Leaf Art Challenge

Today's Home Learning challenge was to create an animal out of leaves collected from your backyard. I got creative and created a Cat, I got a little more creative by putting more leaves around it making it look like it was surrounded by nature. Down below will be 3 facts on cats.

1. Cats conserve energy by sleeping for an average of 13 to 14 hours a day
2. A group of cats are called a clowder.
3. A male cat is called a tom, a female cat is called a molly or a queen, while young cats are called kittens.

Whoa! Studios Challenge

This week for a home learning activity challenge Victoria, Sakina, Haylee, Taheesha and I created a collaborative DLO about Whoa! Studios. The first activity consisted of where Whoa! Studios is on a map with the address and how much it would cost to see the super villain show. The second activity was a 10 word description of what it would be like at the park and a suggested part of the park we would recommend to a friend. For the bonus activity we made a biography of Toshiko Horiuchi Macadam. It was really exciting learning about Whoa! Studios because it may be a place some consider going!

Name Exercise

Today I have done a Challenge, which is the Name Exercise. This is where you have your name and there is a sign with all the letters in the alphabet and beside the letters are different kinds of exercises. My exercises were -

F - 10 BURPEES
L - 2 MIN WALL SIT
O - 25 BURPEES
R - 15 PUSH UPS
E - 1 MIN WALL SIT
N - 40 JUMPING JACKS
C - 30 SQUATS
E - 1 MIN WALL SIT

This photo of me was when I was doing a Push up, Although these were harder than it looked, I still tried my hardest.

Kelly Tarlton Challenges

Today I have completed my 4th activity for the home learning blogging challenge. I created a presentation including the Costs for me to go, my parent(s) to go and my family, the animal I chose which was a stingray, the attributed photo, all the prices and the opening hours.

Sky Tower Challenge

This week for another home learning challenge, Victoria, Haylee, Sakina, Taheesha and I decided to do the Sky Tower activities. For the first activity, we wrote a list of 5 facts about the Sky Tower, using our smart searching skills. For our second activity, we created a new mascot for the Sky Tower and gave an explanation about why we chose them. For our last activity, we chose an activity we could do at the Sky Tower and wrote down why we chose it, what it is and how much it would cost to do that activity.

Kiwi Can Reflection

Today at Kiwi can we talked about Role Models. Some new I learnt was that role models can be people that you don't know personally but you know from online. The energiser we did today was called Hammer, this energiser was related to the topic listening. To play you need to have a partner, with your partner you have your hands in fist type. There are 3 commands, When the teacher or instructor says Up, the person whose hand was at the bottom, they need to put it to the top, if they say down, then the person hand that's at the top has to go to the bottom, lastly is the command "Hammer". When the person that's leading the game says Hammer, then the person who has their hand at the top has to gently hit the person whose hand is below it. The person who has their hand below it moves it so that the other person doesn't hit their hand. Once the energiser was over we had the activity, the activity was called Picture it. To play picture it, you need to be in a group, there will be 4 groups. There will be a teacher/instructor that will say something that you need to create with your group. This activity was related to Collaboration.

Kiwi Can

This week for Kiwi Can we have a new topic. Our new topic is Reliability. We first went onto our energiser, our energiser was a game on where we found a partner to be with, and we would have to trust them to protect us without getting yourself tagged. You did this by having one person in front, and someone in the back closing their eyes. The aim of the game was for the person in the back to not get tagged by any of the other partners. This game was all about reliability. We then moved onto talking about our new topic. We talked about what Reliability means, What we do when we rely on someone, and what it feels to be relied on. We talked about what everyone thought in their own opinion. After talking about reliability we then did our activity. Our Activity was all about relying on your partner to balance with you in any ways. We did this with leaning backwards, Forwards, Sideways, back to back, Sit down stand up and more. This activity was really Fun.

Kiwi Can

This week for Kiwi Can we have been talking about Integrity and Responsibility. We talked about how we could get motivated, what are some things that we can do to get motivated and what motivates us to do things. Our energiser is called head, shoulders, knees and Cone. In this game we have to be able to get to the cone before our partner does. There is a cone in between you and your buddy. The first person to get the cone 3 times is the winner. The activity was called helicopter pop out. To play this game you needed to have a skipping rope to jump over and then we would have a ball that we have. The ball is to pass around in a  circle. I really enjoyed Kiwi Can this week.

Kiwi Can

This week we had another lesson of Kiwi Can. This week our theme was honesty and our topic is Integrity. We started off with our energiser, the energiser was called Bang. In the game bang we were focusing on our listening skills. Once the energiser was finished we talked about our theme. We talked about how honesty could effect other people, How honesty can be better or worse to the people around you. After talking about Honesty we moved onto our Activity. Our activity is called Honest cards. This was where we were given a scenario of how we can show honesty. We were given 1 scenario card to talk with our group, there were 3 scenario's in total. As a group we all talked about the scenario and answered the questions. Kiwi Can was great this week I found learning more about honesty really interesting.

Kiwi Can

Today we had another session of Kiwi Can. When everyone was settled we did a recap on what we talked about last week. We talked about Co-operation and how we can show that we are co-operating. We went straight onto our activity. Our activity was called Balloon Madness. To play this we got given 4 pool noodles & a balloon. The aim of the game was to get the 2 balloons to the other side of the room. Sadly 2 of our pool noodles got confiscated. We thought of strategies that we could use to get the balloon over. We need to hit the balloons with the pool noodle, but you can only hit it once then you would have to give the pool noodle to someone else to hit. We got the green balloon to the other side but not the purple one. We ended the game and talked about Co-operation. We talked about how we can show co-operation in school and outside of school. I think we can show co-operation in school by respecting the teachers, listening, contributing and participating. We then got into our activity. our activity is called Plane crash. We were given a piece of paper that had items that were left from the plane crash. We rated each item from important to non important. We were in groups of 3, in my group was Jack and Nevaeh. Jack wrote the rating and we all shared our ideas to come to a reasonable rating. This week of Kiwi Can was really fun. I enjoyed it.

Kiwi Can | New Theme

This week for Kiwi Can we discus what we had a chat about last week and what we focused on. Last week we focused on Positive communication. This week we had a new theme. Our new Theme is Co-operation. We got straight into the Energiser. The energiser was called A's and B's. Down below will be the instructions.

How to play: To play be have to be with a bunch of other people/students. In your head pick someone out of all the people around you, pick one person. Then pick another person. With those two people in your head, make one of them your A. Then the last person is your B. Everyone then starts to walk, skip  or hop and whoever your A person is, you need to follow them around but, don't make it obvious that your following them. For your B person, you need to stay as far as possible from them. On the second round everyone need to continue with what they did on round 1 but, they have to ask people if they are your person A. If they ask you and that person is your person A then you are out. 

That energiser was fun as we all bumped into each other constantly. We then went back inside the classroom and talked about our new them Co-operation. We talked about what Co-operation means and What we can do to co-operate.  I think that Co-operation means when you communicate with others or a group and share your information with each other. Something we can do to co-operate is to tell others your opinions, ideas and the information you have. They then pass on that information and it become a very nice piece of information.

Last we got into our activity. Our activity was called Magic shoes. This is how to play the activity.

You need to get in 4 even groups. You then need to have 2 of the strongest people out of your group to walk to the other side of the game area. Thing is that only one of them are allowed to touch the toxic river. So one of them need to carry the other person. Once they have reached the other side they need to run back to get the other team mates. They must we touching in some way to run back. Once they come back they need to carry another 2 people to take over. Once they take those 2 people, they come back and do the same thing. Once everyone is on the other side, your team has finished and placed out of 4. If your team is last your all out.

This week of Kiwi Can was fun. We did our points and got 47. We need to work of a few more things to get full marks.

Thank you Letter | Care Award activity

This is one of my Silver Respect activities that I completed. This activity was where I had to choose a teacher or a staff member from our School to write a Thank you letter to. I chose my first teacher that I had when I first started Panmure bridge School. She taught me things that I could use when I go to a different class. I used her knowledge in every class that I went to. I still use her knowledge because it has helped me for the last 5 years. Thank you Mrs Morris for all your help and making my first year at PBS an amazing year. This was an activity for my Silver Respect badge.

Maori | Nga Taone o Te Ika a Maui

This week we had Maori. This week for Maori we listened to Maori Christmas carols. We listened to about 5 songs. Some of the songs were the same as the English version. We were shared a document called Nga Taone o Te Ika a Maui. We had to find the meanings of words. To find the words we had to use site like Maori dictionary or translate.

Kiwi Can

This week we had Kiwi Can again. Our Kiwi Can leaders are Mr Matt and Miss Paige. Before we got into talking about respect, we played our Energiser. Our energiser was called Centre Ball. To play Centre ball you need to have a bunch of people and they have to stand in a circle. There will be one ball in the middle of everyone. Then you will be numbered 1 to 4. After we were numbered up we started the game. So one person will be yelling out a number between 1 and 4. If your number is called you have to run around everyone. Once you ran around everyone you have to go to where you were and run in it and grab the ball before everyone gets the ball. The winner is the person who gets the ball the most. After the game we had a talk about what respect we give outside of the school,In school, in class etc. We talked about if we agreed with the school rules and if we didn't we had to say why. I was in the middle of Agreeing and disagreeing. We also talked about what are some rules we would like to change. After we talked about that we played our activity. Our Activity was bus stop. To play bus stop you need a piece of paper or a white board. We had to draw a box, There were categories (Boys name,Girls name,Food,Animal,Colour and Total) What we had to do was, Someone was going to say a letter and then the groups had to write a the a word for each categorise and each of the words have to start with the letter that was called out. The winner was the group with the highest score.

Finished Activity | Measurement

This week I have decided to pump the number of my blogpost by posting up a blog post of what I have done today. What I have done today is an Activity made by someone in LS1. We had to fill out a forms. In the form you had to fill out what we need Mr Ogilvie to cover up for us. I chose Money. So the money and Time group have to check out some peoples Activity that they made Last week. I have done an activity from Sakina. On her activities she ask people the conversion of the measurements. She also wrote the answers for people to see if there answers are correct. We had to move a circle to reveal the answer. I like how she added the Conversion part of measurement, also she added an explanation of the conversion. I really like her activity because it is easy and simple for people that don't know about Measurement and Conversion.

Kiwi Can

This week was our first session for Kiwi Can. We have a new leader that will be with us for this term and next year. We have a new topic and new theme, the topic is Respect. The theme is "For our School".

Energiser: Before we got into talking about our new topic and theme we got straight onto our energiser. our energiser was called "Rules Vs No rules". We had to play tag as our demonstration. For no rules everyone was in, so basically everyone had to tag each other. For the rules part Mr Matt and Miss Paige were the 2 taggers. Mr Matt and Miss Paige had to try and tag everyone. If you were tagged you needed to stand or sit on the lino.

Talk about new Topic and Theme:
After the energiser we got talked about our Theme and Topic. We talked about what respect could be or how we can show it. Respect is where you have to treat people the way you want to be treated. We then talked about our theme "Four our school" So basically our topic and theme were combined. Respect for our school. We had to talk about how we could show respect while in class or outside on the play ground/ field. We said that we could listen to the teacher while they are talking, when a teacher tells you to do something you do it and more.

Activity:
Next we played our activity. For our activity we had to do role play. For our role play we had to choose if we were to do the good role play or the bad one. For the role play it was about students and 1 teacher about to start having share lunch. There were also 2 new people. But the new kids forgot to bring lunch. So then we started . We had 2 people as the students 1 person as the teacher and 2 other people to be the new kids. In my group we decided to do a good role play and not a bad one. For our play we had Angelica talk to Ellenora and Miiana and she told them to get out their food for a share lunch. Then Angelica would talk to Victoria and I, She would tell us to get our lunch but we didn't bring any lunch. So the students said "Its alright we have enough food to share" So the new kids joined.