Harold Is Back
We have all been very excited this week because the Life Education van has brought Harold back to us.
We are learning about the brain and how it works and controls what we do. Check out the individual student blogs to see more details.
In Week 2, we realised from looking at our pie chart from Class Dojo, that our Play value didn’t have as many Fish! tickets given as our other three values. In Week 3, we focused on recognising when students were giving things a go and enjoying their learning.
When we checked in to see how we were going, we were pleased to see that the pie chart was looking a lot more balanced.
This term, we are learning to say and sing the karakia, Kia Tau. For a number of years, we have been really confident when singing it but struggle to say it. This has been the case for staff too so there is some good learning for all of us.
Finding a video of the waiata version was quite difficult so we decided to make our own so all of our classes can learn it.
This video is the first take and the quality isn’t as good as we would like and there are a couple of words that we need to pronounce better so we will work on that.
For our first week back at school, we used Class Dojo to give out Fish! tickets as part of our PB4L Programme.
Check out our tickets breakdown:
Our next step is to give more Play tickets and look for opportunities to incorporate our Play value.
This year, we started school the day before Waitangi Day. As part of our Learn Create Share pedagogy, we had a hub brainstorm session to see what we already know about Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Waitangi Day.
To gather our ideas, we created a MindMup to show our current ideas. After we did some more learning, we added our new learning to the MindMup.
Our next step is to add nodes and elaborate on the facts we have learned.
The grey boxes are from our first day and the yellow boxes are from a session a couple of days later.
Here is part of our learning for our Values focus, the Zones of Regulation. We started refreshing our minds about the Blue Zone.
Our next step is to refresh ourselves about the other zones.
To start off the new year, we co created a list of expectations so we can all be happy, calm, safe and experience optimal learning. We made lists of the things we need and what we don’t need. Some really good ideas were shared.
Later, we had a discussion about what good work habits look and sound like.
Check out our ideas:
Our next step is to show what we know!
Kia ora koutou.
This year we have had a bit of a change in our hub and our staff. CHeck out our new team for 2024.