Whakawhanaungatanga - Doing your best for the Community

Homework -  Term 2, Week 4 

As part of our learning around whakawhanaungatanga - doing your best for the community, we are going to have a secret buddy week. You will all have a buddy that you need to do something nice for each day. This also reinforces Mrs Clark's message and our team expectation, that it costs nothing to be kind. There is to be no monetary component to this task! Ideas of things you could do to be nice to someone could include:

• Write them something - a letter, story, poem, card, song, email, a note
• Compliment them
• Help them with their learning
• Ask them how they are & listen to them
• Tidy their tray for them
• Share something from your lunchbox
• Do some baking for them
• Make them something - art

Being Successful

Week 5 of this term we are presenting out speeches.  Our big idea is 'being successful'.

Homework for Monday night:
Discuss all the possibilities of what you could write about with your parents/caregivers.  Remember to try and think 'outside of the box'.
Record in your homework book and comment below that you have had this discussion.
Remember you have Mathletics as well.

Homework - T2, week 1

Welcome back to Term 2. Hope everyone has had a relaxing break and reading to start thinking and learning.

In a few weeks you are going to be expected to deliver a speech. This week for your homework complete the following tasks onto your own blog.

1. Think about what makes a good speech. Can you identify six key things to include and consider that will help you write and deliver an effective speech.  (If you can think of more than 6 things, go for it)!  List these as bullet points on YOUR OWN BLOG.

2. Find an example of a good speech online. Make sure the speech you choose is delivered by someone approximately your age on a topic that is appropriate for school. Copy and paste the link into your own blog and answer the following questions:

What is the main message of the speech you have chosen?

Identify 3 key ideas that the author has used to support their position?

What are 3 things that you like about this speech?

What is something that that you think could be improved on?

3. Find a class members blog and watch the speech that they selected and comment what you liked about the speech under their post.