Manaiakalani Drawing Session by Nyjah

Last week Friday Alex, Jack and I taught a group of Manaiakalani teachers how to draw using google draw. We firstly presented a little DLO about a quick tutorial on how to draw using basic shapes and curve tools. After we gave a quick example on how to draw everyone tried drawing a flower to start  with. I was really proud of how most of them turned out. Teaching everyone was a challenge at first but when I kept going I got more confident and was able to help everyone by giving directions on how to use the tools and explore tool by myself.  

Ballet Lesson with Chloe by Nyjah

Yesterday LS2 had the amazing opportunity to attend and try out ballet with Chloe. A big thank you to both Chloe and Fiona for making this possible. Our first exercise was to firstly loosen up our feet muscles, legs, arms and hips. After our first exercise we started by practicing a few stances and positions. Our first position was to have our feet in a little v shape. After we got the hang of our positions we did a few ballet jumps. Our challenge was to jump using left leg first in the front and using our back leg to push off. After we had finished that we used our hands as our guide using the opposite arm from our front leg and our back hand facing the side. After we all finished the few exercises Chloe taught us the opening to the swan dance. Everyone in LS2 gave everything a go and i'm sure they enjoyed Chloes way of teaching as she was fun and very productive.

Teaching Teachers How To Use Goggle Drawing

On Friday after tech, Alex Nyjah and I taught a group of teachers how to use Google Drawing to create pictures, and how to use Google Slides to create animations. I along with my peers had so much fun teaching teachers, and we were very thankful for the opportunity that we were given. During the lesson, we showed everyone a presentation that we had all prepared the day before that would act as a tutorial for simple drawings. My favourite parts of the experience was meeting the teachers, and preparing the presentation as I enjoyed drawing images for examples.

Kiwi Can reflection by Nyjah

Yesterday at Kiwi Can we learnt about Negotiation and our new topic is Cooperation. Negotiation is kind of like having an argument because you are fighting over two or more ideas. I would negotiate if I was drawing with multiple people, because I am more used to drawing by myself and thinking of my own creative ideas. Although sometimes I can mix my idea with someone else and make a even better idea then before! The first game we played was to follow someone but you have to try stay under cover and then you have to guess who was following you... The next game was magic shoes. One person had to take another person to the other side and so that person has magic shoes and they have to go back and bring there team to the other side. Although you had to carry them across without getting them to touch the ground. My team was able to win! 

Being a Leader by Nyjah, Matthew, Aung Naing, Jonathan and Sandra

Today our team consisting of Matthew, Aung Naing, Jonathan, Sandra and I made a
google draw about the definition and goals of a leader. We worked together as a team to
create this google DLO and we were able to write down what we think a leaders

expectations and goals are. We think that as a team leaders should be supportive
and encouraging to everyone in their team.

Here is the link to Nyjah's blog post

Harry's war / Bulford kiwi, Evaluating and Vocab - Nyjah

This week me,Fui,Joseph,Hajera and Viva finished our Evaluating DLO and the Bulford Kiwi DLO. These two DLOs explain what the text was about, what interesting facts have you learnt from reading this text? Why?, What questions do you have after reading? and why the Bulford kiwi was built. Also the name of the book is titled "Harry's War". Before Evaluating and the Bulford Kiwi we had to write some vocab and about the word, like there synonyms and Antonyms.

Congratulations Alex, Junior, Fraidoon and Nyjah

Congratulations Alex, Junior, Fraidoon and Nyjah for being awarded certificates for being organised for school, and for showing respect. Great to see you all making such a positive start to your 2018 learning journey. Well done!