As Term 3 is almost halfway done, I thought it would be a good time to show what the Kapowai Pod has been up to in Exploration SPACE workshops. This term our curriculum focus is languages, so the main focus of our workshops each week is about Japanese and Māori culture. Each week the children attend at least one workshop that has an activity focusing on activities or vocabulary in Japanese or Te Reo. So far we have done workshops on the following:
Japanese: Kendama, Janken- Guu, Choki, Paa (Rock, Paper, Scissors), Origami, Jump rope and Sudoku.
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| Kendama Game |
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| Making their own Kendama |
Te Reo: Rākau, Mū Tōrere, Te Reo Bingo, Kapa Haka and Knucklebones.
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| Mū Tōrere Game Board |
This term we have also introduced Student-Led workshops and each week children have been selected to run a workshop on a topic of their choice. The students running these workshops come up with the topic, plan their lesson and teach their peers. So far we have had a wide range of activities taught and their peers have enjoyed signing up and participating. It has been great to see the children planning and evaluating how their workshops go too. As the children have started to understand what running your own workshop entails, more and more ideas have been submitted to the Kapowai teachers!
So far we have had student-led workshops on: Netball, Running, Biscuit decorating, Chatterboxes, Paper Airplane Contests, Coding, How to draw and Jump Rope.
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| Netball |
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| Running |
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| Prepping the jump rope workshop. |
