7-8 Grade Term 4 Seasonal Topic Malama Honua, Navigation and Geocaches: This term we focused on service work and healthy risks to emphasize creating individual goals, stating needs, encouragement/support, fear/anxiety, success/failure. Students are practicing this through the 6th-8th grade adventure norms “Be Here”, “Be Safe”, “Be Honest”, “Set Goals” and “Let Go and Move On”. We made a final product of our Geo-Cache maps and descriptions and played ecology games from Coyote Mentoring that involved eliminating eye sight to deepen our sense of smell and hearing. 7th Graders went canoeing on the Jordan River and 8th Graders traveled to Lagoon Physics Day as part of the Mind of the Navigator Travel Learning Program focused on “Who am I (6th) Who am I in the Community (7th) and Who am I as a Leader (8th). Our outdoor classroom is the Eco-Garden and the Jordan River Nature Study Area near the Day Riverside Library. We also continued contributing to our community acting as the official Salt Lake City Adopt a Spot Partners for the Jordan river from 700N-1000N monthly trash clean ups, homeless outreach and data collection of river and trail use for the city.
7-8 Grade Accomplished Comments: Is willing to challenge themselves with taking healthy risks by giving kind, specific, and helpful feedback to others in the three aspect of high quality work (complexity, beauty and authenticity) on a final product, playing Coyote Mentoring ecology games to learn more about sense of hearing and touch. They have also participated consistently in service work of trash collection along the Jordan River.
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his term we practiced for the kapa haka competition and for this age group we debriefed lessons learned to emphasize creating individual goals, stating needs, encouragement/support, fear/anxiety, success/failure. Students practiced this through the 6th-8th grade adventure norms “Be Here”, “Be Safe”, “Be Honest”, “Set Goals” and “Let Go and Move On”. At the end of the term we performed the school wide haka Whai Ake Te Mataurana (Pursue Knowledge), traditional haka Tika Tonu (Young Leaders Teaching), modern New Zealand All Blacks haka Te Timatanga, waiata E Karanga E Te Iwi E (The Call of the Tribes - Tumatauenga version) and E Te Ariki (Higher Power Listen To Us and We Listen To You)
Pursue Knowledge written by Kumu Nephi Prime - Maori and Scottish Ancestry born in Hawera Aotearoa and currently resides in Riverton, Utah: https://drive.google.com/…/1KhXyflZ3PWZXemugW5oViab_a…/view… Kaea:Kia mataara tonu, poua te tū! One and all, be vigilant, stand firm! Katoa: I-a-ha-ha! Indeed we are vigilant standing firm! Ko runuku, ko rurangi, ko rupapa e! Earth mother quakes, the heavens shudder, the ground shakes! Kumea kumea, tō-tōia Take the strain! Haul the canoe to its resting place Ki ngā mana, ki ngā reo, ki ngā waka To the esteemed, the many languages, the many canoes Nau mai, hara mai ra, whakatau mai e! We salute you, we acknowledge you, we welcome you! Ki tēnei paepae tapu o te Whare Kura e! To this revered threshold of learning (PHA) I-a-ha-ha! Absolutely! This term we continued basic map making of the Jordan River between 1000N and 700N. The seasonal topic is titled “Ancient Navigation and Map Making” and the guiding question was “where am I and how do I know?”. We revised the rough drafts of our maps focusing on complexity, craftsmanship or beauty, and authenticity. We also introduced Geocaching and the activities were designed to emphasize creating individual goals, stating needs, encouragement/support, fear/anxiety, success/failure. Students are practicing this through the 6th-8th grade adventure norms “Be Here”, “Be Safe”, “Be Honest”, “Set Goals” and “Let Go and Move On”. Our outdoor classroom is the Eco-Garden and the Jordan River Nature Study Area near the Day Riverside Library. We continued contributing to our community acting as the official Salt Lake City Adopt a Spot Partners for the Jordan river from 700N-1000N. We are working on making maps of the area and we do monthly trash clean ups, homeless outreach and data collection of river and trail use for the city.
This term we explored and began basic map making of the Jordan River between 1000N and 1200N. The case study is titled “Ancient Navigation and Map Making” and the guiding question was “where am I and how do I know?” The activities were designed to emphasize creating a community, cooperation, communication and conflict resolution. Students are practicing this through the 6th-8th grade adventure norms “Be Here”, “Be Safe”, “Be Honest”, “Set Goals” and “Let Go and Move On”. Our outdoor classroom is the Eco-Garden and the Jordan River Nature Study Area near the Day Riverside Library. We contributed to our community acting as the official Salt Lake City Adopt a Spot Partners for the Jordan river from 700N-1000N. We are working on making maps of the area and we do monthly trash clean ups, homeless outreach and data collection of river and trail use for the city.
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