conflict and scenarios

today we are learning to resolve conflicts and being assertive. and this activity we had to read a scenario and stop the conflict in a good way. I wonder why people even start conflicts.

Michael invited Tracey to come over to his house after school. As they were walking to Michael’s house they see a younger kid they know from school. The younger kid is by himself riding his skateboard. Michael wants to mess with this kid, just to play around, but Tracey is uncomfortable with that idea.

in this story Tracey can tell Michael to stop in a polite way.

tips to stop conflict.

be polite when you speak.

don't join that conflict.

tips for assertive communication

make you voice loud but shouting

it  matters in how you say it

roleplay

walking home

Tracey: hey you wanna go somewhere

 Micheal: okay lets go to the park

Tracey: sure

at the park

Micheal: hey you see that kid over there

Tracey: yeah

Micheal: imma mess him up

Tracey: hey we shouldn't hurt or tease him we should not get into his business

Micheal: fine OK lets just play instead. 

the crossword puzzle

today we had to make our own crossword puzzles. the topic about it is the four values of our school: resilience, commitment, respect, and achievement. 

the Value task

 today we talked about our values and mana horomaka (hornby pride). our teacher gave us a task to put sentences into four different boxes with our four values (respect,resilient,commitments, and achievement) and add the meaning of each value.

the Meaning of our Carr Values

today in class we talked our Carr Values

C-commitment: being learning ready,Committing to what you do and finishing your work to a high standard

A-achievement: aiming high,  doing the best work you can do, achievement looks different for each person

R-resilience: having confidence to what you do, and telling to yourself that you can do it, always taking risk, 

R-respect: respecting people, places and environment, talking respectfully to those older than you, respecting beliefs like Christianity, Muslims, etc

Ten Fun Facts of Wellington

 In this blog we are doing 10 fun facts about Wellington.

1. Wellington is located on the lower half of the North Island.

2. The population in Wellington is 216,505 this year, and last  year was 527,800.

3. The Maori name of Wellington is Te Whanganui-a-Tara.

4. Did you know that wellington is the homes of some celebrities, celebrities include: Russell Crowe, Kerry Fox, Karl Urban, Antonia Prebble ETC

5. The Beehive a 44 year old is a famous building, designed by British architect Sir Basil Spence

6. Wellington averages  about 12 Celsius and reaches down to 7 Celsius

7. In Wellington the support woman because they had agreed the woman have the right to vote

8. Wellington declared to be a nuke free zone in a benchmark vote in 1982

9. Wellington has 50,000 hectares of forest and regional parks

10. The  design and special effects company behind the lord the rings, and Thor: Ragnarok had built a building of the special characters and scenes from those two movies 

Explorers of The Sunrise

 Today we have been reading a text called Explorers of The Sunrise. Explorers of the sunrise is a text about Maori voyagers in the waka travelling to Rapanui/Easter island and back. the voyage was a dream to waka builder Hekunukumai Busby, it took ten months, and the crew voyaging, used the traditional methods in this trip. they first cross Tubuai, then reached mangareva, after that  travelling they had finally reached Rapanui. they had at sea for 90 days, and they were happy to have a four week break before voyaging back to New Zealand. then when they had finished resting they went back on the waka and  sailed to New Zealand again. they had now went to Moorea Tahiti, and raratonga, then got to doubtless bay.

lino art

 in this term we have been working lino art( making our own logo). it was a long process to make our own logo. lets explain lino blocks, lino block is the materiel used in floors, but this kind of lino block is for art to cutting you use a gauge it is a handle with a metal piece with a u or v shape. but we didn't start with that yet. first we needed to know what types of logos there were. after we knew what logos were  we started. my lino was a dragon.