Library - merit 2

Today Alicia and I read to the little kids we did the same process and got books out but different ones it was pretty weird to see that there was only one boy wanting to come and hear the story and the rest of the kids were girls. This time there was less people wanting to listen to books read, I think it might be because it was a nice day for a run around not really for sitting down. Alicia had 3 children listening to her Barbie books and I had 5 children listening to I spy books they all participated and had turns in finding the object, I think they all were really smart they found objects before I found them I think we had a great day.


I think I showed community by participating in the I spy book and being a great member of Oakland's school community by letting  children around me have equal turns in finding the objects.


By: Zainab

What I have been learning about leadership

W.A.L.T Describe the traits of an affective leader.

The six traits.

INTEGRITY:

Being honest , fair and having a strong moral.

TRUSTWORTHY:

Being someone who people can relied on and someone who they can trust.

ACTIVE THINKER:

be curious and question things.

RESILIENT:

Never giving up and trying your best.

GOAL FOCUSED:

Aim high for a goal and try your best to achieve it.

I have been learning about different leaders EG: Nancy Wake who worked as a British Special Operations  agent during the later part of World War II. She was a leader because she risked her life to get radio codes by going on a 71 hour bike ride , she also put her life at risk by putting the Jews in safe houses. Here is an E.G of a describe map that I did by myself on Paul Whatuira.
I am currently at Multi structural  because I  can describe the traits of an effective leader and gather ideas.

teaching junior games

Today Grace H and I went down to the juniors with the rest of the year eights.
We got 4 little kids in each groups and played tricky tag and duck duck goose.
The little kids looked very excited and had a lot of energy.
After around 10 minutes Mr McAven  blew the whistle and we all came back outside the music room
and the teachers gave us another pair of 4 little kids to play tricky tag and duck duck goose with.
Personally I think the little kids enjoyed tricky tag more because it was a little bit more new to them.

1 group we had were:
Ava , Alex , Ann , Jake

2 group we had were:
Ava ,  Saarah , Connor , Tie

here are some photo's
By: Zainab

leadership year 8 food forest and juniors being a role model to junior students merit badge

While the year 7's were at camp the year 8's worked in the food forest ,with juniors and in their garden.

what we did:
We used some tools like wheelbarrow,plant cutters and our hands to pull out the weeds from the gardens.
We even pulled out the sweet corns because they were ready and a lot of deadly shaded berries, I think this was a great experience for me and it was really fun helping our environment.

Why:
We did this so our environment stays clean and healthy and we helped the juniors since they can't do it because they are to little.

Where/When:
We did this in the food forest today and yesterday and we even did weeding in the junior garden.

How I felt:
I felt pretty good after seeing how much we all did by collaborating together to get the work done, even though we haven't finished I still think we did really good.

We helped out with the junior students by going in their class and helping them in their learning and helping their teachers handle the little kids.

By : Zainab

peer mediation - merit 2016 1

Today I had peer mediation with Emma I normally do peer mediation on Tuesdays with Candice but I had to swap with  Sasha for a day, for peer mediation what we do is help kids solve problems and walk around most of the school.

If someone says there is a problem you first call all the people involved and ask them if they want to solve the problem if they agree then you need to go through the process I put a video below of another school doing Peer Mediation.Today we had no problems so we just roamed around the junior area and the senior area we basically did a lap or two around the school one of the area's where most of the problems are a always places that are popular for instance the sandpit and the field.

I showed active thinking by actually going around the school and going to the most popular area's where there's normally all the problems I even showed active thinking by turning up to Peer Mediation.

Here is a link to the video of peer mediation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_yRW7RVeCU

Here is four of Oakland schools old peer mediators 

and that's how our vests look like.

Technology at Lincoln - Merit 2016

On Tuesday the year 7/8 go to Lincoln for technology , We have to get to school early at around about 8:20 to 8:30 our teacher do the role and notices before we leave , then we go out and line up outside the office and hall.we all walk to the bus and get on we have a bus 1 and bus  I'm on bus 1.In the bus our teachers expectation for us are only talking at a whisper voice to the person next to you no one else , If I had to rate myself out of 10 I would rate myself a 10 or a 9 and a half because I didn't talk much and if  I did it was a very low whisper I would rate myself the same in the way back but over all the bus was little louder then the morning.

THIS IS WHAT I DID AT TECHNOLOGY


there's 5 subjects going to be 6 our subjects are hard materials , cooking , design , sewing and science , the sixth subject is going to be learning mandarin. I'm in hard materials everyone gets to do all subjects but at different times. In hard materials we get to choose out of making a clock , table stool or tray I'm making a table stool so far we have done the planning , Mr Bowers cut the wood for us and we started sanding our wood I just started sanding 5 , 10 minutes before we left so I haven't done a lot , at Lincoln we played on the playground at morning tea but normally at Oakland's my friends and I play Netball and Basketball.


This is people on the bus

Library- merit 1

Today Alicia and I went to the library to get some books that we could read to the little juniors.
I choose 3 books and Alicia choose 10. I knew that Alicia wouldn't be able to carry 10 books and a bean bag to the junior area so I told her to choose her best 5 she choose 2 Barbie books and 3 random other books.I choose the famous junior books for example: I spy books and Barbie books. After a few minutes Alicia and we took a bean bag each and walked down sensibly to the junior area it hadn't even been 2 minutes and there was 20 kids , so we told them to choose what books they wanted to listen to and it was basically a even spilt of ten with Alicia and ten with me. 5 minutes before the bell rang we took our books and bean bags back and placed them in the right spot in the library.

I think I showed respect by listening to the kids when they were talking about their own experience related to the book and I even treated  Oaklands school's equipments like bean bags and the books with respect.

By: Zainab