Kiwi Can Reflection

This week Friday we had our first session of Kiwi Can in the theater, with Ms. Grace and Mrs. Mac. Today we were looking at fairness and fair play, so we talked about some words like empathy, curtesy, consideration and common sense. Our energizer was called change places, it was something to get us warmed up and excited for learning. For this game we got into a circle while one of the Kiwi can leaders called out something that we may or may not relate to like "I like chocolate", which was actually one of the examples. Then if we related to it, then we had to change positions in the circle...if we were the last to move, then we had to sit down. In our activity we looked at empathy by acting out scenes in 6 small groups.

Kiwi Can

Today LS1 had kiwi can with Mr Mat and Miss Lily. We have a new topic this week and it's Leadership. First we played an activity called hammer. For this game you needed to find a partner, my partner was Sakina. We had to put our hands in a fist shape, then put one on top of the other with both hands. If Miss Lily said "up", the person's hand who is at the bottom had to move it to the top. If she said "down", the person's hand who is at the top moved their hand to the bottom. If she said "hammer", then person's hand on top got to hit their partner's hand below theirs. Then we came back the mat after playing a few rounds of the. Next we played a game to do with leader ship. We had to get into 3 lines. Everyone had to face the opposite of the kiwi can leaders and face the white board. The people at the front of the line were tapped on the shoulder by one of the Kiwi can leaders and given a pattern to do. Then once you had it, you need to tap on the next person's shoulder in the line after them and pass the pattern on until it got to the last person. Who ever got the pattern right, won. I was a bit difficult for the teams when we didn't get it right because some of the team mates might have mucked up the pattern on accident. After the last round of that, we had GKQ which is General Knowledge Questions. The buzzer was "woof woof". If one of the Kiwi Can leaders gave you a question, and you knew the answer then you needed to say the buzzer and if you got it right then the team sat down and the next team went until the last team. We talked about what makes a good leader, and what doesn't make a good leader. I think a good leader is a role model to others, is someone who is responsible, encourages others and included everyone. The chant for this week is - "Kiwi can says leaders are fun, leaders are fair, leaders include everyone!"

Kiwi Can

This week LS1 had kiwi can in room 7. Our topic is fairness and fair play, and our theme is positive relationships. When we first got there we got our self into 4 groups. For this first activity we played Tigerlo which was a mix up of tiger and buffalo. Tiger was ra and we had to put our hands out like you were about to scare someone. For buffalo you had to say ouuu and put one figer from each hand above your head to act like horns. We would need to get in a circle and whenever Mr. Malu pointed to you and said one of them you had to the actions and say the quote. You had to do the actions or else you were out, and you needed to say it or else you would be out too. We had a few practises before the actual game. In the real game, I won! For this next activity we played clap jump. We needed two taggers. We all had to stand still until whenever Mr. Matt or Miss Lily clapped, then we had to take one jump. The taggers would try to tag you so you needed to jump away from them when you could. If you did get tagged, then you had to sit out. We had three rounds at that game before moving on. Then we came back onto the mat in 4 lines. We talked about what encouraging means to us and how we can encourage others. To me, encouraging means to support others and to keep going. Lastly we had GKQ which stands for General Knowledge questions. The people at the front of the for each group got a question and they had to buzz in if they knew the answer and then the cycle continued until we got to the last person. This time, the buzzer was their name and then they had to put their hands behind there head. Our Kiwi Can quote/chant this term was - Kiwi can says, when you argue, sort it out, don't shout, work it out.