Riveting Riddles!

Today in Kiwican we were learning about respecting ourselves and our strengths. We first played a game where we had to tag people by jumping every time a whistle was blown, which was lots of fun for us all!

Then we had a discussion about respect before the next activity was introduced. In this activity, we were split into two teams. The first team went to room 11 with Miss Tuia while the second team stayed with Mr Numia. Miss Tuia's team were given a page of riddles to solve. This involved lots of discussion and sharing of ideas, as the riddles were very challenging.
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Mr Numia's team had to throw a hula hoop over a cone, which was harder than it looked as it could not knock the cone over. We had so much fun taking part in these activities we wanted to continue when the bell rang! Thank you Kiwican for another awesome session.

Kiwican

This week in Kiwican we were learning about overcoming challenges. We are faced with lots of different types of challenges every day; a tricky maths problem, a sports game, working with new people, an argument or social problem.

We took on the challenge of making different letters with our bodies. Some letters were more difficult to make than others and we had to all work together. Can you guess what these letters are?




Then we played a game of hoop soccer; we had to kick a deflated ball into a hula hoop. This was way harder than we expected as it was hard to judge how much force the ball needed to land in the hoop (often it would roll over it instead). We also found it challenging to do this in front of the class, as they watched us all.

Kiwi Can

During our first Kiwi Can of the year we learnt a lot about positive communication and active listening. This lesson tied in really well of our class goal to respect each other and to listen to the speaker.

After talking to Mr Numia about active listening, we got to play a game that required us to actively listen. The game was called fruit salad. When Mr Numia called out the name of a fruit, we had to complete the action that went along with it. For example, when Mr Numia called out 'apple' we had to jump to the right.


This turned out to be such a funny game and we all had a great time completing the different actions!

We then got into our GKQ's, or general knowledge questions. Some of the questions Mr Numia asked were about the Treaty of Waitangi - which was perfect as we have been learning about it in class!