Inquiry share - tomorrow, Wednesday 9th April, 2-3pm

We can't wait to share our inquiry learning with you tomorrow afternoon... This week we've been preparing a whole lot of different Health Stations around the class to show you what we've learned this term about Te Whare Tapawha:

Hope to see you tomorrow!

Our massage circle

This week we're learning about Te Taha Wairua: the side of the spirit. We're thinking about ways to keep our minds calm. We had a massage circle and talked about how we felt before and afterwards. A lot of us felt calm and relaxed afterwards.

Check out our massage circle:

Our multiple intelligences

Today we were thinking about the health of our BRAINS.  We looked at a whole lot of pictures of kids doing different things, and discussed what we think they might be good at.  We wrote these ideas in yellow.  As we placed the pictures on our poster, we thought about how these talents might be connected, and tried to place and group similar talents together.  Then we talked about Howard Gardner.  He has done a lot of research on how we think and has come up with a theory of multiple intelligences, describing how different people's brains work in different ways.  When we looked at his list of multiple intelligences we found that it was very similar to ours.  We stuck his words (in white) alongside our own ideas.

Howard Gardner says, "All of us have the full range of intelligences; that is what makes us human beings, cognitively speaking. No two individuals—not even identical twins—have exactly the same intellectual profile."

Our intellectual profile is a way of describing which intelligences we feel more or less confident in.

Tomorrow we're going to think more about our own intelligences.   Which do you think are your strengths?  Which do you want to develop more?