Kia Ora!
When Room 10 (our class neighbour) came back from KiwiCan, that indicated us to line up outside and make our way to the hall where KiwiCan is played. Last week we unfortunately didn’t have KiwiCan, but the week before we did have the activity. Every second week on Friday is when we have Kiwican.
So as we perched in the hall, the KiwiCan leaders, Glaytor and Here (pronounce the ‘R’ in Here’s name by slightly rolling your tongue, so He’R’e), as usual, they greeted us and asked if we could guess where this greeting ‘Hola’ is from. Someone immediately guessed correctly that it was used in Argentina – because their nosiness peered and saw the paper about the country we were going to discuss.
I’ve learnt not many new things about Argentina, because I already knew most of them. A fact that blew my mind a bit was that their current population is a thunderstruck of 45.54 million people. Another fact I acknowledged about Argentina is that their national animal is the Rufous Hornero – a birdie that seems cute. Their capital city is Buenos Aires, Google what it looks like if you have time, it sure is a beautiful city!
Here’s what the Argentina flag looks like if you don’t know! (The orange circle in the middle is a Sun)
Next Topic!
Warming up for our activity – for our Energiser, we had to participate in a team-working activity titled ‘Hoop De Hoop’ (As far as I remember). The rules for that act, is that we had to go in a circle holding hands with a hula hoop trapped in-between two people. With a timer pressuring us, everyone in the circle has to try to go through the hula hoop and repeat that same process till it goes back to the two people the hoop was originally locked between, that’s how the game finishes. We had no practice rounds so we had to try to succeed in the first round with no second attempts. Our rivals were the other classes, since their reflection of the hula hoop game was written upon the board, we got to see which class was currently winning (which IS Room 4).
THE CONSEQUENCES: As we’re holding hands, if somebody, anybody, LETS GO of the person that their hands are connected with, whether it was on accident or purpose; we have to rewind to the start with the timer still playing on..so no pausing and we had to try beat the winning class.
Backpedal back to earlier this term, when we had no KiwiCan yet, my class already had practiced on how to play the hoop game, because we were smart enough to know that at some point in KiwiCan we had that activity. We planned our method of earning only seconds in this activity and not minutes, so we already knew what the target was. I’m not spilling our idea, we’re (I’m) plotting to gate-keep the procedure :)).
During the KiwiCan venture, WE LITERALLY SUCCEED IN OUR TIME OF THE MAKING WITH A TREMENDOUS TIME OF 44 SECONDS WITHIN THE TIMER. The other classes were about 1:00 (one minute) above. Oblivious of our accomplishment (we weren’t allowed to see how many seconds/minutes we’ve achieved when we finished our co-operative game) all the students alighted on the carpet awaiting for our results. Heres (One of the KiwiCan Leaders) boosted my hopes up, because of her shocked expression. My teacher that day, Whaea Lorraine, made me think that we’ve either lost, or won, because she seemed solemnly intrigued. When Glaytor (KiwiCan Leader) told us the amount of seconds we’ve gotten, everybody began to jump up and down as if the hall became a trampoline… that was when he exclaimed ‘Wait.’. Since KiwiCan Leader Glaytor recorded our game-play, at the end of the energiser, he got to re-watch what we’ve done to double check for some mistakes – such as others letting go. When the hoop travelled all the way to the last person, SOMEONE HOLDING THAT LAST PERSONS HAND.. disconnected their touch!! Simultaneously as the hoop effortlessly and successfully made its way back to the start. But watching in slow-mo, the person let go before the hoop attained.
– So –
Since that person let go, we had to double the amount of seconds we’ve got (44). So that’ll be One minute and thirty-six seconds. Not bad but not great. I felt so unfortunate and to be honest I kinda expected that to happen.
OUR TOPIC FOR THIS WEEK
That energiser included working together as a team to earn more, including others and interacting with ones that you don’t often open up to. Those keywords are all considered as Co-opera(ting)tion. Co-operation is our topic, meaning team-work and working with each other to grasp triumph. Our motto to memorize our team-work is this common following proverb ‘Teamwork Makes The Dream Work!’ which is obviously true.
CATCH PHRASE: “KiwiCan Says… Cooperation Is All About, Working Together, And Helping Out.”
ACTIVITY
For our activity this week KiwiCan is labeled ‘Sing With Pride’. Its name is what the pursuit is basically about.
The rules are: Split into a group of 6 people and form a circle sitting down. Listening to Glaytor shout a topic for the song – E.G: Sing a song from Disney – we have 5 seconds to discuss which song from Disney to sing with pride in order for a point. Once those 5 seconds were done, in sequence for a turn to sing and earn a point, we had to shout out a buzzer to indicate that we’re ready and want to go. Each group had the same buzzer; which was stacking all of our hands in the middle and shouting ‘Co-operation!’ as we ascend our upper limbs into the air – the loudest group gets a chance to sing. Everyone in their own community has to sing a song all together – Another example; Glaytor: “Sing a song with ‘Diamonds’ in it!” Someone’s group forms their hands in the middle and shouts co-operation’ and gets chosen then sings within 3 seconds, the same song, that’s sung clearly. “Shine bright like a ‘Diamond’.” (that group sung in unison) then they get a point. If Glaytor or anyone can’t exactly make out what the group is singing/chanting with pride, then they don’t get a point and another group gets to shout the buzzer and have a go.
As my group and other for-now-rival groups were competing, my group was in the lead (with 3-4 points, I don’t precisely remember.). In the end, my group happily won :).
Forming a circle and sitting back on the carpet in front of kiwiCan, we were revising on what we’ve done in that activity then moved onto GkQ (General Knowledge Questions)
Our GkQ Master for the next week after week is…. A guy who’s moving schools. He’s unfortunately not going to be here for next GkQ’s master so I’m sure my teacher Whaea Lorraine would randomly select another individual in my class to become the GkQ Master.
What I personally enjoy about KiwiCan are the new Countries/Greetings and the valuable life lessons they teach us during the ‘games/activities’ we participate in. I love the way they manage to add physically entertaining things as we learn. Learning is something children don’t like, but playing a game whilst learning could build up their interests in learning more about valuable things in (1s) topic.
I would love to thank the person reading. That’s my experience in KiwiCan. We’ve learnt new things, especially ‘Co-operation’. Cooperating is an awesome aspect because it helps you interact with others and help improve your characteristics. Notice any mistakes, feel free to comment. I’m interested in hearing your thoughts and ideas of how to improve my writing or spelling, possibly maybe add into your comments some questions. I’m intrigued and always steady to reply!
I’m ending this post now because I’ve written a whole lot of things about what KiwiCan’s like. Thank you once again, Bye!
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Ngā Mihi
Trinity
