Live Dancing!

Koru Whanau rocked the Hall on Friday night

 

Using a Talking Strip to improve our communication skills.

Communication or talking skills are important to learn so that you can have a conversation with another person with confidence - here first Daniel, and then Cory, are trying out our Talking Strip. 

In Daniel's book he has made a Quick Talking Strip for talking about his news - it includes an introduction sentence,time, where, who with, what happened, how I felt about it...

Now he is sharing with his talking partner Daisy and she will listen and talk back. This video shows Daniel using his Talking Strip for the first time and he is doing really well with including different parts in his talking.

Here is Cory and he is using his talking strip to check his communication skills. The Talking Strip is a tool to help him if he needs a prompt. He doesn't need to ask Mrs Trembath for help because he has the Strip in front of him. 

Room 14 - learning for life! Turangawaewae - a place to stand - belonging.

In Room 14 we have made a Class Treaty and signed it. We did this after discussing Waitangi Day and what that meant to New Zealand history. 

We decided:

We will try our best to respect others

Share with others

Care for others

Encourage others

We all signed the Treaty. 

At home Whanau might like to discuss some of these words: respect, share, care and encourage and what that might look like in your family.

Our GEMS cover all of these aspects of our Treaty with Growth Empathy Mana Self Belief. This Term R14 are looking at the GEM - Mana in particular,