Problem Solving (Kiwi Can)

                         

LI: to learn about Problem Solving
For Kiwi Can I did a DLO (Digital Learning Object) on Problem Solving. In my DLO (Digital Learning Object) I defined or explained what Problem Solving is, and I also said how Kiwi Can teaches us Problem Solving. I also showed examples of a bunch of different problems like Math Equations, or just Academics, or Real Life stuff.

Role Models

LI: to learn about role models
The topic for this week, we were talking about Role Models and Leadership. Role Models are people who inspire and are responsible. They are people who keep you motivated. Leaders are people who take the lead, and are responsible. We then started talking about our own Role Models or Leaders in our life. Their were a variety of different Role Models, such as their Moms, Uncles, and even friends. For our activity we played a game called Paint the Picture. We were in groups, and had to become a car, or plane, or basketball hoop and much more. This game related to being a Leader or Role Model because when we got mixed up or confused someone would take the lead.

Leadership

LI: to learn about leadership
For Kiwi can we were talking about Leadership. We were talking about what leaders needed to overcome, and what is a confident leader. They need to overcome fear, embarrassment, anxiety, emotions and the negative outcomes of possibilities. Leaders also need to be brave and take risks. We also shared our personal leaders in our lives, like our parents, or even someone famous. Leadership means being responsible, being confident, and patient. A confident leader inspires people to do their best, and is a role model. Kiwi Can really made us think about all the leaders in our life and around the world.

Kiwican Reflection

LI: to learn about giving it a go
Our theme for Kiwican is Positive Relationships, and the topic is Fairness and Fairplay. We first started off by playing our Energizer changing places. There was a cone in the middle, and when someone said the magic word, you had to try to get the cone before your partner. Today we learnt about giving it a go. Giving it a go is about try new things, and doing your best at it. We then moved onto our activity called 1v1. There were two people going back to back and we had the leader say something like "do the most dramatic cry". Then we tried to do it better then our partner.

Kiwican Reflection

LI: To include and engage others by being sensitive to their feelings

For Kiwican this term our Theme is Positive Relationships and our theme for the next couple of weeks are Fairness and Fairplay. We first started off by playing our Energizer which was changing places. We then talked about how fairness and fairplay could go in a game situation. For example you can be fair to people in a game by having an equal amount of players in each team. We also talked about what courtesy was. Courtesy is being polite and having manners toward other people. We also talked about Common sense which is making wise choices. Lastly we talked about Consideration which is being thoughtful of others. Then all those words come up to Empathy. Empathy is being all those things we talked about together. We then did a roleplay on Empathy. Our role play was about a person who got hurt by the other team, while his teams help him up and the person who hurt him helps him up

Kiwi Can

LI: to learn about Patience
For the next couple of weeks we are going to be learning about Patience. Patience is being able to accept problems and delays without getting frustrated. We talked about how we could lose our patience and what its like when people lose their patience. Our activity was called Patience Test. We got into two lines (boys & girls). In our lines we held each others shoulder. In the back was Mr Simanu holding the back lines shoulders. Mr Simanu would press it and we would carry it on. Then the person at the front would have to go get the cone. So that tests our patience by not cheating.

Kiwican

LI: to learn Respectful Communication
Respectful Communication is communicating to people in different ways like language, body language and a bunch more, but also communicating to the person politely and respectfully. Our energiser was Math Hands. We were in partners and we had to have our hand in the back we then showed our hands with an amount of fingers and we had to add it up as fast as possible. Our activity was Musical Chairs but instead of chairs we used cones.

Respectful Communication

LI: to learn respectful communication
This term for Kiwican our theme is "Respect". For the next couple of weeks we will be learning about Respectful Communication. We first talked about any different ways of communication like speaking, emails and text, body language and a heap more. We then talked about "What is Respectful Communcation". Respectful Communication is communicating with people respectfully, formally, and really just being nice. We then played Animal Choir. We would get into groups and each group had a song, then the conductor or the leader are going to point at us so we can sing.

Kiwican

LI: to learn about our strengths and weaknesses
This week was the last week were going to talk about "Respecting ourselves". We recapped on what we did for the pas few weeks. We first played our energiser. Our energiser was that we had to get in groups and the leader of the group had to go to the teacher, and get given an activity. Then the leader has to tell their group the activity and complete it. Then later we talked about strength and weaknesses and said what they were, and we ourselves told our strengths and weaknesses. Later we played Human Knot.

Kiwi Can

LI: to learn how to respect ourselves
We first recapped on what we did last week. We talked about how we are unique in our own way and how we should accept ourselves for who we are. Our energiser was called "Verses". There were two food items, and we had to pick which one we thought were better. We then kind of had a persuasive argument on why the food item we chose was better. We then kept on talking about why we should respect ourselves. Our activity was called Wisdom vs Mights. We had two groups, the wisdom group had to complete a bunch of riddles & brain teasers. While the might group had to do a bunch of physical challenges.

Kiwi Can

LI: to respect yourself
Respect is to treat people the way you wanted to be treated. We then started on our Energiser called "Fruity Tutti". One of the Kiwi Can leaders basically said a fruit that meant an action. So apple meant jumping forward, orange meant to jump back, and banana was a 180 jump. We also did it in a circle so when we did it, it would look in sync. But if we did the command wrong we would bump into each other. We then talked about Respect, and what we should respect. But we then started talking about respecting ourselves, by being hygienic, self control, self discipline, controlling our emotions and much more. 

Then our activity was "One truth & One lie". We had each teacher or leader saying two statements about themselves. We had to guess which statement was true.

Kiwi Can

LI: to cope with challenges
We learnt how to face our challenges and experience / attempt them. We looked at three different types of challenges. Physical challenges which is like trying new sports and more. Mental challenges are like Maths, Reading, Writing and more. Our activity was to pick a situation or scenario from one of the three different types of challenges. We had to write what we would be feeling and how we would cope. This was a group task.

Kiwi Can

LI: to deal with challenges
Dealing with challenges has a lot of meanings, but the one we were focusing on was dealing with difficult situations. Our theme is Resilience and our topic is Dealing with challenges. We talked about how we had to practice dealing with challenges so in the future we can deal with them easily. Our activity was a Bus Stop activity. We had images and on those images were people dealing with challenges, and we had to explain what they were experiencing and feeling.

Kiwi Can

LI: to learn how to deal with challenges
Dealing with challenges has a lot of meanings, but the one we were focusing on was dealing with difficult situations. We talked about how we could deal with challenges and what kind of challenges we have to deal on a daily basis. Our activity was to try to make a cross out of only a few shapes. This was our challenge, When we finished we talked about what was hard about this challenges.

Link: https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/e/2PACX-1vQO1mf2hQ_hgaEcSBdsAkoZz_Fr2cUCh4kdwnOffKTDMd_BMUxyQn8Fko9912_Lt_9uokQaa73P-j4u/pub?w=1123&h=794

Self Control

LI: to learn about self control
Our theme for this term is Resilience, which means coping with challenges and bouncing back.Our topic for the next couple of weeks is Self Control. Self Control, is controlling your emotions, your actions and more in a positive way. Our activity was trying to do four challenges. We had to do each challenge in a minute, we had to do them by not stressing out, and we had to try to control ourselves when doing it.

One of the challenges was a fitness test. We had to try to do 5 press ups, 5 sit ups, 5 squats, and 5 burpees in under a minute. Another one was trying to write the alphabet backwards, but we had to start from Z, and we couldn't write the alphabet and copy them. Next was trying to match the English colours with the Maori colours. Last was trying to recreate the Kiwi Can catchphrase using new actions.

The challenging part of the fitness test was being exhausted, I overcame it by having small breaks in between every time I changed. Writing the alphabet was difficult because I knew we wouldn't complete it, but I overcame that by coming up with a strategy. Matching the Maori words with  English words was hard because I forgot it, but I overcame it by trying to do it with the ones I know. Recreating the Kiwican catchphrase wasn't that hard.

Self Control

LI: to learn about self control
Our new topic for Kiwican for the next couple of weeks is Self Control. Self control is when you control yourself in different ways. Such as controlling your emotion,s, actions and more. Our energizer was "Head, shoulders, knees, and toes". The kiwican leader would say head, shoulders, knees and toes. We had to do the action, but when they said toes, we had to grab a cone between the two people.

Then we talked about what was Self Control, and what was Self Discipline. For our activity we did Roleplay. We were given a scenario and we had to act that scenario out.

Kiwican

LI: to understand emotions
Our topic is Resilience which is coping with challenges and bouncing back and our theme is Emotions. Which are our feelings. Our energizer was trying to match emotions, while rating it from okay - worst. For example if my emotion was scared, I'd have to match it with terrified or panic. Then I'd have to rate them form least worst - worst.

Then we talked about how could affect us, but also how they could affect other people. We then talked about how emotions could also change us a bit.

For our activity we were given cards, which were small plays. We had to act them out. Each play had a meaning.

Kiwican (Emotions)

LI: to be resilient
Our new theme for the next few weeks is resilience, and our topic was Emotions. We first recapped what we did last term, and we then did our energizer which How does it feel. We had commands told to us and we had to do them. Our activity was emotional charades, so we had a scene and we had to do it.

Kiwican

LI: to be resilient
Our new theme for the next few weeks is resilience, and our topic was Emotions. We first recapped what we did last term, and we then did our energizer which was silent disco. We had to pick a emotion and show it by doing a dance, or doing an air instrument.

Our catchphrase is: "If your feel it, let it out, don't doubt it just let it all out!".

Recap of Kiwican

LI: to recap our from the term
We first as a class recapped on what we did throughput the term. We first talked about what our Theme was. Our theme was Integrity, Integrity means to do the right thing when no ones looking. Our three topics were reliability, responsibility and honesty. Reliability means trust someone and Responsibility means to take ownership for your actions. Honesty means being truthful.

We then played Go Home Stay Home, and Octopus.