Last term, Simon from the Wise Group brought about 50 adults to talk to us about our future and vision for Hamilton when we are adults.

Simon and Nick returned to thank Kauri team for their help.

They gave us a cool card with a hover car on it and then told us they were giving each class in 

Kauri Team a 

CHROME BOOK!

We were so excited!

Akomanga Tekau with Simon and Nick

Happy

I love it when my students arrive at school in the morning and greet me with their gorgeous smiles. 

It's fun taking selfies too! (The girls were giving me advice on how to take a good selfie).

Project Energize - Cooperative Games

Once again, we are lucky enough to have Erin from Project Energize in to teach us some cool new cooperative games.

 Erin put us into even teams. The task was to take turns running up to a cone and collecting two puzzle pieces to return to our group. Once we had all the pieces we had to work together to solve the puzzle.

We had four triangles, four circles, four hexagons and four squares.
Each set of shapes were four different colours. That is we had one red, one blue, one black and one pink triangle.


Then we had to work together to put one of each shape in a line horizontally. So you were supposed to end up with four rows that had each shape but with different colours. This was so tricky. We had to work together and listen to other opinions and decide on a plan on how to solve the problem.

Next we had to wear blindfolds, connect to the person in front by holding their shoulders. We had to listen to our leader direct us without breaking the chain or crashing into anything.
Our leader said it was quite difficult to get our class to listen. It was hard to give instructions when the class couldn't see.


We had a lot of fun!

Cricket Skills

Our class loves being active. Over to Dawson to practice our cricket skills. 

We were so lucky not only did we improve our skills, but we got a bag, a cricket ball and sunglasses! 

And the icing on the cake was to hang out with our friends from Room 11.

Thank you for teaching us new skills and our bag of goodies.

Shake Out!

What is Shake Out?

At 9.15am across New Zealand schools and other work places practiced what to do if there is an earthquake. 

You DROP (to the ground), 

COVER (your head) 

and HOLD (onto the table leg).

Sometimes there is no tables or chairs to shelter under. 

Wise Group visit Kauri Team: Part 2

Some groups of students had huge brainstorms with ideas and pictures to share about the future of Hamilton.

The morning was filled with such rich language. Some of us talked about hover cars, safe ways for kids to get to school, more green spaces and gardens. Others designed technology that could help people in our community. So many fantastic ideas.

Our visitors gathered again for a quick debrief in our class before returning to the rest of their day of learning.

We were so excited that all these adults wanted to listen to our ideas.

Wise Group Visit Kauri Team

For a week, Kauri team students were talking and thinking about what Hamilton could look like in the future. They thought and talked about what they would like to see if there were no limits to their dreams. We drew pictures, labelled diagrams and wrote about our aspirations for the future of our city.

 

Then a group of adults (about 50) from the Wise Group, Kakariki House in Hamilton East wanted us to share our ideas and visions for the future of Hamilton. This is a group in our community that would like to strengthen their relationship with others in the area and they want to support our school. Yay!

They arrived on a bus, and it was a little difficult to see who was more nervous - the students or the visitors. It was made a little easier for our room as Simon (who brought the visitors) is married to Whaea Kat.

We spread out throughout the Kauri classrooms and the library so that we could talk to our visitors.

A very sad day.

We were devastated when we got to school. The smell of smoke was strong. Lots of kids were upset and angry. Why would anyone do this to our school? Our hall had been burnt. We had to stand behind the fences and look at the dripping plastic guttering. We could see where the smoke had raced up the side of the building.

Can you see the melted gutter?

There is no wall. The paper is peeling off.

We had so many emotions. Sad and angry was how the majority of the class felt.
Do you know any better words for sad or angry?

Can We Make It? - Using Paper

PAPER! PAPER! PAPER! 

What can you make with paper? The choice is huge. There are different types of paper that are differnent colours and textures. We made cards, collages, pop up cards, matariki stars, patu, hats, posters, drawings and kete.

Alazay found a video clip that showed each step how to make a matariki star using paper or ribbon. It was quite tricky, but we kept on trying to work it out. It was very hard. First we had to find lots of stuff like ribbons and paper.
"I thought it would be a bit easy but it was so difficult."

Blog Post thoughts and ideas from Piata, Alazay, Arnia and Mele.

Can We Make It? - Flax Weaving for Matariki

 During Matariki we were able to use harakeke (flax) to begin to learn how to weave. We were making flax flowers, fish, stars and headbands. It was quite difficult to bend the flax and weave it the right way.