Kenya Wins Gold!!

Today we had the IA Commonwealth Games. We participated in lots of different sports, there was basketball, egg and spoon race, net ball, relays, javelin and tennis. Everytime we went to a new sport we got points out of 10 for mindfulness, listening and sportsmanship. At the end all our points got added together annnnnd... WE WON! We are very proud of our gold medal :)

 First - Kenya Room 12, Second - Cayman Islands Room 14, Third - Room 17 Wales

Ka kite anö äpöpö

It is Maori Language Week! Our word of the week is apopo. We have been learning how to say see you tomorrow. This is how we said goodbye to Miss Taylor today!

Story Afternoon

Listening

This week we talked about what makes a good listener for our Habit of the week.

Listening with Understanding and Empathy.

We talked about what a good listener looks like, sounds like and feels like.

When you need to be a good listener

And when you should not listen

Here is Jayqwon showing us how to be a good listener

Here is a definition of Listening with Understanding and Empathy

We ran out of time today but next week we are going to come up with our OWN definition of what we think listening is and then we will post it on here so you can all have a look. 

Next week the Pirates have decided that it is our goal to be great listeners so we will need to remember all of these things! :) 

Zoo Trip

Yesterday we went to the zoo.
We had the most amazing time looking at all the different animals and their habitats. We talked today about how the zoo tries to recreate the animals natural habitat for them.
Check out some of our photos from the zoo!

 We learnt that giraffes have REALLY long tongues that are BLUE so that they don't get sunburnt

 We got to see a real life kiwi in the dark

 The birds natural habitat

 We enjoyed seeing the giraffes moving around in their habitat but it sure did smell!

 Matthew and Adrian pretending to drive the Zoo Ute.

 Some of us gathered around the giraffes

 Matthew trying to stand like a flamingo. It was a bit harder than he expected

 The Rhino, we thought that it was the baby brother Rhino because of his tail

 We thought that the alligators weren't real because they hardly moved. We also found out that they can stay underwater for 8 HOURS!! we couldn't hold our breath for that long.

All of us under the elephant at the zoo. 

Thursday - Samoan Language Week

Today Jay and Denzel had a conversation using all the phrases that we have learnt this week. We had so much fun learning Samoan phrases and making all our videos for the challenge. Thank you Mr Siilata!

Animal Masks By Anahiiri

Today in Room 12 we made an animal mask. I picked a tiger because I like tigers and because it roars and eats other animals. I coloured the tiger in purple, green, black and red. I love the colour and my tiger mask.