Kiwi Can

This week for kiwi can we talked about how to be a leader and  how to be confident. First we started with our energizer called bop it. Bop it is a game where you have to try and copy the moves and not do the wrong one or be the last one to do the move. Next we were talking about being confident and how we can be confident. To be confident you need to take risks, try your best and overcome your fears. After we played our activity called bowchickawow. It is a game where you have to copy the next persons moves. When you do the first persons move, you have to copy it and add a move.Then we moved on to talking about how to be a good leader. Being a good leader to us is being responsible and being a role model.

Kiwi Can

This week for Kiwi Can our topic was positive communication. Our enegizer was Up and down, in this game we had to put our cones up or down depend on what instruction we got and the person we got the most cones up or down won. After that we had our activity which was street fighter. In this game we had five moves for example number one which was a punch. The Kiwi Can Leaders said two to three numbers and we had to do that move and make the sound, you beat the other person by doing the moves faster than them.

Kiwi Can

For Kiwi Can Out theme is positive relationships. We also talked about the word courtesy. For our energizer we played change places. For our activity we had to act to show empathy or no empathy.

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L.I to recap our learning

This was our last Kiwi Can session for the year. This session was our fun session which meant we only played games for the session. The first game we played was Traffic lights, the second game we played was hot potato, the third game we played was musical cones, the fourth game we played was do this do that and the fifth and final game we played was bitty bitty bop.

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L.I to respect others for their differences

In Kiwi Can we learnt about respecting others. Respecting others means to respect other peoples beliefs, ideas and customs. One way of being respectful is thinking about what you are going to say before you say it because it might be rude or offensive to someone. Our activity was spot the difference. in pairs one person had to change one thing about their appearance, while the other person was not looking. After each round we had to swap roles.

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L.I to respect

Our theme is respect and out topic is patience. Patience is waiting calmly without complaining about something. For our activity we had to make a line and grab hold of the person in front of ours shoulders, then when the person at the back of us squeezed our shoulders we had to squeeze the person in front of our shoulders.

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L.I to respectful communication

Our theme was respect and our topic was respectful communication. Respectful communication is when you communicate politely or kindly with someone, it can be any type of communication. Our activity was animal squire where we had to sing a song about the sound that the animal that our Kiwi Can leader gave to us.

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L.I to respect ourselves

Our theme this term is respect, and our topic is respecting yourself. Respect means treating people the way you want to be treated. First we had our energizer, VS The Kiwi Can leaders said two things and the thing we liked better we had to go to that side, we also had to explain why you liked that thing for example Soccer VS Basketball.

After we did a recap on what we talked about last week and why we like or dislike something. Later  we did our activities, one group did physical challenges like making a pyramid using our bodies. The other group went to the library with Mrs. Mac to solve world riddles. Lastly we did GKQ's where we st in a circle, four people stood up and they had to answer a question.

Kiwi Can

L.I to respect yourself

Our theme this term is respect, and our topic is respecting yourself. Respect means treating people the way you want to be treated. First we had our energizer, it was called Banana, Apple and Orange. The Kiwi Can leaders called out one of these fruits, each of the fruits had a instructors. Apple was to jump forward, Orange was to jump backwards and Banana was to turn 180 degrees.

After that we talked about how we could respect ourselves. Some of the ways are by brushing your teeth, taking a shower and more. Later on we it was activity time, the activity we played was called one truth and one lie. In this game we had to tell one truth and one lie about ourselves.

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L.I to cope with challenges

We learnt how to face our challenges and experience/attempt them. We looked at three different types of challenges and wrote about our feelings when we face those challenges. We figured out coping in groups of three.

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L.I to deal with challenges

We need to practice dealing with challenges to deal with them  easily in the future. We did a bust stop activity. We had to explain in the pictures.

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L.I to cope with challenges

For Kiwi Can we learnt about coping with changeless. For this we did two challenges that used our listening skills and our thinking. For our energizer we played a game that tested how good we could listen. In this game there were six actions that the Kiwi Can leaders would call out, they were heads up, heads down, spin around, touch the ground, jump in, jump out.

 After that we talked about some challenges in school and how we could overcome them. Lastly for our activity, we had to make a cross with six shapes.This challenge was really hard because of the limited amount of shapes we had. Here is what we had to do four the challenge, can you make a cross with only six shapes.

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L.I to show self discipline
For Kiwi Can we focused on self discipline, self discipline is controlling yourself. For this topic we played two games that required self control.

 The first game was called rats and rabbits, in this game two people (one rat and one rabbit) had to get the cone before their opponent did. After that we talked about coping with challenges and things you're scared of. For our activity we had to do four challenges, each of them we had to complete in one minute. Our first challenge was doing five push ups, five sit ups, five squats and five burpees in one minute, this was my favorite challenge because it was a physical activity except for the push ups.

 The second challenge we did was matching the Maori colour names to the English colour names in one minute, this challenge was hard for me because I don't know many words in Maori. Our third challenge was recreating the Kiwi Can catchphrase in one minute and them do it in front of the class, creating different actions were hard because we had to be really creative. Our fourth and last challenge was writing the alphabets backwards, this challenge was hard because we had to think a lot.

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L.I to Understand emotions

For Kiwi Can we talked about about how to understand emotions and rate them on the intensity scale. For our energizer we got a card with an emotion written on it and we had to find people with a synonym of the word you have. After we found those people we had to put them in order of less intense to most intense. After the energizer we talked about how emotions can effect you friends and family. For our activity in groups we were given a card with what act we had to, our act was about arguing about who gets to kick the drop goal in  the final of a rugby tournament.

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L.I to follow through with what you say

For Kiwi Can our topic was Responsibility. The catch phrase is "Responsible is what I am, that's the way of Kiwi Can.Our energizer was counting to 21 and we cold say up to three numbers. We talked about how following though with what you say will benefit you. Our activity was called goal setting, here we had to write three things that we were going to learn or improve at and how. My three things were Getting better at soccer by practicing and learning more skills, learning the 12 times table by practicing whenever I could, my last one was waking up early by going to bed early.

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L.I to doing things without being asked

For Kiwi Can we had a new topic, it was Responsibility. Responsibility is having a duty that you need to deal with. This weeks catch phrase was: Responsible is what I am, that the way of Kiwi Can. We also spoke as a group about what being responsible is. Lastly we did an activity that involved responsibility. Using a skipping ropes we had to  balance a ball by working as a group. Once it was balanced we performed simple tasks like walk to the window without the ball dropping.

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L.I to define what Honesty is.

This term for Kiwi Can out Theme is Integrity, it means doing the right thing. Our topic is Honesty, which means telling the truth. Our new catch phrase is Talk to me truthfully, that is called Honesty! For our energizer, we played a game called Three Sport. To play this game you need to pick three sport and have a person  pick one of the sports, if you have the same sport as that person you will be out. Our activity was a game called role play. in this game we were given a scenario where we needed to be honest and tell the truth. Our scenario was Cheating. Lastly we played a game of GKQ (General knowledge questions.

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L.I to build positive relationships

Today in kiwi can we were learning about Friendship. We talked about situations where it is OK to say no! We disused different ways to say No that don't cause disrespect. We did a activity called empathy role play. A group acted a situation and as a class we needed to decide the way to say No. Our options were No thanks, Let's do something else instead, It's just not my thing and That's not a nice thing to do.

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L.I to cooperate with other people.

For Kiwi can we focused on cooperation. We played two games that we had to show cooperation, the first game we played was called opposites. in this game we had to do the opposite thing our Kiwi Can leaders told us, which was hard for me. After that we had a talk about cooperation mean and why it is necessary in a team or group. Later we had our activity, the name of the game is command and conquer. In the game we split into groups and chose one leader, then he or she has to go to the Kiwi Can leaders to get an instruction and go back to their group and do that thing with their group, the first group fished won and got to pick another person from the other group.

Kiwi Can / positive communication.

L.I to be a active listener and communicator.

This week for Kiwi Can we focused on being an active listener. We did this by playing two games that reacquired this skill. The first game we played was called remote control, in this game we had six of the remote controls which were pause, play, stop, rewind, fast forward and slow motion. After that we had a talk about active listening, what it meant and why you must that skill.

Later we played a game called Chop Sui Salute, this game also needed a lot of listening because Mr. Alapati only called numbers that he taught us that meant the moves that we have to do and the best part is that I was the champion of the game which was great.