Bring Your Own Device

Fun Friday Term Two

To acknowledge meeting of expectations and to put our value of Play in action, we have a thirty minute slot each week where students select a fun activity from a range of options.  It is a great time to mingle with other students and teachers and to do something fun.

This week Miss Waho's option was BYOD which meant children could bring their own devices and choose school appropriate online activities.  

Next week we have another selection of activities with Miss Waho taking hockey for juniors.

Fun in Fitness

Our Daily Fitness

To kick off term two, we started doing daily fitness in the form of circuits.  At this stage it has just been Miss Waho's Numeracy groups who go out after morning tea time but Whakamanawa will start doing this also.

Here is our slide showing the exercises we do at each station and a few photos of these in action.

Squats

Planking

Burbies

We aim to improve our fitness, co ordination and stamina.

Bloggers of The Week

Takitini Bloggers

This term we have started our Bloggers of the Week.  This is where one student from each home base class has the rest over the hub visit their blogs and post comments.  This is how we share who will be the Bloggers of the Week.

Acasia was the main blogger from Whakamanawa and her are a few comments posted by classmates.

 This is Acasia's blog page and link.

Link to Acasia's Blog

Our next step is to ensure we post, view, share and comment on blogs on a regular basis.

Expectations: Before School

Making Our School A Safe Space

Each week to help reinforce our school values and expectations of everybody being ready to learn, engaging in positive relationships and to help us all feel safe, we have one school wide expectation to focus on.
In week one of term two, we looked at what we do before school in order to prepare for the day.  In Te Rōpū Whakamanawa, we looked at our school chart and then identified four things that we will do individually. 

Our next step is to make sure we actually do these things.

One Week of Steps-Modelling how to post

Term 2 Steps

This week we have done Steps two times.  This is what I have done so far.

My goal for next week is to reach 110 minutes.

Kiwi Can Term Two

Welcome back to Kiwi Can

Today we have our first session back into Kiwi Can.  Our topic this term is Integrity.  We will be learning more about Honesty, Responsibility and Reliability.

We started playing a game that needs honesty and integrity.  

A key statement we looked at was:  Understand that we have to ask questions and reflect on other stories or perspectives to find out the whole truth.  

What is a perspective?

We played a game called 21 questions where we had to ask questions to try and figure out who the mystery people 

We asked closed questions?  They questions that have only yes or no as answers.

Our next step is to show honesty, responsibility and reliability in all situations.  We are great at knowing what these things mean, however at times we struggle to show these.

Dancing Like the Stars

Let's Dance

Our music today was Marshmallow which was a popular choice as far as Whakamanawa students were concerned.  We got to meet our dance tutor Shawn.  

The styles we are doing are Bollywood, modern jive and tango.  

We learned about hand space-If you can do a 360 and don't bump into anybody, you have enough room to stretch.  We started with warm up stretches.
We were able to do the first 25 seconds of the song and I must say, this is even more exciting than before the class.
Check out student individual blogs to see what kids thought.

Warming Up

Stretching in time

Our first move

Here is what we have so far...

We are all very excited and looking forward to working with Shawn and developing our dance skills.