Kia Ora, fella.
@ 10:00, every fortnight; Room 9 has KiwiCan on Fridays. So, since this week we had KiwiCan, next week we won’t, but the week after we will. It’ll repeat its cycle everyday due to the Kiwi Can company hardly having employees to work with other children around the New Zealand region Schools.
Our KiwiCan leaders are: Mrs.Here and Mr.Glaytor.
During class we had to stop what we were doing and make our way immaculately over to the hall, where Kiwi Can is set up. In Kiwi Can, we’ve learnt new facts about the famous country ‘China’. The fact that I remember leaning in Kiwi Can about China, is that their national animal is a panda, and that the 5 yellow stars on their flag represent their leaders in the China community. In addition, there are also 2 republics of China and that they’re also popular for their Chinese New Years – This year is the year of the Snake (which is also one of the Kiwi Can leader’s year, Glaytor). To add more within what I’ve learnt, the Chinese Currency in China is known as the ‘Chinese Yen’ which is good to know if you’re moving to China. China’s capital city is Beijing if you didn’t know, because I didn’t either till that day.
CHINA’S FLAG: 
Moving on!
For our energiser, we warmed up by playing a brief game named ‘Compliment Circle’. The title of the game explains itself: The rules for that energiser is that we had to form a group of 3-4 people and create a circle within the group. One person out of the 3 or 4 has to stand up and the remaining ones sitting in the shape has to give something complimentary to say about the figure – like something that they do is inspiring, their personality, their looks, etc! Our learning outcome of that game is that our language (filter mannerisms) has to be controlled by using Positive Communication – which was our topic for that day. Positive Communication means speaking thoughtfully and listening, which shows that you’re respectful. Is also something used to prevent conflict.. Without positive communication impacts, we would’ve been through some bad things at the moment.
Positive Communication was our Topic and this term our Theme is Positive Relationships – Whakawhanaungatanga, (KiwiCan says) meaning working and playing in safe and thoughtful ways.
Moving on!
For our activity, we played Tic-Tac-Toe aka Naughts and Crosses or X’s and O’s, but physically. We split into 2 groups (boys vs girls) and played 3 rounds of tic tac toe. Three people from both groups come up and try to win the rounds for their team. Obviously heights points wins. The law of that activity is easy, just like naughts and crosses, we have to try to get three in a row. But here’s the catch; If one girl and one boy (the versing opponents) go in the same circle, then it’s a block. We had to strategize as a group and use the topic Positive Communication as we discuss our way so. If we debated without the positive influence, then the issues would’ve caused a bitter dissension during the activity.
Our points during practise mode weren’t counted, but the girls definitely won. As we’re competing in the real’zes game, girls unfortunately lost. But at least we had a fun outcome, like we didn’t whine about losing, didn’t start fighting, nothing! We just congratulated the Boys and went on with our learning :)!
KiwiCan talked about our actions’ acted in the activity, it was way better than the other classes they’ve cope’d with accordingly, which is awesome. We did some GkQ (General Knowledge Questions) and our GkQ master/winner for next weeks after week isss Mairerangi! (One of my great friend :).)
Thank you for reading, Reader! Also a quick note: KiwiCan isn’t just about playing games and enjoying your time without doing school work for an hour, its also about learning about life lessons during those activities and energisers. It’s about learning about the values and valuable things in life.
Please write down your thoughts and questions (also my writing mistakes. My hand(s) hurt(s) now after writing this whole entire thing during 2AM in the morning.) of this post. I’ll be sure to respond with clean feedback. Have a wonderful day and keep in mind that you’re worth more than rubies – Proverbs 3:15.
God bless you and Jesus loves you, bye xx !