Kiwi Can

This week in Kiwi Can, we learnt about co-operation and positive relationships. The two games we played were A's and B's, and Magic Shoes. We also discussed a little about praise, negotiating, and communication. First up was our energiser, which we played out on the field outside. Everyone chose an A person, which was someone in the class and a B person too without letting anyone who you picked for each round. The point of the game is to stay as close to whoever your A person is without making it too obvious, and stay as far as your B person as you can. We came back inside, sitting in 4 rows. Next was our activity which was Magic Shoes. Our teams were the class-mates sitting in the same line as us. This was also another game played outside. We each had to get into a line behind the a cone with our team and someone at the front would start with the Magic Shoes. The point of this game was to some how get everyone across to the other side of the row of cones without their feet touching the floor as they hadn't got the magic shoes yet. After everyone managed to get across, we would sit on the other side. This was a difficult meaning that we had to carry each other. The last thing we did was score up our points, which this week we did quite well but we are still yet to reach a maximum 50.

Kiwi Can

This week Wednesday we had Kiwi Can with Mrs. Paige and Mr. Alapati. Our theme is positive relationships and our topic is positive communication. Our focus is active listening and we talked about praise. Our energiser was hoop tug of war, which we had to get into 4 teams for. I was with Alice, Ellenora, Florence, Nyjah, Neveah, Pua, and Te Ponamu. One person from each team competed against one person from the other team and every team had their own cone to touch. Everybody put on hand on the hoop and the target was to pull to the cone. First person from the team to touch it, won. This was very exciting and everybody was cheering for their team-mate. Next we came back to the mat and talked about what we were learning about today. Our last thing we did was our game, which was kick ball. We each got into half and half teams and we would alternate the rolls. This was played out on the field. Someone would kick the ball and tried to run across the field without the team tagging them with that ball. You could run back if someone else through the ball as well. At the end of the games, we came back inside room 7 and did the points. We had a total of 49 as our score.

Kiwi Can

This Wednesday we had Kiwi Can with Mrs. Paige. Our theme is positive relationships and our topic is positive communication. Our focus was tone of voice, which means how we present our voices to show how we feel. Our energiser was fruit salad. Everyone spread out around the classroom, and the leader would call out a fruit which we had to preform the action for. Apple meant we had to move our hips the left, pear meant we had to move our hips to the right, banana meant we had to bend froward, watermelon meant that we had to bend backward. We played a few rounds before coming back to the mat to play our activity. It was called positive and negative role-play. We each we split into 4 groups of 5 and one group had 6. I was partnered with Nyjah, Florence, Giovanni, and Aung Naing. Mrs. Paige gad every team a laminated card which had a scenario written on it, and we had to come up with a positive version of it. Ours said that someone misses a pass and the coach yells at the member. We practised outside our acting, and we would be playing netball but Aung Naing missed the ball. The 'coach' Nyjah, would yell at him for it and the team members (Victoria, Florence, and Giovanni) would help comfort Aung Naing. After organising our act, each group presented our cards and what we had come up with. Another thing would should have added was to get Nyjah to apologise. Everyone did great, and just before leaving the softball inter-school players came back, also teacher supervisors who went. We finished up our session and said Goodbye to Mrs. Paige and Mr. Alapati.

Kiwi Can Reflection

This week Wednesday we had our first lesson of Kiwi Sport. Our leaders are Ms. Page, and Mr Alapati. Our theme is Positive Relationships and our topic is Positive communication. First we discussed the topic and our understanding of what we will be learning. Our first activity was up, down. We had to get into a circle and when the leader said down, we had to bob our heads down but when up was said we had to look up and stare at someone. This had to show honesty and be truthful if you were out. We then went outside to play our next activities, and for the first one we needed to get into small groups of three and stand in a circle. I worked with Sakina and Florence. We each numbered ourselves off like every other group, and once a leader called out a number, that person ran around the circle. The two partners built a tunnel with their arms and body, for the runner to go through. In the middle there were only 5 hoops to stand in, but if your runner was last to get in a hoop then the group was out. The final activity for the afternoon was a trailing game. Two partners had a leader, and someone holding onto their shoulders at the back. Each pair's leader was trying to tag the other person at the back of another pair. My pair was Florence, and it was quiet hot out so we got out in the first few rounds. This game showed communication because the person at the back had to signal when someone was coming and the leader had to keep an eye out. We finished up, and said goodbye to our kiwi can leaders and headed to the fale to spend the rest of our time before going home.