Values Focus-Goal Setting

Setting Goals

Our weekly value this week to start the term is Goal Setting.  Today we had a look at our whole school learning slide and then worked to create a Google Drawing that shows three goals we have in order from small goals to larger ones.  

Here is the learning slide we shared.

Here is Miss Waho's example of current goals.  Later in the week, students will have their own published to their blogs.

Our next step is to create SMART Goals for Reading, Writing and Math.

New Times Table Learning

Tables Test

This year we have been working to improve our knowledge and recall of times tables and basic facts in Numeracy.  Today introduced a new site to help with our learning.  We used Tables Test which times you and gives you a range of answer choices.  

For our first go, we did this one together on the big screen.  

This was a level 1 series of questions.  Next time, we will try to get a quicker answer time.

Here is the link to the site for you to have a go. TablesTest.Com

Working Well

Work Habits

This year we are working on having good work habits.  This week we did a brainstorm to share our ideas about what good work habits look and sound like.  We then started working on our handwriting title pages so we could be these ideas into practise.  

Check out how well we are working here:

Our next step is to continue to focus on our work habits and improve, maintain and show these in different situations.

Colour Your Day

In Respect and Memory

We recently had one of the most devastating and shocking events happen in Christchurch history. The support, love, acceptance and learning that has come from this has been quite phenomenal.  

One initiative that we took part in, was Colour Your Day.  We had a colourful mufti day to help raise money to support those who have been affected.  We had two minutes silence together as a school and ties 50 colourful balloons across our front fence in memory of those whose lives were taken.  

Some of our Whakamanawa students who tied balloons.

Friendly Flemish

Flemish Giant Cuddles Pays A Visit

Dry Land Swimming Lesson

Safety Swimming

Even though our pool has now closed for the season, we had Leeanne from Canterbury Swimming to come in and do some dry land lessons.  

These lessons looked mainly at water safety and what dangers we could face in different bodies of water.

When we go swimming again, we will review and revise what we have learned during our dry land lessons.

Rest and Relaxation

Our Values Focus:  Rest and Relaxation

During term one, one of our weekly learning areas in our Values programme was Rest and Relaxation.  One of the follow up activities we did was designing a poster.  This is a template to help us get started:

Work Habits

Learning About Learning

At the beginning of the year, we looked at what good work habits and engagement might look like in the learning space.  We talked about what helps our learning and how we need to develop skills for staying on task.  

Our next step is to look at different learning styles and plan to enable students to engage in activities that provide the best learning opportunities.

Courtesy

Our Weekly Focus for Values:  Courtesy

In term one, one of the values that we learned about was courtesy.  This shows our Choose Your Attitude Value and also Make Someone's Day.  In Te Rōpū Whakamanawa, one of our activities was to create a Google drawing showing the different ways we can show courtesy at school, home and within our community.

Here are a few examples of student creations:

 

Our Cultures and Countries

The Places We Come From

During term one we explored and shared about our different cultures, where we all come from and what our flags look like.  We used this information to develop and add to our mihimihi and started to create a wall to celebrate our cultural diversity.  

Our cultures wall heading.

Our greetings on our wall.

Our map and flags show where we come from.

Reflection Time

Looking Back

Today is the last day of term 1 2019.  We are looking back on our time so far this year.

I am looking forward to term two because Whakamanawa are doing Dancing Like the Stars.  Our dance style is Bollywood!!!

Sensational Steps Stars

Our Steps Web

This week, we have tried to have more time using StepsWeb.  We noticed that for a few weeks, the amount of time we were spending on it, was quite low.  We have made a massive improvement and have been looking at our progress.  

I have been really impressed with how we are going.  Here are some screenshots of some of our results.

Our goal is to spend at least twenty minutes a day on Steps.

Eating Lunch

Our School Wide Expectation

Kia ora koutou

This week our school wide expectation is about lunch eating.  Here are the things that we must all do, and the things that I am going to do.

This is an example of the activity that Te Rōpū Whakamanawa students had to do.

Our next step, is to actually do it.