School Value Goals by Mahara

Today we learnt about our school values and what we can do to improve them. What I did was I write down what can help me with my values. And to know the importance of showing them constantly even after school hours. what I did was I had to write what I could do like manaakitanga what can I do to help improve my caring for others I also learnt how important you need to show these school values especially If you want to be a student leader you will have to show these every day

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Health and Well Being Programme - Tai Chi and Kung Fu Reflection by Perenara

Today we had our first ever Tai Chi lesson with our instructor Mr Gordon. First he told us a little bit about him and that he has done different types of Tai Chi and Kung Fu and has black belts in most of them. He has also been in the army for a number of years but then he left and went back to martial arts. He also has a son and a daughter at his daughter's birth the doctor said that she may not live but now she is 24/25 years old and is a doctor she has also done martial arts her whole life. Half way through our lesson we all got into a circle he told us this was the sharing circle we had to tell him our names, one thing we like, one thing we dont like and a random act of kindness that we have done recently.

He taught us some moves to help defend ourselves and maybe others. He taught us the Tiger pushing mountain, Inform and Open gate. Tiger pushing mountain would help us to push over our opponent and if they hit us we can protect ourselves. At the beginning 0f all our classes we go in to this form so that he can tell us what we are doing through out that lesson. And the Open gate this one will help us to face our opponents and be ready at the same time weather they are at the front of us or at the back of us.

He also asked us to share a random act of kindess he gave us an example to make sure that we knew what he was talking about. To me a random act of kindness is when you use your initiative to do things without being told to do it and doing something that will be helpful and not something that would make everything worse or bad.

He has taught us a lot of things but he said that whatever I teach you here you take it with inside of school outside of and out in your community. By that I think he means use all those skills he taught us how to breathe properly and I think that was to try and calm us down and in the community we could use this when we are angry. And if for any reason you get to a point where you need to protect yourself to use those stances that he has taught us because they are all to do with protection.

Attitude Program with Tony - by Edith

These are my 2 DLO's about the Positive attitude we learnt from Tony, Ms Kelly's (teacher aide) son .

Hauora by Edith

In the Kia manawanui Class we have been learning about the Hauora and what could happen if we don't take care of one if the 4 things. It is like a car if a tyre is flat you will not go far until you take care of it.

Waka of Strengths by Edith

Waka of Strength by Constance

WALT: Find what qualities represent ourselves

Kia Ora! and Malo!

I will now be blogging about my strengths.

What are strengths?
A strength is something that you are really good at. For e.g: I am good at communicating with others.

The challenging part of this task was, figuring out what my strengths are. Of course I have more then several strengths, but I needed to choose 2 strengths.

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Solo Taxonomy by Alethia

Solo Current Events!

So here today I have finished off my solo current events task which was about the cyclone gita that had hit Tonga with rain and winds that destroyed houses.In this task that I have finished writing down Who,When,Where,What,How and Why.I have not finished off writing down why because how I was not sure about what I should write in there.I have also written down a summary of what I have read and there will be sentence starters with their text highlighted which means that I have chosen something from the SOLO Summary Sentence Starters!

Here is my presentation about my solo current events that I have finished.

Enjoy!

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