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Today we were able to have our first team Folau assembly 2022 acknowledging students who challenged themselves throughout Term 1 with so much happening in their learning, their well being and growth mindset. Here's hoping Term 2 will go without any setbacks with lockdowns, isolations and student/teacher hauora.
Yes we have decided to continue with the enthusiasm for the game of Chess. Many of Team Folau students have been learning how to play the game Chess. This is a really good game to know how to play as it teaches thinking new Strategies and Patience. This term Miss Te'o ran the Chess knockout round and now we are moving on to Term 2 with 13 semi finalists who may play on into Term 3 to find our final 4 players in Term 4 to play off for the 2022 JBS Champion.
Here are some of our semi finalists - as knockout round became a tad fiesty and needed another playoff the following day - this is some serious Chess players 😁😁😁😂😂😉👌
Our inquiry this term is all about 'ME THE LEARNER' We have been learning lots of interesting things and we used Te Whare tapa wha, The Learning Pit, Thinking hats, Growth Mindset, and School values to showcase how I could use all these to make my learning interesting. We focused on a lot of interesting topics about our ancestors being Wayfinders, the solar system, different countries around the world that our ancestors travelled and how they navigated around the world. We had so many questions and there was lots of challenging moments. We were given two tasks to do, and this started Week 6 - Week 10. We were given recycled cardboard, ice block sticks and had to decorate it ourselves with the materials in the classroom.
1. Make a pyramid - our pyramids needed to be realistic and needed to show 3 dimensions
2. Make a waka - our waka was to be able to float. Then we had Waka races.
Here are some photos of our inventions.
