Kiwi Can

A circle is round and has no end, that's how long I'll be your friend.

Positive Relationships

"Co-operation is a team operation. Side by side we will not divide."

It was a bit awkward putting our arm around somebody else's shoulder, but we got over it.

We got in a circle, then had to hold the hand/arm of a person in the circle, but is not beside you. We then had to take somebody by the left hand. Finally, we had to untangle ourselves without letting go. We weren't listening properly... And we let go!

Second time around, we got there... But it was a real test of our respectful communication.

We talked about how we need to co-operate when we play sport. We can't do it on our own in a team sport. We need to work together to succeed.

Tuesday afternoons we split into kapahaka & STEM. Both of them require lots of co-operation. Positive communication goes really well with co-operation.

Our next activity... We needed to co-operate to to get our whole team on a piece of paper, without falling on the Lino. Once we did that, we could fold the paper in half to see if we could co-operate to solve the problem.

Collaboration... Working together to achieve a common goal.

Positive Relationships

We have been learning about Praise.

"I show that I am listening, I show friends that I care, I always say nice things, Cause I'm a friend that's always there."

Animal chant

Doggy, doggy woof

Doggy, doggy woof

Doggy, doggy

woof, woof, woof

Piggy Piggy Oink

Piggy Piggy Oink

Piggy Piggy

Oink Oink Oink

Kitty Kitty Meow

Kitty Kitty Meow

Kitty Kitty 

Meow Meow Meow

It got really confusing (and funny) when we mixed them up!

We learned that we can use PPQ.

Praise

Polish

Question

If someone does a piece of work we can: 

Praise - Positive praise for it

Polish - Something they can do to improve what they've done.

Question - to find out more.

Positive Communication

This term, in Kiwican, we are learning about positive relationships. Its a little like positive communication, but we're learning about how we can use that to get along better with others. We are going to be looking at how we can treat our friends nicely and get along better.

Our new catch phrase is i show that i am listening, I show friends that i care. I always say nice things cause I'm a friend thats always there.

Shore Ship Shark

PRAISE

What is praise?

We brainstormed examples of praise.

• Amazing
• Excellent
• Good job
• I'm proud of you.
• Keep it up
• You are cool
• Brilliant
• Good score
• Best work
• Perfect
• Keep going

We are going to try really hard to give each other praise throughout the week. 

We got a sneak peak at what's coming...

Respectful Communication

Holy Moly... Guacamole!

Beginning with a bit of role play... We got into four groups, each stationed by a chair. Nicky told us an object, and we had t work as a team to make that object. We had a chair in case we needed to get higher (instead of using a body to stand on.

Make a tree

A Spring flower opening 

An erupting volcano

A bus stop

Kiwican says "Its not just what you say, it's how you say it."

What were some nice things that you heard last week?

What are some of the ways that we communicate?
- We talk to each other.
- Blog posts and comments.
- Email and text message.
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What are the rules about what we put online?
- Not putting full names on there.
- If you're putting a comment, it needs to be thoughtful, helpful and positive.

We need to remember that if it's written online, then it's there for a lot longer than if it were spoken. Theres no body language or tone of voice to give people extra clues about the message it's sending.

We got back into our groups to do our next activity.

In Slow motion:

"One person in your group gets an award that you wanted. How do you react?"

Can't stop dancing:

Your group of friends are playing together and you see a student playing alone. What do you do?

We had to Mime:

A group of students are being rude to the teacher... What do you do?

As animals:

You see this student being picked on by two other students. What do you do?

Kiwican - Respectful communication

We are learning about respect for ourselves. We are all different... in the way we look, think and act.

Respectful communication is about how we talk to each other, even when we might be a bit grumpy.
"It's not just what you say, it's how you say it."

One... two... three... look...

We had our eyes closed... then on the count of three we would point our elbow in a direction across the circle. If we opened our eyes and were pointing at each other, then we had to sit down.

We made the circle smaller as we weaned people out.

There might have been a few integrity issues with peoples elbows twitching into a different direction as they opened their eyes. When we were honest and showed integrity, the game went faster and we had more fun.

Nice thing we can say

We had to think of five examples of positives things to say to people. It might be something said to us; something we'd like people to say to us; something you've heard someone say.

• You make me smile everyday.
• You look nice today.
• You're good at singing.
• Are you okay?
• Your shoes look nice.
• You're good at League.

When someone gives us a compliment, we say thank you.

When we see someone in the morning, we say hello or good morning.

Role Play

We got into groups and then Nicky gave us a scenario to put together a role play showing: 

• how you might say hello to your friend down the street.
• Greeting your teacher in the morning.

Greeting our teacher

• You are playing a game, but you are not the winner... how do you show sportsmanship after the game?
• Running the cross country, someone from behind pushes you and they win the race.

We found this one really hard because it's hard to talk about the tricky situation

We need to keep coming back to this...

Freeze: How can we communicate that in a positive way?

Outstanding Kiwi Can Student

Congratulation to our First Yr 4-6 Learning Community KiwiCan Student of the Week!

Taylor

Great to be back into KIWICAN!

RESPECT  is what we are all about this term.
Respect for ourselves.

"I'm proud of where I come from, I'm proud of who I am, I'm proud to be a Kiwi, because a Kiwi Can!"

Catch Phrase Time

We heard about an inspirational KiwiCan person who is biking from Cape Reinga to the Bluff (Top to bottom of New Zealand!)

Check out his progress!

We played a game called 'Save the Bacon'. 

We were given a number from 1 to 11. When our number was called out, we had to go and get the 'bacon' (in this case a ball). We then had to pass the ball around the rest of our team. If the ball landed on the ground, you start again. The other team is trying to get the ball off us.

We played Red vs Blue to make it easy.

We needed to work as a team and listen to make sure we moved when our number was called, so our team had the number of people we needed.