year 1's playing a game with the seniors:
4.3.16
Today we did games with the year 1's. In the first block we planned our game. In my group was me and Samara and we decided that we would do skipping. We had a planning sheet and we had to go through and fill this sheet out. We were looking online for ages deciding whether we would pick one of those games or come up with our own. We decided that we would pick one of their games and that was skipping. We needed cones for this because we were going to have races between the little kids.
Here is a picture of the year 1's playing a game with the seniors:
Thursday, 3 March 2016
Leadership in the Food Forest
Leadership in the Food Forest
Yesterday some of the year 8 students went out to help with the Food Forest. The year 8's were asked to help the year 4 students collect seeds.
This is us collecting the seeds:
First we had to make envelopes to put the seeds in, this was difficult because there were heaps of us making four envelopes each and only four staplers.
After this we had to get into pairs and go into the garden and collect the seeds. This was difficult as I couldn't remember what some of the plants were called. Next it was time for morning tea.
Once we came in from morning tea we split into our 4 groups. Our group was assigned the chicken tractor. To do this we had to carry the 4 fences from outside the caretakers shed to the Food Forest. This was easier than I thought it would be as we had to have two to a fence. Once we had set the fences up in a square we went back to get the orange netting and the wire. Once we had collected this we had to put the netting inside the fence and connect the wire to the fence and netting, so that the chickens couldn't possibly escape.
After we had finished in the Food Forest we went and spent the afternoon with the juniors.
This is a photo of our chicken tractor:
Yesterday some of the year 8 students went out to help with the Food Forest. The year 8's were asked to help the year 4 students collect seeds.
This is us collecting the seeds:
First we had to make envelopes to put the seeds in, this was difficult because there were heaps of us making four envelopes each and only four staplers.
After this we had to get into pairs and go into the garden and collect the seeds. This was difficult as I couldn't remember what some of the plants were called. Next it was time for morning tea.
Once we came in from morning tea we split into our 4 groups. Our group was assigned the chicken tractor. To do this we had to carry the 4 fences from outside the caretakers shed to the Food Forest. This was easier than I thought it would be as we had to have two to a fence. Once we had set the fences up in a square we went back to get the orange netting and the wire. Once we had collected this we had to put the netting inside the fence and connect the wire to the fence and netting, so that the chickens couldn't possibly escape.
After we had finished in the Food Forest we went and spent the afternoon with the juniors.
This is a photo of our chicken tractor:
Monday, 22 February 2016
Kauri Fun Day
Swimming Sports
Last week on Friday the Kauri and Kakano teams went to Jelly Park, the Kauri team went because we had swimming sports for the whole day and the Kakano team went because they had a fun day outside Jelly Park while we had swimming sports.
Once we had finished the width races the house captains ran two simming activities for the Kauri team to participate in. The two games we ran were Madness and The Big Splash. For Maddness we just threw objects into the pool. The house that won this was Miro. After this we ran The Big Splash for this we participated with our house and Kowhai came first.
After we had finished this we ran the length races I came first in backstroke and second in freestyle. I had fun running the house activities and can't wait until the next time I get to run some more.
Last week on Friday the Kauri and Kakano teams went to Jelly Park, the Kauri team went because we had swimming sports for the whole day and the Kakano team went because they had a fun day outside Jelly Park while we had swimming sports.
Once we had finished the width races the house captains ran two simming activities for the Kauri team to participate in. The two games we ran were Madness and The Big Splash. For Maddness we just threw objects into the pool. The house that won this was Miro. After this we ran The Big Splash for this we participated with our house and Kowhai came first.
After we had finished this we ran the length races I came first in backstroke and second in freestyle. I had fun running the house activities and can't wait until the next time I get to run some more.
Leadership
Leadership
Over the past few weeks we have been learning about leadership. As a class we came up with 6 traits of an effective leader. My solo level is Multi Sturctual because I can understand what the meanings of the 6 traits are. These are the 6 traits:
Motivational - My understanding of Motivational is that you push someone to work towards their goal.
Goal focused - My understanding of Goal focused is that you keep heading towards your goal even if you do have to sacrifice something to get there.
Active thinker - My understanding of Active thinking is that you keep coming up with different strategies to achieve your goal.
Resilient - My understanding of Resilience is that you keep trying even if you do find it difficult at first you keep trying.
Trustworthy - My understanding of Trustworthy is that you earn somebody's trust before you start to work with them.
Integrity - My understanding of integrity is that you're honest and make sure you do the right thing.
As a class we also came up with a sentence about leadership - Leadership is a skill of being able to motivate a team/person to work towards a goal. My next step is to put these traits into action and prove that I can show them around the school.
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