This past week has been a busy one, as any week in a school is...
For fitness this week it has been up to the sports committee to set up activities including, netball or rugby passes, shooting netball hoops, dribbling at and shooting for soccer goals, as well as basketball dribbling and shooting hoops. The older children then move around the activities with their younger buddies, encouraging all sorts of great leadership skills as well as allowing the younger buddies a chance to have some one on one coaching.
On Thursday for oral language we discussed "Kei te pehea koe?" which is "how are you?" in Māori. With the response being "Kei te ahau." options for responses we practiced are as follows...
Pai (fine)
Harikoa (happy)
Pōuri (sad)
Māuiui (sick)
Hiakai (hungry)
Hiainu (thirsty)
Ngenge (tired)
Hōhā (bored or annoyed)
We are still working on speeches for writing, with the students practicing planning, writing and presenting (to a small group) a speech on one of the following topics: myself (themselves), their pets, their family or their hobbies. These are great topics for speeches as children (or anyone) generally know lots about these topics, making it easy to talk about them, and we all know how tricky and stressful speeches can be so the less stress the better! :)
We have been continuing to look at measuring time in maths, with the children tackling some complicated problem solving tasks, they have amazed me with their willingness to attempt challenging tasks, the level of their engagement is amazing. Next week we are moving on to measuring distances, with a challenge involving measuring objects and areas around the school.
Our first BP challenge was building the longest possible bridge capable of supporting a 500g weight, made only out of newspaper, string, 2 sheets of A4 card and sellotape. There were varying degrees of success in the bridge building but a great deal of cooperation in the teams. We had one clear winner in the challenge, with their bridge being over a metre long! It was the strangest "bridge" I have ever seen but it did the job! Check out some photos here: http://room8ranzau.blogspot.co.nz/2014/08/co-operative-work.html
The students will be completing another BP challenge again this coming week, after discussing what went well for them in terms of cooperation, and how they could improve. We will also be discussing how we can use these cooperative skills outside the classroom. We also discussed some of the things that good sports do at the end of a competition, I am confident that I will see these things manifest in Room 8 after the next challenge is completed. :)
We have continued on with our egg carton creations, with some students almost finished and others in the midst of more complicated creations. Their creations are incredible, the only issue we have had was with the impatience, waiting for the glue to dry! (Featured on the Room 8 blog http://room8ranzau.blogspot.co.nz/) I'll leave you with some photos of these creative geniuses!
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