2-3 Grade Term 4 Seasonal Topic Providing for Pollinators: This term we completed 3 spring adventure cycles to emphasize trust building from put ups and put downs, hidden agendas, active listening, mixing and perspective taking into highlighting making mistakes, empathy, trustworthiness, risk taking, physical vs emotional trust. The theme for 2nd/3rd grade is “Changes Inside and Around Me”. The activities were designed to emphasize creating a community, cooperation, communication and conflict resolution. Students know this behavior as “Playing Kind”, “Playing Gentle” and “Playing Safe” (2nd Grade) and “Play Hard”, “Play Fair” and “Play Safe” (3rd Grade). We continued practicing and using different senses ranging from the “fox walk” to “standing heron” and from “Owl eye” and “Deer ears”. Students got to choose which of the 5 labs/exploratory centers (Imagine, Explore, Research, Engineer, Create) to investigate and learned different skills in each one. For example, students continued to develop listening, acting and story-telling skills through the learning protocol “Story Telling Story Acting” by Dr. Vivian Paley.
2-3 Grade Term 4 Accomplished Comments: Shows efforts to step outside comfort level by correcting actions through multiple repetitions or trying something new.
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Term 3 Seasonal Topic Indigenous Performing Arts - This term we completed 3 winter adventure cycles doing Kapa Haka practice to emphasize moving from “cooperation” to “trust building” from put ups and put downs, hidden agendas, active listening, mixing and perspective taking into highlighting making mistakes, empathy, trustworthiness, risk taking, physical vs emotional trust. The activities with the kapa haka practice built from male female switch to intonation to meaning and were designed to emphasize creating a community, cooperation, and communication. Students know this behavior as 2nd Grade “Play Kind, Play Gentle, Play Safe” and 3rd Grade “Playing Hard”, “Playing Fair” and “Playing Safe”. We experimented with taking challenges through healthy risks like performing the haka Whai Ake Te Matauranga (Pursue Knowledge) about the power of many languages and being crew not passengers as well as E Ko Te Tui (The Tui bird sings) and Tane Mahuta (Guardian of the Forests) about taking a stand for indigenous and heritage language revitalization. Students practiced two strategies for encouraging language: “Put Ups” and “Kind, specific, helpful feedback”. This term Adventure class followed a theme titled “Insects can’t live with them; Can’t live without them”. We went on three one week late summer “adventures” to emphasize creating a community, cooperation, communication and conflict resolution. We highlighted put ups and put downs, hidden agendas, active listening, mixing and perspective taking. Student norms are “Being Kind”, “Being Gentle” and “Being Safe” (2nd Grade) and “Play Hard”, “Play Fair” and “Play Safe” (3rd Grade). We also investigated grasshoppers practicing courage to hold and catch them with our bare hands and compassion to monitor their response to us holding them and creating habitat for them.
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