BEACH ED Friday 26th February

Our personal voice reactions to the day ....

Masaya - I experienced two boogie board charging to me at the same time! I ducked and …….PHEW! This is my experience!

Judith - I liked playing octopus with the adults and liked doing the rescue tube. The waves were strong but I had fun. I was scared to do boogie board but now I like boogie boarding.

Keah - We learnt some lifeguard rules and how to stay safe in the water. We had to watch out for rips and now we know how to spot them and what to do if caught in one. I was glad there weren't any rips in the water we were in.

What you had to do if caught in a rip is you had to stay calm and lay on your back like a starfish. Then you put your hand up to make sure people know you're in trouble. If no one sees you then you have to swim along the beach to the waves and they will take you back in. I had loads of fun!

Rayan - Let me get one thing straight, the changing rooms ain’t nice, like totally unhygienic! But I don’t want to ruin the reflection by, by… “describing” the changing room. So anyways, about the- kind of fun day. First we did beach games (I didn't really like that) there was a whole lot running and racing. We were trying to practise saving people with the red rescue tube on the sand. I thought it was pretty much pointless because there’s a whole lot of difference on the dry land and in the sea, because one, in the sea the current is pushing you, but on land there’s no difficulties moving around and plus the string attaching to the tube kept on tangling with my legs.

Romy - Josh saw an incoming surf wave he knew this was his chance to impress all his friends. The surf was still many miles out but Josh could tell something was wrong the wave was at least 40 feet tall now and was still growing.That's when Josh realised the problem that wave was a TSUNAMI He immediately heard the sirens blaring but josh was stuck with no wave he was stuck a mile out with no wave to bring him back and a Tsunami about to smash the city.

Poom - Today at Mirangi bay I learnt to try to stand up when in trouble because if you can stand up you can just run back to shore.

When I was rescuing others I got smashed by a wave I thought I was drowning but I wasn’t because I just stood up and I was fine.

My patient was so annoying because he just lied back so I told him your like the worst patient EVER!

STUDENT GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS

Our writing focus in Week 3 has been persuasive writing.  We have been learning what we need in a persuasive speech when putting ourselves forward for one of these responsibilities:

1. Student Government       2. House Captain     3. Little Kauri leadership programme

Our success criteria for writing our speeches:

Capture audience attention with an opening line that grabs their attention

Promote myself – use my name and let the audience know a little about me

Reasons why I am the best person for the job

Convincing words

Here are some of the speech videos from Room 22.  Congratulations to Gabrielle, Kavita, Mikayla, Anika, Kalei, Kier, Keira and Romy for presenting their speeches.  Good wishes for the election. We will know next week who the successful 5 students are from the 28 that stood for election. The quality of the videos is not very good - we will be learning later this term how to successfully take video's!

Cyber Bullying

Module 3 of our Digital Passports is called E-Volve.

It is about Cyber Bullying...

We learnt the difference between being mean or unkind and bullying.

Bullying is when someone constantly says or does things to you that is unkind and mean.  Even when you ask them to stop, they keep doing it.

Cyber Bullying is done over the internet -  it is electronic communication that is mean, unkind or threatening.

You can follow some simple rules to be Cyber Smart....

Congratulations Whipped Cream!

Arataki Cup - Challenge Two

Challenge Two for the Arataki Cup was Bench Ball.

After 10 games altogether the winning team was WHIPPED CREAM!  

Digital Passport - Week 2

Becoming a Digital Citizen

Room 22 have this week started working towards their Digital Passport.  Module One was called Privacy Mission.

Make a Strong Password

·  Put at least 6 letters and 2 numbers in  a password

·  Don't make it a word that identifies you, like your name

·  Don't use "Password"

·  Use ! @  #  $  %  &  ?  to make a strong password that is hard for anyone to guess. 

What information is safe and appropriate to share on line?

·  Screen name

·  Pets

·  Toys

·  Activities you like

·  Favourite colours, food, animals

 What information is NOT safe and appropriate to share online?

·  Name

·  Address

·  Phone Number

·  Anything that identifies you in a personal way

REMEMBER EVERYTHING YOU SHARE ON LINE IS PUBLIC INFORMATION. -

IT IS YOUR DIGITAL FOOTPRINT and you can't delete it once it is shared.

DON'T SAY ANYTHING ON LINE THAT YOU WOULDN'T SAY WHEN TALKING FACE TO FACE WITH SOMEONE ELSE.

Swimming

Nearly everyone in the pool for our first session.   

Remember our swimming   days are Tuesday and Friday so lets try to have everyone in the pool next week.  Our focus will be on confidence in the water with each half hour session exploring a variety of games and team challenges.   

Arataki Triathlon towards the end of the term - we are in training!   

  

Room 22 display their 2016 goals.

Room 22 today working on their 2016 goal setting mobiles.  Classroom looks messy - no problem - best class ever at cleaning up in near record time too!  Impressive knot tying ability - that's going to be valuable at Water Wise in Week 3 when we for rig the opti's for the first time.

Our class jigsaw puzzle is nearly completed. We are waiting for 2 students to join us next week so we can put their pieces into place. We are all individuals - we come together as a learning team for 2016. 

What an awesome first week we have had!  Room 22 you rock!  

Aratai Cup Champions!

The first Arataki Cup Challenge is completed .  The winners were the Mighty Bananas!   Great to see such good teamwork and sportsmanship from all the teams. 

Congratulations teachers too who challenged the Mighty Bananas and went across the line first!  

Arataki Cup begins!

6 teams battling out the first challenge:  The Mighty Bananas,  Whipped Cream, Arataki Champs, TT Tacos, 2 Fast 2 Quick, and Waffle Pies. 

The first challenge was the ski's - looks easy but really not easy!  Left, right, left, right - have to keep in time and move your feet at the same time to lift up the ski.  

Lots of working together and supporting the 5 team members on the ski's at one time.   Finals to determine the Arataki Cup winners for this challenge will be held on Friday morning.  

Respect - Connect - Challenge

These are 3 important vision words at Forrest Hill this year. Today we explored what these words meant to us. We shared our ideas with a buddy, swapping 3 times to talk and listen with 3 different people.  As a class we decided on the following ways that we show respect, connect and challenge when we are at school.

Respect

• If you borrow stationary that belongs to someone else, look after it and don't break or damage it. 
• Treat others how you want to be treated.
• Use good manners.
• Being kind - no put downs. 
• Listen to others.
• Look after our environment and property so we can all enjoy it. 

Connect

• Communicate - many different ways:  talking,  listening, emails, texts, blogs, telephone, mobiles, video, photo's,  dancing, acting, pieces of art.
• Collaboration - this is more than cooperation, everyone needs to be actively involved.
• Connecting ideas.
• Making friends.
• Working together to help each other learn in the best way we can.
• Share ideas and accept others ideas.

Challenge

• Personal Challenges - when nervous, worried, upset - work through these challenges.
• Make new friends.
• Take on new learning - we know it wont be easy so accept the challenge.
• Overcoming fears and the things you think you cant do.
• Taking risks to push yourself.
• Talking to others to cooperate and collaborate.
• Taking on leadership.

Walking on the stilts was a Challenge! We had to work together and hep each other by holding the stilts and balancing while our buddies got on.  We then "spotted" each other in case we fell off.  Brilliant team work!